The energy bill passed the House on Friday, but the proposed cap and trade system and new incentives for renewable energy are still a long way from going into law as the Senate needs to pass its own version. As we transition to the next … Read More »
Archive for June 2009
Slowly but surely, push notification apps are trickling into the App Store, as you can see from this handy little list by AppAdvice.com. Some of them are less than impressive, since they offer strange niche functions that I could never picture myself actually using. … Read More »
Being a reporter takes more than a video camera and the willingness to put yourself in harm’s way. There are skills and techniques that every good news gatherer should know, and to help out, YouTube launched its new Reporters’ Center over the weekend. The new section … Read More »
Nokia, Motorola, Research in Motion, Apple (yes, even Apple) and six other cell phone makers have agreed to a European Commission request to develop a universal charger. The agreement was announced today by the the EC. The new handsets will use Micro-USB … Read More »
So how’s the build quality on your Palm Pre? My particular unit is solid, but I’m reading more and more accounts of people complaining about their Pre handsets. Some folks have experienced cracked screens. Others see issues with the sliding hinge mechanism. Here are just … Read More »
Alcatel-Lucent said today that it’s begun providing German carrier E-Plus with equipment that inserts advertisements onto mobile devices based on demographic information provided by a subsidiary of the carrier. Customers opt in to the service and in exchange get extra minutes or texts … Read More »
Everyone has their favorite tricks to keep focused while working at the computer. Mine can be summarized as “out of sight, out of mind…but easily accessible.” The Spaces function is one of the nicer features that I discovered in OS X when I started using … Read More »
The companion notebook, or netbook, has made clear how important it can be to have a simple method to keep data on two computers in sync. There are ways to do this manually, but a simple method is always a better way to ensure that users … Read More »
Apple is once again making an inventory tool available for prospective iPhone 3GS buyers. U.S. residents can check Apple Store stock by state, with availability updated hourly. Unlike last year, when the iPhone 3G was in chronic short supply for weeks, by the end of business … Read More »
The demise of a well-funded algae fuel company earlier this year doesn’t seem to be deterring startups, or oil and plastics companies, from working on new algae fuel tech. This morning Algenol Biofuels, a Naples, Fla.-based company that uses carbon dioxide from power plants … Read More »
Companies like Clearleap, ActiveVideo Networks and AnySource have been pretty hush-hush about which customers are using their particular brand of video-to-TV services. But today, Clearleap broke its code of silence to announce that Atlantic Broadband has deployed Clearleap’s Internet-based TV technology. Atlantic Broadband is … Read More »
Selling software as a service through the web has helped make software more affordable and distribution more efficient. Now a startup called Scientific Conservation, which officially launched today after several years in relative stealth mode, wants to bring the software-as-a-service model to the commercial building … Read More »
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