The week that I write a post about how there’s a bubble growing in the home energy management space, there’s a subsequent slew of energy management announcements. Go figure. One of the biggest in months is coming later today, but earlier this morning
Archive for June 2009
RealNetworks, having been knocked out of much of the online video craze, is trying to be scrappy about adding new features. That’s why two years ago it launched a version of its player that enabled users to download videos from around the web, entering … Read More »
As the world’s largest solar-panel producer for the last two years, China already is a major solar player. But now, some industry experts say, it’s expanding from being mainly a solar panel supplier to also becoming a substantial customer. “China, which already is important in … Read More »
Moore’s Law has enabled new applications by powering computing on an exponential price/performance curve. But increasingly, the proliferation of a new generation of large-scale applications is being constrained by another price/performance curve that hasn’t shown much improvement: IT operations and the cost of delivery. … Read More »
UPDATE (12/03/09): For a comprehensive analysis of TV Everywhere, check out The Ultimate Guide to TV Everywhere report over at our subscription research service, GigaOM Pro. You’re going to hear the phrase “TV Everywhere,” well, just about everywhere tomorrow. As Om reported … Read More »
While HP seems to release a new netbook every week, it doesn’t really. The company was simply one of the first big OEMs to jump on the netbook category and thas continued to regularly improve its products in the line. Its newest effort in the netbook, … Read More »
The other night I watched “Corpse Bride.” The Tim Burton flick was streamed from Netflix via my Time Warner broadband subscription, though my Linksys router to my Roku box, and from there through an HDMI cable to my television. But I could have watched a … Read More »
Last week right before the news broke that the venture capitalists from Kleiner Perkins and clean energy investor T. Boone Pickens had quietly funded a 3-year-old fuel-efficient car startup called V-Vehicle, I had just started working on a post about Pickens titled, “What Have You … Read More »
Updated: Sometime tomorrow, Comcast and Time Warner will announce a partnership to promote the concept of TV Everywhere. Jeff Bewkes, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, and Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast, will have a joint media conference tomorrow in New York. The deal … Read More »
Google seems to be taking a page out of Apple’s UI playbook with the latest change to Gmail. After adding the floaty barto Gmail’s web client for iPhone and Android back in April, it decided to speed up the commonly used Archive function.
Boxee made a slew of announcements at its App Developer Challenge in San Francisco this evening, and key among them was the news that MLB.tv was added to the open-source media platform. Starting tonight, MLB.tv Premium subscribers will be able to watch games piped … Read More »
I meant to pick up my Windows Home Server experiment where I left off, but I think I need to do some rewiring first. Since the only coaxial cable jack upstairs was in Barb’s office across the house, I’m using my FiOS mainly over Wi-Fi. … Read More »
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