As Meryl wrote a few days ago, LinkedIn and Facebook are excellent business networking tools. Both sites offer useful ways of connecting with people you know, who you can ask to become part of your network. It’s easy to forget who you’ve requested to… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
Every so often a new technology comes along, promising to revolutionize the world of communications. And in the end, it prays at the altar of email. Despite being messy and unstructured, email, which will turn 50 in a couple of years, remains the hub… Read More »
Just don’t call them a biofuel firm, says Bill Sims, CEO of a startup called Joule Biotechnologies that is officially launching on Monday. Biofuels have gotten a bad rap and Joule wants none of the negative PR. But there’s actually a difference in what Joule… Read More »
All eyes have been on the clean power and energy efficiency funds rolling out of the stimulus package, as well as the climate bill, and its cap-and-trade system, currently winding through the Senate. But a lesser-known bill — the Storage Technology of Renewable and Green… Read More »
Vubiq, a startup based in Aliso Viejo, Calif., is offering a chip that has the potential to change the economics for companies trying to ship huge amounts of data over relatively short distances — notably cell providers trying to build backhaul for their wireless networks… Read More »
function popitup(url) { newwindow=window.open(url,'aoeu','height=920,width=600'); if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()} return false; } Over the last few years, every time I have taken a vacation, I have taken along my Macbook, thinking, well, you never know when you might need to check flight… Read More »
A section spanning just 29 pages of the 1,428-page Waxman-Markey climate bill could have an outsized impact on energy use in the United States as it would require ambitious reductions in the energy use of new homes and commercial structures through a nationwide building energy… Read More »
I have to admit that I didn’t know what to think when news appeared today that Best Buy was running a promotion for the Palm Pre for just $99.99. The Pre has been a rock-solid $199.99 since its release just a few weeks ago, and… Read More »
That shiny, new netbook you’re using does everything you want it to do, but Windows XP is definitely showing its age with the old-school interface. What you need is a free utility that adds lots of features with updated graphics. That’s where XPize comes in,… Read More »
Whether you use Twitter for personal or professional reasons, after a while you’ll notice that your inbox is overflowing with direct messages (DMs). Ultimately, you’ll realize that you will never have the time or the patience to sit there and manually delete all of… Read More »
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at the 2007 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, he made a point of letting the world know how seriously Apple would protect its intellectual property. Of course, he did it in inimitable Steve Jobs style, quipping “…and boy have we patented it!” Of… Read More »
Testimonials — done right — can be incredibly useful when trying to get new work. They open the door to new clients, and help to take take pressure off those who fear sounding like a braggart in the horn-tooting process. Instead, you let your happy clients… Read More »
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