July, 2009 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for July 2009

After so brazenly bragging about Apple’s legal department’s request that one of Microsoft’s ads be pulled last week, Redmond has quietly made changes to the ad in question to make sure that it accurately reflects reality, which is what Apple wanted in the first place. Kind… Read More »

Palm pushed a highly anticipated webOS update for the Pre last night. It was past my bedtime when the update hit, but I happened to be up late chatting on the Bad Hair Day podcast with Dave Winer, Marshall Kirkpatrick and… Read More »

 
 

5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: 32 Ways to Use Facebook for Business Facebook’s not just for keeping tabs on friends and filling out quizzes — it can also be used as a highly… Read More »

DreamWorks’ Katzenberg: 3D Changes Everything

Jeffrey Katzenberg is prepared for 3D to utterly change the experience of watching television and movies — and a lot sooner than you may think. The DreamWorks’ chief told attendees at Fortune’s Brainstorm conference in Pasadena, Calif., today that companies like LG and Panasonic are ready… Read More »

The reality of the smart grid is that oftentimes the more power utilities sell, the more money they make, so utilities  risk losing money by deploying smart grid technologies that help consumers conserve energy (GridPoint’s Jeffrey Ross pointed out as much in his testimonial before the… Read More »

Daily Sprout

New Fight Over Trees as Offsets: Energy-guzzling companies hope to get carbon credits and avoid obligations to make costlier emission cuts by paying forest owners to preserve trees that might not have been at risk of destruction. — Wall Street Journal About That Hydrogen Funding: “There… Read More »

In another move in Google’s continued bid to dominate the entire internet — albeit with useful and occasionally innovative services — the search giant has officially launched Latitude for the iPhone. Latitude allows users to locate and track each other, via their cell phones.… Read More »

We have some great sites on the GigaOM Network and you can always some good stuff posted. Here’s some stuff I think you’ll find of interest right this moment: Need a Connection? Sorry, This is MyFi– GigaOM Lorax Motor Works: Trying to Tackle the Tata Nano,… Read More »

If you own a BlackBerry and use Twitter as much as I do, you’re more than likely frustrated with the experience of using the Twitter web site via your phone’s browser. With more Twitter applications available for the device, do any succeed in turning the BlackBerry… Read More »

More Must Reads

Comic relief and unemployment relief? In one place? How many shows can claim that? In Odd Job Nation, investment banker Nate (Jeremy Redleaf) joins the ranks of the recently redundant after his firm’s Broadway backing of Diff’rent Strokes: The Musical goes about… Read More »

I was just reading through the first review I’ve seen of the Samsung Mondi MID over at PC World. It’s well worth the read if you’re considering the Mondi. But I came away with more questions than answers. I just can’t get too jazzed… Read More »

At The Guild‘s Friday morning Comic-Con panel, Felicia Day promised four surprises and totally came through, including the reveal of Star Trek‘s Wil Wheaton as the upcoming third season’s “Big Bad.” First, the panel opened with a full music video, an intense, crisply produced dance video that… Read More »

Twitter reached out to the enterprise market for the first time yesterday with the unveiling of Twitter 101, a web-based guide aimed at helping companies understand how to use the real-time microblogging service, including case studies that show how it can help a company’s… Read More »

Last month, execs at M2E Power, which had been developing motion-powered chargers and energy storage devices, told us that it had changed its focus significantly and was “in the midst of selling the company to another entity.” Well, yesterday morning VatorNews reported (Read More »

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