Ask your friends what business Google is in and the answer you’ll most likely get is “search.” And they would be wrong. Google is, first and foremost, an advertising company. A full 97 percent of its revenue comes from advertising on its various properties, including… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
We’ve previouslycovered the impressive Microsoft Outlook add-on Xobni. The company behind it has just released a new premium edition of the product called, appropriately enough, Xobni Plus, available for a one-time fee of $29.95. There are a number of productivity-boosting features that… Read More »
If this was the sequel to the North Carolina sewer creature we chatted about recently, it would probably be called Slimey II: Deadly Northern Exposure. This summer’s monster jam moved northward to Alaska where a 15 mile-long band of black biological goo has been… Read More »
HP said today that it has agreed to buy IBRIX, a Billerica, Mass.-based maker of software that allows customers to build out scalable storage clouds. Terms of the deal, which will augment HP’s sales to businesses requiring high-performance computing, were not disclosed. Like
Every week I share the happenings at Mobile Tech Manor, my home office. The focus at the Manor is mobile tech, as the name indicates, and there is never a shortage of gadgets moving through the doors. This column is where I share my week… Read More »
As a rule, neither utilities nor automotive standards groups tend to win many points for speed. We’ve written before about automakers and utilities ratcheting up efforts to hash out standards for how plug-in vehicles will interact with the grid. So far they’ve stopped short of… Read More »
With the prices of silicon falling, competition heating up among solar equipment makers and solar manufacturing capacity expected to far exceed demand this year, it may seem like the worst possible time to build a solar factory. Yet several thin-film startups, such as PrimeStar Solar… Read More »
At first blush, the ways in which modeling vehicles after smartphones such as Apple’s iPhone could help usher in greener, more connected cars and trucks may not be obvious. But according to Scott Griffith, CEO of Zipcar, the country’s largest car-sharing network, that’s where we’re headed. Griffith… Read More »
Folks are getting excited about the new OneNote 2010 and I can’t blame them. I’ve said for years that I believe OneNote is one of the best, if not the best, piece of software from Microsoft. Not only will OneNote 2010 be included in… Read More »
This weekend I head out to a GigaOM team meeting on the west coast, and I am really looking forward to the trip. It’s always a blast to see Kevin and my friends at GigaOM in person. Otherwise, I start to thinking of these cool… Read More »
During Google’s quarterly earnings call today, a number of analysts asked questions about the company’s new Chrome OS. The product is unique in that it’s generated a massive amount of hype and coverage without anyone having any idea what it will look like, when… Read More »
As web-based companies struggle to monetize their content, mobile application developers face the same battle. Since so many popular web apps are free to use, people expect the same free access when it comes to mobile apps, said a panel of iPhone application developers… Read More »
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