Nokia today posted a 66 percent plunge in second-quarter earnings and a 25 percent drop in sales, and said it’s no longer expecting its market share this year to increase over 2008, sending its shares to close lower by 14 percent. And they’ve lost more than… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
EEStor: Will It or Won’t it?: There are some indications that startup EEStor is making progress toward its goal of selling an energy storage device “capable of propelling a reasonably-sized automobile down a freeway for a couple hundred miles before needing a recharge,” and plenty of… Read More »
Cisco today eliminated roughly 700 positions as part of a minor restructuring that it announced back in February. That’s on top of the 760 employees the networking company shed in the first three months of the year due to “employee attrition and a hiring pause.”… Read More »
In my previous Jailbreak: The Lock Screen Is A Barren Land, I wrote about IntelliScreen and Lock Calendar, two apps for enhancing the Lock Screen of your iPhone and iPod touch. Today, in part two, I’ll be exploring a handful of other tweaks you can… Read More »
Notebook stands are a dime a dozen, and they come in all shapes and sizes. It’s unusual, however, when one appears that can be used in many different configurations while sporting high-quality aluminum construction. A new stand from a Brazilian inventor is definitely well constructed and… Read More »
Every time I think superheroes are done as a genre, someone else comes up with a fresh, genuinely entertaining take. And that’s not exclusive to the worlds of film and television (though the British series No Heroics is delightful if you’re looking for recommendations). Recently,… Read More »
Solar startup 1366 Technologies received its first order this week from “a major German solar developer,” Craig Lund, director of business development for the Lexington, Mass.-based company, said today at the Intersolar North America conference in San Francisco. 1366 has developed technology that can give… Read More »
Netbooks are junky, according to Apple. That’s what Tim Cook shared at the last Apple conference call and based on his commentary, I don’t expect a traditional netbook from Apple. Perhaps a large iPod Touch type of device, but not a smaller netbook with a… Read More »
We’re living in a social media world, and, like it or not, our avatar is often the first impression others get about us as we interact virtually on social networks, blogs, microblogs and other online communities. Our avatars are a representation of our brands —… Read More »
NATPE’s LATV Fest has made its selections for its second-annual Next TV Competition for web series. Looking for something fresh to watch? The seven winners are embedded below. Besides perks like a one-year NATPE membership, some honorees are getting special prizes: Dueling VHS will get monetization… Read More »
Twitterers Have Longer Video Attention Spans; Twitter-referred videos are watched on average for one minute, 58 seconds, compared to 1:14 for Facebookers, and :58 for Digg users, according to TubeMogul. (MediaPost) Crowd-sourced Animated Short Getting Theatrical Release; Live Music was created by animators around the world… Read More »
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