Venrock, the venture capital firm that was originally established as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family, is bulking up its cleantech team. On Monday, it announced that Matthew Nordan, co-founder and former president of Lux Research, will join as vice president with a focus… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
Canadian company Research In Motion, maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry, has bought software developers (and webkit aficionados) Torch Mobile, according to a report today over on Engadget. No, I’ve never heard of Torch Mobile, either. But according to the company’s web site, it is “excited… Read More »
There are a lot of brave souls out there making mobile browsers, hoping to gain traction with the phone makers. But most of them are fighting a losing battle, for the mobile browser war is increasingly being fought between two camps —… Read More »
After I pointed out the Palm Pre Homebrew software catalog, James has been downloading apps left and right. I’ll admit that I have too — some of my current faves include the recently updated PrePod for podcatching, PreJeweled, XBox Live Friends and FriendsFlow, which… Read More »
Single sign-on adoption continues to spread, as increasing numbers of web sites embrace technologies such as OpenID, Facebook Connect and OAuth, which let you log into web sites using an existing account from another service, such as Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, and… Read More »
With the introduction of Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 Software, consumers can now experience live and on-demand streaming video – natively – on all OS 3.0 enabled devices. There has never been a better time for content providers to offer high-quality video to iPhone users, and for… Read More »
We love e-books, and the whole space is heating up quite nicely. Amazon has everyone’s attention with the success of the Kindle, and Barnes & Noble is entering into competition with both feet. Our exclusive conversation with B&N a while back centered around the company’s… Read More »
Amazon.com is pushing small, inexpensive digital camcorders like the Flip and Kodak’s new Zi8, naming them “shoot-and-share” and introducing a whole category focused on the devices. Earlier today, Amazon sent me an email touting the cams because I had “shopped for camcorders” on the site… Read More »
There’s a temptation to title this piece “Local Boy Makes Good!” or something similar, for it’s extremely exciting to see that Dan Harmon (Heat Vision and Jack) has got himself a bona fide TV show. As the co-creator of Channel 101, Harmon is indirectly responsible… Read More »
OK, last one my friends. Here’s the final of our set of three users surveys, that are enabling Earth2Tech to know a little bit more about your habits at work. The results of these surveys will be used to craft our 2010 Media Kit for potential… Read More »
Hands up — who wants a music subscription service on their Apple iPhone? OK, I just put both hands up and everyone in the Starbucks is wondering where the invisible mugger is behind me. ;) The industry has long pondered Apple jumping into the music… Read More »
I took to the soapbox recently about the lack of flexibility in iPhoto for incremental backups. I still don’t have a great solution that suits my particular needs and desires, though some useful suggestions can be found in the comments of that post. But… Read More »
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