Less than two months after the Department of Energy gave Tesla Motors the green light for $465 million in low-interest loans, the electric car startup has identified its first project for the funds: setting up a powertrain assembly facility and new headquarters at the Stanford… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
Techdirt today points us to a controversy that’s been brewing over in the world of college sports that involves the Southeastern Conference (SEC) trying to put the kibosh on social media during games. Essentially the college sports division doesn’t want fans Twittering, Flickring, Facebooking,… Read More »
The thin film solar outfit that has signed up utility deals in spades has scored yet another big one. This morning Southern California Edison (SCE) announced that it has inked a large contract with First Solar (who else) to build two solar photovoltaic plants for a… Read More »
When we talk about the biggest smartphone companies and platforms, Research In Motion with its BlackBerry is always at the top of the list. RIM has experienced phenomenal growth over the past few years, largely due to producing popular BlackBerry models. It has successfully expanded its… Read More »
The London Times has a rather interesting profile of Steve Jobs on its site. According to MacNN, Apple tried to kill the article. That’s not surprising. Apple always strives to stay “on message” and nothing is more “off message” than any discussion of Jobs’… Read More »
We’ve done a number of posts on good strategies and tools for finding work, whether you’re in need of a new job or some additional freelance gigs. As AltSearchEngines reports, there is a new, free e-book available on the topic, called “30 Ideas.… Read More »
Sweb Apps publicly launched an eponymous web site today where small- and medium-sized businesses can create their own iPhone applications, providing a new way for them to market their services and promotions to the increasing number of smartphone users. On the Sweb Apps site, a… Read More »
Updated with correction: Qwest, the smallest of the Baby Bells, is shutting down its wireless service. It’s told its customers that they have 60 days to switch to other carriers. All Qwest Wireless services will be done by Oct. 31, 2009, the company said in… Read More »
Car-sharing networks like Zipcar — the largest in the U.S. — often earn environmental points for helping to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. And as we’ve written on GigaOM Pro (subscription only) and on Earth2Tech, these services — hooked up to communications… Read More »
When the UK electricity market was deregulated in the late 1990′s, the country established a common data network service (called the Data Transfer Service, or DTS) to enable utilities to exchange data and tasked an industry-owned company called Electralink to run the system.… Read More »
While users’ mobile experience has improved considerably in just the last 2-3 years, in many ways, the industry is still in its infancy. Despite numerous positive developments — Apple’s iPhone and App Store representing the two most prominent examples — in a few years, we… Read More »
A lot of folks found my custom Gmail setup to be helpful, and one of the most common questions I received was which theme I was using when the image was made (Dusk). It reminded me that the way a program looks is very important,… Read More »
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