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The Winners and Losers in the Smart Grid Stimulus Funds: The $3.4 billion in smart grid stimulus fund awards were announced this week and close to 100 recipients woke up today to the equivalent of Christmas morning — here’s a chart showing 13 of… Read More »

 
 

The week marches on and today being Saturday means it is time to recap the recent happenings in the world of Windows Mobile. HTC is one of the biggest makers of smartphones on the planet, and their recent foray into the Android space has left many… Read More »

As another week passes, the seams of Apple’s App Store have been stretched even further with a deluge of new releases. Digging through the latest apps, I’ve selected four fresh picks for you to check out. It’s Halloween and so my top pick for this week… Read More »

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was in fine form this week, telling the crowd assembled for the company’s analyst day that after only 14 years, Yahoo had “somehow got boring,” declaring its 6 percent operating margin as “pathetic” and announcing the start of “good times”… Read More »

Recently, I’ve noticed that more new clients are coming my way with a single request: to help them revive or resurrect a project, web site, or product that has failed in the past. I’m also capable of creating failed projects myself — sometimes I look at… Read More »

The big announcement in the Android world this week was the official release of Motorola’s Droid on the Verizon network. The Droid is the first Android phone for Verizon, and the carrier is throwing a lot of advertising weight behind the launch. GigaOM has… Read More »

So hopefully by the time this is posted, you’ve put together your Halloween costume and are looking forward to celebrating the spookiest holiday of the year. To help out, I could try and pull up some fun new Halloween videos, but face it —… Read More »

For Novatel, the maker of cellular modems, the introduction of the MiFi wireless router has added a little shine to a fairly unglamorous business, while also insulating the company from the loss of a major customer during the most recent quarter. But will… Read More »

It’s the last day of Embedda-Scare-A-Thon! Happy Halloween, y’all! If you’re a fan of British television, you’re likely familiar with the theory that every actor working in Britain today has either been in an episode of Doctor Who or Eastenders. Such a theory definitely applies to… Read More »

More Must Reads

I spend a lot of time each day communicating with colleagues and clients, by phone, email, on social networks, and via the occasional fax. But when I need to have a short conversation and get an answer right away, instant messaging is hard to beat.… Read More »

As utilities start to build large solar projects and solar power makes up an increasingly larger portion of the electricity mix, integrating this energy into the grid will be a challenge. Solar, like wind, is intermittent — power from the sun fluctuates when clouds pass overhead… Read More »

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google Calendar There’s more to Google Calendar than meets the eye. Celine explains some small tweaks that can change it… Read More »

On the current MobileTechRoundup podcast Kevin, Matt and I discussed the physical keyboard, or lack thereof, on Android phones. We pointed out that keyboards (or the desired lack of one) are a personal choice, and everyone has a different opinion. So how about it? Does… Read More »

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