What will convince people to actually reduce their home energy consumption and engage with new smart meters that are being rolled out? The folks leading ComEd, including the Chicago utility’s President and COO Anne Pramaggiore, want to know. At the Cleantech Investor Summit on Wednesday Pramaggiore… Read More »
Archive for January 2010
The world will reach 500 million fixed-line broadband subscribers some time this year thanks to growth in developing countries, according to research firm Informa. Through 2014, the next 100 million broadband subscribers will come from places like China, Russia, Mexico, India, Brazil, Turkey and Argentina. Read More »
With a new test page at YouTube’s TestTube labs, the online video site could be looking at improving related music video results while also allowing its users to create playlists of the videos they enjoy. The creatively named “YouTube Music Discovery Project… Read More »
Admittedly, I’m eagerly anticipating Google’s Chrome OS later this year. In fact, I couldn’t wait that long, so I installed an early build on my netbook to poke and prod. Not all of you live in the ether between cloud and browser like I… Read More »
Many people only use Twitter to watch and hear from other people, often celebrities. To that end, Seesmic is reversing the trend of adding more and more features to Twitter clients, and today releases a tweet visualization tool called Seesmic Look. Read More »
At Hulu, ‘Free’ May Turn into ‘Fee’; one plan that the site is considering would allow users to view the five most recent episodes of TV shows for free but would require a subscription of $4.99 a month to watch older episodes. (LA Times) Boxee Adding… Read More »
I’m excited about the much-discussed Apple tablet, which is expected to be unveiled next week. I would be excited if Apple was releasing a new device that only provided me with a painful electric shock every hour on the hour, frankly. That said, once I get… Read More »
The European Commission has finally officially approved Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Sun’s time in no-man’s-land saw it lose many customers and raised questions about key products and divisions that it has. The question now is, what has this cost the company? Read More »
The New York Times announced yesterday that it is planning to launch a “metered access” system for its web site next year. Here are a few of the smart people writing about the topic that you should read (apart from us). Read More »
It was almost a year ago when we first ran across Linja Zax, the unique Firefox add-on that puts a finger spin on the browsing experience. Linja Zax augments mobile browsing by letting the browser do things with simple gestures. Draw a circle on the… Read More »
YouTube announced the launch of an HTML5 video test on its blog last evening, but had some trouble delivering on its promise. The test only went live hours after the blog post, leaving many users wondering what all the fuzz was about. Adding to… Read More »
In an attempt to ward of competition from the likes of Google, Nokia’s has released new Ovi Maps software for free. With the new Ovi Maps app, Nokia has a chance to become the GPS-of-choice in countries where standalone navigation devices are hard to find. Read More »
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