Will networked automobiles be the next platform for green apps? That’s just one of the possibilities we’ll be looking at on our panel “The New Networked Car” at the Green:Net 2010 conference on April 29th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Read More »
Archive for January 2010
Remember Symbian? It’s still alive and kicking in spite of Nokia’s fascination with Maemo. Seriously, Symbian has got nothing to worry about as Nokia has made it clear they are still 100 percent behind the platform. Well, except for that portion of the company that… Read More »
One of the things I love about being a web worker is the variety of projects I get to work on. Things never get boring around here because of that. Every now and then, an opportunity arises that’s a little outside my usual scope, and… Read More »
Venture capitalists are starting the New Year off with a deepening interest in the wind industry. About two weeks after Khosla Ventures and others invested in wind turbine maker Nordic Windpower, another wind startup, FloDesign Wind Turbine, announced yesterday that it closed a… Read More »
Microsoft has launched a lawsuit against TiVo, alleging that the DVR maker is infringing on patents related to the display of programmable information and the sale and delivery of videos, according to a report from Bloomberg. Microsoft’s lawsuit is widely seen as a move… Read More »
If you’re anything like me, you likely have a good number of USB drives on hand. They’re all over our house actually — these little digital storage cabinets seem to multiply faster than Tribbles. So when the kids need to use one, there’s no… Read More »
The BlackBerry apps I use for Twitter activities generally do a fine job. I use the no-frills Blackbird for its performance and Ubertwitter for its features. Still, I watch out for new Twitter apps because innovation knows no end and developers find ways… Read More »
This is the first in a series of 7 posts in the 7 days prior to Apple’s January 27 media event in which I explore various possibilities for an Apple Tablet and other potential announcements. The world is expecting Apple to… Read More »
Maybe I am too set in my ways, but I never even really tried using Bing all that much when it was released. I also found it too busy. Sure, I’m all for beautiful sweeping nature photography, but not on my search page. So I stuck… Read More »
Even as Mozilla rolls out Release Candidate 2 of its Firefox 3.6 browser update, and is only days from official release, some are convinced that the upstart open source browser is doomed. However, Mozilla’s Director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner, provides some good reasons why it isn’t. Read More »
If you own a home or business out West and have been scrounging for the cash to install a solar system on your roof this year, California utility Pacific Gas & Electric and solar installer and financier SolarCity might be able to help. Pacific… Read More »
Eyes are looking toward Apple and the expected tablet announcement that has everyone all a-twitter (except Twitter folks as it’s down a lot) but there was another tablet in the works that wasn’t being discussed as much. The folks at HTC and Google have been working… Read More »
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