One of the last pieces that could deliver V-Vehicle — the secretive San Diego startup that’s aiming to build a highly efficient car in Louisiana — some hefty manufacturing incentives has just fallen into place. The Louisiana State Bond Commission gave the green light Thursday for… Read More »
Archive for February 2010
My name’s Lisa Solomon and I wear three hats in the legal industry. Through my law practice, I assist attorneys with all their legal research and writing needs, including preparing and arguing appeals and drafting substantive motions and trial memoranda. Read More »
Skype and Verizon this week announced a partnership that would embed the Internet calling service on Verizon’s smartphones. The question on my mind was: Is this deal exclusive? And when executives refused to share details, I did some digging. Here are some new details. Read More »
Twitpay, a service that facilitates payments by users who publicly state who they want to send money to on Twitter, has been bought for $100,000 by investors led by Acculynk CEO Ashish Bahl and Morgan Keegan investment banker Keith Meyers, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Read More »
As we reported earlier this week, next week looks to be the big unveiling of stealthy fuel cell company Bloom Energy’s Bloom Box. The company is holding a media event on Wednesday, February 24, but this Sunday, “60 Minutes” will air behind-the-scenes video footage… Read More »
We’ve seen handwriting recognition on tablets and other devices for years. Drawing images and having a tablet recognize them is a completely different beast — one that researchers at MIT are tackling with some success. Could this approach make its way to personal computing? Read More »
Vevo is working on an application that will bring its music videos into people’s living rooms through Boxee’s media center software and its soon-to-be-released Boxee Box set-top device, according to Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff. By doing so, the joint venture seeks to create even… Read More »
But what about those days when you’re out and about? The days when you’re heading into your company’s HQ or meeting with a client? These excursions, which for some can be very rare, can cause tension, if not downright panic. Read More »
Google last week announced Google Fiber, an experimental fiber-to-the-home network it plans to use to connect between 20,000 and 200,000 homes. And while we wait for that network to take shape, Reggefiber of the Netherlands is moving ahead and upgrading its network to 1 Gbps. Read More »
In our weekly audio podcast we chat up the hot news and handsets out of Mobile World Congress. And what about that clean break for Microsoft with Windows Phone 7 Series and the new MeeGo platform from Intel and Nokia? Read More »
Due to repeated and numerous customer complaints, and despite the fact that they seem to pretty regularly make their way into the top 25 and 50 lists of both free and paid apps, Apple decided this week to begin removing software from the App Store it… Read More »
This morning Tiger Woods made his first public statement in months, holding a press conference at the PGA Tour Headquarters to respond to criticism from the media since his history of infidelity became public. But I wasn’t interested in the content of Tiger’s apology, so… Read More »
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