First Solar posted stronger than expected revenue and profit in the final quarter of 2010, defying some of the bearishness that had hounded the stock in recent months and suggesting that the company is managing its way through a time of rising competition from more efficient… Read More »
Archive for February 2010
If you were to break down the entirety of scripted web video into two categories — shows about jobs that stink, and shows that aren’t about jobs that stink — you’d probably have a lot more of the former than the latter. Everyone spends a… Read More »
I’ve cursed the 10MB over-the-air cell data download limit on Apple’s iPhone many a time, especially when trying to grab a podcast or game for use on the train while traveling. Things got slightly better in that regard today, since Apple doubled the download limit for… Read More »
After eight months of using webOS, I’ve put my Palm Pre out to pasture. Issues that should have been fixed by now are still lingering, software choices are still lacking and Synergy just isn’t as unique as it once was. Read More »
The latest release of BuddyPress 1.2 now supports installation on single-user WordPress (version 2.9.x) blogs, which is exciting news as it means that millions of sites can now add social networking/community features to their existing blogs. Read More »
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another Palm Press, our weekly look at the world of Palm. The Missing Sync offers 2-way syncing for Windows users. Palm may be on track to ship one million webOS phones this quarter, a marked improvement over last quarter. Read More »
Amazon delivered today a beta of its free Kindle for BlackBerry e-book app, which provides access to more than 420,000 books. It marks the latest example of how the publishing industry is facing seminal changes. Are we on the verge of the death of quality content? Read More »
UPDATED We’re usually not much into celebrity gossip, but we have to admit that Tiger Woods’ rapid descent from golf stardom to yellow press fodder has been fascinating, if only for the fact that it seemed much more like a bad TV… Read More »
Like the aunt who always gave you underwear at Christmas, Comcast is offering an unwanted (although useful) service for customers. It’s giving its users access to online storage through a partnership with Mozy. But our question is, will people use it? Read More »
One word describes the task of reliably forecasting how much a used electric vehicle will be worth at the end of its lease (called residual value): impossible. That’s the latest finding from CAP Motor Research, one of the UK’s biggest providers of vehicle… Read More »
MSI’s newest Wind netbook — the U160 — is now showing on Amazon’s pre-order page. What do you get for $379.99? Quite a bit, it turns out, although it would be nice to have seen a screen resolution upgrade to complement the other components. Read More »
Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback contributed an interesting article to Adage.com today, expressing his distain for pre-roll ads and at the same time predicting that the format will stay around, simply because it happens to be the most… Read More »
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