March, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2010

Story of Bottled Water Makes the Case for Tap

One of this week’s unexpected viral stars wasn’t a cat or a girl in a bikini, but rather environmentalist Annie Leonard, whose rant about bottled water, released in conjunction with World Water Day, has racked up over 150,000 views on YouTube in one week. Read More »

Addicted to Groupon, where the appeal of an amazing expiring deal gets you in the moment — but then you neglect to use the coupon you bought? Now there’s a site — DealsGoRound — to trade daily deals rather than let them go to waste. Read More »

 
 

Spike TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) just launched Ultimatefighter.com, a site that features every single episode of the last 10 seasons of The Ultimate Fighter. It offers fans the option of watching just the fights without any of the trash… Read More »

I’ve recently been thinking about how Google Voice, Google Wave, and Google Buzz joining the full Google Apps lineup would make it a budget-friendly teleworking platform. Organizations can literally purchase themselves a “telework in a box” solution. Read More »

Google’s Mobile App lands on the BlackBerry Storm and Storm2 today. The voice query supports three languages and searches the web, contacts and emails. But even with apps like these, the BlackBerry platform isn’t really driving the mobile web. Read More »

Vid-Biz: HBO, Blockbuster, Lady Gaga

HBO In Discussions For ‘TV Everywhere’ Deals; Eric Kessler, co-president of HBO, said that the programmer is engaged in conversations with a number of different distributors to enable authenticated subscribers to access content from multiple touch points. (Multichannel News) Blockbuster Dips a Toe in the Mobile… Read More »

Venture capital and private equity: That’s the sweet spot for the U.S. and one of the only areas where the country leads the world in terms of financing a renewable energy buildout, according to a new report from the Pew Environment Group. Read More »

The ongoing battle between Google and China sometimes reads like a spy novel, featuring a giant tech company clashing with totalitarian overlords and cyber attacks by shadowy forces. Here’s our take and what you really need to know about this epic confrontation. Read More »

Netflix has started to send out a first batch of the disks required to access its Watch Instantly service with Nintendo’s Wii gaming console, according to a post published on its corporate blog. There, VP of Marketing Jessie Becker writes that… Read More »

Recently, I was talking with my accountability partner about email marketing. She’d had a bit of a mishap with one of her email campaigns, and we were trying to figure out how she could possibly correct the situation. Read More »

Was it just us or did Android steal the show at CTIA this year? In this week’s audio podcast we chat about that and wonder if the bar has been raised for Apple’s next handset due to the high-end smartphones announced at CTIA. Read More »

The U.S. dropped in the rankings of countries that are well equipped to use their information and communications technology infrastructure as an economic advantage, while Sweden tops that list, according to a survey issued today by the The World Economic Forum. Read More »

More Must Reads

Just when you thought the iPad might be able to breathe some life back into the failing print industry, the industry itself seems dead set on making sure that doesn’t happen. Well, certain parties within the industry at least, like maybe News Corp. for instance, if… Read More »

As Google mulls pulling out of China, the Renault-Nissan Alliance is digging in. The French-Japanese auto duo has just detailed its first deal with a Chinese city to develop electric vehicles and infrastructure. Under the pilot program announced Thursday, Nissan will roll out 25 electric vehicles… Read More »

It looks like CBS will use HTML5 and H.264 to allow iPad viewers that connect to CBS.com to watch its videos, if early test video pages discovered by The Other Mac Blog and examined by MacRumours are any indication of the… Read More »

Heavy users of Microsoft’s OneNote have been left out in the cold unless they also use a Windows Mobile phone. That’s no longer the case due to MobileNoter, an iPhone app that syncs OneNote notebooks on a PC with the iPhone for reference on the run. Read More »

Tomorrow is the last day municipalities can submit applications for Google’s experimental fiber network that will deliver 1 gigabit per second to homes. But even for cities that aren’t chosen, the lessons learned because of this process will benefit them for a long time. Read More »

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