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Archive for March 2010

Pink is one of those series that, frankly, I should have reviewed a long time ago. The adventure/drama focuses on Natalie Cross (Natalie Raitano), who kills people for a living — and is very good at it. But Natalie is haunted by her… Read More »

Picture a tech startup founder. Are they male, maybe around 27 years old, and a resident of Silicon Valley? Apparently that’s what it takes to build a tech startup according to the explicit and implicit wisdom shared at the Seed Combinator’s panel today at SXSW. Read More »

 
 

Those that live their lives around broadband (consider the Earth2Tech crew to be among ‘em) have been eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) National Broadband Plan, which it plans to officially release to Congress on Tuesday. The FCC, which is headed… Read More »

In a world in which everything is made public it can be difficult to imagine the role that a restricted-access online journal might serve. Yet Penzu is exactly that: an online journal tool that, by default, saves your entries securely. Read More »

TubeMogul announced today that it has built an ad network on top of its distribution and analytics platform, extending its capabilities to help advertisers better target their video ads to users while also increasing visibility into how those ads perform. But the… Read More »

Here in the U.S., March Madness is upon us. The three week national college basketball tournament brings out fans from all walks of life, but how does one keep up with the action? These eight mobile methods work on phones and computers from the first tip-off. Read More »

Daily Sprout

Toyota Takes on “Runaway” Prius Driver’s Claims: “Toyota Motor Sales on Monday challenged the contention of the driver of a Prius who said his car accelerated unintentionally March 8 while traveling on a freeway near San Diego,” saying it found in a preliminary analysis that the… Read More »

UPDATED: So we were on the front page of YouTube on Saturday! That was pretty fun, though a bit surprising to the ten web series creators we featured, whose inboxes that morning were quickly flooded with subscription notifications and comments. But what does being featured… Read More »

A piece I wrote last week on the impact of iTunes web preview pages on App Store SEO brought up a little side conversation about how many people found it annoying that the links launch iTunes automatically. Sometimes you don’t even have any warning that… Read More »

It’s no secret that Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide is betting big on plug-in hybrid vehicle startup Fisker Automotive — the green car startup’s genesis was built on a vision of having the well-known luxury car designer Henrik Fisker design a vehicle around a Quantum… Read More »

After attendees waited an hour see the event, Twitter CEO Evan Williams’ keynote at SXSW disappointed thanks to a lackluster product launch with @Anywhere, and a dull interview by Havas Media Lab director Umair Haque which had the audience tweeting complaints and finally leaving. Read More »

At today’s MIX10 event, Microsoft announced both the development tools and the software partners already on board for Windows Phone 7 Series. Several software title demonstrations show a very mature mobile platform that’s sure to impress when the new devices land later this year. Read More »

More Must Reads

Netflix streaming could be coming to mobile devices by the end of the year, but the iPhone might not be the first platform to support it, as has been widely anticipated. Instead, that honor might belong to devices that are built on Microsoft’s… Read More »

Pat Gelsinger is stirring things up EMC with a plan to virtualize and federate storage so data and compute can be linked together to keep constantly changing information up to date despite networks that are built for gigabytes rather than petabytes. Read More »

A Google employee expressed his distaste for the way Apple does business in no uncertain terms in a recent blog post. Tim Bray, a co-inventor of XML and a well-known blogger in his own right, is also a Google employee on the Android team, having recently… Read More »

Here’s the latest sign that the next-generation battery business is just really tough for startups: On Friday and over the weekend local Illinois media reported that Peoria, Illinois-based battery startup Firefly Energy has stopped operating. Specifically The Peoria Journal Star reported on Friday that… Read More »

Microsoft is betting that that Silverlight can help lure third-party developers to its Windows Phone operating system, which is scheduled to be released by the end of the year. It’s a strategy that seems to be paying dividends — so far. Read More »

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