I spent last week at a conference in San Francisco with many of my colleagues and community members from around the world, but the giant volcanic ash cloud over Europe put a damper on the final day of the conference. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
We’ve seen a myriad of cell phone radiation studies before, but COSMOS aims to provide the largest. The COSMOS study hopes for 250,000 volunteers over a 30 year period, making it potentially the most comprehensive proactive research effort on cell phone radiation to date. Read More »
It’s every entrepreneur’s dream: build a company, raise no venture capital, and sell off the firm in less than two years. That was the path taken by startup Zensi, which makes energy sensing technology, when it was acquired by consumer electronics company Belkin this week. Read More »
Lithium ion battery maker A123Systems collected a $5 million loan commitment this week from its home state of Massachusetts, which offers it a little more government-sponsored fertilizer for the seeds A123 has been planting to grow its grid storage business. Read More »
Facebook launched some fairly impressive new features and services at its recent f8 conference, but some of them were also more than just a little scary. Since a lot of what the company talked about was introduced in either “developer speak” — involving… Read More »
So looking at reactions to this morning’s story about whether consumers might pay Hulu $10 for a subscription plan, the range of reaction from you, humble readers, has been largely negative. On Twitter, when queried as to whether they would pay… Read More »
Redbox today announced deals with Universal and Twentieth Century Fox that will add a 28-day window for rentals of new DVD and Blu-ray discs. Redbox customers may have to wait until May to watch Avatar or the Meryl Streep-Alec Baldwin comedy It’s Complicated, but in… Read More »
What does General Motors have to show for the $700 million it expects to invest in eight facilities involved in Chevy Volt production? Most recently, it has these images of a pre-production version of the upcoming plug-in sedan. Work it, Chevy. Read More »
Arkansas, North Dakota and South Carolina round out the top three states with the most competitive broadband markets according to a report released today by ID Insights and broadband consultant Craig Settles. It appears the more people online in your state, the less competition there is. Read More »
When Sony announced the premise of its first reality series for the PlayStation Network in February, I wasn’t the only one who thought that a competition to win an unglamorous entry-level position was kinda dumb. Internet mockery didn’t, however, keep The… Read More »
The mobile space sometimes seems to generate more rumors than other segments, and a big rumor has surfaced recently with far-reaching ramifications should it come about. The London Evening Standard reported that Apple is considering a bid to acquire ARM Holdings. Should this be allowed? Read More »
Nokia is still on track to deliver its vastly overhauled smartphone operating system in Symbian 3 in the second half of this year. With increased competition worldwide and competitors maturing their own platforms, Nokia needs to step on the gas pedal and accelerate delivery. Read More »
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