Four years after setting up a car sharing service in London, England, Zipcar announced today that it has acquired the UK’s largest car sharing provider, Streetcar. Now Zipcar faces some questions about how to bridge technology gaps between different models. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
“Siemens Energy, a unit of German industrial giant Siemens AG (SI), said Wednesday that it has signed a $15 million contract with a unit of Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. (HE) to build a “smart grid” system in Honolulu.” — Dow Jones Newswires Read More »
Any debate between open or closed systems has to touch on open-source software and the ways companies are attempting to build code as a community effort while profiting off of it in some way. I talked to Mark Shuttleworth about how Ubuntu walks that line. Read More »
NASCAR.com has to date seen 70 percent more video views in 2010 as in the same time frame last year, clocking a total of 14.2 million views by Monday of this week, compared to 8.3 million views in 2009. The site has also… Read More »
RescueTime makes time tracking and monitoring tools for organizations and individuals. A new addition to the RescueTime stable is the Productivity Meter, an extension for Chrome and Firefox that automatically tracks the amount of time you spend on different web sites. Read More »
Netflix continues to show strong momentum in subscribers and sales, driven by interest in the company’s streaming service. With the release of its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the subscription rental service posted both better-than-expected subscriber additions and earnings, and forecast continued… Read More »
We recently noted a number of portable keyboards that work with the iPad, including the Freedom Pro Keyboard. This keyboard is a QWERTY keyboard that folds in two for easy transport. The keyboard will work with many smartphones, including Blackberries, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones. Read More »
MorphLabs made available in the U.S. today its cloud computing solutions, which are designed to let managed service providers enter the cloud provider market as they try to fend off cloud-based competition from the likes of Amazon Web Services and others. Read More »
The usage of URL shortening services like bit.ly and TinyURL has exploded over the past couple of years. They’re useful for shortening lengthy URLs, but as the user cannot tell what destination the link points to, they can also be used for malicious purposes Read More »
If I were given the power to make rules about online video advertising, here’d be one of them: No pre-roll ad can be longer than, say, 20 percent of a video’s run-time. I do not have this power, though, and thus I am sad to… Read More »
Facebook, as expected, launched its master plan to make the rest of the web social at its f8 conference in San Francisco today. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and director of product Bret Taylor laid out three major initiatives to that effect. Read More »
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