ECOtality’s latest report to shareholders shows a net loss of more than $29.5 million for 2009, up from $8.1 million in 2008 (a change attributed largely to the expense of pursuing stimulus funds), and reveals a company backing away from hydrogen ambitions. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
If you’re always looking for a Wi-Fi connection while on the road, Sprint suggests that you make your own Wi-Fi network with the Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot by Sierra Wireless. The folks at Sprint kindly lent me a hotspot to try out, and I was impressed. Read More »
Netflix has enabled closed captions on a limited number of titles available through its Watch Instantly service, the company’s chief product officer, Neil Hunt, wrote in a blog post this morning. Closed captioning has long been one of the most requested features… Read More »
At long last Friday rolls around, and it’s time to think back on the week. Mobile Tech Manor was as busy as can be with some new gadgets arriving. I bought too many RSS readers for the iPad and am waffling between two of them. Read More »
Want to share your location and progress while you’re en route to meeting with your friends? Check out Glympse, which just added Facebook support to its iPhone and Android apps, which now means people expecting you can track you via Twitter, SMS, email and Facebook. Read More »
Eventually 80-90 percent of lighting will convert to LEDs says Warner Philips, co-founder of LED startup Lemnis Lighting and great grandson of the man who founded Dutch lighting giant Philips. But it could take a couple decades before LEDs achieve that level of dominance. Read More »
Twitter’s Chirp conference this week was ultimately an overdue kickoff of the company’s developer community. With more than 100,000 applications created on its platform to date, it’s frankly amazing that Twitter hadn’t formalized its roadmap and addressed competition with developers before. Read More »
Watching Ghostfacers, a new WB TV series spun off from the long-running supernatural series Supernatural, I am struck, once again, by a yearning for a time machine. This parody of docu-soap reality shows like Ghost Hunters is well-made and well-written. It also feels painfully behind the… Read More »
Ford announced Thursday that the navigation system in vehicles with MyFord Touch (an interface that provides easy access and controls for Ford’s onboard communication system, Sync) will let drivers select a route that prioritizes not only distance or time, but also efficiency. Read More »
Sony is going to allow third parties to design and produce laptops with the VAIO brand, according to an announcement by the company. Sony has the reputation of being the “Apple” of Windows laptops, innovative designs at a price premium. Let’s how this affects that reputation. Read More »
The independent film community Openfilm announced today that they would begin a quarterly contest that would give independent filmmakers a $250,000 award package: a $50,000 cash prize and $200,000 financing for a feature film for a total of $1 million given out annually.… Read More »
Several sources say Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman will unveil their compromise climate proposal on April 26. The “definitive date shows the senators are coming close to finalizing their package.” — WaPo’s Post Carbon Read More »
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