Finding a good place to chat with your colleagues on the web can be tricky. HipChat provides an easy-to-use, private alternative to using IM networks for group chat and collaboration, with a few useful added extras, like file sharing and chat rooms, thrown into the mix. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
In the past, I’ve gotten caught up in perfectionism, procrastination, fear, over-planning and analysis paralysis. However, over time, I’ve managed to get to a point where I’m much more likely to just start things off and correct my course as I go. Read More »
Is 2010 the year of the greentech IPO? Well, a whopping 19 green companies have announced IPOs since September, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, and none of those have sold shares yet. Read More »
The three cable providers in the New York metro area have banded together to create a Wi-Fi network that any of the companies’ customers can use, turning the city into a big hotspot for all those smartphones and iPads. Is this the age of Wi-Fi roaming? Read More »
Startup incubator Bootup Labs has come under fire from startups after one of the entrepreneurs who was accepted into the group’s program said he and his co-founder had their dreams dashed and were left penniless as a result of promises Bootup Labs made and couldn’t keep. Read More »
Vidyo, in a bid to widen its market share, is launching a line of video conferencing solutions priced under $1,000. The VidyoDesktop Executive combines low-cost touchscreen computers with the VidyoDesktop 2.0 software to enable video conferencing at one-tenth the price of other… Read More »
Evernote is an example of the way the cloud can be leveraged to best advantage. Users of the Evernote premium service have gotten an upgrade that adds two improvements — note history (versioning) and larger note limits. Rolling back to earlier versions is now possible. Read More »
Microsoft may be testing servers that use cell-phone chips instead of Intel or AMD silicon in addition to solid-state storage drives for its online services division, which operates sites like Bing, most likely in an effort to drive down energy costs without sacrificing performance. Read More »
Syabas Technology, better know as the maker of the Popcorn Hour set-top box, is officially launching the SDK for its upcoming Popbox device today. The Popbox SDK will allow developers to build Flash lite apps that can… Read More »
The intersection of the Internet and greentech represents an incredible opportunity to define new markets and apply the talent of the Internet industry to saving the planet. Green:Net 2010 will see top green entrepreneurs, investors and market-leading companies convene on April 29th in San Francisco. Read More »
Zipcar bills its car-sharing service as a money saver. At the tail end of a recession, has Zipcar — which has said it aims to “cross over to profitability” in 2010, and eventually go public — seen users flock to its service? Read More »
Intel’s Paul Otellini said on Tuesday night that the chip firm would release a dual-core Atom chip during the second quarter. Intel won’t be alone in adding more cores for mobile devices, smartphones could get multiple cores by the end of this year or in 2011. Read More »
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