UPDATED: Electric car startup Tesla Motors plans to buy the NUMMI plant in Fremont, Calif. and start building its Model S sedan there in 2012. Toyota has agreed to partner with the startup and buy a $50 million stake after Tesla’s IPO. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
The FCC today released a 237-page report detailing the state of competition in the wireless industry. The report offers no conclusions, but I’ve taken several of the images provided in the report to paint a picture of the industry that shows it’s very profitable. Read More »
The iTunes movie store just got a lot more usable thanks to a small but significant update that went live today. As of now, the iTunes movie store features Top Critics’ reviews and the Tomatometer rating score from Rotten Tomatoes prominently displayed above customer reviews. Read More »
Google and its partners Sony, Logitech and Intel plan to launch first Google TV devices this fall, but it’s still unclear how much of the web users will actually be able to access with it, and what kind of ads they’re going to see in the… Read More »
The father of genomics and the founder of synthetic biology startup Synthetic Genomics, Craig Venter, is now officially god. Well, he and a team of researchers at the J Craig Venter institute have successfully created the first synthetic bacterial cell. Read More »
If you use stock photography, like we do here on WWD, you’ll know how tricky it can be managing your collection of images — particularly if your collection is used by a team of people. Pixamba is a new web app that claims to help. Read More »
The controversy over Google’s collection of personal data via its Street View program continues to grow, but the company seems to be reluctant to acknowledge the full importance of the lapse, saying no harm was done. Meanwhile, the company faces a class-action lawsuit over the practice. Read More »
In the latest volley in the war over making Flash on mobile devices, Adobe has teamed up with Google to make Flash-based video and applications on mobile devices. At Google I/O, Adobe announced that it will make Flash Player 10.1 available on phones running Android 2.2. Read More »
Google, as expected, has unveiled Android 2.2 — aka Froyo — at its I/O developers conference. In conjunction with this announcement, Adobe formally introduced Flash 10.1 for Android. You can see both Froyo and the new Flash in action in this video. Verdict: sweet. Read More »
Apple wasn’t kidding around when it said it was going to become a mobile device company first and foremost. According to at least one analyst estimate, the iPad is now outselling the Mac by a fair margin, having almost caught up to its cousin, the iPhone. Read More »
Google TV officially introduced its Google TV platform at its i/O developers conference today, showcasing a customized version of Android that will offer full web access through an search bar and an integrated Chrome web browser. Read More »
iCab Mobile is the browser for the iPad I’ve been waiting for. Using the same WebKit rendering engine as Mobile Safari, iCab brings a true “desktop” class browser to the iPad, including tabs and more settings than you can shake a stick at. Read More »
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