May, 2010 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for May 2010

The current status of the International Association for Web Television and the potential relationship between the not-yet-officially-a-nonprofit organization and the for-profit Streamy Awards dominated Wednesday night’s town hall meeting. Read More »

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski today defended to cable industry executives the agency’s plan’s to reclassify broadband, pitching the commission’s “Third Way” for regulation and attempting to assure the audience that the agency would continue to operate in good faith. Read More »

 
 

The idea of reading on mobile devices is not new. Devices like the Amazon Kindle and the Sony eReader have been around for a while, but with the buzz surrounding iBooks sparking more interest, are digital books worth it? Read More »

Silentale is a service that works to unify your address books, and gives you one place to archive your messages. It’s similar to Threadsy, which aims to bring together your email and social network inboxes in one place, although you can’t compose messages directly in Silentale. Read More »

Is there a business in providing intelligible data sets to information workers, application developers and analysts in a world where once expensive data such as turn-by-turn directions or real-time financial quotes are now free? Microsoft, with its Project Dallas, joins other firms hoping that there is. Read More »

An iPhone in Every Pot?

A new iPhone means a lot of speculation prior to launch. It’s fun to follow, especially when you find rumors that are “sure things” that are directly opposite. Dwight Silverman has come up with a theory about the next phone from Cupertino that is certainly new. Read More »

The worldwide market for global payments will grow to $633.4 billion by 2014, up from $68.7 billion in 2009, according to a new report by Generator Research. Meanwhile, mobile payment users will grow 600 percent, to 490 million in 2014 from 81.3 million last year. Read More »

Comedy site My Damn Channel is bringing the New York stage show Celebrity Autobiography to web audiences sadly deprived of the chance to hear Kristin Johnston’s interpretation of the writings of Mr. T. Read More »

C3Nano, working on a low-cost coating for more efficient solar panels, won attention from investors, greentech insiders and the Department of Energy this week by winning the $200,000 grand prize in the MIT Clean Energy Prize contest. Read More »

Anyone looking to start a business should listen to Naval Ravikant. He’s been both entrepreneur and angel investor and has loads of wisdom for people wondering what to look for in a business partner or how to get a meeting with a VC. Read More »

Ever wanted to listen to all your Rock music? Or wanted to hear only your recent music purchases? We’ll walk you through creating a Smart Playlist and how to set up different “rules” to control what songs automatically show up in your playlist. Read More »

More Must Reads

Survey results based on July to December 2009 data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention show continued wireless communication adoption in the home over wired landlines. Younger generations are cutting the cord in increasing numbers and keeping it cut as they grow older. Read More »

Visit the Plugin Check site and it’ll check out all of the plugins installed on the computer — Plugin Check now works in most browsers. If any plugins are out of date, it gives you a handy link so that you can grab the latest versions. Read More »

Bill Gates has dabbled in greentech investments, backing nuclear tech and Vinod Khosla’s venture fund. But the world’s most famous computer geek has also funded more risky projects, including giving $4.5 million for controversial research to use artificial clouds to cool the atmosphere. Read More »

Everything changes as it grows, some things for the better, but others for the worse. Anyone who’s been a part of the Apple community for the past 10 years can testify how Apple has changed over that time. Jonathan Rentzsch has cancelled his incredible C4 conference. Read More »

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