Rich Barton today launched a side project called Pozit, which plays in the hot space of social Q&A. Pozit is a simple tool for starting a discussion with your friends. You ask a question and invite friends to answer using an invite-only short URL. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
Artist duo Eva and Franco Mattes used Chatroulette for a disturbing performance art piece that shows reactions, ranging from horror to ridicule, to a scene set up to resemble a suicide, with a hanging man swinging in the corner of a room in disarray. Read More »
The big news early this week about Apple isn’t the commencement of pre-order sales in nine international markets that happened Monday, it’s a report by the NPD group that sees Android smartphones outselling Apple’s iPhone. The question is, why? Read More »
The smart grid demands an efficient, scalable communications hub — and SmartSynch’s GridRouter is the first tool uniquely positioned to act as such a hub. In short, the GridRouter enables the smart grid — on any network, software or device. Read More »
Square, a mobile payments startup co-founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, launched today. It allows anyone to accept payments via mobile phones such as the iPhone and Android-based devices. But the company needs more than hardware to keep ahead of competitors such as VeriFone. Read More »
Lenovo is apparently determined to have the most notebooks in its portfolio, with the introduction of the IdeaPad Z-series line of notebooks. The objective looks to bring powerful processors and multimedia capabilities to the Lenovo lineup, while keeping prices low enough to appeal to consumers. Read More »
The Federal Communications Commission today sought comment on proposed regulations that would lead to wireless operators notifying cell phone users when their data usage reached a certain threshold. The rules are aimed at preventing the nightmare cell phone bills can reach media-worthy proportions. Read More »
Ah, the follow-up email. It’s never a straightforward task. Perhaps you’re working to land a guest post on a certain blog, or maybe you’re heading up biz dev for a new start-up. No matter the project, circling back on a line of email communication is tricky. Read More »
Online distribution site Blip.tv is aiming to engage with the local web series scene by opening an office in Los Angeles and hiring Epic Fu co-creator Steve Woolf to work directly with creators interested in using the Blip platform. Read More »
Robert Stempel, whose brief tenure as chairman and chief executive for General Motors in the early nineties earned him the moniker, “father of the EV-1,” in some circles, has just joined the board of directors for battery startup Envia Systems. Read More »
Samsung sells everything from chemicals to construction. But in recent years the Korean conglomerate has started to turn the wheel towards green technology, and this morning said it plans to spend over $20 billion largely on green tech, including solar cells, battery cells and LEDs. Read More »
Marvell, in an effort to cut the power consumption inside enterprise data centers, plans to ship chips for servers that use the same type of processors that power cell phones. Marvell’s ARM-based chips will deliver a five-fold reduction in power compared to the x86 architecture. Read More »
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