Between the four major U.S. cellular carriers and Clearwire, mobile broadband in this country is undergoing a fundamental transition to faster networks. But who’s doing what and when with their offerings? Here’s a summary of next-generation plans from the major U.S. carriers and Clearwire through 2013. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
For Solyndra, looks like going public isn’t such a good plan after all. The solar company says tonight it has opted to raise $175 million by selling convertible promissory notes from existing investors instead of doing an IPO. Read More »
The Knight Foundation announced the winners of its Knight News Challenge today, and the projects taking home some substantial prize money include the collaborative online video editor Stroome, an attempt to bring live video streaming to court rooms and a project utilizing user-generated content from soldiers. Read More »
VMware is among those companies duking it out with incumbents such as Microsoft and Oracle thanks to cloud computing. VMware CEO Paul Maritz will join me onstage at our upcoming Structure conference to talk about, among other things, his vision for the future of cloud computing. Read More »
San Francisco’s City Attorney Dennis Herrera has asked California’s energy regulators to stop PG&E from installing any more smart meters until a third party investigation into the accuracy of the meters has been completed reports the San Jose Mercury News. Read More »
Does the world need a refuge for secret information provided by whistle-blowers? Iceland’s parliament seems to think so: they just approved a bill that would create exactly that. The initiative started with Wikileaks, the secretive group that recently leaked video of a contentious U.S. military attack. Read More »
Google occasionally incorporates Labs features into Gmail, but many of them seem destined to remain stuck in Labs forever, so probably won’t be seen by most Gmail users. With that in mind, which Gmail Labs features you think should “graduate” and become part of Gmail itself? Read More »
FFmpeg released a new version 0.6 with support for Google’s open source WebM video codec this week. FFmpeg is a suite of tools and libraries that is an important backbone of many well-known video players, transcoding applications and even TV platforms like Boxee, VLC and MPlayer. Read More »
Forrester expects that 1 in 4 PC sales will be tablets by 2015. I agree for three reasons, but sales numbers could be even higher for tablets. The time of all-day computing in just a few apps is over. Welcome to the days of task-based tablets. Read More »
StumbleUpon, the early web discovery engine, has reached a new milestone: 10 million Stumblers, all of whom have helped create a great little company building a structured database for the relevant web, something that Facebook is now trying to do with its Like button. Read More »
Motorola and Verizon are basking in the popularity of the original Droid, although they wish they could build them faster. Recent phones in the Droid line have been produced by HTC; it’s a return to the Motorola roots with the Droid X to be announced shortly. Read More »
The pitch on TheWB’s new drama/thriller is a pretty simple one — good-looking medical student with a secret past tries to keep from destroying his future. The mystery is intriguing, but a number of awkward moments might raise the eyebrows of the nitpicky. Read More »
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