Google recently launched a new search indexing system called Caffeine, which it says produces results that are 50 percent “fresher.” Why? Because Google needed to respond faster in a world that has become increasingly real-time. Not just because it wanted to, but because it had to. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
Silent Power says it can link solar panels to batteries to make solar light up the night — and it has a pilot project in Sacramento to test out its proposition. Read More »
T-Mobile brings HSPA+ to 18 new markets today, enabling 4G-like speeds on current devices. A T-Mobile representative told me what such speeds are doing to data demand — in some cases, boosting traffic by seven times — but said the network can handle it. Read More »
Gogobot, a company started by Travis Katz, formerly Managing Director (International) at MySpace and Ori Zaltzman, former Chief Architect of Yahoo’s BOSS search offering said that it has raised $4 million in funding from Battery Ventures. The company will launch its service in a few months. Read More »
One would think that owning the largest smartphone market share in the world ought to attract the most high-quality mobile software developers developers, but doesn’t seem to the case for Nokia. Too many products on too many permutations of platforms and a sub-par store aren’t helping. Read More »
One of the four series launching today on a redesigned TheWB.com first went into production in November 2007. Shifting corporate strategies, unexpected music clearance issues and technical difficulties kept Downer’s Grove offline until now, but the show’s creators weren’t held back by those delays. Read More »
The story of high efficiency solar photovoltaic panel maker SunPower puts the whole clean energy landscape into perspective. After 25 years in the business the company has been producing solar panels commercially for only about five years. Here’s our photos from the factory tour. Read More »
Still don’t know what Google TV is all about? The company wants to explain it to you in detail, and it has released a new video tour to do so. The video features various third-party content sources compatible with Google TV, but Hulu.com is notably absent. Read More »
Twitter’s downtime and reliability issues have continued to mount over the past couple of weeks, with repeated system errors and outages. All of which raises the question: Can Twitter handle its emerging status as the world’s real-time communications network, or does it need some help? Read More »
Many web workers already have the flexibility to set their own schedules; I thought I would run a quick poll to see how many of our readers are taking advantage of that flexibility to stay productive while also catching as much of the tournament as possible: Read More »
After 10 months of studying Redbox rental data, Paramount decided that its $1 nightly rentals were having a negligible effect on new release sales. The result? The studio struck a deal to let Redbox rent its new releases on the same day they go on sale. Read More »
So far this week two storage startups offering a hardware product have launched in as many days, both offering variations on the theme that more data requires more storage and faster networks require faster access to stored data. The trend has been building for years. Read More »
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