Porsche has tapped a trio of Boxster sports cars to serve as the latest guinea pigs in the automaker’s experiments with electric drive. But if you’re eager to see Porsche joining Tesla Motors in the all-electric sports car market, don’t hold your breath. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Social media calendars are being created, modified, enhanced and utilized on an ongoing basis to better manage blogs, microblogs and social network content and messaging. As you are looking to fill in the blanks in your social media calendar? Read More »
Odds and ends from around the greentech web that we’re reading this morning. Read More »
The UFC is looking to crack down on illegal live streams of its pay-per-view events, subpoenaing live streaming sites Justin.tv and Ustream to get the IP addresses needed to identify and shut down users that have made videos of those events available for free online. Read More »
Just as general purpose computing paved the way for specialized machines, general purpose clouds are going to evolve into specialized clouds. Like the Nvidia GPU-based cloud, launched today. It uses Tesla GPUs and 3D web services software and is targeting entertainment centric companies and services Read More »
GE has poured $175 million into more than 20 greentech companies over the years, and this morning it’s made another investment. GE says it will invest part of a $5 million round into SynapSense, a startup that makes wireless sensor technology and software to reduce data… Read More »
Pace is expanding its reach with the acquisition of broadband video technology firm 2Wire for $475 million in cash. The purchase will give it access to more U.S.-based IPTV providers like AT&T, while also helping to round out its ability to provide IP-based video services. Read More »
Among all the productivity tips we’ve discussed here at WWD in the past, there seems to be one element needed to make any of them really work: Passion. I’m not talking about fleeting bursts of motivation, nor the satisfaction of crossing off a to-do item. Read More »
Despite all of the rhetoric around, and government support for, a U.S. standards-based smart grid, proprietary communications technology will reign supreme for years to come, according to a report out from Pike Research. Read More »
As if Tesla’s CEO and driving force Elon Musk needed any more press — this weekend’s Sunday New York Times featured a long profile of the company and Musk’s personal story. The article mostly covered well-trodden ground, but here’s a couple tidbits that stood out. Read More »
There is a resurgence of activity around virtual desktops — where enterprises take desktop compute environments and make them configurable, deployable and manageable from a central location. Since it’s so hot, we look at companies that will challenge Citrix and VMware in this emerging sector. Read More »
I’m all for openness, but as I discuss in my weekly column at GigaOM Pro, it’s do not too difficult to play devil’s advocate and make the case that open source cloud platform OpenStack won’t create true rivals for leading cloud providers or cloud software vendors. Read More »
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