Many of the initiatives detailed at this week’s Clean Energy Minsterial seem more like pledges to figure out how to reach green energy goals and gain access to necessary data than a definite road map with all the answers in place. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Online invoicing service FreshBooks today announced a new integration with Salesforce, enabling Salesforce users to automatically bill through FreshBooks without leaving the Saleforce interface. The integration is made possible through the use of a third-party app, DataSynch OnDemand for FreshBooks & Salesforce by Pervasive Software. Read More »
In response to a Congressional question on whether broadband is being deployed in a reasonable and timely fashion to all Americans, the FCC today released its 706 report, saying that 14 – 25 million Americans have no access to broadband, now defined as four Mbps down. Read More »
After selling Jajah to Telefonica for $207 million in December, Daniel Mattes is onto a new project: payments, with a focus on mobile payments. He started a new company called Jumio, headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. with Mattes and the technical team based in Linz, Austria. Read More »
Director Mike Rotman is launching a new show from the “Streaming Garage” where his other live-streaming series, Stupid For Movies, shoots every week. Stripped Down Live, hosted by Tears for Fears frontman Curt Smith debuts this Wednesday at 8 PM PST. Read More »
When you think of mobile data revenues, the countries that come to mind are those with 3G networks or better. But the increasing reliance on life improvement and mobile commerce in developing nations will shift such dollars, accounting for 36 percent of such revenues by 2014. Read More »
The smart grid is a network and one company can’t provide all of the end-to-end gear. That’s why strategic partnerships will be key for companies, particularly startups. This morning Grid Net announced that it’s partnered with software heavyweight Oracle to sell its network and meter management… Read More »
Riptano, an almost four-month-old startup building a business around the open-source Cassandra key value store, is so far seeing a lot of demand from enterprises eager to adopt the code. I spoke with Matt Pfeil, co-founder and CEO of Riptano, to learn more. Read More »
The theatrical market for independent documentaries is pretty tough these days, which is why Pixar CTO and independent film producer Oren Jacob has turned to social media, online video creators and food banks to get the word out about Ready, Set, Bag! Read More »
Last week saw the arrival of Firefox on the iPhone, but not as we know it. Mozilla’s new app, known as Firefox Home, is not strictly a browser — instead it brings your desktop browsing session direct to your iPhone. Read More »
It’s always been disappointing that Google Apps accounts (those with custom domains) haven’t had access to as many services as accounts with addresses @gmail.com. That is now changing. Selected Google Apps are now being given the opportunity to transition their users to “enhanced” Google Apps accounts. Read More »
Expected soon after the launch of its music subscription service last fall, MOG’s iPhone and Android mobile apps will allow access to a library of more than 8 million songs for a monthly fee of about $10. That represents an increasingly attractive standalone offering for handset… Read More »
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