Subscribers to the Slacker personal radio service can now keep up with world news as ABC News is now available. The deal between ABC and Slacker goes into affect today and will provide news content taken from the day’s newscast, along with GMA and Nightline. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Honda Motor Co. plans to start selling a pair of plug-in vehicles in 2012, including a “mid-size to larger” plug-in hybrid and an all-electric model, the automaker’s president Tkanobu Ito said on Tuesday. Read More »
A new survey has ranked Facebook lower than both the airline industry and the cable television business when it comes to customer satisfaction. ForeSee Results said that Facebook got the second-lowest score out of more than 200 companies in the survey, just ahead of MySpace. Read More »
In a deal valued at $7 billion over the next eight years, LightSquared, backed by Harbinger Capital Partners, has hired Nokia Siemens Network to create a wholesale 4G wireless network on its behalf using satellite and terrestrial coverage. Read More »
Kindle producer Amazon is all excited because the recent price drop of the Kindle has resulted in a growth rate three times as high as before the drop. Kindle books (e-books) are now outselling the hardcover editions on Amazon by a healthy margin, too. Read More »
Here’s the first deal from “Google Energy,” Google’s subsidiary that is approved to buy and sell electricity on federally regulated wholesale markets. Google says this morning that Google Energy will buy clean power from 114 MW of wind energy owned by NextEra Energy Resources in Iowa. Read More »
As Nokia CEO since 2006, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has watched a decline in his company’s market share, average selling price per handset and stock value. Several attempts to stave off newer platforms such as iOS4 and Android have fallen short. Could Kallasvuo’s future with Nokia be ending? Read More »
WebM, Google’s new royalty-free, open source video codec, launched with a formidable list of partners — but support for the format continues to grow as new partners come on board. The latest to join is Winamp, which added support for WebM in its latest media player. Read More »
Filemaker has now brought its signature database solution to iOS devices. Filemaker Go for iPhone and Filemaker Go for iPad can run databases locally or act as a client to Filemaker databases that are hosted on the desktop or server version of Filemaker Pro. Read More »
I’ve found that embarking on an online job hunt takes more than just a great resume, time, and resilience. Personally, I find the whole process pretty strange, but the characteristics of web-based recruitment set particular challenges for the independent web worker. Read More »
GE has only really been experimenting with its home energy management tools over the past 2 to 3 years, and is finally launching an actual product, the Nucleus, that makes economic sense for GE in the very nascent commercial energy management marketplace. Read More »
DRM has a new name, and that name is “UltraViolet.” The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem today announced the name for its “Buy Once, Play Anywhere” digital content framework, along with a consumer website in which consumers will be able to manage all their content and devices. Read More »
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