Khosla Ventures-backed Cello Energy, a startup run by Alabama’s former ethics chairman that has been beset by production delays and fraud allegations, ranks among companies that the EPA believes is most likely to help meet federal targets for cellulosic biofuel production in 2011. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 4, has been with us for a number of weeks now, but did you know that one new addition to the OS is the ability to lock your phone with any password of your choice? Read More »
Want to find the most influential and relevant Twitter users on the topic of baking? iPhone apps? The oil spill? The Twitter search startup Topsy has built a neat way to sort Twitter users to surface experts who tweet actively and influentially on any topic. Read More »
Bicycling is an extremely green mode of transportation that can be compatible with mobile professionals. Under the right conditions, biking can actually be a faster means of getting around a city and it’s certainly more fun than fighting traffic. Read More »
A developer survey of Nokia’s Ovi Store highlights key areas of needed improvement, ranging from more efficient submission processes to faster Quality Assurance checks and better communications. Nearly half of those surveyed indicate that Nokia’s app store is below average when compared to rival software stores. Read More »
One of the features that draws me to Android is the ability to install apps that add to the enjoyment of the phone. It’s getting harder to find those gems in the Market, so I asked the Twitterverse for recommendations. These 20 topped the list. Read More »
The Wieden + Kennedy-powered social media blitz featuring actor and former football player Isaiah Mustafa posted over 180 video responses to comments on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube and elsewhere, accumulating a total of 5.9 million views and 22,500 comments in the campaign’s 24-hour time span. Read More »
Commercial Hadoop champion Cloudera is building a connector to enable movement of data between Netezza’s data warehousing appliance and Cloudera’s Hadoop clusters. It’s just the latest instance of an analytics vendor integrating Hadoop support, and further evidence that Hadoop has legs as a commercial technology. Read More »
Odds and ends from around the greentech web that we’re reading this morning. Read More »
Can building a network of local bloggers turn online journalism into a money-maker? Two new media ventures are hoping that it can. One is Washington-based startup TBD. The other is a traditional media entity that is trying to remake itself online: Philadelphia-based Journal Register Co. Read More »
Move along, Enertia — here comes the Empulse. Electric motorcycle maker Brammo announced plans this morning to build a faster, pricier model with longer range called the Empulse, which will join the company’s inaugural Brammo Enertia motorcycle in retailing through Best Buy. Read More »
Feed reading is arguably one of the primary uses of the iPad, so making a good RSS client for it very important. Here’s a run-down of the five feed readers available now for the iPad. Read More »
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