An increasing number of people are working as freelancers, and employees are switching jobs far more rapidly. How, then, do we migrate the established “rules of work” to this new scenario? And how can employers make sure that they attract and retain the best talent? Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Today on the Net: Akamai has a new president, Swisscom uses your Facebook friends in a personalized movie trailer, local libraries loan more DVDs each day than Netflix, YouTube is playing with a new playlist bar, and more. Read More »
Amazon has announced a new Kindle. The new device is pretty awesome, both in features and price. It’s important that we declare both devices as winners and set some things straight for anyone calling iPad a Kindle killer or the other way around. Read More »
Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies is expected to go public sometime next year, according to reports. The company owns stakes in several of the hottest Internet companies around, including Facebook, social-game maker Zynga and group-buying site Groupon, as well as several leading Russian Internet companies. Read More »
Molycorp, a company that controls one of the largest deposits outside China of a group of metals used in many green technologies, is off to a rocky start on the public markets after raising $393.8 million in its IPO today. Read More »
Attention all blabbermouths — on its blog today, YouTube announced that all of its users can now upload video files that are up to 15 minutes long. That’s 50 percent longer than the site’s previous (and long-running) limit of 10 minutes for non-partner videos. Read More »
I decided to upgrade one of my iPhone 3G’s to iOS 4 and leave the other one on iPhone SDK 3.1.3 after purchasing two new iPhone 4′s. 1.3. I followed some of my own advice and turned off many of the features. Read More »
A collaboration tool that doesn’t allow you to work on all of these projects separately isn’t going to be able to keep up with your company. Glasscubes has solved the division problem by producing a collaboration tool that’s built around workspaces. Read More »
During our test drive of Nissan’s electric LEAF this week Nissan’s Mark Perry, told us that the car giant is working with AT&T to provide a connection for digital services for the car, like battery charge monitoring and finding the nearest charging station. Read More »
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said that the company’s ability to offer more content through its Watch Instantly service was limited only by its ability to write big checks. Now it’s doing just that, with its spend on streaming titles increasing sevenfold over the past year. Read More »
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk took on the Colbert Nation last night, chatting with Stephen Colbert about living large, Tesla’s long-discussed plans for a $30,000 third-generation electric car (after the Model S), dollars and timelines for private space travel (with his other startup, SpaceX). Read More »
GetJar, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company, today announced it is delivering over 3 million downloads a day to more than 2,000 different phone models. Thanks to the wide range of supported devices, developers can use GetJar to target their software for specific models and geographic regions. Read More »
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