Looks like bad news for First Solar. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the thin film solar PV leader may not have actually secured that 2-gigawatt solar farm planned for China’s desert, which it announced back in September of 2009. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
Oracle today said it has filed a complaint for patent and copyright infringement against Google over some of the Java code used on Google’s Android mobile operating system. The complaint contends that Google knowingly infringed on Java patents when it developed its mobile OS. Read More »
The web series Project Rant today released their newest video recreation of a rant, with a twist. YouTube Comments pays tribute to the hyperbolic and homophobic comments Rant episodes have been receiving on YouTube — comments that are kinda sorta NewTeeVee’s fault. Read More »
In November 2007, I remember reading then-Senator Obama’s Technology and Innovation Platform for the first time. I was amazed that a candidate had said that he understood what net neutrality was about and that he knew it was important to the nation’s economy and culture. Read More »
Today on the Net: the Knocking Live streaming video app has been updated especially for the iPhone 4, Adobe had added GPU decoding for H.264 in the Mac version of its Flash Player plugin and Sony Bravia TVs now have access to German video portal sevenload. Read More »
JPMorgan issued an eager beaver report on electric car startup Tesla this week, estimating that Tesla’s stock will hit $25 by the end of 2011, due to its low battery costs, early lead in the EV market and partnership deals with large automakers Toyota and Daimler. Read More »
The Facebook Movie trailer wasn’t half bad, and the creepy choir, web site overlays and voice overs depicting young men’s ruthless ambition are easy enough to mimic to make it a meme. Today, the best parody so far came out for an imagined Twitter movie. Read More »
Google’s new Chrome to Phone extension makes it possible to send YouTube videos from your laptop to your Android handset with the click of a single button. That’s clever – and also gives us an idea of how Google TV could work in concert with browsers. Read More »
I set out to enable Google Calendar syncing with the iPad Calendar and found some of the documentation on this subject to be out of date. I found that you can set up and sync multiple Google Calendars right from within the iPad Calendar App. Read More »
optimizeLegibility is a CSS declaration that improves the handling of kerning pairs and ligatures in the browsers that support it; it makes text easier to read by spacing the letters correctly. It makes quite a bit of difference, particularly on larger fonts: Read More »
Digg is close to announcing a new CEO, according to current chief executive Kevin Rose. The Digg co-founder also says the company has annual revenue in the “double-digit millions” and has had several break-even months, and doesn’t feel that it needs to raise any additional cash. Read More »
Dyyno announced today that it has rolled out a solution for customers that want to stream live or on-demand video to Roku’s broadband set-top box, allowing them to instantly build pages that appear in Dyyno’s Roku channel or build their own branded channels with its help. Read More »
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