Today on the Net: Due to ongoing discussions with regulatory agencies, the Comcast-NBCU merger is going to be delayed until early 2011. Also: a look at Starz’s subscriber numbers shows little evidence of cord shaving and SkyFire has released its Flash video app for the iPad.… Read More »
Archive for December 2010
Silicon solar cell maker SpectraWatt has been trying to compete with a growing number of competitors who can also make and mostly likely can do more cheaply. That effort might prove futile: SpectraWatt plans to lay off people and closing its factory. Read More »
We all have content we collect as we go about our lives, whether it’s music or movies or books — so much that it becomes hard to filter or make sense of it all. Can we edit our lives the way we do a playlist? Read More »
Has it really been two years and five months since James Kendrick and I joined GigaOM? Indeed it has, and the journey has been one of knowledge, collaboration and community. But everyone has a different path in life and today, James is setting out on his.… Read More »
Red Hat just announced another solid fiscal quarter, continuing a trend of increased operating system and middleware market share that carried on even through the worst of the current recession. According to CEO Jim Whitehurst, customers know that buying Red Hat means “future-proofing” their IT investments. Read More »
Imagine you’re watching a music video, and suddenly you and your friends are part of the action. That’s exactly what the japanese band Sour did with the video for it’s latest single Mirror, and we got in touch with the video’s producer to learn more. Read More »
The new Apple TV is designed to be simple. But while hooking up a new Apple TV is billed as easy, things slow down when you have to input data. And who needs another remote floating around, just waiting to get lost? Read More »
Skype went down this morning, plunging millions of users into VoIP and IM darkness. Then Twitter was out briefly before coming back online. The incidents may be unrelated, but they highlight our growing reliance on web communications tools to keep in touch. Read More »
The soon-to-be-defunct Google Wave has a huge number of available gadgets, which enable users to add useful collaborative tools to their waves. The good news is many of the more useful Wave gadgets will now live on in Shared Spaces, a Google Labs project. Read More »
Netflix is all for HTML5 video, but it doesn’t want to simply reinvent the wheel and push forward with its own flavor of browser-based video delivery technologies. The company said today that it’s instead getting involved in standards bodies to resolve remaining obstacles across all platforms. Read More »
BusyToDo, a new to-do app for iPhone, aims to bring the most obvious omission from MobileMe to subcribers of the cloud services package from Apple. It does this without much flair, and it has a fairly high asking price. So is it worth it? Read More »
Following on the heels of the Obama administration’s plan to streamline the DOE’s loan guarantee program, the DOE has given final approval to its largest clean power loan guarantee to date: a $1.45 billion guarantee for a solar thermal project in Arizona built by Abengoa Solar. Read More »
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