A new $3 million NIST award could offer a significant boost for Austin, Tex.-based ActaCell, whose backers include Google.org, DFJ Mercury and Applied Ventures. The startup aims to scale up production of its novel nanocomposite material for lithium battery anodes by a factor of 1,000. Read More »
Archive for December 2010
Today on the Net: Disney could make billions with its Netflix deal, but other studios have declared war against the subscription service. Also: 3-D TVs just don’t sell and BitTorrent fans can download the second episode of Pioneer One. Read More »
Terms like “cyber-war” have been used to describe the denial-of-service attacks waged by anonymous hackers against the companies that cut off support for WikiLeaks. But the attacks were nothing like a real cyber-war, security experts say, and calling them that could have unintended consequences. Read More »
DirecTV might allow future subscribers to its online NFL Sunday Ticket service to watch games on their TVs through game consoles and broadband set-top boxes. But doing so will take away one of the major reasons people sign up for satellite TV to begin with. Read More »
Britian’s mobile operator 3 UK has launched an unlimited broadband plan for smartphone subscribers, going against the tide of operators that are trying to both manage network congestion and squeeze out the most profits from subscribers who are itching for mobile data. It might work. Read More »
There was much talk about cloud computing today, all of it hitting different aspects — from how IT organizations will adopt it to what makes a “niche” cloud to how AT&T’s spotty network helped drive the need for it. Hadoop and Cassandra news also caught my… Read More »
In addition to the high price and the incredibly slow pace of R&D, the technology for capturing and sequestering carbon emissions from power plants is facing another potential hiccup: earthquakes. That’s according to Stanford geophysicist Mark Zoback. Read More »
Nokia Siemens Networks is ready to take wireless broadband to a whole new level: peak rates of 672 Mbps by 2013 with Long Term HSPA Evolution. T-Mobile is happily backing the effort, since it’s not yet clear what 4G path the carrier will take. Read More »
Clicker is moving beyond search with a site redesign that will allow it to serve up feeds or personalized recommendations. To do so, it’s partnered with Facebook to access data from the social graph to offering users relevant videos. But how good is that data? Read More »
The folks behind LogMeIn are preparing an update for the Android version of Ignition that’s fully optimized with support for tablets. We have an advance copy of the update, and offer this sneak peek at LogMeIn Ignition running on a Samsung Galaxy Tab. Read More »
I don’t know about you, but I often get to the end of the day and wonder where the 40 bucks I had in my wallet disappeared to. At LeWeb, I came across Toshl, an expense-tracking app that I might actually use because it’s so simple. Read More »
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