‘Twas the night before Christmas, and in my workspace, The tech gear was taking breaks from the rat race. The smartphones were plugged into USB, And the laptops were waiting for “press any key.” The servers were nestled with heads in the cloud, Read More »
Archive for December 2010
It’s been a great year for gadgets and connected devices that let users access their favorite online video services in the living room and on the go. Today we present our top five gadgets for online video viewing, just in time for Christmas. Read More »
Biofuel station owners tell us their businesses are going well, but clearly they’re still a niche market. Why are biofuel stations still a hippie niche? Read More »
The fact that even journalists and media professors can’t seem to agree on whether what WikiLeaks does is journalism emphasizes just how deeply the media and journalism have been disrupted by the web, to the point where we aren’t even sure what they are any more. Read More »
In the last 18 months, Dell, HP, IBM and EMC spent almost $10 billion on data storage and warehousing companies. This all-out gold rush was driven by a massive consolidation wave sparked by Cisco’s entry into the server market and Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. Read More »
Realizing there is no chance of getting your traditional paper-based holiday card out this year, your only recourse is to explore electronic options. You may find just what you are looking for in one of the following three iOS app-based solutions. Read More »
Have you been feeling like a Grinch about social media? It’s everywhere, shining its “happy, cheery” hype wherever you look; I know it’s taken over my life more than it probably should. Here are some simple tips for dealing with social media in the coming year: Read More »
This year saw improved gadgets that either run faster, longer on a charge or can morph into multi-purpose devices thanks to slick new apps. These seven gadgets actually got me to pull out my wallet in 2010: the best gadgets this year that met my needs. Read More »
For 55 years now, NORAD has been updating little girls and boys about Santa Claus’s progress around the world on Christmas Eve. The operation has been upgraded since its early days, thanks to corporate sponsorship, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google Earth. Read More »
Wikileaks has given the cleantech world ammunition to show how our sector offers a solution to the extremely unstable world problems, and national security issues. We are bankrolling the same enemies we proclaim to be fighting in the battle against fundamentalist Islamic terror groups. Read More »
Do not pass go, do not collect $24 million: That’s the card played by auto supplier Tenneco, which withdrew from a Department of Energy loan program in March 2010, less than six months after securing a coveted conditional loan commitment from the agency. Read More »
I reported earlier this week on Amazon’s new VM Import service, which some have described as a Hotel California for VMware images. Today, I received word from Amazon Web Services that it’s planning to address this issue, to a degree, as the offering evolves. Read More »
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