The chief engineer behind the electric RAV 4, which is under development by electric car startup Tesla Motors and auto giant Toyota, sits down with us to chat about the future of the deal and the details of the car for this week’s Green Overdrive Show. Read More »
Archive for January 2011
2010 ended with a bang for start-up funding with deals and dollars hitting an eight-quarter high in the fourth quarter of 2010. Buoyed by a raft of Internet deals, fourth quarter VC funding hit $6.5 billion spread out over 735 deals. Read More »
Today on the Net: Comcast may need to make some concessions about online video to get its NBCU transaction approved, YouTube brings ads to videos on its Android mobile app and the BBC will refuse to create bespoke versions of the iPlayer unless compensated for them.… Read More »
Rooster Teeth Studios already has one of the most successful shows on Blip.tv with the machinima series Red vs. Blue. But while they’re not afraid of the live-action world, they’ll still find a way to make their newest original series about video games. Read More »
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Icelandic parliament and an early supporter of WikiLeaks, said that despite having had a falling out with leader Julian Assange, she is willing to “stand up and stick my neck out for him,” and believes everyone should support the organization. Read More »
The Motorola Atrix 4G wowed CES with two docks turning the smartphone into a portable computer, but I was more impressed by more traditional uses of the phone: video and graphics performance. Here’s a look at 1080p playback on a big screen and 3-D gaming action. Read More »
Most web workers have probably heard that “the Internet is running out of addresses.” In response, The Internet Society, together with such major players as Facebook, has announced World IPv6 Day. What will this mean for web workers, businesses and individuals? Read More »
The company behind the sometimes-annoying WeatherBug app has emerged with a new plan to build what it says will be the world’s largest global sensor network that will track green house gas emissions. AWS Convergence Technologies, now Earth Networks, will invest $25 million into the network. Read More »
Here’s a quick video demonstration of how to set or change your scratch disk in Photoshop CS5 or Photoshop Elements for OS X. If lack of RAM or available disk space is causing crashes, this could be the fix you’re looking for. Read More »
We’ve long been skeptics of 3-D technology, due in part to the premium placed on 3D TV sets and lack of consumer interest. But one Warner Bros. exec tells us that the move to 3D TV is inevitable, and soon all TVs sold will be 3D-capable. Read More »
Apple finally allows third-party apps to broadcast video to Apple TV 2 in the new iOS 4.3 beta released today. Also new in the beta is support for a variety of multi-touch gestures for the iPad, and settings for creating a Personal Hotspot. Read More »
Vevo’s music videos are coming to Android phones, thanks to a dedicated app released this week. The music video site has had huge success with iOS apps, clocking 3 million installs on iPads, iPhones and iPod touch devices. Connected devices haven’t shown any similar interest yet. Read More »
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