Oscars always remind us why we love the movies. And while not everyone gets to be Angelina Jolie or even Jesse Eisenberg, we can pretend that we are living inside a movie, thanks to the emergence of platforms and tools that turn our lives into movie-reels. Read More »
Archive for February 2011
Honeywell and State Grid Corp. of China plan a big demand response pilot project using OpenADR, marking the first step into the potentially huge Chinese market for the emerging standard for automating demand response. Read More »
If Priceline can ride its “name your price” model to a $22 billion market cap, can it work in the mobile local shopping market? That’s the question small start-up Spreezio is trying to answer with its app MAKEaDeal, which recently launched as a $2.99 iPhone app. Read More »
What news consumers really need is some way to filter all the information they can pull in and have new content recommended to them, but despite some new entrants like News360, social networks like Twitter and Facebook have so far proven to be the best solution. Read More »
Mediacom, a regional cable provider and ISP that serves about 838,000 broadband subscribers, appears to be using a controversial technology known as deep packet inspection to insert advertisements on top of web sites its customers visit, according to a report from BroadbandReports. Read More »
CNN reported last week that Apple is in talks with major labels to offer 24-bit copies of songs in place of the current 16-bit versions. Even if the music isn’t truly lossless, this would still be great news for audiophiles who use Apple’s music store. Read More »
Weather data tools and technologies for adapting to climate change are the next hot place for innovation. Weather insurance startup WeatherBill announced it has raised a second funding round of $42 million from Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures, and including existing investors. Read More »
Despite having an already robust platform for delivering Internet video, Comcast says it will stay away from offering over-the-top videos to people outside its network. Meanwhile, Dish Network is negotiating content rights that might enable it to offer streaming services to customers online. Read More »
Over the weekend, I bought myself a brand new 15-inch MacBook Pro. Having previously owned a 2008 model, non-Pro MacBook, I knew it was going to be faster, but I didn’t realize just how much of an improvement it would really be. Read More »
IBM has launched a new software platform to get utility smart meters to work better within and across the boundaries of their own networks. It’s another smart grid integration move in a quickly growing ecosystem. Read More »
Sunday’s special meeting of Apple employees was about Apple’s “Joint Venture,” a new service Apple will reportedly unveil Wednesday that will provide extensive Mac service coverage on up to five machines to small businesses for $499 a year. Sounds good, but some stand to lose out. Read More »
Verizon Wireless will reportedly offer the HTC Trophy as its first Windows Phone 7 device. But this handset, like many of the others before it, simply meets the minimum requirements for Microsoft’s platform. Will partners advance the platform this year considering Nokia has exclusive customization abilities? Read More »
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