Apple has reportedly prepaid for around 60 percent of the world’s touch panel capacity, leaving other manufacturers scrambling amongst themselves for the remaining 40 percent. Apple is expected to cause component shortages among tablet competitors in a number of areas in 2011. Read More »
Archive for February 2011
In last week’s post, I wrote about what it takes to become a virtual CEO, after speaking with Chris Ducker of Virtual Business Lifestyle. During our conversation, Ducker also shared his tips for keeping a virtual team happy and motivated. Read More »
Entrepreneur Al Bullock electrified his classic VW and has been driving it around the streets of Livermore, California for the past three years. For this week’s Green Overdrive show we interview Bullock and go for a test drive in his e-VW! Read More »
On a few occasions this week, I have had folks ask me: What’s with the crazy investments and insane valuations? Are we in a bubble? The problem is that too many investors — from angels to large banks — are going after the A-Rods of the… Read More »
What do Bon Jovi and the world’s fastest supercomputer have in common? Presently, they both rely on GPUs. Bon Jovi has partnered with Animoto on a fan-video contest for each its current tour, a possibility made possible by Animoto’s transition to Amazon Cluster GPU Instances. Read More »
Google has gotten a lot of attention for One Pass, the all-in-one subscription plan for publishers that the search giant revealed earlier today — mostly because it’s a contrast to Apple’s new subscription system. But does that mean publishers should sign up with Google? Not necessarily. Read More »
New York start-up Stack Overflow has been growing rapidly by focusing on specific content niches and pushing experts answers. The site is now poised to expand its career site as it looks to help its experts leverage their knowledge for better jobs. Read More »
U.S. demand response leader EnerNOC took time during its Wednesday year-end conference call to defend itself in a market rules dispute with big customer PJM, saying the grid operator wants to “underpay” EnerNOC for its negawatts. Read More »
Want to watch the ICC Cricket World Cup that’s starting this week? Then don’t expect to find many live streams on the big streaming sites. Piracy of live sports has moved to smaller for-pay sites, according to the official ICC World Cup streaming partner Willow.tv. Read More »
Less than two months after Tessera Solar announced the sale of its crown-jewel solar project, it has sold another big project, a 709-MW development, to AES Solar. The sale underscores the difficulties of developing a mega solar project in California’s desert. Read More »
Rumors suggest the next iPhone could have a 4-inch display. Colleague Kevin Tofel and I disagree on whether this will happen, so we decided to hash out our differences to gain more perspective on the debate. Here’s the conversation that ensued. Read More »
The average U.S. broadband connection now delivers speeds of 9.54 Mbps down, which is about 2.5 times faster than the 3.8 Mbps that it was back in 2007. Today’s speeds are 34 percent faster and the cost has only risen 4 percent from 2009 to 2010. Read More »
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