A study has found that Southern utilities could be able to pay back the costs of smart meters a lot faster and more easily than East and West coast utilities. How do regional grid differences play out in real life? Read More »
Archive for February 2011
There’s a lot of chatter out there that Apple’s new subscription plans could endanger its relationship with content providers, and might incur legal action. Apple may be in for a bumpy ride as it implements the new system, but don’t think it’s anywhere close to capsizing. Read More »
Want to lure people away from pirate websites? Then be prepared to give them some free stuff. A new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers finds that most self-admitted pirates don’t mind ads, as long as they still get their content for free. VOD was much less popular. Read More »
Nvidia is demonstrating a quad-core mobile device chip at the Mobile World Congress, and by one benchmarking standard, the new chip is faster than Intel’s 2-GHz Core2Duo computer processor. As impressive as the new Tegra 2 is, devices with Tegra 3 could arrive this year. Read More »
The inclination in many organizations is to put social media monitoring into marketing or public relations. But is that the right move? I recently spoke with Ross Daniels, Director of Marketing for Cisco, about the challenges of deploying social media monitoring tools inside a larger enterprise. Read More »
A new report documents exactly how the technology industry is shaking off the financial crisis — with the number of deals taking place increasing dramatically over the past 12 months, even as the average value of buyouts decreases. Read More »
The rumored $799 price for a Motorola Xoom tablet is rumor no more: Motorola Mobility CEO, Sanjay Jha, today confirmed the $799 cost for his company’s Android tablet. Verizon could subsidize the tablet to reduce the up-front costs, but do consumers want another long-term data plan? Read More »
CacheIQ announced earlier this week that it has raised $6 million for its network file system caching product that offloads data to either DRAM or flash memory. Assuming it can gain a toehold against some established competition, CacheIQ chose a wise market to enter. Read More »
Will kiosks in stores finally convince us all to recycle our gadgets and cell phones? Startup ecoATM and its investors think so — on Wednesday, ecoATM announced it’s raised a Series A round of $14.4 million in funding from Coinstar and Claremont Creek Ventures. Read More »
Google is answering Apple’s subscription model with a new micropayment service called One Pass that appears to give publishers more freedom in selling their content. One Pass will allow publishers to set their price and terms for their digital content and manage direct relationships with customers. Read More »
Online document service Crocodoc, which Thursday wrote about last year, is rolling out some new features that should make it easier to collaborate on and mark up highly-formatted documents, including PDFs, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents, and PNG and JPEG images. Read More »
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