Many collaboration tools have very similar feature sets. But to find a really good app, you need to look beyond the basic features of a particular tool and delve more deeply into the value, experience and knowledge that its vendor brings to the table. Read More »
Archive for February 2011
Independent mobile app store GetJar announced it has grabbed $25 million in funding as it looks to become the premier open Android market. The funding highlights the excitement around app stores, which are looking to capitalize on estimated $15 billion in app revenue this year. Read More »
Smart grid network players are slowing choosing their preferred startups to provide applications and devices at the edges of the network. On Tuesday, Cisco announced that it has made an equity investment in, and created a distribution partnership with, Control4. Read More »
Tinted windows on demand could be a promising way to cut energy, but the technology isn’t common. Soladigm hopes to change that and has just lined up an additional $10 million in equity financing to bring a C round to a total $40 million. Read More »
In a new Forrester report, authors James Staten and Lauren E. Nelson advise infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to encourage their data analysts to get hip to cloud-based analytics tools and to consider making their organizational data available to the public as a cloud resource. Read More »
Through a series of coincidences I ended up using the iPhone as my primary phone after a two-year gap. Thanks to Verizon’s wireless network, there were no dropped calls and the Internet worked fine. It’s time to switch back. Read More »
Today on the Net: YouTube is using the power of the cloud to process videos faster, Netflix investors are having a really good day and LG partners with YouTube on 3D phone. Read More »
UberMedia, founded by Silicon Valley legend Bill Gross, has gotten funding from some prominent venture capital firms and has been buying up Twitter clients. It’s not clear what the company’s strategy is, but one thing seems obvious: it is on a collision course with Twitter. Read More »
Verizon’s network is doing fine under the additional strain of new iPhones, according to research performed by web application performance firm Compuware Gomez. In fact, Verizon’s mobile data performance is virtually the same as it was before the iPhone’s introduction. Read More »
President Obama unveiled his proposed budget Monday that calls for boosting funding to the Department of Energy by nearly 12 percent. The spending plan would focus on research and deployment of technologies he’s championed repeatedly: renewable energy, electric cars, biofuel, energy efficiency and nuclear. Read More »
Google is concluding that if people are up in arms about its perceived declining search results, then it will let them get to work in helping refine its searches. Google announced a Chrome browser extension that lets users block sites from appearing in their search results. Read More »
Anyone interested in following the continuing unrest in the Middle East should pay attention to Al-Jazeera English, whose reporting about Egypt’s revolution has been unrivaled. The network isn’t available through any major U.S. cable provider, but there are still plenty of ways to tune in. Read More »
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