A cleantech investing renaissance could be on its way with an emphasis on finding companies outside of the U.S., and scaling up already-proven clean technology companies. Read More »
Archive for February 2011
I increasingly see companies, both big and small, often focusing too much on their competitors and not focusing on being unique. And if a company spends all its energy trying to be the same as another, it has already lost the game. Read More »
Today on the Net: DirecTV hopes to see some movement on retransmission reform, but doesn’t expect anything in the next year. Also: YouTube is betting on Bollywood video and cricket in India and Hollywood studios are fighting to get unpaid fees from Blockbuster. Read More »
Hunting for new markets has become a bigger priority for First Solar, whose executives sounded a cautious note about the market outlook on Thursday and reported declining sales and net income for the fourth quarter. Read More »
Mac OS X Lion, version 10.7 of Apple’s venerable operating system, has been released to developers. A summary glance at the features it brings indicates a fairly minor update. But what seem like mostly cosmetic changes actually indicate a significant new direction for OS X. Read More »
Mozilla released the newest beta of Firefox for Android, and it’s a screamer. Benchmark tests show that Firefox’s JavaScript engine is more than twice as fast as Android’s native browser. Even the Motorola Xoom shows more speed with this new mobile version of Firefox. Read More »
Netflix is seeing its first taste of real streaming video competition, as Amazon unveiled a subscription video service linked to its Amazon Prime free, two-day shipping offering. But how many Netflix users will jump ship? According to a recent survey, maybe more than you think. Read More »
The FCC is set to reform the Universal Service Fund, which provides subsidized access to voice services to low-income people. As the FCC looks to reform USF to provide broadband as opposed to voice telephone service, it should modernize its Lifeline and Link-up programs. Read More »
Southern California Edison has installed a 100TB Teradata data warehouse setup to store and serve data from customers’ smart grid meters. It’s not the last such deal we’ll see, as the market for smart-grid data analytics is predicted to reach $4.2 billion by 2015. Read More »
Two years ago, utility PG&E first announced it wanted to invest in and own solar projects in California. Well, PG&E’s made some progress on that front in the form of three solar photovoltaic projects it will develop and own in central California. Read More »
Music subscription service Rdio, which exited beta last summer, has added a new platform for its on demand cloud-based library: the Roku. This adds Rdio to the list of streaming services discovering the unexpected popularity of music channels on the set-top box. Read More »
Apple and Intel took the wrappers off of Thunderbolt Thursday, a new connection technology that combines data transfer and video output capabilities. But what can new MacBook Pro owners actually expect to do with this impressive new technology, now and in the future? Read More »
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