Will Facebook rise to Green Peace’s challenge to pledge to cut coal from its data centers by Earth Day on April 22? On the day before Earth Day, on April 21 at Green:Net 2011, Green Peace will discuss its challenge, and unveil some new data. Read More »
Archive for March 2011
Early this month, BGR reported that RIM was considering opening up its Blackberry Messenger service to other platforms, including iOS and Android. Today, a report claimed that BBM would be coming to iPhone in April, but that report was confirmed to be a hoax. Read More »
In the three years since launch, Roku has sold more than a million units, relying on online sales and word-of-mouth to drive interest in its products. But now it has a big retail partner in Best Buy, which will sell its Roku XD product. Read More »
Salesforce.com has agreed to acquire Canadian social-media monitoring company Radian6 for a total of $326 million in cash and stock, and says that it will make the company’s tools and services a core part of its Sales Cloud customer-relationship management dashboard for businesses. Read More »
Android developers can now offer digital purchases in their smartphone apps, adding another potential revenue stream. There’s an “Android is free” mentality when it comes to software, but there’s good news here: in-app revenues are greater in free apps than in paid apps, says one report. Read More »
Unlike the cap and congestion crowd, Verizon Communications keeps upgrading its network, planning for the cloud and streaming era coming up. It plans to upgrade backbone pipes in the U.S. along select routes to 100 Gigabit per second capacity before the second quarter of this year. Read More »
Apparently, car sharing company Zipcar’s long-awaited IPO is not off! This week, Zipcar priced its IPO at between $14 and $16 per share for a planned run on the Nasdaq under the symbol ZIP. The company’s 8.3 million shares will net $89.2 million. Read More »
The iPad 2′s new HD mirroring ability is one of the device’s real killer features, in my opinion, but one user found that it can be made even more useful by removing the requirement of a tethered cable connection, and streaming the mirrored feed wirelessly. Read More »
It seems like, at the very least, your bookkeeper needs to come in on a regular basis to take care of paperwork. However, with some planning and the use of the right tools, bookkeeping is a task that can be done remotely. Read More »
In this week’s episode of Cord Cutters, Janko takes a look at the EyeTV One, a TV tuner and DVR option that plugs into your USB port and allows you to watch and record live, over-the-air HD video streams. Read More »
Two announcements on Monday night illustrated the yin and yang of the streaming market. Amazon announced a cloud storage drive and cloud music service, and Netflix said it would have to degrade the quality of video streams in response to bandwidth caps. Read More »
Electric car company Tesla is no stranger to lawsuits, and is now involved in yet another one that looks to be pretty high profile. On Tuesday, Tesla slapped the BBC show Top Gear with a lawsuit for libel and malicious falsehood. Read More »
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