Freescale Semiconductor and Fuji Electric Systems are forming a new partnership focused on hybrid and electric vehicle tech. The two companies announced plans to collaborate on a type of power semiconductor for electronic powertrains, as well as other products for green cars down the road. Read More »
Archive for April 2011
Cotendo is mixing the benefits of both cloud computing and content-delivery networks (CDN) in an attempt to boost performance and speed when delivering dynamic content to users. Cloudlet could be a boon for Cotendo in the cutthroat CDN market against Akamai and Limelight Networks. Read More »
Research firm Gartner published its tablet forecast through 2015, saying that Apple will continue to rule the roost. That may be so, but there are some key problems with such a forecast because the tablet wars are only beginning; it’s too early to call this race. Read More »
It has been slammed in the past for being the Internet’s most powerful echo chamber, but now a team of researchers from the U.K. and Korea have found that active Twitter users are exposed to a wider diversity of political viewpoints. Read More »
Apple is aware of the Verizon iPad 2′s roaming issues, which we reported last week. The company is “investigating” the issue, according to an official statement, and it may already be hard at work on a fix according to leaked information regarding iOS 4.3.2. Read More »
Remote working may be on the rise, but there are still assumptions made about a distributed workplace that prevent some employers from adopting it. Here’s a list of five big reasons companies won’t pull the trigger on remote working, and why those fears are mostly unfounded. Read More »
Can the U.S. government do for clean power, what it did for airplane technology almost a century ago? That’s the plan that nerd-rockstar Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu detailed at the Berkeley Stanford Cleantech Conference this weekend. Read More »
Reports from Chinese sources say that Facebook is in talks with local search giant Baidu to create a social network in China. But will Facebook be able to live with the kinds of things it will have to do in order to appease China’s totalitarian government? Read More »
Adobe today unveiled Photoshop Touch, a new SDK that will allow Adobe and third-party mobile apps to interact with the desktop version of Photoshop CS5 in real time. It looks poised to shake up how we think about the relationship between tablets and computers. Read More »
Samsung’s successful strategy of designing one solid smartphone paid off for the Galaxy S, which sold 10 million units last year. Now, the Galaxy S II is due to arrive in the U.K. on May 1 and it’s loaded with everything a handset needs in 2011. Read More »
Schneider’s energy-themed acquisition tear looks like it’s moving to a whole new level. On Monday morning, Bloomberg reported that French electric giant Schneider Electric is eying a take over of Tyco International in part to get ahold of Tyco’s building and industrial energy management systems. Read More »
Kiip, a new start-up coming out of stealth mode this week, is looking to upend the mobile ad model by offering gamers tangible rewards, offers and discounts at the time they hit in-game milestones or tough achievements rather serving traditional mobile display ads. Read More »
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