Motorola jumped into the Android smartphone market at our Mobilize Conference in San Francisco on Thursday, unveiling its first Android phone — called the Cliq — that features a new skin for Android called MotoBlur. Co-CEO Motorola Dr. Sanjay Jha called Android a platform that would… Read More »
Bio:Katie Fehrenbacher, Editor, Earth2Tech
Katie Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for over 7 years. She is the founding Editor of Earth2Tech, which she launched in July 2007. Prior to starting Earth2Tech she was a Staff Writer for GigaOM where she covered wireless and broadband technology. She has been a Reporter at Red Herring, an Editor at Engadget and began her career as a Reporter in the Silicon Valley bureau of the largest Japanese daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Recent Posts
We can thank Apple and Steve Jobs for a lot of things — revolutionizing laptop design and bringing handheld video to music players, for example — but here’s another: helping mobile application developers make more money. As large players like Apple move into the cell phone… Read More »
When the Internet was first being built, its early development was shaped by a select group of people — such as Vint Cerf, Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. Now an equally important group is emerging in the nascent smart grid industry. Some… Read More »
Here’s another way to cut down on the cost of running a data center: Track and chase global energy prices. Moving computing power across multiple data centers to find the cheapest energy prices at any given time and place could end up saving companies millions of… Read More »
It’s not rocket science: The process of downloading an album to your computer eliminates the energy and carbon emissions required to produce and ship a CD — and for you to drive to the store and buy it. But researchers at Stanford, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and… Read More »
Cell phone makers and wireless carriers looking for ways to “green” their image are adding eco features — such as energy-efficient chargers and biomaterials — to their handsets. The latest comes from Samsung and Sprint in the form of the Reclaim. Samsung says the Reclaim is… Read More »
A mere 13 percent of people say they would want to manage home energy consumption via a mobile device, according to Clint Wheelock of Pike Research (via GigaOM Pro — subscription required). But it looks like no one told iPhone developers that — a growing number… Read More »
