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Instant-On Portable Computers: A Fast-Growing Trend

jkOnTheRun is reporting on the news that Phoenix Technologies is jumping on the Instant-On bandwagon. This is a growing trend to put lightweight platform software on notebook and netbook computers , so that you can get work done on the fly without having to wait … Read More »

Raser To Switch On Low Temp Geothermal Power

Less than a year after announcing its deal with Merrill Lynch, Raser Technologies is set to open its first low-temp geothermal plant tomorrow in Utah. While it remains to be seen what happens when the switch is flipped, the company has so far … Read More »

 
 

We're Gonna Have to Wait a Year for White Spaces

The votes have been cast, the winners and losers have spoken, and the euphoria of yesterday will now give way to the realization that a lot of hard work lies ahead. We’re not talking about the U.S. presidential race, but the even longer slog to … Read More »

With unprecedented resources for tracking yesterday’s election online, visitors flocked to news sites in droves. But notably, while web and cable viewer numbers were sizzling hot, the big three networks were down 16 percent vs. the election four years ago. ABC was down … Read More »

What Obama's Victory Means for Cleantech

Venture capitalists, who backed Obama 6 to 1 over McCain, weigh in with their thoughts on what his victory means for cleantech. Read More »

A clip of CNN’s holographic interviews is making the viral video rounds, with 140,000 plays so far. Read More »

Tomorrow, no matter who wins the presidential election, there’s one group that will definitely be in a sad state — the intrepid content creators that have been putting out politically themed videos this week. So take a moment to mourn the online video filmmaker who produced … Read More »

Suniva Opens Production Line, Plans Expansion

Atlanta-based Suniva said today it has started fabricating its first line of solar cells at its Norcross, Ga. facility. Current capacity is 32 megawatts but Suniva plans to increase that to 175 megawatts by 2010. Read More »

Break to Show Full-length Films; company moves beyond clips in a bid to reach advertisers, movies available to include Ghostbusters, Men in Black and The Fifth Element. (MediaPost) Clearleap Gets $3.3 Million; company looking to a combo of set-top boxes and partnerships with TV service providers … Read More »

BlackBerry Bold: Upgrading Your Mobile Experience

As a Canadian I have been in the fortunate position of having experienced a BlackBerry Bold since its launch on Rogers in late August. It’s not simply a new smartphone or “replacement” for an older BlackBerry. The … Read More »

Tesla's Woes: Loses Arbitration, Lays Off UK Workers

Tesla may have announced lay offs and was unable to raise a planned $100 million financing, but the electric car startup is still facing hurdles. Today Fisker Automotive issued a release saying that an independent arbitration between the two competing Silicon Valley-backed electric … Read More »

The interminable U.S. presidential campaign season will come finally come to an end tomorrow night. If you’re looking for a map with updating red and blue states (a tradition that dates back to NBC in the 1976 election, it turns out), we’ve got you covered. … Read More »

More Must Reads

Solar’s got a few dark secrets: Sometimes toxic materials are used in panels and sometimes chemicals get dumped in the manufacturing process. But what’s the real dirty secret? According to OCS Energy, a startup based in Petaluma, Calif., it’s actually, well, dirt — … Read More »

Apple announced today that it added straggler network FOX to its HD offerings, giving iTunes high-definition TV programming from all the major broadcast networks. Apple also announced that it has sold more than 200 million TV episodes, a million of which were HD shows … Read More »

A report out from Chetan Sharma Consulting proves that data is the big story when it comes to wireless operators in the United States. Driven by flat-rate plans, increasing 3G coverage and the iPhone, data spending reached $8.2 billion for the second quarter of … Read More »

Frontier Online, an incumbent carrier with service in 23 states, updated its acceptable use policy last week to reflect that it now has a 5 GB data cap for its DSL subscribers (hat tip to DSL Reports). Before we all cry foul, however, Frontier … Read More »

There are already numerous players vying to dominate your digital entertainment future, and three of them are big names that you already know: Amazon, Netflix and Apple. Those three are also well-funded, well-equipped, and well on their way to becoming the center of your home video … Read More »

The FCC is holding another one of its hearings on broadband at Carnegie Mellon on Monday and it looks like a good time (no really). A session (Word doc) on the future of digital media features provocateur Mark Cuban, David Eun from Google, the … Read More »

Amazon introduced a Video on Demand store today, and in one fell swoop may have turned the world of home video on its head. The new store will stream 40,000 movie and television programs for rent or purchase directly to Internet-connected TVs or set-top boxes … Read More »

All this talk of “free” being the future of business sure has people nervous. Small wonder. You got into the startup thing to make money! But the concept of ‘free’ is hip, and aint’ going away anytime soon. This is creating new and very … Read More »

Yahoo, with the second generation of its oneSearch product, has thrown down the gauntlet in the mobile search wars. Whereas Google employed a clean and easy-to-use interface to win over the desktop space, Yahoo is trying to make gains in the … Read More »

Earlier this month, Google announced a pilot program with the Cleveland Clinic to store patients’ medical records online. Privacy and security concerns were raised, notably that Google doesn’t have to abide by confidentiality rules that govern doctor-patient relationships dictated by HIPAA. However, Google’s plan … Read More »

OK we’re not even done with the Verizon flat-rate phone plans news announcement and here comes Ma Bell with its own $99-a-month unlimited offer. The plans will be available to new and existing wireless subscribers for $99.99 a month for unlimited U.S. calling on all devices … Read More »

The dance between consumer tech companies and bloggers is fraught with grand entrances, missteps and even broken toes, but the story Allen Tsai is telling over at Mobiledia essentially involves the company beating the crap out … Read More »

No, that’s not “The View” you’re watching! It’s “the GigaOM Show,” this week with two female hosts, a female guest, and some touchy-feely subject matter. Given Om’s recent heart attack and the loop it threw us for, the team went with a health theme … Read More »

MeeMix, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based social music startup, is joining competitors including MOG, Last.fm and Pandora by offering music-oriented communities centered around your listening habits. I met MeeMix Founder and CEO Gilad Shlang when I visited Tel Aviv earlier this year. Shlang had … Read More »

Outspark, a San Francisco-based casual games publisher with offices in Seoul, South Korea, launched its North American games portal yesterday. Like Nexon‘s South Korean-developed MapleStory, Outspark games will be free to play — in addition to advertising built into … Read More »

We’ve published several posts here about why bootstrapping is often the best way to fund your startup, and how to do it well. Plenty of other sites are producing great content on the topic, too. I read another such post on Read/WriteWeb this morning. … Read More »

While visiting China to speak at an arts festival last month, I also filed a GigaOM story on HiPiHi, a start-up founded by one of the country’s top Internet entrepreneurs. Thanks to Om’s reputation, the article is easily … Read More »

Update: Dane Jasper of Sonic.Net left a comment saying that this is their own initiative and the equipment is coming from Meraki. We’re doing this independently, using equipment from Meraki. Meraki and Google have an ad partnership, and any revenues that flow from that will … Read More »

American Airlines has just signed a deal with AirCell, to offer in-air broadband access. The tests will begin in 2008, initially on transcontinental flights, but if all goes well, then WiFi could be offered in domestic flights. I wonder if other airlines are paying attention. WiFi … Read More »

Recently Forbes featured a widely-cited article (reg. req.) on marketing in Second Life that was so spectacularly incorrect, it inspired me to whip up this reference guide, as the errors there keep cropping up elsewhere. As someone who worked for Linden … Read More »

As we’ve been counting down to this iPhone morn, our inboxes have been stuffed with applications and accessories geared for the year’s biggest phone phenom. Most are just addons that could likely fit on any phone, and are using the launch to goose sales, but some … Read More »

Since the Vista Sidebar gadget library is relatively barren when compared to Yahoo!, Google and other web widgets, I was glad to see this tip from Download Squad: apparently, you … Read More »

As I move between multiple devices, I’ve come to realize many efficiencies. There’s something to be said for using a hosted Exchange server and having access to all … Read More »

Just a quick shoutout to Dave Zatz over at ZatzNotFunny! He just announced that he left the glitzy government I.T. sector in favor of a new role at Sling Media; couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. As I just commented on his blog: this … Read More »

If you just can’t make the transition to a fully digital shopping list on a PDA, cell phone, UMPC, or full-sized Tablet PC with MindManager, how about a little … Read More »

Donald Trump move over, for these guys have got some serious tales which scream “You’re fired” louder than him. By the way does anyone else think this is a better PR move than hiring an agency and having them make the calls. Fired Google blogger, Mark … Read More »

The Boston Globe reports on yet another tiny town building its own wireless network at a cost of between $120-to- $160,000. Read More »

West Virginia First, a project to deploy fiber based broadband across the communities in the state has been launched. The initial phase of West Virginia First will focus on the Beckley-Bluefield and Wood County areas of the State.   Through the West Virginia First … Read More »

New Hampshire residents will soon get a little taste of Verizon FIOS. The company will sell fiber-based connections to 80,000 of its 800,000 customers in the state. Read More »

Sprint launched its EVDO service, soon after Verizon upped the total number of EVDO-enabled cities to 50. Sprint says about 150 million people in at least 60 metropolitan areas across the nation by early 2006 will have access to its service. For now, if … Read More »

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