No, it doesn’t seem plausible, but the Citrix-owned collaboration company Podio says 10 percent of its users access it from Ubuntu. That’s one reason the platform now offers Ubuntu One integration. Read more »
The Danish Design Center in Copenhagen is featuring an exhibit that explores ways to reduce waste and use more sustainable materials for some of the common things we use. Turns out big corporations are some of the leading thinkers on these eco materials. Read more »
Apple events tend to bring out the giddy-kid-on-Christmas-eve feeling in many of us, and the lines that start at these events reflect that. Here in San Francisco, the WWDC line started no earlier than 6:30PM last night…over 15 hours before the event starts. Read more »
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When running a business, it can sometimes be hard to draw the line between being of service and being taken advantage of by customers, clients and other professionals. Here are a few ways to reinforce that line. Read more »
Welcome to the first installment of ‘Tips and Tricks.” These articles will aim to teach you some handy things you didn’t know about common things on your Apple stuff. So, let’s start our series with Safari. Read more »
With most of the world still reeling from the global financial crisis, China shows no signs of slowing down. And, despite charges of obstructionism at the Copenhagen climate summit, the People’s Republic is steadily taking the lead in cleantech and the green economy. Read more »
More than a month after the conclusion of COP15 — the UN climate talks in Copenhagen — negotiators and observers alike are still grappling with what to make of the Copenhagen Accord that resulted from the summit. Agreements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […] Read more »
I recently made the switch to the newest version of the web development application Espresso. After having used Coda for all my previous web development needs, I’m naturally making some comparisons between the two. I’ll leave the blow by blow evaluation to others but thought it […] Read more »
Clearly, the accord that emerged from the Copenhagen climate negotiations has drawn criticism. President Obama has acknowledged that, saying “people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen.” Read more »
As the year winds to a close, GigaOM Pro’s crack team of contributors takes a look back at what went right, what went wrong, and for whom in the world of Green IT. ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Greenwash or Real Deal?: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Copenhagen that Iran, a fossil fuel giant, wants to dive into renewable energy and stitch cooperative links with other developing nations to develop non-fossil fuel energy,” including solar and wind. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Road Ahead for […] Read more »
Trade Tension at Copenhagen: “China is demanding that a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases prohibit nations from imposing trade sanctions, further pitting the world’s No. 1 emitter against U.S. lawmakers.” — Bloomberg How Fisker Ended Up in Delaware: Reporter Neil King Jr. details California startup […] Read more »
COPENHAGEN — The weekend break between the two weeks of the Copenhagen climate negotiations showed two things: on one hand hundreds of thousands of people around the world are willing to hold rallies to support an international climate agreement (by some estimates 100,000 alone in Copenhagen), […] Read more »
Focusing on a few high-profile U.S. positions at Copenhagen, it’s easy to get discouraged about what the U.S. is bringing to the table at the climate change negotiations. State Department special climate envoy Todd Stern is already calling two draft proposals nonstarters, and then there’s Sen. […] Read more »
COPENHAGEN — The time for business leaders to affect the Copenhagen climate change negotiations is now, Tim Flannery, chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, proclaimed Saturday night while holding up a globe in one hand and a skull in the other. The props might have been […] Read more »
Copenhagen residents hardly need to be convinced of pedal power — the city boasted ahead of the UN climate talks taking place there through next week that half of its commuters use bikes to get to work. But that doesn’t mean every Dane needs to outright […] Read more »
COPENHAGEN — George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who plans to invest more than $1 billion of his own money into clean energy technology, has an idea about how to solve the financing gap between what poor nations say they urgently need to adapt to […] Read more »
Over 5,000 miles away from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, where tech entrepreneurs often have an undying faith in the free market, world leaders will be meeting to make major policy decisions over the next two weeks that will determine not only how the world […] Read more »
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop15) kicks off Monday in Copenhagen, and promises to be a hugely influential event. Entrepeneur Shai Agassi has weighed in on its importance for governments and public awareness. Read more »
“Given the role that transport plays in causing greenhouse gas emissions,” UN climate chief Yvo de Boer told participants in a UN framework convention in Tokyo earlier this year, “any serious action on climate change will zoom in on the transport sector.” Nearly a year later, […] Read more »
The upcoming Cop15 international climate negotiations in Copenhagen will have a massive affect on the developing greentech industry. How close countries get to agreeing on legally binding greenhouse gas emissions could determine the size of the various international greentech markets, be a lever for how much […] Read more »
Obama Heading to Copenhagen: The White House announced today that President Obama will attend the UN climate talks next month in Copenhagen “and commit the U.S. to a short-term emission reduction target ‘in the range of 17 percent’ below 2005 levels, providing new momentum for negotiations […] Read more »
Dutch to Try Road Tax Alternative: The Dutch government has approved a plan to replace the annual road tax on cars with mileage fees in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and vehicle emissions. Starting in 2012, GPS devices will be used to monitor vehicles, tracking […] Read more »
Recently, Simon reported on a couple of interesting studies looking at the use of collaboration technologies in the workplace, Forrester’s “The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2009” and Frost & Sullivan’s “Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration.” Both reports […] Read more »
Whether you think the upcoming international climate talks in Copenhagen will deliver a solution for governments to fight climate change, or will ultimately turn out to be a global flop, one thing’s for sure: All eyes will be on the progressive city in Denmark in the […] Read more »
I usually have at least three browsers open at any time. One will be a Mozilla Gecko app (Firefox, Camino, or SeaMonkey) and one an Apple WebKit based program (Stainless, Cruz, iCab, Shiira, OmniWeb, or especially since Safari 4 was released, Safari itself). Interestingly, I find […] Read more »
I don’t print a lot of photos but I know a lot of people who like to do so. Maybe it’s the feeling of holding the photo in the hand that lends a sense of reality to these newfangled digital photos. Those who have a Canon […] Read more »
Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: Verizon Hanging up on iPhone? (Computerworld) — That’s the sentiment now that Google and Verizon are buddy-buddy after this week’s announcement. The thought is that it […] Read more »
The world’s governments will meet in Copenhagen in December to hammer out a new global climate deal. But Al Gore, speaking on Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting in New York, said success hinges on the U.S. Senate’s progress on legislation that would limit […] Read more »
Depending on who you ask, compulsory licensing — an option for governments to force companies to license technology if they’re not selling it in a particular market — can be seen as either a doomsday scenario for innovation, or a fair way to ensure distribution of […] Read more »
The T-Mobile G1 has been a pretty solid first Android effort for T-Mobile in the U.S., and now the carrier is getting ready to release the next-generation phone, the myTouch 3G. The new phone is thinner and lighter than the G1, but retains much about the […] Read more »
Late last month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce pulled together a small, motley crew of companies with a stake in upcoming climate policy to launch its Innovation, Development & Employment Alliance — a group trying to ensure that an international climate deal doesn’t weaken rules about […] Read more »
Last week’s World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen drew more than 500 executives from cleantech firms, utilities and some of the world’s largest corporations, as well as top envoys for the upcoming international climate talks to be held in the city this December. VantagePoint […] Read more »
While we were all stuffing our faces at Memorial Day BBQs, more than 500 executives from cleantech firms, utilities, and policy makers at a climate convention in Copenhagen were agreeing on steps and targets needed to move away from a carbon-based economy while also protecting economic […] Read more »
Next week, executives from some of the world’s largest corporations plan to get behind a call for an international treaty that would include “strong incentives for massive investment in new technologies and new climate solutions.” The Copenhagen Climate Council has dubbed this planned set of recommendations […] Read more »
Intellectual property rights have a long history as a cornerstone of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts. Welcome to the latest chapter: defending IP rights against the potentially eroding force of international climate deals. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spearheading a new effort to ensure that U.S. […] Read more »
[qi:_earth2tech] The success of the future smart grid depends on using the wealth of knowledge created from building out the Internet. Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe thinks we should study its lessons and apply them carefully, as does Capgemini’s Balaji Natarajan, who’s penned this handy list in […] Read more »
WildBlue Communications, the Greenwood Village, Colo.-based satellite broadband provider, today demonstrated how it can deliver download speeds that are up to 12 times faster than its current speeds if it gets a new high-capacity satellite. Satellites are pricey (it can cost around $500 million to build, […] Read more »
VMware has dubbed the major refresh of its server virtualization product line, vSphere, the “mainframe of the 21st century.” While I’m impressed by the product announcement, with which VMware will further expand its already considerable lead over Microsoft and Citrix, I suspect the company will face […] Read more »
It’s time for the very apex of everyone’s Easter weekend, the all important revealing of this week’s picks from the App Store. But it’s not all about the latest fresh pickings from the App Store, before we get in to all that, I’ve collated the week’s […] Read more »
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