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Logitech’s CEO Jerry Quindlen doesn’t think that consumers are sick of buying new boxes for the living room. In fact, he believes that the Google TV-powered set-top box his company is introducing this fall will lead to consumers buying even more hardware. Read more »

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David Gelbaum, the famously private greentech investor, has done one of his only high-profile in-person interviews published in this weekend’s Sunday New York Times. The article offers a peek into what Gelbaum’s peers and portfolio companies think, but stays away from his recent investing hurdles. Read more »

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The famously private investor David Gelbaum, founder of The Quercus Trust, who by his own estimates has between 40 and 50 cleantech investments, as a rule hasn’t done interviews for years. We caught up with him for 10 questions, though. Read more »

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Former hedge-funder-turned-greentech investor and philanthropist David Gelbaum has taken on a new role, as CEO of Entech Solar. A developer of concentrating solar modules and a daylighting system that’s scheduled to launch early this year, Entech Solar got its official start in 2008. That’s when solar installer WorldWater & Solar […] Read more »

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A startup based in Bangalore, India, is selling an off-the-shelf device for less than the cost of a one-night stay in an average hotel in downtown San Francisco that can offer rural Indians a way to generate and store solar power, charge cell phones and other […] Read more »

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Former hedge-funder-turned-philanthropist — and greentech investor — David Gelbaum won’t be donating his usual $20 million to the American Civil Liberties Union this year. Nor will he contribute to the Sierra Club or the California Community Foundation’s Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund. Put simply, it’s been a […] Read more »

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Welcome to our newest Monday feature — Android Ecosystem! My own little experiment in running Android on an Intel Core Solo UMPC is about to take another step forward. The Android-x86 team has a new stable build that I’m downloading this very second. As I’ve shown […] Read more »

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Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: T-Mobile service disappears in U.S. (Twitter)– I think my facetious tweet sums it up best: “I felt a great disturbance in T-Mobile, as if millions of […] Read more »

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Pour enough cash into greentech startups and environmental efforts, and sooner or later a couple of your investments might cross paths — especially in a time when large-scale solar projects planned for the Mojave Desert are coming under fire from environmental groups concerned about desert species […] Read more »

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Insufficient bandwidth has the potential to limit the cloud because it can take a long time to send large files over thin pipes. Amazon Web Services now addresses this problem with a new data delivery service called AWS Import/Export, which uses the postal system rather than […] Read more »

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On the day I give up on my iPhone and trade it in for the iPod Touch, AdMob, a mobile advertising startup released its report that shows a big uptick in mobile Internet usage via Wi-Fi in the month of January 2009. According to AdMob, Apple […] Read more »