Those still hoping clean coal will become a reality can take comfort in the knowledge that tax dollars are still funding carbon capture and sequestration endeavors. Making good on its promise to fund a number of smaller, distributed projects to test the capture and storage of […] Read more »
If you’re a procrastinator, please raise your hand – when you get around to it. You know the drill: you tinker with your calendar and move tasks to a later due date, you find yourself cramming the day before deadlines, or your answers to the questions […] Read more »
I recently tried to run the beta mobile browser from Skyfire but quickly discovered it would not run on VGA devices like my HTC Advantage. I recently heard from the folks at Skyfire who have promised that the server-based browser will soon support VGA resolution: Hopefully, […] Read more »
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Ding! The second round of the Net Neutrality battle officially started today, with Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey’s introduction of H.R. 5353, a bill supporters are calling the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008.” Detractors, of course, will call it many other things, including a revival of […] Read more »
No breaking product news here, but this was too funny to share, plus it’s part of the crazy CES experience and helps to explain what we’re doing on the show floor. No doubt you’ve seen us post product pics with just a line or two of […] Read more »
It seems FutureGen’s clean coal announcement last week was a bit premature. The Department of Energy (DoE), the main financier of the $1.8 billion clean coal project, has released a statement questioning the cost of the project. FutureGen plant is coal powered, but it would emit […] Read more »
Forrester has the most bullish estimate yet for online video advertising spending in the U.S.: $7.1 billion by 2012. That’s after a 72 percent compound annual growth rate for the next five years, building on total spending of $471 million this year. That tops eMarketer’s July […] Read more »
I have always been a fan of the Apple iPod case that came with my 3G iPod when I bought it over 4 years (you remember, those cheap fabric cases that you just slide the ipod into). In fact, I still use the iPod and the […] Read more »
Note: For clarification, Podaddies does not have a formal partnership, financial or otherwise, with Apple, rather a close relationship with multiple divisions to provide expertise about downloadable advertising formats. Our use of the word “partnership” led others to report a formal deal had been signed, which […] Read more »
As usual, the annual Yearly Kos convention of liberal bloggers spawned a few new ideas, including this one: a labor union for bloggers. The idea immediately drew a great deal of online discussion, ranging from reasoned consideration to howls of derision. With many web workers running […] Read more »
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The hype machine is in full swing if the recent interest in new media by big business is any indication. At the Milken Institute conference Wednesday, Forbes managing editor Dennis Kneale moderated a discussion with News Corp. COO Peter Chernin, former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, Yahoo […] Read more »
Coming soon to a tube near you, The Onion News Network. It is not going to be boring like Shee-NN! Read more »
Last I checked, my keychain had about eight of those annoying-to-carry but good-to-have discount store cards. You know the ones: they each have a barcode for a frequent customer discount? If I add one more to the keychain, my keys won’t fit into the ignition switch, […] Read more »
Google is looking to get into games, according to CNN Money, and before this week is out, should be announcing a deal to buy Adscape Media Inc., and through them, work with publishers to feed ads through the Internet into their online games. (Presumably, the elevator […] Read more »
There has been a lot of complaining about the lack of new features in The WWDC keynote yesterday. I guess Apple geeks get very excited at the prospect of a new OS. I know I was queueing with everybody else for the Tiger launch. But there […] Read more »
Business 2.0 : As phones become increasingly complex, the industry must make them easier to use, says Pertti Korhonen, chief technology officer for Nokia (NOK). I sat down with Korhonen this week to sound him out on the industry and its future. He also talked about iPod […] Read more »
David Rothman at TeleRead has an article asking why Microsoft won’t port the ebook Reader application to the Smartphone. I am not a fan of the DRM that Microsoft employs with protected ebooks but as David points out the Reader application itself is pretty nice. It […] Read more »
The total US Internet access services market is tipping $35 billion, reports In-Stat/MDR and will grow by high single digits, indicating that we are entering a mature phase of the business. Of the total revenues, consumer access services generated nearly two-thirds of the revenue. Broadband generated […] Read more »
Sharp Electronics has been quietly making a move into the US cellular handset market, and has made favorable impression on at least Sprint customers. I was looking forward to messing around with the new Sharp TM-150. Where there is anticipation, there is disappointment. The phone, despite […] Read more »
– RealVideo Preferred Over WMA & MPEG-4? – Good-bye Corporate Pop – Go Where the Girls Are – Streamcast Releases New Version of Morpheus – U.S. Music Sales Rose in January Read more »
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