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The DOD this week awarded $2.4 million the development of li-ion batteries and $2 million for lead-acid batteries. Read more »

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Firefly Wins $2M from Dept. of Defense for Battery Tech: Lead-acid battery developer Firefly said today it has been awarded $2 million in funding by the U.S. Department of Defense to further development of its microcell foam battery manufacturing processes – Press Release. Comverge Secures $25M […] Read more »

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Our favorite stealthy private equity investor, David Gelbaum’s Quercus Trust, is involved in two investments in battery/energy storage startups, re-upping on one existing investment and joining on as new investor in the other. The new investment comes with the disclosure that Quercus played a part in […] Read more »

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I recently reviewed the drag-and-drop Web-based site building tool Webon and marveled at its ease of use and add-on features. I’m equally as impressed with MOLI, a social networking management tool and so much more. According to their site, MOLI is …a next-generation social networking site […] Read more »

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Firefly Energy, a company developing cutting-edge lead-acid battery technology that we profiled last week, has raised $15 million in new venture funding. The financing was part of a Series C round that brought on Khosla Ventures and Infield Capital as new investors, PEHub reports. The Peoria, […] Read more »

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We just checked in on Khosla Ventures’ portfolio on its web site and we noticed four startups we haven’t looked into before that could deliver some interesting innovation to the electric car space: Sakti3, Firefly Energy, Ramu and Tula. As Khosla’s more than a dozen biofuel […] Read more »

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Many people love Linux but aren’t able to commit to using it full time. Some folks use certain peripherals that Linux can’t yet accommodate, while others need applications for which suitable open source options don’t yet exist. Fortunately, virtualization makes it possible to put your favorite […] Read more »

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The corporate career ladder allows you go up one step at a time. From trainee to team leader, then moving up to regional manager then vice-president – tugging along pay raises and increased benefits as you go up. Unfortunately, a web working freelancer’s career path isn’t as conveniently laid out. How do you know you’re moving up the ladder without measuring promotions, raises, and increased employee benefits? What, exactly, does a freelancer’s career ladder look like and which way is up? Read more »

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Diesel eBooks has long been supporting ebooks in Adobe, Microsoft Reader and Palm/eReader formats and tomorrow they will announce the addition of Mobipocket format ebooks to their inventory.  The addition of Mobipocket format will bring their current inventory to over 200,000 books which is pretty phenomenal.  […] Read more »

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Everyone’s attention has been focused on the rumored HP 2133 mini-notebook but they are not the only ones bringing out new low-cost mini-notebooks.  Korean OEM Kojinsha has announced a $600 mini-notebook the E8 that looks to address the low-cost notebook market that Asus has been so […] Read more »

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Heeeeeere’s Jonny! James and I are listening to the Asus news and the talk is WiMAX, WiMAX, WiMAX. Asus sees the mobile Internet as the future and is betting big on WiMAX. Anticipated range in urban areas is up to 10k with ranges of 50k in […] Read more »

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iLife ’08 users, check for updates! Apple has unleashed a grand total of 9 updates for iLife ’08. They did sneak in a firmware update for my MacBook Pro as well. Here’s the list: Keynote 4.0.1 Pages 3.0.1 Numbers 1.0.1 iDVD 7.0.1 iMovie 7.1 GarageBand 4.1 […] Read more »

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Have any NewTeeVee readers out there tried Flektor? I had overlooked the company, and am now thinking that was a mistake. Sure, embeddable online slideshows are hugely popular, but there were a ton of companies making them by the time Flektor came out in April. Then […] Read more »

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Digital video is a nascent industry, but it’s rare to find someone betting against its future growth. So rare that when it happens, people tend to simply overlook it. When London-based research firm Screen Digest projected earlier this week that movie downloads in the United States […] Read more »

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Design/interactive shop Blue Flavor, has released a suite of small iPhone apps called Leaflets. Straight from the horses mouth: Leaflets are fun, useful applications designed to run fast on your iPhone—even over AT&T’s EDGE network. Apple’s iPhone allows developers to harness the power of web-based development […] Read more »

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Clearly there’s an active Developer Community for the Apple platform. I love that my favorite apps are regularly updated – being constantly made better, feature-rich, and all that jazz. But the process of updating some of these apps can be somewhat of a drag at times. […] Read more »

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CED Magazine: The cable industry and a troupe of partners have been invited to the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) dance. Level 3, MCI, Sprint, Vonage and other voice service providers (VSPs) are teaming with cable operators to build and deploy VoIP services. A few short years ago, […] Read more »

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SBC is taking baby steps towards a FTTH future, in a tiny community of Pabst Farms. Pabst Farms is a 1,500-acre residential and business development, and it is SBC’s first mass deployment of fiber-to-the-premise connections, according to published reports. A direct fiber connection means much greater […] Read more »

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Wi-Fi Planet on NYC’s Wireless dreams, with a little plug for me. Telecom’s Gold, Copper AT&T dails into CableLabs, chatting VoIP it seems POPStar dials XTen Covad on VoIP regulation BT says IP IP Hooray Read more »