The Department of Defense is looking for something light but powerful for U.S. soldiers to wear. The Department doled out $1.75 million in prize money to the makers of three light-weight power devices for its inaugural “Wearable Power Competition” over the weekend, following a grueling field […] Read more »
Fuel cells, whether they’re made for your car or your cell phone, always seem just around the corner, but MTI MicroFuel Cells hopes to put full cells in your hand soon. The company announced today that it has improved the power performance of its Mobion chip […] Read more »
Prices for platinum have dropped more than 30 percent in recent weeks, to around $1,478.80 an ounce, off a high of more than $2,100 an ounce earlier this year. It’s part of an overall slide in commodity prices, from corn to precious metals to crude, taking […] Read more »
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A couple months ago we wrote about Reware’s Juice Bag Profolio, concluding that its nerdular style and dorky desirability had been trumped by the fact that it could tranform the Sun’s rays into juice for your gadgets…in short, great tech, terrible bag. Fortunately, Chicago-based Noon Solar‘s […] Read more »
Tesla Grabs Mazda Design Director: Franz von Holzhausen, former Director of Design for Mazda North America, has joined Tesla Motors as Chief Designer. This is the third auto industry vet Tesla has snapped up recently. The startup got a new EVP of Vehicle Engineering from Chrysler […] Read more »
In 2003 President Bush announced a $1.2 billion initiative to make fuel cells commercially viable over a 16-year period. Five years later, a new report issued by the National Research Council says that fuel cells are still at least 15 years away from being commercially feasible. […] Read more »
Fuel cell vehicles made by Honda are now rolling off a production line in Japan and will be heading to eager customers in California come July, the auto maker said today. The car, the FCX Clarity, represents the latest move from a major car maker to […] Read more »
Recently I was looking into how to spruce up a couple of web sites that I oversee, and I stopped at W3Schools.com. I’ve written before about the great, free online tutorials found at this site. After poking around the site, I decided to get deeper into […] Read more »
Fuel cell maker MTI Micro is showing off a prototype of a GPS system with an embedded fuel cell at a fuel cell conference in Atlanta this morning. The company, which is based in Albany, New York, says its fuel cell-connected GPS system can provide 60 […] Read more »
New data from M:Metrics for the month of January confirms that folks who own an iPhone tend to do more entertaining things on their devices — such as watch video and visit social networks — than those who own smartphones. However February data from mobile ad […] Read more »
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Just got a note from jkOTR reader Steve, who referred back to our post on T-Mobile’s lower unlimited data add-on service. Back in September, T-Mo dropped the price from $29.99 to $19.99 a month. That’s all well and good, but if you were expecting the carrier […] Read more »
My Vista sleep problems have touched a lot of people, some who are interested and some who don’t like my talking about problems with Vista. The Vista fix was applied a couple of days ago and I should tell you how my HP 2710p has fared […] Read more »
With the announcement of Leopard’s release date, there were plenty of comments that the Leopard upgrade is nothing but a few bells and whistles added to Tiger. Some think that there is no reason to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard. After all, Tiger is a very […] Read more »
I’m in the midst of having my mailbox migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 with my hosted provider, 4Smartphone. The process isn’t complete yet, but while I wait I thought it would be worthwhile to look at OWA with Exchange 2007 since we mentioned OWA […] Read more »
Over the weekend a group calling themselves MediaDefender-Defender published nine months’ worth of internal e-mails, an audio file of a recorded phone call and server data from the internal network of anti-piracy company MediaDefender, whose bread and butter is populating file-sharing networks with spoof files — […] Read more »
Probably not, as it turns out; certainly not in the Western hemisphere, anyway. Working with publicly-known figures, veteran MMO developer Raph Koster recently made this observation on his blog: [I]t may be possible that World of Warcraft is actually sitting around #4 or #5 in the […] Read more »
No, I haven’t tried installing Vista on Miyagi, my Fujitsu P1610, because it’s just too darn functional for me with Windows XP 2005 Tablet Edition running on it. I was pretty sure there would be a number of drivers that haven’t been released for Vista yet and I […] Read more »
Charles, a jkOTR reader, shot a me a link to this MSNBC article that’s well worth sharing. Brad Stone spent the summer in Japan where he used a Vodafone 905SH phone; don’t be surprised if you don’t recognize the model as it’s made by Sharp. Of […] Read more »
A few days after Yahoo announced its much vaunted Mail + RSS Reader, Google has just turned on a feature that allows you to read your favorite RSS feeds inside of GMail Jared Jacobs from GMail team blogs on the official Google blog. Over the past […] Read more »
I am inching towards the 5000 Post mark. Any suggestions on how to celebrate? Any interest in a San Francisco meet-up? If yes, do post your comments. Meanwhile, I have the 5000 contest still going, incase you are interested. Read more »
Fujitsu and Intel just cannot get along on this whole WiMAX thing, and it is no surprise that the certification has been delayed by another six months. For the longest time, I have been screaming in the wind, saying there is no such thing as WiMAX, […] Read more »
VSNL has teamed up with Cisco Systems for its broadband network. The deal is estimated at about 500 crores which translates to about $110 million. VSNL will deploy Cisco’s Metro Ethernet products. I guess all that sucking up is finally paying off for Cisco sales team. […] Read more »
Supreme court decision that put the stake through the UNE-P, has all but taken toll on Z-Tel Technologies, a small CLEC based in Florida. The company announced that it is going to cut its head count by 150. The company has been delisted from the NASDAQ […] Read more »
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