GE Energy Financial Services, the investment arm of General Electric, said today that its investments in renewable energy have surpassed the $4 billion-mark with the investment of $100 million into three New York wind farms. In just five months, GE has added a billion dollars’ worth […] Read more »
AT&T Dissing Dish Networks; telco won’t resell the satellite service as of Dec. 31. (The Wall Street Journal) DVDs Dominate, But Young’uns Turning to New Ways; study from Knowledge Networks shows Generation Y (ages 13 – 29) streams and downloads, but isn’t buying, video content. (release) […] Read more »
Recently, I did a post on video applications and utilities that can be of use to web workers. The readers weighed in with a lot of alternative selections in the comments, and I’ve got four more offbeat suggestions that I like, three of which are free. […] Read more »
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Democrats and Republicans both agree they want to renew the crucial renewable energy tax credits that make wind and solar development possible but can’t agree on how to fund the credits. But what GE says the legislators are missing is the fact that these tax credits […] Read more »
We were a bit surprised when GE announced last September it was acquiring a minority interest in a thin-film solar company called PrimeStar Solar. Well, it looks like GE was more than pleased with that investing move because yesterday afternoon GE Energy (a division of GE) […] Read more »
I just received a request from a client asking if there was a site where they could create a page that staff and their board members could access that easily aggregated their media clips. I thought about it for a while, considering recommending a bookmarking site […] Read more »
Intel Capital announced eight diverse investments yesterday at its annual CEO Summit in San Francisco. Amid the online video plays and Internet retail moves, there was a single cleantech investment. Intel, along with GE and Catamount Ventures, has invested an undisclosed sum into Grid Net, a […] Read more »
Ever since the Department of Energy cut its support of the FutureGen project, the fossil fuel-based energy industry, so dependent on effective carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for the future of their business, has been rather directionless in its approach to CCS. The latest attempt […] Read more »
Past WWD contributor Leo Babauta has teamed up with LifeDev’s Glen Stansberry to launch Web Warrior Tools, a new ebook publishing house. Their plan is to present “ridiculously useful, powerful tools to change your life” at a reasonable price: $6 to $9 for offerings ranging from […] Read more »
Today, a new data center appliance launches from San Jose, Calif. startup Rohati Systems. The appliance monitors the flow of traffic in the network and uses information gleaned from the data packets to enforce various entitlement and authorization limits for a company, such as allowing only […] Read more »
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VoIP has some major advantages over traditional landline phones. First, typically you can call phones in the US and Canada for one monthly flat rate. Also, international calls can be made very cheaply. Included services with your flat rate service include: call waiting, call forwarding, online enabled voice mail, CallerID, and many more. Whereas conventional phone companies charge you individually for each of these services, VoIP providers give them to you for one flat rate.
Where do you begin if you’d like to use your broadband connection to lower your phone bill dramatically? Lets walk through some of the options. Read more »
Update: That Yahoo thing is going to take some time, but acquisition-hungry Microsoft isn’t sitting idle. They have snapped up Palo Alto, Calif.-based Danger Inc. for an undisclosed amount of money. While they are not giving reasons as to why they are buying Danger, I am […] Read more »
While I was screwing around in the hospital early this week my MacBook Pro was deciding it didn’t want to work anymore. Maybe I have worked it too hard in the past but for whatever reason it has given up on me. The first symptom was […] Read more »
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Found/Read: What a startup founder’s pitch looks like — from a VC perspective. Web Worker Daily: How to optimize your Wi-Fi connection. NewTeeVee: Two new media studios break the 100 million-view mark in 2007. Earth2Tech: What oil hitting a $100 a barrel could mean for cleantech […] Read more »
2007 is wrapping up and I thought it would be interesting to see what the top 10 posts here at jkOnTheRun were. Finding that information is easy thanks to Google Analytics and it’s interesting to note that out of the several millions of page views here […] Read more »
Online video distribution startup Hulu has added high-definition content, one of the first tests of the new Adobe Flash Player that was released today, which supports streaming HD. Hulu’s HD content is limited, just a gallery of sample movie trailers and clips from Universal and Fox […] Read more »
Alltel Wireless wants to throw a big thank you to their customers in the Phoenix area and is bringing the Goo Goo Dolls to town for a free concert. The concert will be held at 5:30 pm in the Scottsdale Civic Center Plaza on Saturday, Dec. […] Read more »
Miro, nee Democracy Player, released its version 1.0 Tuesday, officially leaving beta behind. The open source video subscription, download and viewing client from the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) hopes to be not just more open, but more popular than other online video services. The organization is […] Read more »
The folks over at the Participatory Culture Foundation are gearing up for the 1.0 release of their Miro video player, formerly known as Democracy, and you can practically hear them sharpening their knives. The Getmiro.com web site is now featuring a comparison of Miro and Joost, […] Read more »
Media companies may go to great lengths to declare their love for copyright, but they can no longer declare their hate for technology with a straight face. They’re increasingly using investments to insert themselves into startups, mostly for research purposes. Matt Richtel writes in the New […] Read more »
According to ThinkSecret, Leopard is still on track for its delayed release estimate of October. This gives Apple a matter of a few weeks to declare a Gold Master, produce a significant number of copies and get them to retail stores. It’s a time crunch for […] Read more »
The open thread closes at midnight PDT (UTC -0700). Be sure to get your questions in before then! Although we at The Apple Blog like to hand down our knowledge and opinions on all things AAPL (sometimes a little too self-righteously, sure, but aren’t bloggers supposed […] Read more »
A few weeks ago I had lunch with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. Since it was an off the record conversation, it didn’t show up on the blog. However, he did say something that has stuck in my mind and has become a daily mantra […] Read more »
Which of the three rumored deals – CBS-WallStrip, Bebo-Yahoo or Google-Feedburner – will come true? Take the poll. If you think two out of three are going to happen, let us know your pick (in comments of course.) Read more »
Neuf Cegetel, the French competitive telecom carrier has just started selling a 50 megabits per second fiber-to-the-home connection that costs about 30 Euros (about $40) a month. In comparison, 50 Mbps costs a while lot of money in the US. Verizon, Surewest and Cablevision are three […] Read more »
One of the functions I most miss on the Mac is the ability to stream music from my Zune Pass subscription. Sure, I could fire up Parallels, but I don’t want to deal with the extra heat and battery usage it brings. A quick search for […] Read more »
Update #2 @ 2.42 PM, Wednesday: We have received confirmation that the $25 million round is closed and Accel is indeed leading the round of financing. In addition, Bram emailed us and lets us know that he is still with the company. “I’m still happily here […] Read more »
We told you about CoolCamera from Ateksoft a while back and they have informed me there is a new beta version of the program available that adds new features and supports additional devices. CoolCamera works on HTC smart phones and provides total control over the camera […] Read more »
So finally the day is coming to an end, and I have to feel pretty good about what I got done: 1. The Column 2. The emails. 3. Nokia phone stuff, reviews to be written but that’s okay, since that’s not quite urgent. 4. Paid the […] Read more »
I have mentioned many times before that one of my favorite web sites for productivity tips is 43 Folders with Merlin Mann. Good tips, well written and a joy to read. My buddy Marc Orchant points out that Merlin now has a podcast and I am […] Read more »
NetCraft: Small and regional banks and credit unions more vulnerable to phishing attacks. Makes sense, after all the big guys are spending big bucks and trying to plug the holes at the very least. Carlo Longino on the Sprint/Sirius deal: I have a hard time seeing […] Read more »
The state of Oregon is looking into providing housing and broadband connections to the poor. No luddite left behind! Read more »
TechRepublic has a letter from CNET editor Robert Vamosi telling Internet Explorer goodbye. Clever read and right on factually. Dear Internet Explorer: It’s over. Our relationship just hasn’t been working for a while, and now, this is it. I’m leaving you for another browser. I know […] Read more »
As I said earlier, VoIP boom is all about the tool makers. Global IP Sound which makes embedded voice processing software for the likes of Skype is one of the beneficiaries. The company says its third quarter 2004 sales were up 359% over the previous year […] Read more »
Let me explain the totally and completely politically incorrect headline. Ofcom, the UK regulator says that UK has raced past Germany in broadband penetration. In June 2004 the UK had 7.5 broadband connections per hundred people, compared to Germany’s 6.7 per hundred. No matter, UK still […] Read more »
I have read more broadband-over-powerline stories this weekend than ever before. Barrons, Telephony, and every single magazine/newspaper is buzzing about BPL, despite the fact that most of the trials of this technology have not worked out. FCC obviously has done a great job to refocus the […] Read more »
RIM’s global expansion continues. Packetology principal Aman Kapoor tells us that Bharti Telecom, the largest GSM operator in India is going to launch RIM’s Blackberry devices in that country early next week. Though he is short on details, it wouldn’t be a surprise, for the Indian […] Read more »
Wonder what the big boss does on weekends? Why, he takes out his Wally 118 which only set him back just over $24 million. Accomodations are luxurious as you would expect with a master stateroom, guest stateroom, and 3 crew cabins. The Wally will cruise along […] Read more »
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