Today on the Net: Verizon’s CEO says that cable companies should watch out because cord cutting is real, MySpace has tapped Andy Marcus to lead its entertainment division and Dell is evaluating Internet connected devices running Google TV. Read more »
The adult industry’s Free Speech Coalition has been using technology from Vobile to track porn piracy for a few months now while also trying to educate consumers. The results of these efforts have the coalitions executive director thinking about embracing iTunes-like pricing for adult content. Read more »
For all you folks asking for the slides and presentations from our Green:Net event last week, here’s the entire slide deck embedded below from SlideShare. It includes all of the presentation slides in order of the day’s events. Read more »
State Attorney General Jerry Brown, Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl and Squid Labs Co-Founder Paul Griffith are just a few of the speakers at tomorrow’s GreenNet 2010 conference. GreenNet is organized by Earth2Tech, which is of course a fellow GigaOM network blog, and we’re happy […] Read more »
In light of our upcoming Green:Net conference — which looks at the intersection of IT and green — we’ve decided to revive the second edition of the 25 Who Ditched Infotech for Cleantech list. Check it out: Read more »
Cisco sees a $20 billion opportunity in the smart grid, and while it may have gotten off a bit late to the party, it’s crashed it in a big way. The networking giant wants to deliver products and services that span the grid. Read more »
Our platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. Smartphone maker HTC is set to unveil a new iteration of its Sense interface for phones, and an e-book reader will be in the offering. Read more »
The Internet and computing fundamentally changed the way we communicate, work and consume entertainment – devices like the iPad, and applications like Twitter were unimaginable a decade ago. The same tools that brought this transformation — software, chips, communication networks — will be keys to fighting climate […] Read more »
Understanding that the computing and Internet revolutions are what will provide the tools needed to fight climate change, we will host our second annual GreenNet on April 29th here in San Francisco, where will be joined by a who’s who of industry players. Read more »
Our annual GreenNet 2010 conference is quickly approaching, to be held April 29th, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Among many notable speakers, Googler and former NASA astronaut Ed Lu will be there. Here is how you can get a discount. Read more »
UPDATED: President Obama will hold his first official State of the Union address this Wednesday starting at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST. The speech in front of a joint session of Congress is a little bit of a political ritual, but the current administration decided to […] Read more »
I’m thrilled to announce that we’re holding our second annual Green:Net conference on April 29, at San Francisco’s Mission Bay conference center. Similar to our sold out Green:Net 2009 event, this year’s conference will focus on how information technology — software, computing, the web and communication […] Read more »
One of my “vacation” projects was to do some Twitter housecleaning. I needed to unfollow a lot of people who weren’t following me on one of my accounts. Twitter, as you know, provides no built-in options for filtering followers, mass unfollowing, or mass reciprocating (following people […] Read more »
The release of Firefox Mobile should be under the Christmas tree very soon, but some are already looking at the add-ons that will work with the browser. Liz Gannes at GigaOm runs through a bunch of the early extensions that can be installed on the mobile browser […] Read more »
Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google Calendar There’s more to Google Calendar than meets the eye. Celine explains some small tweaks that can change it […] Read more »
Having received confirmation from Apple PR, TheAppleBlog can now confirm that the official name for Apple’s latest phone is iPhone 3GS (no space). While this might not seem like a big deal to you, for those of us having to write about the formerly awkward name, […] Read more »
