Israel’s strikes into Gaza continue apace, and news stories are pointing out that the conflict is being fought online as well — Twitter, YouTube and hacking web sites are playing a role, as ways to get information out of the country and dispense propaganda. There’s no […] Read more »
Shai Agassi, the founder and CEO of electric vehicle infrastructure startup, Better Place could create an electric vehicle infrastructure that would scatter charging spots and battery swapping stations across the nation during the president’s first term, he said Thursday night — at a cost of $100 billion. Read more »
Updated From Frankfurt: It has already been a long day! I got up at 3 a.m. to get ready and head to the San Francisco Airport in time to catch my early morning US Airways flight to Charlotte and then connect to Frankfurt and then to […] Read more »
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is in talks with electric vehicle startup Project Better Place about building the infrastructure for a fleet of plug-in cars in the city, including parking meter charging stations and battery replacement stations. Newsom traveled to Israel last week to meet with […] Read more »
Norway-based Protectoria is the latest company to offer a solution for making email more secure. Like most schemes that don’t depend on encryption, Protectoria’s takes email out of the regular email server flow entirely. Instead, you upload your message (via secure connection) to Protectoria’s servers, and […] Read more »
So what exactly does that MSN Direct download bring to your Windows Mobile device? In this under-seven-minute video I give you a quick walkthrough using my Dash; a Windows Mobile 6 device. There’s a few opportunities for improvement in the application, but if you want basic […] Read more »
Quantics Partners with CinemaNow for PC-to-TV Streaming; customers of the video download service will be able to wirelessly stream content to TVs without buffering. (release) “Will it Blend?” Moves Product; charming viral videos spur fivefold increase in blender sales for Blendtec. (Information Week) The Podcast Network […] Read more »
I attended a mixer for entrepreneurs in San Francisco organized by “STIRR”:http://www.stirr.net/about called “Founder Hacks II”:http://www.stirr.net/. These events are cool beacuse at each mixer, STIRR invites a few repeat founders to get up and share one of the “success hacks” they’ve learned along the way with […] Read more »
Brad Templeton, one of the first few dotcommers has created a wireless VoIP Phone Booth at Burning Man and nearly 1600 calls were made. The Black Rock Desert is where the rocket cars broke the sound barrier. It’s a perfectly flat dry lakebed, the location miles […] Read more »