In case you weren’t sure that today is officially SBOW Day, this ought to convince you. What, you don’t know what SBOW Day is? It’s Sharing Broadband Over WiFi, silly! C’mon, everybody’s doing it! Case in point: we showed you earlier today how easy it is […] Read more »
While there is funding available for U.S. cellulosic ethanol companies in the form of grants or loan guarantees from the departments of both Energy and Agriculture, these days, it doesn’t come close to matching demand. And without help from the federal government, some projects may never […] Read more »
One of the granddaddies of venture investing, Pierre Lamond — the National Semiconductor co-founder and partner at Sequoia Capital for almost 30 years — has opened up a new, greener door. At the spry age of 78, Lamond has joined Vinod Khosla’s firm Khosla Ventures, where […] Read more »
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Comcast-owned thePlatform announced two new products today to target low and mid-tier customers looking for a video publishing solution. thePlatform currently counts mega media companies such as BBC, CNBC and CBS College Sports as customers, but with its new mpsManage CDN and mpsManage Storage (the “mps” […] Read more »
John Doerr, the prominent cleantech venture capitalist for Kleiner Perkins, gave his standard earnest speech before a Senate Committee hearing on how greentech investing can spur the economy on Wednesday morning. As per usual, he first chided the U.S. for not doing enough to cut carbon […] Read more »
Silicon Valley is heading west — further west — to test out clean technologies under a deal announced yesterday. Big-name cleantech investor Khosla Ventures said it’s teaming up with Hawaiian utility Hawaiian Electric Co. on the evaluation and pilot testing of solar, lighting, battery and other […] Read more »
Transonic Combustion, a Camarillo, Calif.-based startup working on a fuel-injection system that could help gasoline (and someday biodiesel) cars hit 100 MPG, has hired Brian Ahlborn to replace founder Mike Cheiky as president and CEO. Cheiky, a serial inventor who devised Transonic’s core technology, has begun […] Read more »
Japan’s second largest wireless carrier, KDDI, has taken the plunge into the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, by building an LTE overlay on top of its existing CDMA network. KDDI is using equipment from Nortel and Hitachi for the fourth-generation wireless network, which will be operating […] Read more »
We are a mobile tech site so it’s only fitting that we provide the best way to get our stuff even when you are mobile. We’ve been testing a mobile version that is working well so we want to make sure you have it in your […] Read more »
Old Wind Turbines Get Second Life on the Farm: Massachusetts-based Aeronautica Windpower recycles mid-sized wind turbines from aging wind farms by refurbishing them and selling them to farmers – Press Release. Redwood Systems Raises $4M for Building Energy Conservation: The Danville, Calif.-based startup has raised $4 […] Read more »
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I have only been back home for a few hours after the whirlwind trip to San Francisco to attend the Mobilize 08 conference. It was a fun trip that was even more fun as I returned to Houston to a home with electricity working after Hurricane […] Read more »
Membranes that take less energy to clean water — that’s the idea behind Los Angeles-based startup NanoH2O’s technology, and why the company was able to announce a round of $15 million from Oak Investment Partners and Khosla Ventures. NanoH2O, which raised $5 million last year from […] Read more »
Lately we’ve been discussing the many reasons why taking smaller, angel-sized investments instead of larger venture capital stakes often makes more sense for startups in a wobbly, exit-bereft market like the current one. Today, Ron Conway, the well-known founder of the Silicon Valley-based Angel Investors LP […] Read more »
Green chemistry startup Segetis takes a Lego-like approach to developing its chemicals and materials: Take the right pieces from biomass waste like wood and crop residue, and you can build some really cool stuff. This morning the two-year-old Golden Valley, Minn.-based startup said it had added […] Read more »
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is unlikely to retire anytime soon, but he could soon be investing in cleantech with the retirement funds of some of his fellow Californians. Khosla Ventures is in “advanced talks,” peHub reports, with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), which as […] Read more »
We’ve now had two complete days of show attendance at the CES and here’s some further impressions of what we’ve seen and heard so far. First of all, everyone we talk to is finding that there has been nothing major announced nor displayed at the show. […] Read more »
Now that corn-based ethanol is looking more and more unsustainable — and is the latest media punching bag — it’s time to make way for the next generation of biofuel startups. LS9, a San Carlos, Calif-based start-up that touts itself as a “renewable petroleum company” plans […] Read more »
Google Video, the much ballyhooed video site that was humbled by a more modest YouTube has decided that it is to go back to Google’s roots: search. After Google admitted defeat in the video-sharing space to YouTube and bought it for $1.65 billion, this switch to […] Read more »
Earlier this week we sat down with Evan Krauss, the CEO of San Francisco-based Cuts, who seemed remarkably calm considering his upcoming release schedule. The online video editing service his team makes is supposed to go into private beta Friday, and public beta a week from […] Read more »
It’s time to grow up! And that’s exactly what we are doing over here at GigaOM – growing a little bigger and adding two new members to the core GigaOM team. I present to you some of the changes we are making, as we expand our […] Read more »
Palm has announced the upcoming press conference that will no doubt announce the release of the Windows Mobile Treo. How do we know that? The press conference will include Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Denny Strigl, CEO of Verizon Wireless. Looks […] Read more »
The folks at SoundSpectrum wanted us to take a look at their G-Force product for them, so I was the one who got to play with it. I always enjoy a new software app or utility that can do something different, so this interested me. G-Force […] Read more »
Ash sent me this link about Nokia Digital TV line-up. It looks like a pretty comprehensive line up of satellite set-top boxes, including three models with hard disk drives and bluetooth. Seems like pretty cutting edge stuff to me, though doesn’t seem like that these are […] Read more »
With all the hoopla around Fiber-to-the-premises, it is no surprise that Optical Solutions got another $15 million in funding from a sundry of investors including Cisco Systems. Established in 1994, OSI has raised a total of whopping $143 million to date, but it has products ready […] Read more »
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