Ocean power is managing to float forward during the recession, thanks in large part to government programs and to a lesser extent, private funding. The latest example is 10-year-old wave power company Wavebob, with CEO Andrew Parish telling us this week that it’s raised €3 million […] Read more »
San Francisco’s tidal-energy project, expected to be the largest ocean-power project off of the California coast, has been in the works for four and a half years and counting. But the city is now in “the final stages” of getting permits for the project planned for […] Read more »
In the economic downturn, “green jobs” has become one of the hottest political catchphrases. President Barack Obama has promised 5 million new green jobs as part of his energy and stimulus plans. Here in California, the mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as […] Read more »
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As we reported this morning, after over 5 months of haggling, the San Francisco board of supervisors has finally passed what they say is the most aggressive municipal solar program in the nation: an annual budget of $3 million dollars each year for 10 years, doled […] Read more »
After six months of hard-fought politicking, the San Francisco board of supervisors has finally approved the Solar Energy Incentive Program, the country’s largest municipal solar program. The program has been greenlighted for 10 years and has an annual budget of $3 million dollars. The money will […] Read more »
Recently, I’ve been working with Sun’s open source xVM VirtualBox virtualization software, which is definitely worth a look for web workers who would like to run one more than one operating system on a single machine. Sun’s desktop virtualization environment runs on Windows, Solaris, Mac OS […] Read more »
True confession time: I get plenty of things done, but based on the last six months or so of trying to use it, the Getting Things Done system doesn’t work for me. Or rather, the sort of heavyweight task management that would have me categorize everything […] 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 »
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We Need Girlfriends, a scripted, episodic web sitcom that has garnered a significant following on YouTube, has managed to score an honest-to-goodness development deal with CBS. Darren Star, best known as the man behind Sex and the City, will serve as executive producer on the project, […] Read more »
Spire, makers of fine laptop bags, have just released an update to their line of laptop bags. The new bags are definitely a bit more stylish and not quite as cold and business looking as the previous line. Prices start at $80 for the smaller bag […] Read more »
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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 »
How fitting, a day after Halloween, Jeff Jarvis is having blog nightmares, or blogmares, as I like to call them! “I dreamed in blog business. Worse still, I dreamed in the Movable Type user interface. Fill in your pajama joke here….,” Jeff writes. Hey I know […] Read more »
India’s Videsh Sanchar Nigam, a Tata Group owned long distance provider has bought the Tyco Global Networks for $130 million. The deal was first disclosed here on this site, in July 2004, exclusively here first, and was later picked by other news outlets such as Business […] 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 »
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