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Apple has a history of either buying apps or boldly copying features from developers and including them in OSX. So what borrowed features could we see in OSX next? Read more »

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The credit crisis isn’t just shaking up the solar industry, it’s reshaping it — forcing major deals to shift from the weak to the strong. OptiSolar, a privately held startup that won a coveted 550 megawatt solar project to supply PG&E with solar power, is selling […] Read more »

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No question the mobile web is booming no matter who you ask.  Consumers are accessing the web from phones in droves and the World Wide Web Consortium wants to make sure that everyone plays on the same 3-inch field.  Today the WWWC announced new mobile web […] Read more »

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Some of the air in the SSD price was let out of Apple’s thinnest notebook: Ars Technica notes that the 64 GB flash drive option has dropped by $400. The configuration they looked at actually dropped by $500, but $100 of the lower cost is due […] Read more »

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With all of California state utility PG&E’s efforts to add renewable energy to its electricity portfolio, when a contract to add clean energy fizzles out, it deserves a closer look. Western GeoPower said recently that it canceled a contract with PG&E whereby the utility would have […] Read more »

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Demand management, the business of intelligently managing power use, especially during peak energy-use hours, can pay for itself in a matter of months. But now with some utilities offering incentives to commercial and industrial power users, demand management systems can give a return on investment almost […] Read more »

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Utility PG&E Corp. said today it has entered into a power purchase agreement with Finavera Renewables for two megawatts of ocean energy. The energy will come from an installation located roughly two-and-a-half miles off the Northern California coast that is expected to be completed by 2012. […] Read more »

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Two More Project Choices – There continues to be no shortage of online project management spaces.  Assembla is aimed primarily at development teams, with Subversion and Trac integration, and unlimited teams even in the free edition. Teamwork Project Manager tracks projects, tasks, people, and milestones, and […] Read more »

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The world of online video is flourishing right now, to the point where web workers who can produce video content have unprecedented kinds of opportunities for reaching large audiences, and even getting paid. Mention online video to many people, and they think immediately of YouTube and […] Read more »

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There are times in many a web worker’s life when a group chat is the best way for a bunch of people working on a project to get together. Recently, for example, I got together with a bunch of others about working on a collaborative project. […] Read more »

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“Al Gore’s Television Network,” Current TV, is still hanging out in the upper reaches of your digital cable or satellite listings and soliciting content from viewers like you online. It’s kind of an OldTeeVee meets NewTeeVee mashup, and is shooting for that golden 18- to 35-year-old […] Read more »

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Piggybacking on the news of a conviction of a file sharer by the Department of Justice, SafeMedia put out a press release touting its product Clouseau “Cracks the Code to Destroy P2P Piracy.” O rly? It does not infringe on user’s privacy, while eradicating illegal P2P […] Read more »

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The gaping hole in the MacWorld Keynote a couple weeks ago has left me – and I’m sure many of you too – starving for details on Apple’s next OS release, 10.5/Leopard. Apple Insider (who is renowned for being dead on with everything they post…) has […] Read more »

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Geez, I think I’m gonna start this as a regular sort of topic here at The Apple Blog. This’ll be the 2nd example this week of a business leader in a seat of power talking about their move to Macintosh computers (here’s the other from this […] Read more »

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Fiber to the home may remain a dream for most Americans, but some new greenfield real estate developments, also known as “Master Planned Communities (MPC)” are experimenting with super-speed broadband and new broadband applications. In-Stat/MDR says that despite their small size in comparison to the total […] Read more »

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Niki Scevak, analyst with Jupiter Media makes light of Eli Noam’s argument that IT and media are going to hell. bq. The reason why his premise is flawed is that advertising pricing on the Internet is rebounding strongly (paid search is the best example of this). […] Read more »

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You know VoIP is hot when former Ameritech President Dwayne Goldsmith decides to launch a new VoIP called Inflexion Communications. So far it has remained in the shadows, but today decided to tell its story to rest of the world. It is more of a roll-up […] Read more »