Aside from having a big toe in the processor pool for low-cost handhelds and notebooks, Intel is ready to offer their storage solution as well. The Z-P230 as it’s affectionally known, is a 2.1 x 1.5-inch board with a 40-pin, ZIF, parallel ATA connector and either […] Read more »
eSolar, the solar startup backed by Google.org and Bill Gross’ Idealab, said today that it’s inked a deal to build a 245 MW solar thermal power plant in the Antelope Valley region of Southern California and sell that solar power to utility Southern California Edison. eSolar […] Read more »
If you’ve been living on the edge of Firefox, this won’t be news, but Firefox 3 hit another milestone last night: Release Candidate 1 is out. This release is all about stability and speed and bug fixes; there aren’t any huge new features to trumpet if […] Read more »
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[qi:_earth2tech] The CEO of California utility PG&E, Peter Darbee, recently said that he’d like to use the company’s deep pockets to buy solar thermal plants. Turns out that’s just the beginning of the things he’d like to change about how utilities operate. Check out Earth2Tech’s video […] Read more »
The CEO of California utility PG&E, Peter Darbee, recently caught our attention in a big way when he said that he’d like to use PG&E’s deep pockets to buy and own solar thermal plants. Turns out that’s just the beginning of the things he’d like to […] Read more »
MicroISVs, software developers who have fired their bosses and clients to start their own software companies, work on the bleeding edge of online technology. They are the earliest of adopters, among the fastest to jump on a new tool, idea, process or site that let’s them […] Read more »
I will be the first to admit I love my iPod Touch but am already up against the 16 GB of memory mine has. I cannot even put all of the videos I’d like to carry with me because I’m up against the memory limit. The […] Read more »
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 »
…or so wrote Marc Andreessen, on his blog Monday. Pundits have bemoaned the impact that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo will have on Silicon Valley entrepreneurship: In eliminating a “big startup acquirer,” Redmond is slamming shut one, and possibly two, big windows for “VC-funded exits.” You’ll be […] Read more »
Instead of an audio podcast, we had time to record a brief video Geek Session here at CES 2008. Just a short summary of the show experience, what the buzz was (and wasn’t) all about and a mobile prediction. Since we’ve been sharing information on how […] Read more »
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As part of my Leopard switch, I set one goal for myself: run nothing but Intel native applications. That meant finding a clear alternative for Microsoft Office. Pages Sticking with the iWork ‘08 trial, I began my migration quickly and easily. All my Word documents changed […] Read more »
NBC Reimbursing Advertisers; the peacock is paying out an average of $500,000 to advertisers due to a ratings shortfall (which started before the WGA strike). (MediaWeek) NBA Taps Silverlight; Microsoft’s Flash competitor to power broadband video experience for NBA web destinations. (Broadcasting & Cable) Strike Could […] Read more »
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 »
A birdie told me that Verizon had quietly released a firmware upgrade for the Blackberry 8830 in the last two days that reportedly unlocks the GPS that I have been so vocal about. The upgrade is over 88 MB big and I haven’t had time to […] Read more »
I love Midwest Teen Sex Show, the sassy and sharp-witted bimonthly sex education show produced by Britney Barber, Guy Clark and Nikol Hasler. In an era in which actual conversation about sex has been sanitized from both schools and Hollywood films, you’ve gotta love a video […] Read more »
Reed Rinn of Motion is a Microsoft MVP and he brought one of their new medical tablets recently announced, the Motion C5 Medical Assistant. The C5 is designed from the ground up to meet the specific needs of the healthcare industry by providing a sealed unit […] Read more »
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 »
Tell me this hasn’t happened to you. Your PC churns and burns to download a huge-tastic file and just stops at 99%. Can someone send me the last 2.5 MB of the final Vista release? ;) Share your download horror stories on the comments. Please….make me […] Read more »
I ran yesterday’s freeware recommendation, Battery Eater, to find out the minimum battery life of the Samsung Q1. Yes, you read that right, this checks the minimum life by stressing the computer’s hard drive, RAM, graphics card and CPU. The assumption here is that you’ll get […] Read more »
Top Stories: ThinkPad X60 TabletPC due end of year Who makes the best slate Tablet PC? My name is James and I’m a neophiliac Sony UX90 gets flash memory for lighter, faster, longer mobile computing Top ten most critical wireless and mobile security vulnerabilites Sammy is […] Read more »
Google general counsel Andrew Mclaughlin in a Light Reading story about the FCC forgot a four letter word called “tact.” “The FCC sucks,” Mclaughlin says. “Why would you want the FCC to get involved in anything? Its track record is pretty bad when it comes to […] Read more »
With SBC gulping AT&T without as much as a gulp, one could feel a tad sorry for some of the executives from the “old” Ma Bell who were shown the door by King Ed The First. For example, David Dorman, the former CEO of AT&T, whom […] Read more »
Zimbra’s Ajax-based email is worth a look. It is one of the many dozens of companies that have popped up, and one reason to take them seriously – well they are backed by Eric Hahn, the man behind Lookout Software, which was a “search” application for […] Read more »
It seems the Tablet PC is growing in popularity with Mac users, no doubt since Apple just won’t listen to the masses who keep asking for a Mac Tablet. Some brave Mac owners are doing what they have to do and picking up Tablet PCs to […] Read more »
A few months ago I had a chance to chat with Rajiv Laroia, chief technology officer and founder of Bedminster, NJ based wireless broadband company, Flarion. We discussed Qualcomm, Europe and how the 450 Mhz is a big opportunity for the company. Even though the interview […] Read more »
Lost in all the holiday cheer was the news that Logitech and Skype are going to be co-marketing each others products and services. Logitech will bundle up to 120 minutes worth of free vouchers for SkypeOut, the pre-pay service that allows Skype users to call traditional […] Read more »
Information Appliance Associates, which has made a living out of making Pocket PC play nice with Mac has just released ppcTunes, a tiny piece of software that can automatically copy & convert music from Apple iTunes to Windows Mobile Pocket PCs, Pocket PC Phones & Smartphones. […] Read more »
Tim Higgins: The upbeat mode that prevailed at the show was helped along by FCC chairman Michael Powell’s keynote on Tuesday. The speech garnered plenty of press from the snappy quotes just made for us media types to slurp up. But Powell’s basic message—that any US […] Read more »
With all the buzz around China and Korea, many tend to overlook that India is turning into one of the hottest telecom markets on the planet. While visiting India I saw many US venture capitalists were out pitching their companies to Indian telecom giants, recognizing that […] Read more »
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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