So it turns out there’s a sneaky way to “speed-listen” to podcasts on iPhones/iPods. It’s useful because while here are some great podcasts available they take time to get though, and if you subscribe to a few of them that time commitment can get pretty large. Read more »
While the debate over Mac versus PC will last for eternity, one of the elements that many “diehard” PC users have thrown at Apple fanboys is the ability to really tweak their experience, through application add-ons and plugins. Mac users who use Firefox have had a […] Read more »
[qi:_earth2tech] Car 2.0 — the era in which vehicles are connected to both communication networks and the power grid — is here. The evolution started years ago, led by the now mainstream practice of using GPS navigation systems in cars, and is moving to include plug-in […] Read more »
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By 2015, there will be over 1 million electric vehicle (EV) charging installations in the U.S. and utilities will spend millions to accommodate them and an influx of EVs, according to the latest GigaOM Pro and Pike Research report, “IT and Networking Issues for the Electric […] Read more »
As a rule, neither utilities nor automotive standards groups tend to win many points for speed. We’ve written before about automakers and utilities ratcheting up efforts to hash out standards for how plug-in vehicles will interact with the grid. So far they’ve stopped short of forming […] Read more »
A few decades ago, it seemed like a good idea to install mobile phones into vehicles. But as mobile devices advanced, car phones soon became about as cool and essential as an 8-inch floppy disk is for today’s computer users (read: not very). Having jumped onto […] Read more »
Updated with clarification from Schurr: If nothing else, many players in the plug-in vehicle ecosystem — entrepreneurs, EV enthusiasts, lawmakers, automakers, utilities and others — can agree that electric cars won’t go anywhere close to mainstream without a reliable way to recharge the batteries. As IBM’s […] Read more »
Coulomb Technologies, a car-charging startup based in Campbell, Calif., took its first step into a wider electric car market today with its establishment of a Berlin office aimed at serving the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) markets. The European operation, called 365 Energy Group, is […] Read more »
Earlier this year, the nonprofit policy group Next 10 released a report on how energy efficiency and clean technology has provided stimulus for California’s economy — lending a fresh set of data to back up something we’ve noted more than once: The U.S. might do well […] Read more »
Veoh is mounting its pitch to be a video discovery tool for the web with the release today of its Veoh Video Compass, a plug-in that surfaces relevant videos as users navigate other web sites. What’s interesting is how radically different offering this tool is from […] Read more »
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When it comes to web site development IDEs, Coda is one of the “must have” Mac applications. The premise is simple: one application that handles all aspects of site development and promotion: editing browser code, cleaning up schemas and tables, wielding CSS, managing versioning and promoting […] Read more »
The office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said today that it has received 19 responses to its request for information to electrify the city’s fleet. The responders include electric car players, like Better Place and ZAP, huge consultancies, like Booz Allen Hamilton, and a number of unknowns. Read more »
Berlin’s autobahn will be getting a charge from the “e-mobility Berlin” program Daimler AG officially unveiled today. The automaker is working with German utility RWE to put more than 100 electric cars on the city’s roads by 2010. Under terms of the joint venture, Daimler will […] Read more »
Coulomb Technologies just announced a partnership to deploy smart charging stations in the city of San Jose, and already the Campbell, Calif.-based is looking for its next locale. During a demonstration of the startup’s charging system (video embedded below), VP of engineering and software Harjinder Bhade […] Read more »
Ever since battery maker A123 Systems bought plug-in hybrid converter company Hymotion last year, everyone’s been waiting for the time when consumers would be able to get their hands on the conversion kits. This weekend A123 Systems emailed us to let us know that they have […] Read more »
If you ever wondered how Yahoo found itself in a position to be gobbled up by Microsoft, you only need look at its 2008 Yahoo! Video Awards. Didn’t know that Yahoo was even giving out awards for video? Neither did a lot of folks, we presume, […] Read more »
Taking the Fujitsu P1620 for a test drive on the Information Super Highway using the v740 ExpressCard modem on Verizon with the adapter by Novatel to make it work in the PC Card slot. Just testing to make sure there is no speed loss using the […] Read more »
I posted a 5 minute video overview of the HTC Advantage on the jkOnTheRun Readers Group. I posted it there because it only took 5 minutes start to finish so it was either that or not do one at all. There are a few other videos […] Read more »
The citizens of Lafayette, Louisiana vote today to approve the funds needed to build a city-wide fiber optic network for high-speed internet connectivity. The city won a legal challenge by the two private sector companies that serve Lafayette earlier and if the voters choose to approve […] Read more »
Unwired of Sydney is finding lot of success selling its non-line-of-sight fixed wireless service in that city, according to a company press release. “We grabbed 17 percent market share of new broadband users in Sydney,” said David Spence, president and CEO, Unwired. That’s almost 14,000 in […] Read more »
David Sifry explains why he doesn’t want to talk aboutthe funding he received. Sifry is being modest and I like the reasons he gives, and respect him for that. “Making a big deal about VC investments is unnecessary, it seems to me. One of the biggest […] Read more »
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