Updated with additional info from ActaCell: Lithium-ion battery startup ActaCell has just added the state of Texas to its corral of high-profile backers. The state is providing a “pre-seed award” of $250,000 to ActaCell, according to a release from the Austin-based company this morning, and putting […] Read more »
In early 2007, tech luminary Tim O’Reilly published a number of thoughts envisioning a more cohesive and universal ‘address book’ application for the Web 2.0 era…these thoughts were quickly labeled as Address Book 2.0. In the intervening period, we’ve seen companies such as Plaxo and Facebook […] Read more »
Electric car maker Aptera Motors announced late yesterday that it has raised more than $24 million in a Series C round, which it will use to move its three-wheel electric Typ-1 into production. Google.org’s investment in the electric vehicle maker, unveiled earlier this week, is part […] Read more »
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Battery startup ActaCell wasn’t the only recipient of funding from Google.org’s RechargeIT program. Last night at the Plug-In 2008 conference, Google.org’s Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Dan Reicher, announced a $2.75 million investment in green vehicle startup Aptera Motors and ActaCell. (That’s $2.75 million […] Read more »
Last month, Google.org’s director for climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher, told us that Google would be making investments in green cars this summer through it’s plug-in hybrid program, RechargeIT. Well, here it is: Austin-based lithium ion battery start ActaCell said on Tuesday that it […] Read more »
If you’ve got a YouTube account, a camera, and a deep-seated yearning to get behind the wheel of a plug-in hybrid, Google wants to hear about it. Google.org’s RechargeIT program is hosting a contest soliciting videos from wannabe plug-in drivers, as well as testimonials from proud […] Read more »
YuMe Desktop Utility for Ad Tracking; AdMe Campaign Window lets advertisers monitor and optimize online video ad campaigns in real time. (release) Bebo Nabs Goldigga for Sofia; urban apparel company for young women signs on as fashion sponsor for the online series Sofia’s Diary. (New Media […] Read more »
Wouldn’t it be great if you you could keep all of your social networks up to date with whatever you’re blogging, and what’s more, cross post between blogs? At least, that’s the theory behind Six Apart’s new Facebook application, Blog It. Great in theory – but […] Read more »
Hey, you got your mobile phone in my TV! No, you got your TV in my mobile phone! You’re both right. The big wireless CTIA show is happening in Vegas right now, and there’s a ton of mobile video news coming out of it. NBC‘s Chief […] Read more »
Just as we were starting to pick up the oldteevee pieces in the wake of the crippling writers’ strike, the actors guilds have started contract negotiations with Hollywood studios. If they go on strike, what will that mean for web video? Honestly, probably not much. The […] Read more »
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One of the basic tenets of trying to get control of your time and increase your productivity is to figure out how to eliminate those things that grab your attention away from the task at hand and to spot those things that take your time. Merlin […] Read more »
We are on the ground in New York for our special “love stories” edition of the Pier Screenings series. There are just 10 tickets left, so let us know if you want to come. We’ll be chatting, eating popcorn, drinking beer, and watching great online videos […] Read more »
The ultra-portable PC has come of age. The genre started getting serious with the debut of the Sony U series several years ago and has evolved nicely into the OQO Model 02 currently available. It is now possible without question to produce a full-featured PC in […] Read more »
The original Toshiba R500 announcement hinted at an SSD option in the future, and it looks like the future is now. The lightweight 12.1-inch notebook with LED backlit screen is now available with a flash-based drive and not just a skimpy 32 GB unit: Toshiba went […] Read more »
Adobe’s Captivate, the demonstration and training simulation creation software, is moving into the final development stages of it’s third version. I had the privilege of being a beta tester, and I must say that it is really cool. It really is easy (and fun) to create […] Read more »
http://www.youtube.com/v/_j5H2J-P_FE Since all the buzz is about that "other" music phone this week, I figured I’d check out the music features of the Nokia N80ie that I’m using for a few weeks. Most of my music listening is done online: streamed either from the Zune Marketplace, […] Read more »
Rafat Ali asks the question – is there a photo-blogging related buyout in the works? Good question. Jeff Clavier has something here when he narrows down buyers to CNet or Google. Between these two, they have bought a couple of companies related to photo-related services. Google […] Read more »
Bernie Ebbers’ despite claims of no knowledge about minor details of the business called WorldCon had intimate knowledge of the goings-on at his company, according to his testimony. There are some juicy nuggests from today’s proceedings, that come to you via fine folks at Light Reading. […] Read more »
Australians will be using some sort of wireless broadband by 2007. “Wireless access will account for nearly 10 percent of Australian broadband connections within three years, according to Ovum, a research group. Ovum says 298,000 of 3.1 million broadband connections servicing Australian businesses and consumers by […] Read more »
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