Does a solar electric system add to the sales value of a home? The Berkeley Lawrence National Laboratory decided to answer this question, and the result is a report being issued Thursday that showed that, indeed, solar homes command higher prices. Read more »
If you want to hit 2010 running, you may well be planning to update your portfolio over the next month or so. It can be tempting to just gather together all the projects you’ve done recently and drop them into your portfolio alongside everything else, but […] Read more »
Updated: Apple has developed a reputation for sleek, hip and user-friendly computers and electronics. Now, Veranda Solar, a startup based in Portland, Ore. and Oakland, Calif., developing small, easy-to-install solar-power systems, says it wants to become the Apple of consumer solar products. (Updated to reflect that […] Read more »
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While analysts are warning the residential solar market will get hit by the credit crisis, First Solar said today it will invest $25 million into residential solar installer SolarCity and supply it with 100 megawatts of it thin-film solar modules. Read more »
Residential solar installer SolarCity is looking to differentiate itself from the herd of other installers serving homeowners in the West with its SolarGuard 2.0, an upgrade to its online monitoring service, and Canopy, a new panel mounting system. The Foster City, Calif.-based startup showed off the […] Read more »
It takes more than 70 pages of tedious paperwork to get a residential solar system connected to the grid and properly rebated, residential solar installer Sungevity estimates. The Berkeley, Calif.-based startup is launching a campaign today to end this wasteful paper trail by asking the Public […] Read more »
Commercial and residential solar installer Standard Solar has raised $8.5 million in second-round funding, the company said yesterday. The Gaithersburg, Md.-based startup currently operates in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C., but plans to use this funding to expand throughout the mid-Atlantic region over the next two […] Read more »
The solar supply chain is seeing capital flow all the way down to companies involved in putting panels on your rooftop. Today SunRun, a residential solar financier, raised $12 million in financing from venture firm Foundation Capital. As a “solar financier,” San Francisco-based SunRun sets up […] Read more »
Cisco predicts that traffic on the world’s networks will increase 46 percent from 2007 to 2012, nearly doubling every two years. Given the rise in usage by new economies around the world, it’s a forecast that makes sense. Continue Reading. Read more »
The Mac is storied for its ability to handle video, and many web workers are increasingly involved with video editing, using video for marketing purposes, and more. If you’re a Mac user who meets the profile, you probably already own some good video editing and production […] Read more »
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How do you convince home-owners to pay you to install solar panels on their roof tops? Even though solar is one of the biggest buzz words this year, it’s still tough. While we often discuss the market dynamics of silicon supplies, panel manufacturing and installation costs, […] Read more »
Web Worker Daily readers are likely familiar with GrandCentral, a service that gives you a single phone number that can ring multiple phones including your office, cellular phone, and home number simultaneously. However, if you’ve ever thought it would be nice to read your voicemails either […] Read more »
Rarely does the tech world see companies who resemble Timex watches in their ability to take a patent lickin’ and keep on tickin’. But the U.S. headquarters of Buffalo Inc. is one such entity. Read more »
In a recent post on the company blog, Nanosolar CEO Martin Roscheisen hinted at “near-term” plans for residential solar from the thin-film startup (hat tip to CNET): To all those of you who are disappointed that our first product is not for residential homeowners, we can […] Read more »
There are a lot of sites that offer the ability to manage some part of your working life on the web – we’ve reviewed plenty of them in the past. Todoz is one that stands out from the pack as offering a different mix of features […] Read more »
AMD has unleashed a line of desktop chips at a time when PC sales are slowing and even Intel is experiencing tighter margins (although, that’s because of memory prices). No matter how good AMD’s offerings are, it’s going to be hard for the company to gain […] Read more »
NYTimes: Social Networking Moves to the Cell Phone ArsTechnica: AOL’s OpenAIM SDK Requires Apps to Include Ads DataCenterKnowledge: Crunch Time: Wall Street May Buy Not Build Reuters: EU Set to Clear DoubleClick/Google Merger: Sources AdWeek: Make Room for Paid Search Multichannel News: Cox to Launch TiVo […] Read more »
One of the benefits of being someone who gets to use a lot of different mobile devices is the conversations these devices start with those interested everywhere I go. Whether I am in a coffee shop or a business meeting pulling out one of my mobile […] Read more »
Ok, the wave of hysteria should now be subsiding over the MacBook Air. Everyone who hasn’t already done so, please take your seats so we can move on. Thanks. Let’s now get past the on-stage presentation of the device and look a little closer. I see […] Read more »
We know how serious Apple protects their upcoming releases and have always been aggressive in going after those who divulge what they feel is too much information about unannounced products. Earlier this year they sued the long-running Apple rumor site Think Secret for divulging such advance […] Read more »
Thanks to the hard-working folks at Engadget we have advance notice on two digital video products waiting in the wings from Apple and Microsoft. iTunes Rentals: Apple has coded in movie rentals to the iTunes Store, according to a screenshot uploaded by a Mac developer that […] Read more »
If you like being so far out on the bleeding edge such that using a newly released beta isn’t high risk enough for you, the Web geniuses behind Apple’s Safari program offer nightly builds of the WebKit engine that acts as the underlying foundation for Safari, […] Read more »
It was only a matter of time before the brand wars broke out between mobile carriers and handset makers. Vodafone wants its logo on the phone, Nokia wants it. Interesting battle brewing between the two, and my feeling is that the carriers completely win. They can […] Read more »
A diehard Apple fan, that I am, it pains me to write what I am going to write. The new Apple IBook with its brilliant $999 price, and all the cool features pales in comparison with Averatec 3250for the same price point. For a Windows XP […] Read more »
Cisco slowly and slowly is increasing its lead in the Enterprise Voice over IP (VoIP) market, with a 31.8 percent share of total dollars in the second calendar quarter 2004, according to Synergy. The report also stated that Cisco passed Alcatel to become the world’s fourth-largest […] Read more »
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