First comes infrastructure, then come the cars. That was the logic behind San Francisco’s deal with vehicle-charging network startup Better Place, and today General Motors said that it’s working with that city’s utility regulators, major employers, universities and politicians to develop policies and “enablers” (likely including […] Read more »
San Francisco — home of an ambitious solar incentive program, a Tesla-driving mayor who blogs against “drill baby drill,” and soon, electric vehicle infrastructure by Better Place — faces a staggering budget deficit for next year. Mayor Gavin Newsom revealed a plan for $71 million in […] Read more »
Quantenna Communications is due to announce three chipsets on Tuesday that boost Wi-Fi signals with a small footprint. Read more »
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San Jose City Council Approves Tesla Plant: The San Jose City Council unanimously voted to approve Tesla Motors’ new electric car manufacturing plant. The Council also approved a number of green building policies including energy efficiency and sustainable materials regulations – San Jose Mercury News. UK […] 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 »
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed have been battling it out to make their neighboring cities greener than the other’s — every week it seems the Mayors have a new announcement of how they have added green jobs and coaxed a […] Read more »
Today an employee of the San Francisco Department of Technology awaits his arraignment while information technology workers try valiantly to gain access to the new network of computers that keep the city humming. Terry Childs, a disgruntled city employee gave himself sole access to the city’s […] Read more »
Today‘s the first day that San Francisco residents can start applying for those thousands of dollars in rebates for their rooftop solar systems through one of the country’s most aggressive municipal solar programs. Residents can apply for the incentives of between $3,000 and $6,000 and businesses […] Read more »
When talking mobile platforms, we tend to consider Symbian a separate platform along the lines of Palm, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and iPhone. Now it’s official: Nokia, already a stakeholder in mobile OS maker Symbian, has announced that it will buy the remainder of the company and […] Read more »
San Francisco is poised to greatly boost its number of solar rooftops pending one final full meeting of the Board of Supervisors this afternoon (full schedule available here). We’ve been following the city’s proposed solar incentive rebate program for some time now (catch up here, here […] Read more »
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Leave it to San Francisco to decide that the city is not only going to recycle grease from its restaurants to be used for biodiesel, but that the city will build its own grease-to-biodiesel plant. On Friday San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said that the city […] Read more »
SMS text messages are the unsung heroes of messaging; this low-fi 140-character medium has for years kept us connected to each other and is fasting becoming one of the key enablers for ubiquitous computing and the personal infrastructure of the web worker. kwiry is the latest […] Read more »
This blog has covered alternative word processors before, and both writers and readers tend to agree that Google Docs and Zoho Writer are good choices. I have a few other alternative word processors that I favor, though. In this post, I’ll cover four that are worth […] Read more »
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is in talks with electric vehicle startup Project Better Place about building the infrastructure for a fleet of plug-in cars in the city, including parking meter charging stations and battery replacement stations. Newsom traveled to Israel last week to meet with […] Read more »
Norway-based Protectoria is the latest company to offer a solution for making email more secure. Like most schemes that don’t depend on encryption, Protectoria’s takes email out of the regular email server flow entirely. Instead, you upload your message (via secure connection) to Protectoria’s servers, and […] Read more »
It is still not clear what is going to happen to Xohm, Sprint’s planned WiMAX service. Will it be put on ice, or will it become part of a new company with backing from Silicon Valley giants like Intel? One thing is becoming increasingly clear: Unlike […] Read more »
So what exactly does that MSN Direct download bring to your Windows Mobile device? In this under-seven-minute video I give you a quick walkthrough using my Dash; a Windows Mobile 6 device. There’s a few opportunities for improvement in the application, but if you want basic […] Read more »
You might have noticed that James was absent from our little on-line community yesterday. Per his request, I wanted to share a little information on the reason why. I’m keeping it very general for now, mainly because I have limited information myself.On Sunday night James was […] Read more »
Another take on the VIA Nanobook reference design appears to be coming from Stone Computers in the U.K. PC Advisor has a first look at the device that costs 350 pounds, which converts over to around $651 U.S. dollars. It’s the same reference design we’ve seen […] Read more »
People the world over are anxiously awaiting every update on Marc Orchant’s condition and this is the latest posted by Michael Sampson in a comment here. Thursday December 6, 3.45pm PacificI called the hospital for an update, and spoke with Ed, Marc’s brotherfrom the East Coast. […] Read more »
Three of the UK’s biggest broadcasters, BBC, C4 and ITV, are banding together to create an online on demand entertainment service. The joint service, which has been given the working title “Kangaroo,” will offer more than ten thousand hours of the three broadcasters’ current and past […] Read more »
Watch Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing right now. You will laugh. Out loud. Repeatedly. Usually spoofy infomercials are hacky and barely bring out a chuckle. But the combination of Gabe & Max’s wooden delivery, choppy editing and wonderfully moronic word choices (replete with Gabe’s constant gum-smacking) […] Read more »
For a movie being billed as the first user-generated feature film, “users” have little to do with the production of Faintheart. The lead roles will be played by professional actors, while the script was already written and was first developed by the independent production company Slingshot […] Read more »
Quantics Partners with CinemaNow for PC-to-TV Streaming; customers of the video download service will be able to wirelessly stream content to TVs without buffering. (release) “Will it Blend?” Moves Product; charming viral videos spur fivefold increase in blender sales for Blendtec. (Information Week) The Podcast Network […] Read more »
There might have been a good reason, at some point, for Apple to try selling QuickTime Pro. Not that I can remember such a time. While Apple forges new ground constantly in the digital media arena with innovative hardware and software such as the iPhone, iPod, […] Read more »
It’s been covered here on TAB before, but not enough praise can be given to my text editor of choice, TextMate, which garners much appeal for its built-in extensibility thanks to Ruby. With that flexibility, though, comes a small feeling of overwhelming panic, like being five […] Read more »
If you sat through the too-long, too-boring narcissist display of Hollywood’s utter lack of creative imagination this past Sunday, aka the Oscars 2007, you know there is no way you want to watch the self congratulatory drivel ever again. All you want to do is watch […] Read more »
Nero announced the availability of their new mobile device media player, Nero ShowTime Mobile, and it looks to be a promising cross-platform player. NSM will be available for the Windows Mobile, Pocket PC and Symbian platforms. The coolest innovation in the player is the support for […] Read more »
Russell, cuts to the chase and carves up the recent conversation between Charlie Rose Bill Joy, John Doerr and a bunch of others to pieces. His analysis, different from the gushings of others, proves my point: SIlicon Valley lives in a bubble of its own creation, […] Read more »
My former boss at Forbes.com David Churbuck as joined the blog world, with his new offering, D.C. Churbuck Reports. As a former reporter – 13 years at Forbes, four at PC Week, four at daily newspapers, he still has the writing bug, and boy it is […] Read more »
Andy writes: I could spend all day at VoN and get nothing done while at the same time get so much accomplished. It”s the kind of show where one meeting leads into another, some unexpected and others necessary…. how many of these companies won’t be here […] Read more »
Brad Templeton, one of the first few dotcommers has created a wireless VoIP Phone Booth at Burning Man and nearly 1600 calls were made. The Black Rock Desert is where the rocket cars broke the sound barrier. It’s a perfectly flat dry lakebed, the location miles […] Read more »
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