A number of new data markets have emerged in the past few years that provide access to data for decision making. It’s early days, however, with plenty of kinks to work out on both the technology side and with business models. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
China is either the greatest opportunity or the greatest threat the U.S. green technology industry has ever faced — or, according to Chinese greentech experts at Wednesday’s Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, somewhere in between. Read more »
Data marketplaces add value when they combine facts drawn from different data sets. However, as new products are created to accomplish this, the relationship between suppliers, the original data and those who download or buy it changes, with trust becoming a critical part of that relationship. Read more »
The World Bank, which tracks everything from mortality rates to livestock production in hundreds of countries around the globe, said today it is opening up its data, including removing all of the pay walls around data that used to require a subscription fee to download. Read more »
Could more exposure to Baywatch be a good thing for people of developing countries? Well, Baywatch, might be a bad example, but during his presentation at the National Association of Television Programming Executives Conference in Las Vegas this week, World Bank Sr. Economist Charles Kenny laid […] Read more »
Almost a decade after launching the world’s first carbon fund, the World Bank said it has learned a series of lessons about the regulation, oversight and scaling process of the carbon funds and greenhouse reduction projects that it has overseen. The World Bank, which spoke about […] Read more »
The World Bank, which is providing billions of dollars for clean power and energy efficiency projects in developing countries, plans to fund its first smart grid project in Turkey, according to the World Bank’s vice president for Sustainable Development, Kathy Sierra. Sierra made the comments Tuesday […] Read more »
The biofuel industry couldn’t catch a break, even over the three-day summer weekend. The BBQ-chatter fodder? An article in the Guardian citing a “leaked” World Bank report that says biofuels have driven up the price of food by 75 percent. That’s an absolutely massive number compared […] Read more »
If you’re involved with a blog or an online site and care about its design and interface, there are a number of free tools you can turn to for experimenting with various versions, until you arrive at a design you like. In this post, I’ll cover […] Read more »
Here we thought the long-ago mentioned NetFront Browser by Access was a dead soldier; not by a long shot! Evidence exhibit A: the NetFront Browser v3.4 for Windows Mobile is readily available in a free technical preview for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices. Keep in […] Read more »
U.S. television networks will generate $120 million from online advertising shown on streamed episodes in 2007, according to a major media buyer executive. Tracey Scheppach, senior vice-president and video innovation director for Starcom, told the Financial Times that number was based on extrapolating her company’s purchases […] Read more »
I had the first chance to use my new Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser microphone in anger for the first time the other day when recording piano and voice for a short film proposal. Appearances matter, and the rigid shrink wrap style of blister packaging the […] Read more »