First, the news: Tessera/Stirling sold its 850-megawatt Calico project to a small developer named K Road Power. For the full press release, see here. Just a couple months ago, it seemed that things were going well at Tessera Solar / Stirling Energy Systems (SES). Back in October, Calico was the fifth large-scale solar plant to [...]
It’s been a big year for greentech and renewable energy and a big year for Greentech Media. Even The Simpsons allow themselves the luxury of a clip show every so often, so we’re going to indulge ourselves on this day before the last day of the year. Here are some of the lists we’ve compiled [...]
Editor’s Note: We originally wrote this article in Fortune. The green tech industry will fondly remember 2010 as The Year After the Near Death Experience. So what happens next? Things We’d Like to See Happen in Green Technology: –The U.S. Establishes Long-Term Energy Policies. Investors, utilities, manufacturers, landlords and consumers all need long-term guidance. A [...]
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A viral video telling the story of Jesus’ birth to a new generation has resulted in a huge blessing for the small Portuguese ad agency that created it. Excentric, a 50-person shop based in Lisbon, is the creator of The Digital Story of Nativity, a 3-minute film that retells the the birth of Christ via [...]
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Sean Gorman is the president and founder of FortiusOne, which brings data and mapping solutions to the mass market through its location analysis software. With FortiusOne’s GeoIQ platform, geo-enabled data is easily shared, visualized and analyzed for more collaborative and better-informed decisions. The web will continue to generate data at an explosive rate. It will [...]
Amazon has rolled out its long-awaited lending feature for its Kindle ecosystem of devices and apps. Users can loan out supported titles once for a period of 14 days. Very similar in execution to the LendMe feature built in to the competing Barnes Noble Nook platform, borrowers can access books from the Kindle apps for [...]
Jacob Gube is the founder/chief editor of Six Revisions, a popular web development and design site, and the deputy editor of Design Instruct, a web magazine for designers. He has more than seven years of experience as a professional web developer and has written a book on JavaScript. Connect with him via Twitter. There’s never [...]
According to the People’s Daily, the official publication of China’s Communist party, SkypeSkype and all other InternetInternet-based calling services — apart from state-owned China Unicom and China Telecom — are now illegal. If true, Skype would be the latest in a long list of Western-based Internet services to be banned in China, a list that [...]
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Sharing widget-maker AddThis released 2010’s top 10 most shared webpages on Thursday. The list was compiled from AddThis widgets installed on more than 7 million sites, and pages on it were shared between 192,400 and 428,761 times. Six of the 10 most-shared web pages were prominently videos or photos, but only three news stories made [...]
Every year, I am impacted (generally for good!) by countless people. Some stand out in particular, however; and as I reflect back on 2010, my year-end post will be about a few of those very real people in my network who have inspired, connected, helped, and collaborated in remarkable ways this year. This spring, I [...]
Since everyone’s making their top ten lists of the year, I thought I’d make my own top ten iPhone Apps of 2010 list, so here goes: 1) Facebook – I couldn’t live without the Facebook application installed on my iPhone 2) Viber – the application which enables me to make free calls to other Viber [...]
Guest post by Major Hayden. This situation might not affect everyone, but it struck me today and left me scratching my head. Consider a situation where you need to clone one drive to another with dd or when a hard drive is failing badly and you use dd_rescue to salvage whatever data you can. Let’s [...]
This post is part of our ReadWriteEnterprise channel, which is a resource and guide for IT managers and technologists in the Enterprise. As you’re exploring solutions for your enterprise, check out this helpful ReadWriteWeb report provided for FREE courtesy of HP: The Age of Exabytes As 2010 draws to a close we’re taking a look [...]
A lot went down in 2010, from earthquakes to oil spills to worldwide sporting events, elections, blockbuster films, ups, downs and everything in between. We’ve put together a collection of 10 compilation videos that will help you relive the past twelve months and get ready to say goodbye to 2010 and ring in the New [...]
The great thing about year end is that you can take stock of what happened in the previous 12 months, and look at ways to avoid mistakes and build on successes. This is true for pretty much anything you do – your personal life, your job, your business, your blog, your dreams. Anything. I know [...]
Redsnow 0.9.7 has just been updated and it now eliminates the need of externally running usbmuxd process which plagued many Mac OS X users. Everything else remains the same. The official change log is as follows: Starting with this version, redsn0w no longer requires you to install and run a separate program for the usbmux [...]
This year has been an interesting year within the search and social media industries. The pace of change has accelerated and the two worlds are merging. I have blogging about the key changes in the industry over 2010 and here are the top blog posts for 2010: I’m Sick of Social Media Rock Stars Yorkshire [...]
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Did you know we received the word robot from the Czech word “robotnik” meaning slave? The word is fitting for the machines we’ve asked to endlessly compute algorithms for us and clean our floors. But exactly what a robot is has evolved from the days when robots were largely factory drudges. These days, robots can [...]
(click image for larger view)California state agencies are choosing to migrate users to Microsoft-hosted email over a state-hosted system by about a 2-1 ratio. Fully 98% of agencies in the state have decided which system to use to in a planned agency-wide migration, with agencies committing 105,584 mailboxes to California Email Services (CES), a hosted [...]
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This past holiday weekend, after dinner plates were cleared away, the leftovers were safely stashed in the fridge and warm slices of pie began to circulate around the living room, the conversation slowly shifted to the inevitable: our resolutions for the coming year. But this year, as I began gathering my thoughts and thinking about [...]
Wine Enthusiast Guide Cor.kz If you’re hosting a New Year’s Eve celebration, this week’s App Smart column will help bring some creativity to your bartending duties. But if you just want to wow your guests with great wines without draining your bank account, you need Cor.kz ($4) and the Wine Enthusiast Guide ($5). Neither are [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! An Acer Netbook is a laptop computer that’s especially designed to be portable and easy to use. The Acer Group creates the brands Acer, eMachines, Packard Bell and Gateway, and is the 3rd largest PC company, as well as [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! How close to falling and getting closer to the season too busy with important are not naturally a big push for pills? C and Samsung Galaxy Tab plans as part of the celebrations. Packaging equipment similar to his baby [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Short days and long cold Christmas becoming. If you are willing to escape the cold UK for Christmas and the holiday in some countries of the Far East, according to the sun and enjoy Christmas Holidays the most, here [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! The demand for tablet devices has recently boomed following the release of Apples iPad, however there are very few models actually available. Although many more models are in the pipeline, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab look well equipped to [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! One of the first class points to give designer and modish feel to your Acer netbook or Asus Eee PC is that you have to go for Dell mini notebook skins, as well as laptop skins which absolutely come [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! If you have seen the Samsung Galaxy Tab on commercials, expos, or briefly on the internet, you must be aware of features tablets are expected to have. However, there are more features that this tablet comes with. You are [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! It’s almost a custom these days to wish ‘Merry Christmas’ with Christmas gifts. The current tradition of giving gifts on Christmas came into popular practice following the Three Wise Men’s (Magi) gifts to baby Jesus. Gift-giving during Christmas is [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Toshiba laptops are known for being great quality devices at cost effective prices. Toshiba, founded in 1875, has carved a niche for itself by steadfastly believing in the idea “Committed to People, Committed to Future”. Toshiba presents a range [...]
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! According to media reports, IT market began to boom off tablet PC since Apple iPad has been listed. Many hardware manufacturers have said that they will release Tablet PC in the near future. Cool Google Android Tablet PC Currently, [...]
That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is shut down here to be sold for scrap. In the last weeks, dozens of visitors and thousands of overnight packages have raced here, transforming this small prairie-bound city not far from [...]
The good news is that picture quality has improved radically in the last five years, even as prices have plummeted. The bad news: there are a bewildering number of specifications and features to consider. Many of them will matter only to hard-core videophiles, but some are critical to everyone. One of the basic features is [...]
From a spacious office and workroom on the 10th floor of Columbia’s Schapiro Center in Morningside Heights, Mr. Grinspun and his team of graduate students have helped scientists from Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, Weta Digital and Adobe Systems solve their toughest C.G.I. problems, whether recreating the dab of a bristled paintbrush or getting Rapunzel’s hair [...]
Filed at 10:10 a.m. EST BEIJING (AP) — China is going after Internet phone services such as Skype in a move to protect the country’s state-owned telephone companies, causing alarm among consumers who rely on cheap Internet calls. A notice by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on its website this month says it’s [...]
nickbilton.tumblr.com To tumble or not to tumble, that is the question. Well, it’s a question I hear often from friends and people in the tech world: “Do you use Tumblr?” My response is usually the same. I explain that “I try to use Tumblr — that I want to use it — I just can’t [...]
On Thursday, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the cinematic identical twins who claim to have come up with the original idea for Facebook, almost gave up their quest to undo their settlement with the company, as I reported in Friday’s paper. It’s not hard to understand their indecision. They are sitting on a deal whose value [...]
FarmVille, Zynga’s online game. For technology start-ups, the initial public offering has long lost the sheen of the dot-com era, when it seemed like anyone with an idea could go public. At the peak of the bubble, the Silicon Valley factory was in overdrive, pumping out hundreds of I.P.O.’s. a year. In the wake of [...]
Tim Boyle/Bloomberg NewsGroupon employees working at the company’s headquarters in Chicago. The 30-year-old founder and chief executive of Groupon, Andrew Mason, could raise as much as $950 million from investors in the next few weeks, laying the groundwork for a multibillion-dollar initial public offering in 2011. The social buying site, which offers coupons for local [...]
Efficiency is paramount at Kura: absent are the traditional sushi chefs and their painstaking attention to detail. In their place are sushi-making robots and an emphasis on efficiency. Absent, too, are flocks of waiters. They have been largely replaced by conveyors belts that carry sushi to diners and remote managers who monitor Kura’s 262 restaurants [...]
The Winklevosses — identical twins and Harvard graduates — say that they, along with another Harvard student, Divya Narendra, had the original idea for Facebook, and that Mark Zuckerberg stole it. They sued Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg in 2004, and settled four years later for $20 million in cash and $45 million in Facebook shares. [...]
It was only days ago that we wrote that after nearly a year of delays, the first WakeMate units were finally shipping to customers. And now there’s some more bad news — really bad. Some of the initial units are apparently bursting into flames because of any issue with the USB charger included. Repeat: Do [...]
