It’s a sign that energy efficiency, which often takes a backseat to renewable energy or alternative fuels, is getting more attention from technology innovators.
A thermoelectric module, which one company intends to use for harvesting waste heat to make electricity.
The company, which got its seed funding from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is [...]
That extra production should help the shortage, but who knows if it’s enough to handle demand. And while Nintendo claims it is doing everything it can, that’s a little hard to swallow now that the company has had plenty of time to ramp up production. For what it’s worth, other consoles are readily available online, [...]
As for becoming synonimous with the DVR, Rogers said “That’s a blessing and also a curse,” noting that people who have other “contraptions” think they have a TiVo.
Still, Rogers said that television needs to fundamentally transition its ad model to one in which advertising is both more appealing to consumers as well as more measurable. [...]
Freescale will transfer the MRAM technology, related intellectual property, and products to EverSpin Technologies and will retain an equity position in the new venture, the companies said. EverSpin is backed by venture firms New Venture Partners, Sigma Partners, Lux Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Epic Ventures.
As part of the agreement, EverSpin Technologies will take [...]
The keynote, “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure,” is an insightful exploration of Internet economics and an intelligent response to Nick Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” argument.
You can watch it here:
The other problem that Gutenberg introduced into intellectual life was the problem of risk. If you owned a printing press, you could make [...]
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Obama will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety of our networks and will lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief information [...]
Speaking of which, the key differentiation between this and something like Pidgin, Digsby, or Trillian is that you’ll get access to Meebo Rooms and the integrated applications platform, letting you shoot tank shells at your buddy while catching up with them in the text chat.
(Via Lifehacker and Appaholic)
Like Gabtastik,Silver Rings, which does the same thing [...]
Window Snyder, Mozilla’s chief security something-or-other (her official title), is leaving Mozilla, effective the end of the year.
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In an interview earlier this year, Snyder stressed to me how she wants to bring open-source practices to the security community. And her background certainly supports that passion.
Johnathan Nightingale,Pearl Jewelry, Lucas Adamski, Brandon Sterne, [...]
Microsoft had assembled a slate of 10 dissident directors and 2 alternates as part of its proxy slate. All will now be free to join efforts by Yahoo shareholders to assemble a proxy slate of their own.
The move is yet another sign Redmond is putting its contentious Yahoo acquisition efforts in the past, but it’s [...]
Jeremy Wright, global director of mobile brand strategy at Nokia Interactive
“The thing we could well see is, a recession could expedite the shift from traditional spending to digital spending. Once those cuts are made in traditional media, we won’t see those budgets go back,” Wright said.
And overall, there are some categories in which advertisers are [...]
