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Panasonic Adds A Twitter App To Its Viera Cast Plasma HDTVS
Written on 17 Aug, 2010 at 7:51 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
You can’t escape Twitter anymore. It’s everywhere including in some of Panasonic’s Viera Cast Plasma TVs and eventually, in a few Panasonic Blu-ray players as well. It’s just the latest app available in the already-loaded Viera Cast IPTV offering... (Continue reading)
PogoPlug drops the cable, and the price
Written on 17 Aug, 2010 at 7:50 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
I’m a big fan of PogoPlug devices. ... (Continue reading)
Profitably raises funding to cull data for small businesses
Written on 2 Aug, 2010 at 18:18 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
New York startup Profitably recently closed a $300,000 round of funding with a group of New York investors. The company offers an online software application that analyzes data from Quickbooks, a small business accounting package sold by Intuit. ... (Continue reading)
Sharp, Enel, STMicro team up to breathe new life into thin-film solar
Written on 2 Aug, 2010 at 18:18 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
The future hasn’t been looking too bright for thin-film solar companies lately. Persistent high costs and low energy efficiencies have stymied a technology that was once meant to trump traditional crystalline solar panels. Since the 2008 gold rush that... (Continue reading)
Intel and General Electric form healthcare tech joint venture
Written on 2 Aug, 2010 at 18:18 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Building on a previous alliance, General Electric and Intel have created a formal joint venture to develop healthcare technologies aimed at making life easier for chronically ill patients. The new venture will be headed by Louis Burns (above), chief... (Continue reading)
Panasonic Wants You To Take Pictures In 3D
Written on 28 Jul, 2010 at 4:16 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
Along with the other announcement Panasonic made today , they also told us about a new lens for their LUMIX G camera. You’ll remember that the LUMIX G is their micro 4/3 line, of which we reviewed the G10... (Continue reading)
KXEN brings in $8M for predictive analytics
Written on 16 Jun, 2010 at 23:21 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
KXEN , a software company that provides tools for automated data mining, has closed $8 million in a fourth round of funding. ... (Continue reading)
LA Times and other big publications sign-in to Janrain’s authentication service
A growing number of publishers want to connect with their readers’ social network accounts, according to a startup called Janrain . The Portland, Ore. company just announced some major media companies as new customers for its product Engage, which... (Continue reading)
CNET founder claims $125M in assets as debtors close in
Written on 14 Jun, 2010 at 17:47 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Halsey Minor, who founded CNET, helped fund Salesforce.com, and made millions of dollars during the dotcom boom, tried to parlay that success into an old-money lifestyle: A mansion in the style of Versailles. A multimillion-dollar fine art collection. Thoroughbred... (Continue reading)
Afghanistan’s lithium Eureka: A big win for China or another Bolivia?
Written on 14 Jun, 2010 at 17:47 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Since reports emerged this weekend that Afghanistan is home to a massive deposit of useful minerals , namely lithium, the green news complex has been buzzing about which superpowers will try to dominate it, and how it might be... (Continue reading)