Will the world’s oceans someday be filled with robots monitoring ports, searching for new oil and gas reserves and tracking endangered marine life? A company called Liquid Robotics, which makes a wave-powered marine robot, took one step closer to world domination and announced on Tuesday that it’s raised its first round of institutional funding —...
This past January, we first wrote about Founders Den, a new shared office space based in the SoMa district of San Francisco. The idea was to create a private clubhouse where invited entrepreneurs (including California’s Lieutenant Governor, Gavin Newsom) could come to hang out and small, referred startups could rent space. Today, the don’t-call-it-an-incubator incubator had its...
After a huge keynote yesterday, Apple has shifted the focus to its third-party developers at the Apple Design Awards for 2011. Once again both iOS and Mac apps are eligible to enter, a reversal of 2010′s decision to exclude the Mac from the ADAs. This years winners will get a pretty sweet bundle: a...
According to a study conducted by international research firm ComScore, display advertising on mobile devices in the U.S. has more than doubled in the last two years. Hans Fredericks, comScore vice president, attributes the surge of mobile ad consumption to the wide adoption of smartphones, 3G/4G networks and unlimited data plans. This allows advertisers to find alternative...
appMobi likes HTML5-based mobile games, and it wants you to like them, too, which is why appMobi is focused on giving developers the tools required to make HTML5 and JavaScript mobile applications that run smoothly across platforms and browsers. Of course, many loudly pronounced HTML5 the new heir to the throne, as it would...
Low power server maker SeaMicro has raised another $20 million in funding, according to a filing. A SeaMicro spokesperson tells me that the company has now raised $60 million total from venture capitalists and strategic partners, and the company will use the funds to “continue to support our rapid growth, add engineers and engineering...
For users of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, there was much to be excited about in yesterday’s keynote unveiling iOS 5, the next version of the OS for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Deeper Twitter integration, wireless syncing across devices, and the ability to untether your iOS devices from the desktop have rightly got...
Apple outlined several new features that will arrive with iOS 5 later this fall on Monday, addressing some of my own issues with the platform. There are a number of similarities to functions from other mobile operating systems, but that shouldn’t surprise, based on this Steve Jobs quote from 1997′s Apple developer event: “If...
Since 1965, hard-core Grateful Dead fans have been camping out in America’s open fields and fairgrounds with their fellow Deadheads in communal, hippy paradises. Now, San Francisco startup Tripping is helping the band add community-service projects and communal liter removal to the jam sessions and other, ahem, festivities. The peer-to-peer travel site, which connects worldwide travelers...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. Today Microsoft announced the Windpws Thin PC (WinTPC) thin client...