Vehicle-to-grid technology — using parked electric vehicles as grid batteries — could help stabilize the grid, while offering electric vehicle owners a profit stream to help cover plug-in cars’ extra costs. But tapping into plug-in batteries also presents a host of technical, regulatory and warranty-related challenges that have kept the V2G idea strictly one...
Now that Microsoft has shipped a number of WP7 devices running the Mango update out for review (read TNW’s here), we can run benchmark tests on the handsets to see where they stack up against what other companies are building. Perhaps most intriguing about Mango is its new browser, a variant of Internet Explorer...
A research team at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has come up with a new optical amplifier that can help boost the efficiency of backhaul optical networks, a move that could have a big impact on the overall economics of bandwidth. As light waves (carrying data) travel through fiber, they tend to...
Oracle has just announced a new acquisition today—web experience management company Fatwire Software. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close mid-2011, were not disclosed. Fatwire Software’s web content and experience management software powers web presence for organizations, allowing them to deliver relevant customer content, build community engagement and drive site stickiness...
Travel search startup Hipmunk is bringing its super-slick user interface (UI)– and arguably the startup world’s cutest mascot– to the iPad. The San Francisco-based company has announced the launch of its custom iPad app, which will be available as a free download in the iTunes store starting Tuesday. The iPad app launch is accompanied...
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Apple has today announced the release of its popular video-editing tool Final Cut Pro X, launching on the Mac App Store today with a $299.99/£179.99 price tag. The latest version of the software has been completely overhauled and specifically tailored for the 64-bit architecture of the latest MacBook and iMac computers, allowing users to...
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The three people following my posts might be aware that yesterday I wrote about an awesome startup called CityPockets that offers users a wallet for all their daily deals — as well as a secondary marketplace to resell deals they won’t use. Well, today DealsGoRound, one of the first secondary daily deals markets, announced...
Android’s share of the smartphone market fell for the first time in a long time in the U.S. for the March quarter according to Needham analyst Charlie Wolf, via Fortune. The drop is attributed to the Verizon iPhone, and Wolf says, “this is just the beginning of Android’s share loss in the U.S.” He...