Tesla unveiled its third electric car the Model X, an electric SUV/minivan hybrid, during a sneak preview at its design studio in Hawthorne, California on Thursday. We took GigaOM TV’s Green Overdrive show down to the event and got this first hands-on video with the car and an interview with Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk....
Daily Archives: February 9, 2012
The first photos of Tesla’s electric SUV the Model X
Elon Musk explaining falcon wings At a sneak preview in Hawthorne, Calif. on Thursday, electric car maker Tesla unveiled its third car, an all-electric SUV, minivan hybrid called the Model X, for the first time. And yep, true to the rampant speculation on the Interwebs, it’s got so-called “falcon wing” doors, which are a...
Here’s How Microsoft Could Sell Lots Of ARM Tablets To Big Companies (MSFT)
See Also THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Nokia Says There Is No “Plan B,” It’s All About Windows Phone Great New Screenshots Of Windows 8 And Office 15 On Tablets THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Pre-Orders For The Nokia Lumia 900 Have Begun Enterprises might get a break on Windows 8 devices with Office 15 — if they...
More than 90% of tweets from Twitter staff are sent via Twitter-owned channels
There are countless ways by which we can tweet today, thanks to all manner of desktop, Web-based, mobile and third party apps that make it easy to stay in touch wherever we are and whatever we do. Twitter has since clamped down on third party apps, but you can peruse the Internet for a...
Daily Wrap: Google Drive Will Be Different and more
Fabled Google Drive Won’t Be Another Dropbox Google’s long rumored cloud file storage, Drive, doesn’t have to be a direct competitor to Dropbox or iCloud. Jon Mitchell discusses how Google Docs is already a file sharing service for some, how Google Search Plus Your World affects the ecosystem and how Drive can set itself...
Facebook Starts Turning Listen, Read, and Watch Stories Into Ads
When you listen, read, or watch through a Facebook Open Graph app, a few of your friends hear about through the news feed, Ticker, or Timeline. Starting this week, Facebook is allowing advertisers to pay for more exposure of listen, read, or watch stories that mention them by turning the stories into a new form...
Columbia’s DevFest 2012 Showcases Student Hacks, New York Talent
The culture of hacking continues to bloom in New York, evidenced last weekend by Columbia’s DevFest 2012. DevFest is entirely student run, and had workshops and support from local VC firms and startups. The event culminated with presentations of hacks and awards judged by Fred Wilson (USV), Chris Wiggins (HackNY), Dave Jagoda (Andreeson Horowitz),...
Say what? Google is going to do hardware? LOL!
Google is making an Android-powered entertainment system and will design and sell it under its own brand, according to the Wall Street Journal. This is somewhat like the hit Wifi-enabled music system made by Sonos, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-company. When I read the news, the word that came to mind: Amazing! Amazing — because I...
Pinterest is spamming your Facebook friends’ email with fake connection requests
There’s no doubt that what interest-aggregation site Pinterest has managed over the past few months is spectacular. Recently reaching the milestone of 10 million users, the site has gained traction faster than just about any other site in history. But with that growth comes the responsibility to handle it and the site seems to...
Google and affliction of me-too-ism
Google, if the Wall Street Journal is to believed, is about to launch an online storage service. When I read the news, the first question that ran across my mind was not that they are going to offer the service, but instead could Google be any later to the party? I mean Microsoft, a company...