A new plan being introduced today by California’s Air Resource Board could cement the state’s status as the national leader in cleantech, with an aggressive goal of generating a third of all electricity from renewables and cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent by 2020, barely over a decade away. Stemming from the state’s [...]
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You may be used to typing in top-level domains (TLDs) like .com, .net or .edu when heading to websites, but the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to change that with a decision to open new TLDs for registration, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.Under the new rule, ICANN would let anyone [...]
Bill Gates reflects on crappy Windows experiences — As the beginning of a farewell series to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the Seattle PI has printed a long, stream-of-consciousness rant by Gates about the frustrations of using a piece of Windows software in 2003. “The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my [...]
Evri, a startup spun out of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s investment firm Vulcan Capital and headed by a long-time software executive from Amazon.com, has an idea for how natural language processing and semantic technology can help people navigate the Internet. And their idea has nothing to do with search. Like all semantic startups, [...]
Data centers suck up a lot of electricity. That’s a point that has been well made in the past few years, with a host of startups offering everything from virtualization to water cooling to help tackle heat issues and high electricity usage. Now Flash memory maker Spansion (NASDAQ: SPSN) and Virident, Bay Area startup, are [...]
Like a new car, a solar system is a big investment. Some home owners can front the $10,000 - $30,000 for the panels and installation, but most need help. SunRun is one of a new breed of companies that’s figuring out ways to set up almost anyone with solar panels, whether or not they have [...]
VentureLoop, a niche job site catering to the venture industry and startups, is spinning off a new board today: CleanLoop, a dedicated site for jobs in the cleantech field. Readers who have written in of late asking about how to jump into a cleantech startup may find the board useful. Cleantech is an interesting [...]
Evernote, a company that calls its service an “external brain,” is launching a public test version today.
The service lets you store pictures, notes, screen clippings and other “memories” for easy browsing and retrieval. Evernote is trying to solve is information overload problem, similar to other data storage schemes, including the semantics startup Twine. Evernote’s [...]
Solar panels, the critics say, will never be cost effective. Even with improved technology, or larger, more efficient manufacturing facilities, they can’t compete with coal, natural gas or nuclear anytime soon. Research firm iSuppli has another story: Solar panels, they say in a new study, will be on par with the grid in 2012, four [...]
TextDigger, a semantic search startup that launched early last year at DEMO, has been much quieter in the interim than other companies in the space like Hakia, Powerset and Radar Networks / Twine. But now the company has come back to light, at least for us — a filing document reveals that the company has [...]
Thin-film solar panel maker Nanosolar isn’t shy about tooting its own horn. The heavily-funded startup has made a series of advances over the past couple years, from building one of the world’s largest solar cell factories to printing its first cells, all the while claiming that it has the best technology around. Well, maybe [...]
Flickr founders join exodus from Yahoo — Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of photo-sharing app Flickr, a $35 million Yahoo acquisition, have added their names to the lengthening list of Yahoo defections. Kara Swisher speculates that a boardroom brawl is underway at the embattled search company. No word on where Fake and Butterfield [...]
Launching this evening is a new company that thinks it can be all things to all local searchers: Listings like Yelp, events like Going, and planning like Evite, all layered atop a rich, yet feathery-light social network. Mouth watering? Too bad, because Center’d isn’t fully baked yet. But the site shows early promise, and [...]
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