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How are small game developers making any money these days? While online casual games have been exploding in popularity, some providers are struggling to keep their games free as advertising rates remain low. But PackRat, a game on Facebook, is getting some heat for turning to the alternative of micro-transactions (small payments for in-game items).
PackRat [...]
AdaptiveBlue’s latest version of its browser plug-in is a complete revamp of its BlueOrganizer product. Now called Glue, it aims to synthesize semantic technology that connects information about books, music, movies and similar subjects with the browsing habits and commentary of your friends.
Take a book listing on Amazon.com, for example. AdaptiveBlue’s plug-in directly injects links [...]
Air conditioning is one of the nation’s top energy hogs, particularly in the warmer regions. When a heat wave is approaching, energy utilities know to kick their extra generation capacity into gear, and prepare for potential blackouts. But Ice Energy thinks it can make a big difference by storing power overnight, to run air conditioning [...]
The Internet was invented for researchers. But today, Internet data transfer speeds are too low for many types of scientific collaboration. So researchers have built their own, smaller networks, operating outside of the Internet, one of which a company called Darkstrand just bought into for a new startup idea.
With ownership of half of the 10 [...]
Carbon offsets, or activities that reduce the amount of CO2 emitted each year, can take on a dizzying array of forms, from planting trees to flaring methane.
Blue Source, a company that offers technology to offset carbon in the U.S. (by doing things like capturing carbon and storing it), has just gotten an investment from injured [...]
Renewable sources like solar and wind power can account for 100 percent of the world’s energy needs by 2090, according to a scenario devised by the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) and Greenpeace.
The scenario assumes substantial government investment and carbon legislation. According to the blueprint, written up in the Energy [R]evolution Report, the majority of [...]
According to most experts’ expectations for electric cars, the vehicles will be fueled mainly by batteries. But there’s a dark horse competitor for energy storage: ultracapacitors, devices that store energy in an electric field. Three companies, Apowercap Technologies, Eestor and Maxwell Technologies, are looking increasingly likely to commercialize that technology.
The first, Apowercap, just received a [...]
Solar startup Ausra added a small notch to its belt today, by becoming the first of a new generation of solar thermal companies to open a full-sized electricity generation plant. The Palo Alto, Calif. company cut the ribbon on a 5-megawatt facility about 250 miles southward in central California, where it will generate enough electricity [...]
Pounded by the stock markets after a poor showing in its recent earnings report, Sun Microsystems now has another thing to worry about: Co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who most recently served as chief architect for its systems group, is leaving [update: A Sun spokesperson notes than Bectolsheim will continue to do part-time work at Sun] [second [...]
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Moore’s Law gets a life extension — Researchers at McGill University claim to have discovered a new state of matter, a “quasi-three-dimensional system,” that may extend the famous trend of tech companies being able to pack twice as many transistors onto computer chips every two years.
AT&T income up; company surprised by iPhone [...]
Metaplace, a company that will allow anybody to build their own virtual world and access it through through an ordinary web browser, has taken $6.7 million in funding as it nears a public release.
There hasn’t been much hype around Metaplace yet, probably because of the failure of Second Life, There.com and other virtual world companies [...]
Poor eBay hasn’t had much luck lately. Even as its PayPal arm has done fairly well, the auction business that it’s known for has suffered, leading to a smoldering rebellion among sellers and a recent 10 percent work force cut. A new rival called Wigix wants to capitalize on those troubles, with a newly added [...]
Ask nearly any physicist if it’s possible for a hydrogen atom to enter a lower energy state than the ground, or resting state they hold in nature, and you’re likely to get an unequivocal “no.” But a tiny company in New Jersey called Blacklight Power has been disputing that assumption for over a decade, and [...]
While politicians spend plenty of time arguing over education, parents and students seem to be resigned: Public school just doesn’t cut it. As demand for alternate instruction rises, new Internet offerings are blooming. The latest is Brightstorm, which today announced $6 million in first-round financing from Korean investor KTB Ventures.
San Francisco-based Brightstorm makes educational videos [...]
Twine, a bookmarking and knowledge-tracking application developed by Radar Networks, is leaving its closed beta tonight with an array of new features, in hopes of becoming one of the definitive websites of the next generation of the Internet.
Here’s why it might succeed: It hopes to create a web of connected knowledge encompassing the whole Internet, [...]
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