Report: Joost CEO Mike Volpi a candidate for ITV job

Joost may be in for more bad news, as a report out of Great Britain says Mike Volpi, CEO of the video site, is a candidate to take over as chief executive of ITV. ITV is a British public service network and a BBC competitor. British newspaper The Sunday Times reported that Volpi is among [...]

Jobs: Over 1 million new iPhones sold

Apple’s customers have wasted no time scooping up its latest smartphone & operating method update. over 1 million iPhone 3G S smartphones have sold in the three days since the new model hit the stores Friday, Apple announced Monday. In addition, 6 million people have downloaded the new iPhone OS 3.0 update in the two [...]

T-Mobile announces second Google phone

Competition in the smartphone market is heating up this summer as one new hot smartphone after another hits the street. The latest is T-Mobile’s next Google Android device, called the myTouch. T-Mobile will announce the new smartphone Monday. it is the second smartphone the carrier has introduced that uses Google’s open-source mobile operating system, Android. [...]

Google: We’ve got cool search, too

Google would like to remind everyone that Bing not the only search engine with tidy tricks for displaying results. search engine Land noticed what has to be a clear response to the lookyloos currently kicking the tires of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine, which has gained a few points of share in its first five [...]

IBM investing $100 million in mobile research

IBM thinks it can improve the state of mobile communications, & it’s investing millions of dollars toward that effort. Big Blue announced on Tuesday that it will spend $100 million over the next four years on a major research project to advance mobile technology for both consumers & businesses. With an increasing dependence on cell [...]

Study: Renewable energies’ potential untapped

The National Research Council on Monday published a report that finds that renewable energy sources–wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, & biomass–could supply 10 percent of U.S. electricity supply in 2020 with existing technology. Today, renewable energies excluding hydro power are about 2.5 percent of the U.S. electricity mix. If you think the lack of technology [...]

Battery-free LED flashlight recharges in 90 seconds

Light for Life uses ultracapacitor technology. (Credit: 5.11 Tactical)    What’s special about it? Well, the flashlight uses three LEDs, but its key component is Flashpoint Power technology, an ultracapacitor energy storage technique from Ivus Energy Innovations. Last year, 5.11 Tactical, which makes clothes and gear aimed at law enforcement officers (but sells to civilians), [...]

AMD, Congo, and the perils of code names

But some bloggers who monitor humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa blasted the chipmaker for using a the name of a country where civilians are dying and brutalized in a conflict over natural resources like tin, tungsten, and coltan that end up in electronics equipment like computers and mobile phones. When Advanced Micro Devices came [...]