In October 2000, with no money, worse with $60K in debts and a prospect of paying $100,000 a month just for bandwidth, the founders of HotorNot.com were about to give up. But they gave it a last shot. Got a...

Karen Northup reached the "top of her career" at age 26 after being CFOs at companies like Scout Media, Equitex, Telesuite, Rivals.com and Telocity (now directv). The big question after that is what to do next? Start a new venture,...

So now Apple chief is going after the Firefox browser/open source community with it's minimalist Safari browser. I just can't think of a reason why a Mac user will use it, so even less a Windows one! Quickly after receiving...

One of the critical component in lowering the power consumption of a computer is the power supply, insists Lakshmi Mandyam. According to ColdWatt's marketing director, the company's power supplies already exceeds the 2008 level set at 90% efficiency per power...

"People forget that we are actually a pretty young company. And for example, although our internal energy programme goes back 5-7 years, the company's focus on this problem is only about 2-2.5 years old. And until recently our organisation wasn't...

For the first time, Google showed some current design of custom power supplies used in their server farms. The search company has a team of hardware engineers dedicated to the design of motherboards and other electronic components that go into...

Bill Weihl (photo) and a couple of other people work on understanding and managing Google's carbon footprint, working on renewable energy and energy efficiency. "Employees incentives for high mileage cars are very important actually, and can have an impact...

Just after the end of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative conference at the Googleplex, I've talked with Microsoft VP of "Special Projects", Michael Rawding, about what the company in Redmond is doing to reduce carbon emissions, etc. And so...

Google and Intel programme was inspired by an existing WWF's Climate Savers, that started in 1999 on the challenge to reduce green gas emissions and fighting climate change through measurable specific commitments to reduce participating companies own carbon footprint. "We...

So Apple opened up the iPhone to developers? Well... not really. At least, not for MAC developers! Sad, isn't it, especially as they are reaching the million mark, according to Steve Jobs yesterday. However, the fact that AJAX apps, running...

So now Steve Jobs wants to eat FireFox for breakfast with a Windows version of Safari, Apple's own web browser. Well, that's an interesting thought at least in Steve Jobs' distorted reality.. which I obviously do not subscribe... and that's...

Not much news about Leopard, Apple's next version of the Mac OS X operating system. During his keynote, Steve Jobs talked about 10 out of the 300+ new features. You'll find more details on Apple's web site on Leopard, here...

At Apple's developer confab today in San Francisco, Phil Schiller decided to pick on Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO. Apple's vice-president of marketing was demonstrating the Photo Booth effect feature in Apple's instant messenging application, iChat, that allows you to choose...

I've arrived this morning at San Francisco's Moscone West where Apple is hosting it's annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) along with several other thousands Apple developers/fans. We are all waiting for Sir Jobs to deliver his keynote and enlighten...