http://www.mdicp.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:54:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The biggest factor driving investment in clean tech today is the huge consumer outcry for change," contends Canning from Dow Jones VentureSource, who projects more favorable policies for renewable energy after the fall national election. Dow Jones VentureSource on Friday said that venture capitalists plowed a record $3 billion last year ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/09/04/clean-tech-vc-investing-tops-3-billion-but-fund/ But by ignoring the digital distribution of new releases, the company is leaving the door open to competitors. The Netflix Player by Roku So why go back to charging users for each video they rent? They obviously are attracted to the all-you-can-eat model. This means Hollywood could conceivably break down the walls ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/30/note-to-netflix-roku-box-needs-latest-movies/ The Forbes.com headline writers who wrote "Sun Plans To Close Its Data Centers" rather overstates Andy Greenberg's actual story. If there are hundreds or thousands of "software as a service" and "hardware as a service" companies? Sure. That's a situation not much different from today. Some independent software vendor delivering its ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/24/who-will-operate-the-cloud/ In one of the most significant moves yet in the growing push toward service interoperability on the Web, tech giant Yahoo announced Thursday that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal Internet log-in. No matter what your views of Yahoo's current stability may be, this is undoubtedly ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/21/yahoo-throws-weight-behind-openid-standard/ (Credit: Valve) If you enjoy (legally) downloading PC game content over the Internet, then you're most likely familiar with Valve Software's Steam, a platform for the delivery and management of PC games. On Tuesday, Valve announced an upgrade to "Steamworks," a suite of publishing and development tools available to, well, publishers and ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/21/steamworks-has-some-work-done/ A few months back my roommate's rare house plant was dying. In a last ditch effort to bring it back to life, he enlisted my help. We scoured various message boards and Q&A sites with little success to get help identifying the plant (he got it as a gift). The plant ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/21/picanswers-helps-identify-house-plants-the-rest-o/ Over on the NY Times, David Pogue explains how he deals with the deluge of daily emails he receives. Here are the questions he answers: A) How many wackos do you hear from in a day? B) How do you handle said wackos? C) Do you use elaborate file/folder systems? D) How much ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/21/e-mail-etiquette-for-public-figures/ Yahoo filed a three-year plan--a set of slides originally presented in December 2007--with the Securities and Exchange Commission outlining the ways in which the company is worth more than Microsoft is willing to pay at this point. Yahoo expects growth in revenue and operating cash flow of $1.9 billion over ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/21/yahoo-sings-its-old-song-to-microsoft-pay-more/ This week, the PCI Security Standards Council announced the availability of its new Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). PA-DSS provides a set of best practices to software vendors for developing secure payment applications that don't store sensitive or private data such as personal identification numbers, and ensure that these ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/21/demand-secure-code/ General Electric and Google on Wednesday announced a collaboration to lobby for renewable energy policies and to jointly develop clean technologies. During the Google Zeitgeist conference in Mountain View, Calif., Google CEO Eric Schmidt interviewed GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt onstage about the maturity of renewable energy technologies and current policies. ... http://www.mdicp.com/2010/08/21/google-and-ge-team-up-on-clean-energy-policy-tech/