There are some type of news that some may find quite surprising at times. The Apple iPad or the iPhone 4 going out of stock may be something more believable. But there is one similar instance which might just be quite hard to believe. Amazon’s Kindle 3G seems to be out of stock at Amazon. Now this might really come as a surprise to many considering that most of the buzz today have been going around the Apple...

A new solar power plant has been established in Italy that continues to generate electricity even at night. The new solar power plant named Archimede is a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant located in Priolo Gargallo in Sicily, Italy that was just recently inaugurated on July 14, 2010. Although it is not the first CSP plant built, it is now known to be the very first CSP plant in the world that use molten salt f...

Many of you might think that the 3.5 floppy disks have been obsolete long before this announcement. A lot have surely benefited from its use during the early days of the personal computer. But as the technology surrounding memory storage grew and progressed, many more suitable alternatives and option came up to take the place of the once popular floppy disk. And Sony just announced that it is finally putting a li...

Apple may be on to something here. Just after the company launched the Apple iPad, many other companies are trying to jump into the bandwagon. It seems that a lot of them are just waiting for other companies to take that first big leap. It so happens that it’s Apple who did it for them. With the release of the iPad, there is then this sudden interest of making similar tablet devices coming from other compa...

Imagine viewing popular Internet videos conveniently being streamed into your HDTV? That would sound cool, right? Well, that is what AnySource Media will try to do with the Internet-enabled HDTV platform it is developing. It seems times are hopeful for the new company since it recently raised an additional $3.2 million worth of new funding from new investors- NextStage Capital, Murex Investments and other individ...

It’s really a financial crisis when the big names start shuttering or restructuring or cutting down.  This financial crisis is the worst since the great depression and it is showing quite predominantly.  One of the biggest names to shutter just recently is Circuit City.  Many web companies have also done the same, while bigger web companies that are still capable of wearing down the storm hav...

Dell has just acquired Allin Microsoft Services Expertise for $12 million in stocks.  Allin is a Microsoft IT consulting firm. The acquisition, announced Friday, aims to bolster Dell’s consulting work in the areas of designing and implementing scalable networks and application architectures via Allin’s technology infrastructure business, as well as in the areas of collaboration and business appli...

Remember Pownce?  Well it was a startup that was supposed to kill off Twitter.  However it really did not catch on and now while Twitter’s traffic and popularity is going out the roof, Ponce is taking the back door. Six Apart, the company that makes blogging tools like Movable Type, TypePad and Vox, acquired Pownce.  Well,  actually, Six Apart acquired the Pownce technology and talents a...

I never tire of saying this but Twitter is the epitome of the social web.  As such, it makes them an excellent example of a Silicon Valley startup, small, lots of interested buyers, still private, loads of cash.  This year Twitter raised a rumored $15 million from Jeff Bezos.  Twitter has been using the money to grow the company by buying other startups which they find useful. Today they announced ...

Switzerland based maker of computer peripherals Logitech is dipping its hand into the world of web startups and services today with the announcement of their acquisition of California based video conferencing startup SightSpeed. As odd as it sounds for a solid hardware maker who’s been enjoying success for so long to be going into the volatile world of web startups where revenue is usually less straightfor...