Video: The arrival of technology-laden EVs promises to empower and liberate car fleet managers in ways they could only just imagine a few short years ago. Just ask Rolf Schreiber, Google’s Electric Transportation Manager. As you know, Google is big on cleantech. And one of the ways it promotes this is by keeping a fleet […]
Banned! Apple nixes conflict mineral-y, e-waste-y Phone Story app
Game maker with a message, Molleindustria (NSFW), may have stumbled on a sure-fire way to shine a light on the dark side of the electronics industry: create an iOS app about it and get it banned by Apple. Long story short, the company created a game called Phone Story based on the unsavory practices surrounding the […]
Quit spurning your readers with buggy iPad apps
By now you know that I’m pretty enamored by my iPad, particularly it’s knack for dematerialization. Newspapers? Plenty of apps and the iPad’s own browser deliver my news fix. Magazines? I roll my own, thanks. Life was good. Until last week, when The New York Times iOS app called it quits. No number of resets […]
iPad owners, ditch paper mags with Flipboard and Longform.org
iPad magazines like Wired and Popular Science blend interesting articles, photography that often looks stunning on the iPad’s screen (just imagine those pics on iPad 2’s rumored resolution bump…) and a smattering of interactivity. Exciting stuff, but what if you just want to curl up on your couch with a lengthy, thought-provoking article? Well, there’s […]
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, April 23
Go green: Turn off your computer with your iPhone/iPod Touch – CrunchGear Why didn’t any of us think of this? The creator of a VLC controller app for the iPhone has just released a clever little app that turns off…