These tools are meant to lighten the load on IT departments that can’t keep up with users’ requests for new applications.

IBM will continue to sell the two products separately.

An avian flu mashup that matches bird types and wind types that shows bird movement patterns.
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IBM) The company on Tuesday announced IBM Mashup Center, which combines [...]

Starting late this year or early next year, GENI plans to seek out an additional $3.5 million annually for more research.
Two organizations, Internet2 and National LambdaRail, will contribute bandwidth to GENI as well.
The funding comes from the National Science Foundation, and it’s in the form of a three-year grant that will span about $4 million [...]

It could easily have gone differently. Fifteen years ago, the management of the CERN physics lab in Geneva could have decided that this World Wide Web thing that researcher Tim Berners-Lee was working on might have some proprietary value down the road and put it under lock, key and license. But they didn’t. Fifteen years [...]

I think that there is a broad trend of increasing electrification of our energy system, and using electricity and transportation in this way certainly does cut back on petroleum use significantly. So I think it’s got a lot of drivers pushing it in the right direction. Now it’s going to depend on how quickly can [...]

I tried something different today. Instead of a butter crust I used butter plus coconut to effectively create a macaroon crust (with coconut milk filling).
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Come out to Utah to ski and store up some pie calories to get you through the day. Or just eat pie. You can always burn them in some [...]

Ribbit built a set of voice APIs that only make sense as part of a global network services company like BT. “The market moved from voice as a silo to voice as applications, and is still stuck there. Voice as a feature is our starting point,” Rangaswami said.
Rangaswami’s vision explains why his company plunked [...]

Perhaps that’s the natural order of things. GPS and other location-aware technologies will likely transform other aspects of the mobile experience–search, events listings, business reviews, not to mention mapping and directions–before they move on to influence social networking. After all, this is how the Internet as a whole evolved. Most Web users were trusting Google [...]

Also, many technologies–think a more efficient solar cell or radical improvement in biofuels production–can require years of development. VCs need a return on their investment in five to seven years, which typically means selling that start-up to a larger firm or going public.

The problem is that small seed investments–on the scale of $500,000 to a [...]

Some features were nice thoughts, but caused some annoyances. A new scrum-minigame of rapid button-presses pops up in post-fumble pile-ons, but often these incidents seem simply random and hard to time. Also, while the new ref first-down measurement and TD judgment calls add drama, they also add needlessly long pauses to the flow of the [...]

Mariah Power's vertical-axis wind turbine called the Windspire.

Company Mike Hess told Greentech Media that its forthcoming spire-shaped Windspire turbine can generate one third of the home’s electricity use.

Southwest Wind Power, which raised a series B round of $6.5 million last year, makes a ground-mounted propeller-type turbine for individual homes or business.

Marquiss Wind Power in January [...]