Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) resigns from Congress this evening at 5pm, which is good news to ISPs that serve more than two million customers apiece. In the wake of last year’s monthly data cap trials by Time Warner Cable, Massa announced publicly that he would introduce a bill that would limit such caps , and he did so in June 2009
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Anti-data caps rep resigns from Congress today
Turns out Steve Ballmer’s talk up at the University of Washington delivered even more saucy info than we were initially led to believe. In a transcript of the subsequent Q&A session, Steve is shown to have delivered the following statement on the topic of large-screen televisions and Microsoft’s related hardware strategy: For that big screen device …
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Steve Ballmer teases new Xbox 360 form factors, price points and options
Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Developer Fraser Speirs came across an unexpected iTunes dialog earlier today that could be a hint of a new, long-sought App Store feature: the ability to offer for-fee upgrades to apps, complete with discounts for those who bought older versions. Up until now, App Store vendors have worked around the lack of a paid upgrade feature by offering different “versions” of their apps, but this has also meant there’s been no ability to offer discounts to loyal purchasers of the previous version of the app, short of applying a temporary price discount to everyone and raising the price later on
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Paid app upgrades coming to App Store?
Prudent Energy , a Beijing-based maker of large-capacity flow batteries, has raised a $22 million third round of venture funding . Its products may be too heavy for use in plug-in vehicles, but the company could very likely become a key player in grid storage, both in China and the U.S. A truly international affair, its batteries were actually designed by a Canadian startup VRB Power Systems, which Prudent acquired in 2009 .
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Prudent scores $22M to rival EnerVault in grid-scale storage
A new bill pitched in the California Assembly would mandate that 2.25 percent of the power used during peak hours be stored and essentially on-tap by 2014 . By 2020, utilities would be required to store 5 percent of their peak loads.
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New Calif. bill would mandate grid storage for peak periods
Don’t have $111,000 for Silicon Valley’s most prestigious auto brand?
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Tesla Motors now leasing all-electric sports cars for only $1,658 per month
Filed under: Gaming , Software , Developer , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch PopCap has released some sales information on their latest iPhone game, Plants vs. Zombies , and it’s a runaway hit: the game has sold over 300,000 copies in just the nine days it’s been out on the App Store, which means the company has garnered over $1 million in sales already. Very impressive — first, we had an app make a million total , then a company was making a million a month , and now PopCap has done the same in just over a week
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Plants vs. Zombies breaks records on the iPhone
If you launched a console video game and sold $1 million worth, it would be a dismal failure. But in the green field of the iPhone, that’s a big hit. PopCap Games hit the $1 million revenue mark in the first nine days of sales of its Plants vs
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Plants vs. Zombies game generates $1M in sales on iPhone
