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iPad EMR startup DrChrono attracts $2.8M

January 26, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

DrChrono EMR

This is awesome. NYT Bits Blog has a story today on Silicon Valley startup DrChrono and how it raised $2.8 million from Yuri Milner, in addition to the $1.3 million funded by Y-Combinator and 500 Startups, among others. DrChrono is an electronic medical record (EMR) platform that’s taking advantage of the growing popularity of iPads in […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: electronic medical records, EMR, financing, funding, startup, VC, venture capital

Infographic: Spotlight on conflict minerals

January 26, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Conflict Minerals

Venkel Ltd., a producer of electronics components headquartered in Austin, Texas, has released an infographic that explores the sources of four conflict minerals, coined 3TG (tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold). This comes as the SEC finds itself embroiled in a clash over conflict mineral provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act. Conflict minerals describe earth metals that come […]

Filed Under: Stats & Figures Tagged With: conflict minerals, Congo, Dodd-Frank, Gadgets, legislation, statistics

SanDisk, Western Digital at odds over SSDs

January 26, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

SanDisk SSD

Surprise, surprise… A little war of words is brewing over solid-state drives (SSDs) and their market ascendancy in 2012. SanDisk, a company best known for making memory cards — the kind that goes in cameras and other gadgets — says that its “small form-factor client SSD” business is going gangbusters. Moreover, this is the year that […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile, Storage Tagged With: SanDisk, solid-state drive, SSD, Ultrabooks, Western Digital

Green government: iPad helps Iowan city council go paperless

January 24, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

One Iowan city council is sick of pushing paper and they’re turning to the iPad for help. The city of Indianola purchased 17  iPad 2’s (16 GB, Wi-Fi only) for its city council members to use. Though it’s a device of many uses, one of the prime motivations behind the move is to eliminate the tens of […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: iPad, paperless, tablet

Stat of the day: Tablet and e-reader ownership reaches 19 percent

January 23, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

iPads

It looks like this past holiday season, Apple and Amazon moved a lot of iPads and Kindles, respectively. At least that’s what some new data from Pew Internet suggests. Ownership of tablets and e-readers both hit 19 percent in the U.S. by the end of 2011, according to the results of a survey of 2,000 […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: e-readers, market, research, statistics, tablets

OnStar app brings cloud-based EV fleet management to Google

January 20, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

OnStar logo

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 […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: Android, app, Chevrolet Volt, Chevy Volt, Electric Vehicle, EV, Google, Volt

Go meat! LEDs prolong shelf life

January 19, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Meat aisle

My non-meat-eater friends may want to skip this post. But the rest of us carnivores will be pleased by this new discovery. It turns out that those LEDS that are popping up at supermarket display cases don’t just bathe your food products in a crisp, energy-saving glow. They also extend the shelf life of some meats! […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: LED lighting, LEDs

Please don’t break the Internet, stop SOPA and PIPA

January 18, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

ecoINSITE logo - SOPA / PIPA

Today, you’ll notice that several sites including Wikipedia Google, Reddit, Boing Boing, Craigslist and several others have “gone dark” for a while or tweaked elements of their sites to combat SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) legislation that’s currently worming its way through Congress. What compelled them to do that? Simply, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: internet, legislation

Wind turbines quietly win over skeptics

January 12, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Wind turbines - England

This is eerie… Lately, the topic of infographic burnout has been making the rounds. This is mainly due to clumsy (and copious) marketing attempts, flimsy ‘facts’ or firms that are pushing outright lies using pretty pixels. I was just thinking today how this infographic on wind turbine noise from GE was the exception. Simple. Eye-pleasing. […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: cleantech, nimby, renewable energy, wind turbines

CES 2012: Year of non-vaporware, $8,000 OLED TVs?

January 12, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Samsung OLED - CES 2012 reveal

$8,000 is steep for a 55-inch TV. But think back to when plasma and LCD TVs first hit the market and look at where we are today. Feel better? If you do, then you’ll love Michael Kanellos’ post on Forbes today. Granted, he writes that the sets ‘might’ cost $8,000 when they first hit store shelves […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: CES, Consumer Electronics Show, Kateeva, LG, OLED, Samsung

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