- January 27, 2007
Battery investor roundup: "A123 Systems Inc., a Watertown, Mass.-based battery maker today raised $40 million in Series D funding making it the sector&146;s best-capitalized company, having raised a total of around $102 million since being founded in 2001. General Electric Commercial Finance led the round, with other return backers ... The only new investor was Duracell maker Procter & Gamble...A123 Systems makes lithium-ion batteries.. A123 products are non-combustible and &147;do...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/27.html#a3431
- January 27, 2007
LEED certified mass-produced home: Nice photos and videos of Living Homes' modern, sustainable, factory built design.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/27.html#a3430
- January 27, 2007
Wireless Telemetry Growing to $25.3bn by 2009, as Enterprise Wakes up to Real-Time Efficiency Savings: "wireless telemetry (or AMR &150; Automated Meter Reading) will grow -
according to industry analysts Juniper Research - with revenues rising
from $11.6bn in 2006 to $25.3bn by 2009. According to Juniper, the substantial rise in revenues - expected to
quadruple by 2011 to $40.8bn - will contrast with limited growth in
telematics from $6.4bn to $11bn in the same period &150; owing...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/26.html#a3429
- January 24, 2007
Amazon Tries Hand at Virtual Appliances: "Amazon Machine Images or AMI is a packaged environment that includes all the necessary bits
to set up and boot Amazon EC2 instances. The company launched their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - Amazon's
hosted, on demand virtual datacenter based on the Xen technology - with
hopes of creating demand for a pay-per-use model of virtual machines. .. Amazon is now asking its EC2 community members to share their AMIs with other Amazon Web Services...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/23.html#a3428
- January 24, 2007
XEN and the art of Virtualization: Informative test run or the latest version, with screenshots.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/23.html#a3427
- January 24, 2007
Replicate Technologies: I resumed blogging for my new company today, with comments on operating systems and virtuailzation. Enjoy.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/23.html#a3426
- January 17, 2007
Ford launches plug-in hybrid with hydrogen fuel cell: Jan 2007: "Ford launched a hydrogen-fuelled, battery-powered plug-in powertrain concept in the new Airstream concept vehicle this week at the North American International Auto Show. The system, trademarked HySeries Drive, is powered by a 336-volt lithium-ion battery pack at all times and has a range of 25 miles on a full electric power. Once the battery pack is depleted by about 40%, the hydrogen-powered fuel cell begins...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/17.html#a3425
- January 15, 2007
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Long op-ed by George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn on both urgent and long-term measures to cut the nuclear threat. Meanwhile, US policy is going the other way: see U.S. Selecting Hybrid Design For Warheads and Complex 2030: DOE's Misguided Plan to Rebuild the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/15.html#a3424
- January 14, 2007
Goodbye, 9 and 25 pins: I just unplugged what is probably my last serial connector. After 35 years of dialup and printing at speeds from 75 baud to 115kbps, I no longer own a non-USB serial device. I haven't used an external modem in years, and when my internal laptop modem broke two years ago, I never replaced it. The second-to-last serial device I had was a Palm cradle, also dropped years ago. Today, I finally unplugged an ISDN adaptor I had at home. I had used the ISDN line for fax...
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/14.html#a3423
- January 8, 2007
Bullish on PHEVs: CalCars offers free downloads of the Alliance Bernstein report on pluggable hybrid vehicles.
http://www.novak.com/weblog/2007/01/08.html#a3422
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