Last night, we asked folks if they’d rather have cash or services (like marketing, development and HR services) to help their early stage startup grow. While our readers’ responses were pretty evenly split, the split between startups that seek capital first far outweigh those that seek to make equity-for-services deals. Also, the number of VC firms (well in excess of 700 in the U.S.
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Why Aren’t There More Venture Services Firms? POLL RESULTS
When Baseline , maker of green irrigation control technology, wanted to created some excitement about its new controller, it turned to custom bike builder Chris Olson. They didn’t know just how edgy a product they’d be getting. “We make the coolest irrigation controllers on the planet, but they basically look like circuit-breaker boxes,” says Jon Peters, director of sales at Baseline
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BaselineX-Series: Now That’s a Badass Sprinkler System
If your room lighting just isn’t “Transformer” enough, you should look into the Bloom Light by designer Patrick Jouin. For everyday reading light, its austere bulbous form should suffice, but when it’s time to party, the Bloom unfolds like a rose (or a badass space weapon, take your pick) to become an instant conversation piece
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Bloom Light unfolds to reveal… OMG, run!
Thanks to Google App Engine’s work with DataNucleus, the GAE users have enjoyed JPA and JDO support. For its storage system, GAE uses the (NoSQL) Google BigTable implementation. HBase, under the Apache Hadoop project, is a distributed, column-oriented storage system that has been modeled after BigTable. There are some usage restrictions, but generally it’s pretty easy to store data on…
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How to Use JPA and JDO in HBase
Hilva XNA Graphics Engine is an extension to Microsoft XNA Framework, 100% written in C# and XNA, offering materials, post process, lights, shadows, skeletal animations, high dynamic range rendering and much more. The lastest release of the engine is able to load motion capture data from Biovision Hierarchy (BVH) files and will support Acclaim’s Motion Capture (AMC) files in future releases …
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Hilva XNA Graphics Engine (DevMaster.Net)
Grab this direct hire position, on-site South Florida and join a team with a never ending supply of large, enterprise, dynamic, data-driven websites requirements needing your abilities in web design skills; new designs designed and new …
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Chelsea captain John Terry was questioned by police Wednesday after his car hit the club’s security man, who suffered a broken leg. Chelsea said Terry’s car was surrounded by photographers and fans as he drove out of the Stamford Bridge parking lot Tuesday after the Champions League loss to Inter Milan.
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Terry’s car hits Chelsea security man, breaks leg (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Panasonic has never needed to wait for a new studio album before putting together another major tour , the latest of which it’s dubbed Touch the Future. Trading in the traveling truck exhibition for a more intimate indoor setting, the real production Full HD 3D televisions are available and on display, along with glasses, Blu-ray players plus a few other products for good measure.
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Panasonic Touch the Future Tour lets production Full HD 3DTVs hit the public stage
We get the impression that these guys are really just putting the pressure on “evil corporations” to stop grounding mountains in the everlasting search for coal, but it’s not really the environmental activism that caught our attention here. Rather, it’s the fact that we’re 84.3 percent certain we saw these exact same characters in a Daft Punk video back in college. Seriously — check the video out after the break and tell us we’re loony
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Caption contest: solar suits, or the future of punishment for eco-abusers?
We already adore GM’s head-up display in the Corvette, Cadillac STS, Buick Lacrosse and GMC Acadia, but that system is primitive compared to the magic GM has up its sleeve. This next-generation head-up display is smart. Using a compact laser reflecting off transparent phosphors embedded in the windshield, it superimposes messages and graphics that could save your life
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GM’s next-gen head-up display: a magic all-seeing helper
SKOKIE, Ill., March 17 /PRNewswire/ — Cloudvox, which was recently acquired by Ifbyphone, today announced the first fruits of their combined platform: a flat pay-as-you-go rate of $0.03 per minute, phone numbers from around the world, and a comprehensive conference call API for all Cloudvox users. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/LA94596LOGO) “We’re …
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Cloudvox Boosts Platform with Pay-As-You-Go Pricing, Worldwide Phone Numbers & Conference Call API (redOrbit)
Netbook owners, now you too can get through the airport security line a little faster. Mobile Edge has just expanded its line of ScanFast checkpoint-friendly bags with new models just for netbooks. If you want something with more padding than just a sleeve, check them out.
Been to the gym lately? If not, then let this be your new motivation. What we’re looking at here is a purportedly forthcoming Xbox 360 motherboard redesign that takes aim at slimming down the portly figure of Microsoft ’s console
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Xbox 360 ‘Valhalla’ motherboard leaked on Chinese forum?
Chelsea have confirmed that captain John Terry was involved in an accident outside Stamford Bridge on Tuesday which resulted in a club security officer suffering a leg injury.
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Terry’s car in collision with security official – Chelsea (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)
According to a study commissioned by mobile application store operator GetJar , the mobile application market will reach $17.5 billion by 2012. By then, the number of mobile application downloads will have also grown to nearly 50 billion from just over 7 billion in 2009
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Mobile App Marketplace: $17.5 Billion by 2012
T-Mobile has finally taken the wraps off plans for two highly anticipated smartphones. First, T-Mobile has announced a price and release date for the long-awaited, Windows Mobile 6.5-powered HTC HD2 (pictured): March 24th, $199.99 with a two-year contract.
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T-Mobile HD2, CLIQ XT Get Prices and Release Dates
This sounds a little worrisome. Aptera , the struggling San Diego-based electric car company, just announced it is holding a press conference on April 14th to discuss its future, Edmunds.com’s Green Car Advisor reports. Specifically, the company plans to detail product and production updates, including suppliers.
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Aptera to Hold April Press Conference on its Future
When you’ve got an entire desktop PC inches from your eardrums, it helps if the machine is dead silent… or as close to that dream as possible. That’s why we’re pleased that Shuttle’s new XPC X50V2 — last spotted wearing a toga — is now on sale with a completely fanless design for silent cooling.
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Shuttle’s X50V2 all-in-one barebones PC gets passively cooled, passively hits online retail
PayPal has released an update for its iPhone/iPod Touch that’s indicative of how we may handle cash in the near future (though not exclusively with Apple products or PayPal, mind you): you can now “bump” money from your PayPal account into a friend’s if they are close by. Of course, nothing’s stopping you from doing it the old fashioned way, which involves firing up the app and putting in a target email address.
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PayPal 2.0 adds money ‘bumping,’ leave your wallet at home
Los Angeles International Airport police say security screening at a terminal was halted for about 30 minutes by a security breach that was quickly resolved.
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LAX terminal briefly closed by security breach (AP via Yahoo! News)