The once high-flying United Devices, which develops grid computing and cluster software, has announced that it has merged with a Chicago company, Univa Grid Computing. The combined entity, “Univa UD,” will continue offer a comprehensive set of cluster and grid solutions based on open source and proprietary components. According to Jason Liu, president and chief executive officer of the newly-formed Univa UD, “Customers will finally get access to industrial-strength open source products that are both [...]

When we saw the Slacker executives at happy hour they made no mention of this impending announcement. With the addition of Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and EMI Music to their existing relationship with SONY BMG, Slacker has nailed partnerships with the big four. They also announced that users will be able to transfer the personalized stations on the current desktop application to the new player with one click, and refresh them via the [...]

We wrote about ON Networks back in July as they were cranking up the pace at which they were creating original, short-form video content for the internet. One of the cool things about the content was that it was in HD, you could download it via iTunes, and shortly after the iPhone introduction they tuned their content for the iPhone format. Today they announced to the public one way in which they intend to make [...]

Cleantech Friday by Steve Guengerich If you are like me, whenever you’ve heard the word “China,” your eyes have slightly glazed over in the past.  “Yeah, yeah” your brain says “I know there’s nearly 1.5 billion people living there and I ought to be thinking about how to get my products (or services) in-country.”  But then, the next second, your brain says “but I’m still trying to figure out how to get in front of [...]