The first is OpenX, an open-source ad-server company that I’ve written about several times, and which I continue to believe offers a disruptive way to shake up the online advertising business, especially for smaller Web publishers. While Drupal is used by plenty of marquee brands like Intel and FedEx, it has a strong base of support within these smaller Web publishers.

Occasionally I get brilliant ideas about whom should merge with whom in open source. OK, so it’s ve

And while I don’t expect to see such magical devices in the U.S. anytime soon, I suspect that there is a market for such a thing in Japan.

Nintendo DS 44.3 percent No mobile devices 39.3 percent
Notebook computer 19.7 percent Sony PSP 16 percent Netbook 4.7 percent Smartphone 3.4 percent

There is an interesting play in Nintendo’s future as the dominance of the DS brings in a new realm of converged game phones that can’t be too far off as game companies realize that

Updated September 26 at 6:50 a.m. PT with correction to Alex Kinnier’s affiliation.

The speakers–three academics with expertise in energy and economics and a venture capitalist from Khosla Ventures–delved into the question of what role government should play in energy at the EmTech emerging technology conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday. On the whole, they were pessimistic about the prospects of effective legislation for promoting a cleaner energy

So as Blu-ray tries to find its footing in PCs, it looks like it has found its place in the living room.

iSuppli believes that Blu-ray’s lack of adoption in the PC market is centered on two main factors: a relatively small number of available movies and the cost of adding a Blu-ray drive to PCs. iSuppli said its findings suggest consumers will be more likely to add Blu-ray drives to their PCs once the cost of those drives decreases.

Blu-ray players are becoming a

Along with completing the Kibo installation, the Endeavour astronauts also released a jammed payload attachment mechanism, installed television cameras on the Japanese experiment shelf, and made a wiring change to put two of the station’s stabilizing gyroscopes on separate circuits, easing concerns about a single failure that could take down both units.

“Completing the assembly of all Kibo elements (is) extremely important to our country,” said Keiji Tachikawa, director of the

No word on whether CanvasPop will screen images before they show up in Times Square or if you’ll be able to humiliate yourself and your friends at will.

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Services like Artistic Photo Canvas and Canvas Press already print photos onto canvas. But CanvasPop–which just came out of beta–claims to be the only one to turn low-res images from social-media sites and phones into high-quality canvas prints.

That pic of you with a laptop on your head a

While the new pricing structure may help Sprint keep some customers, it will likely come at a high price for the company. Moffett postulates in a research note written Thursday that some of Sprint’s highest volume callers already subscribing to the $99 Simply Everything Plan could downgrade to Any Mobile, Anytime plan, which would slash the company’s revenue.

But even before flat-rate prepaid plans became popular, the big four nationwide cell phone operators began offering bundles o

The one place it lags is in synchronization with other apps. Here, I prefer iConcertCal because it uses your iTunes library to build a list of artists you’re interested in. JamBase makes you enter them manually. iConcertCal’s app has a “Listen” feature that launches the iTunes Mobile app to let you listen to 30-second samples and, if you like them, buy the tracks. JamBase features audio samples from LaLa on its Web site, but no equivalent on the iPhone app.

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The words on the app itself are also strangely heartstopping. You know when the app is ready to score when it shows the somewhat schoolteacher-ish words: “You may start having sex.”

It’s called Passion. And its heart is very simple.

And the “arm band” presumably refers to the sweaty thing you wear in the gym. Lordy, can that really add to the, um, passion of it all?

Come to think of it, the pocket o

Over the past decade or so, a large number of very influential institutional funds have substantially increased their allocation in alternative assets. In some extreme cases, these investors have taken this allocation from a conservative amount of, say, 15 percent to 20 percent to well more than 50 percent of their fund.

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This is a very long explanation, but the punch line is that as these large institutions adjust their portfolios and potentially abandon these