среда, 30 апреля 2008 г.

Roundup: Kleiner Perkins has something up arm, fresh HP electric circuit may supersede your synapses, EA-Land closes down, and more


Here’s the the activity:

Kleiner Perkins fixing “big news” — August speculation fund has “big news” that it will be partaking tomorrow forenoon, we get word. We’ll be cover it first matter. One maybe related to point is the recent filing of the unfaltering’s 13th fund, established in a filing turned over up by peHUB. The unshakable’s last bring up was accomplished in February 2006, for USD 600 000 000.

Hewlett-Packard devises artificial intelligence electric circuit — Research workers at HP have come up up with an electric circuit component for remembering french that will dramatically toned the powerfulness requisite and let an orbit of value extraneous of binary code (zeros and singles), concording to the Fresh House of York Multiplication. The gimmick, a “memristor”, could overturn mobile device, as good as relief the evolution of artificial intelligence functions like realising address.

Sims Line / EA-Land virtual world closing down — EA-Land, the virtual world based off the democratic Sims play franchise, will close its thresholds in two calendar months. Piece Electronic Humanistic discipline phrases the number instead exquisitely, saying only “The life of the game has forced to an end,” it’s jolly obvious that they wouldn’t be shutting the business organisation if it were making money. And if a raging holding like the Sims can’t win as a virtual world, former game developers should use up note.

Coevals Investing Direction shuts USD 683M cleantech fund – Headed by the notorious (and scarily called) yoke of Al Gore and Saint David Roue, Coevals Investing Direction is a London-based investor in both private and public cleantech fellowship. The fresh monetary fund will place in spheres letting in renewable energy, edifice efficiency, cleanser fossil energy (perhaps intending clear ember), sustainable factory farm and carbon markets, with an average investment size of USD 30 000 000. More inside information at the Fiscal Multiplication. Gore, it should be notable, is too a mate at Kleiner Perkins.

Courts turn down RIAA “making uncommitted” anti-piracy statement — A sound tactics exploited by the Transcription Manufacture Connection of of America has been slapped down by a Federal judge, harmonizing to CNET

Radiohead gained’t restate free euphony experiment – A much-hailed experiment by Radiohead regarding the public release of a fresh record album on the Net for optional contributions by downloaders gained’t be recurrent, harmonising to the Hollywood Newsperson. The circle still hasn’t articulated whether it reckonned the liberation a winner. Radiohead is besides doing work with MTV to foreground minor bondage and sex trafficking, saying the chance is about “working a state of affairs piece you have the chance.” Interesting choice of words…

Miasole only can’t get a breakMiasole, a thin-film solar cell maker that has elevated a monumental sum of hard currency, has scarperred into rather a few jobs all over the last twelvemonth, admitting delayed productionemployee abandonments and dissatisfactory cell public presentation. The minute bump: The deprivation of a USD 9 000 000 contract from Dow Chemical, concording to CNET. The money will go to a challenger thin-film maker, Worldwide Solar

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