Whitehouse.com is close to finishing work on an S1 registration statement in preparation for an initial public offering in November, according to the company’s CEO Dan Parisi.
“Hopefully, we’ll be ready to go by then,” said Parisi who declined to go into further detail about the company’s prospective debut as a publicly [...]
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The founder of the Playboy magazine empire, Hugh Hefner — Hef to his friends — is known for his lavishly appointed mansion in Los Angeles, his silk pajamas and his star-studded parties. Oh, and his entourage of much younger girlfriends.
Hugh Hefner has been ordered to testify about how a nude picture [...]
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Despite the recent efforts of the Kansas Board of Education, many people understand the basic tenet of evolutionary theory — the interaction of a species’ genetic makeup with its environment is the process that is responsible for the vast configurations of life on the planet. We call it natural selection.
Sociobiologists, [...]
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As the next convergence frontier, the automobile has also become the latest battleground in the age-old war of proprietary technologies versus industry standards.
The onslaught of new onboard electronics—rear-seat movies, navigation, email, and remote diagnostics—is breeding demand for a new wave of standards and protocols. Standards ensure not only that new technologies deliver on their promises [...]
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All the excitement around wireless Internet access in the car could crash head-on into the safety concerns that have already arisen over driver cell-phone use. Delphi Palm, and venture-capital firm Mayfield Fund have together launched a company called MobileAria to avert that collision.
The company aims to keep drivers’ hands on the wheel and eyes on [...]
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While the technical road to in-vehicle Internet access remains somewhat foggy (running the gamut from proprietary systems to those based on mobile devices), we can say “Yes, there is such thing as real computer for your car.”
Q-PC offers the Real Car Computer, an in-car PC based on Windows 98. The computer allows drivers to use [...]
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If you haven’t bought that DVD player yet, you might want to hang on even longer. Makers of MPEG-2 decoding chip sets are lining up to enable digital consumer convergence products that combine functions of DVD players, set-top boxes, games consoles, and hard-disk based digital video recorders all in the same box.
For example, STMicroelectronics has [...]
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Accelerating the evolution of the MobileGT architecture for automotive driver-information systems, IBM has announced development support in the form of VisualAge Micro Edition. The Java-centric environment supports the development of software components that can be combined into applications for auto systems, PDAs, and other convergence devices. Auto-electronic developers will use the Java-based system to develop [...]
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