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• Can Evernote Make You into a Digital Leonardo?

  Historians believe that Leonardo da Vinci—one of my biggest heroes, if you hadn’t already guessed by reading my columns—filled about 30,000 notebook pages with his drawings, diagrams, discourses, and doodles. Only... Read more »

• Tyco Secures Surveillance-Video-Analysis Firm Intellivid

  Tyco International, the Bermuda-based conglomerate focused on safety and security technologies, said today that it has acquired Intellivid, a venture-backed startup in Cambridge, MA, that makes software for analyzing digital... Read more »

• Bluefin Sells Sub to Horizon Marine, Competes with iRobot for Big Navy Contract

  Greg told you last month about Bedford, MA-based iRobot’s collaboration with the University of Washington to turn its Seaglider undersea robot into a commercial product. Not to be outdone, Cambridge, MA-based... Read more »

• Wakonda Raises $9.5 Million for New Solar Cell Technology, Relocates to Medford

  Rochester Institute of Technology spinoff Wakonda Technologies will use a $9.5 million Series A venture round announced today to pursue a new technique for manufacturing photovoltaic cells that are more efficient... Read more »

• EMC’s Iomega and Mozy Divisions Offer Combined Desktop and Cloud-Based Backup

  As Bob observed in a March story, EMC (NYSE: EMC), the Hopkinton, MA-based information infrastructure and content management firm, is very good at acquiring companies whose technologies fit with... Read more »

• EnerNOC Signs up Rhode Island

  Boston-based EnerNOC, which pays organizations to join “demand response” pools whose members agree to cut back on power usage during times of peak electrical demand, said today that it has added... Read more »

• 3Com-Realtek Settlement Replaced by $70 Million Licensing Agreement

  Marlborough, MA-based 3Com and Realtek Semiconductor Corporation of Hsinchu, Taiwan, said yesterday that they’ve resolved a longstanding patent dispute over Realtek network controller chips that 3Com claimed appropriated aspects of its... Read more »

• Lycos Introduces Drag-and-Drop “Web 2.0 Publishing for the Masses”

  Back in May we wrote about the re-launch of Lycos Cinema, which Waltham, MA-based Lycos had tricked out with a new chat interface that lets up to 10 friends in... Read more »

• With New $9.5 Million Funding Round, ThingMagic Gets a Fix on Smaller RFID Readers

  The RFID business is getting hot again. A few weeks ago, Waltham, MA-based RFID software maker OATSystems was gobbled up by New Jersey’s Checkpoint Systems, and last week Greg reported that... Read more »

• NeoSaej Collects $7 Million More for MoneyAisle

  MoneyAisle.com, a reverse-auction site where lenders compete to offer potential banking customers the highest rates for certificates of deposit and high-yield savings accounts, is getting a big boost from the financial... Read more »

• Skyhook Launches in Europe

  Boston-based Skyhook Wireless, which makes embedded location-finding software for a range of devices from mobile phones to digital camera memory cards, said today that it has launched sales and operations efforts... Read more »

• InnovationRx Launches

  Newton, MA-based InnovationRx, a medication reminder service that we profiled on June 24, has officially opened its doors to patients. The service, organized with Northeastern University’s School of Pharmacy,... Read more »

• Venrock, Panorama Lead $7 Million Round for Shopflick

  Los Angeles-based Shopflick, creator of a platform for Web-based video product tours and advertisements, announced today that it has raised a $7 million Series A venture round. The round was... Read more »

• 7/11 = 3G

  iPhone 3G madness has struck Boston. This morning our team of reporters fanned out across the city —well, okay, just across Boylston Street in Boston and the Cambridgeside Galleria in Cambridge—to... Read more »

• You’re Listening to Radio Lab—Or You Should Be

  I drove from Boston to northern Michigan last weekend to hang out with my parents over the 4th of July. It’s a 15-hour trek—plus another two or three hours if you... Read more »

• Courion Automates Computer Access To Keep Data Where It’s Supposed to Be

  January, 2008: French bank Societe Generale discloses that it has lost $7.1 billion, thanks to unauthorized trading by a single employee, Jerome Kerviel, who apparently breached various controls on access to... Read more »

• Apple Launches iPhone App Store Ahead of Schedule; Boston and Seattle Startups Featured

  Apple had promised to unveil the new App Store section of iTunes—where, for the first time, iPhone and iPod Touch owners will be able to get third-party applications for their devices—on... Read more »

• Aspect Acquires BlueNote Networks

  Chelmsford, MA-based Aspect Software, which makes call center equipment and software, said yesterday that it has bought most of the assets of BlueNote Networks, a Tewksbury, MA, company with technology... Read more »

• Spire Aspires to Greater Things with $9 Million Infusion

  Spire.com, the Boston-based social networking site for the affluent—not be confused with Bedford, MA-based photovoltaic equipment maker Spire Corporation—said this week that it has raised $9 million in... Read more »

• DimDim Raises $6 Million

  DimDim, a Boston startup that has created a free, open-source, Web-based multimedia conferencing system as an alternative to paid services such as WebEx, said today that it has raised $6... Read more »