New York Bodegas to announce a Latino music digital download service…. Indian corner shops now offering one song and two Samosas for a $1….. given the current state of madness around digital music, I would not be surprised to see those headlines hit my RSS … Read More »
Archive for August 2005
Skype goes beyond the traditional PBX features with its support for IM and ability to share contact information with other applications. These features are exactly the selling points of the newest software based PBX systems. The IM thing especially, as it ties into something called “presence.” Guest … Read More »
Peer to peer networking is normally associated with illegal music and movie downloads. Napster and Kazaa are largely responsible for that image, as was AudioGalaxy. Now, the creator of Audiogalaxy, Michael Merhej, is going legit and has developed a new application that puts power of … Read More »
The director of Microsoft’s security response center, Debbie Fry Wilson, said the computer giant was in an “emergency response” mode. “Right now, we’re mobilizing our two war rooms,” she told CNN. Read More »
Tim O’Reilly has built a publishing empire based on geek love. Now its time for him to face the ire of the very same geeks, who are now organizing a rival camp to Tim’s Foo Camp. “I really love the people who COME to … Read More »
Mysore, one of the most beautiful cities in India, has become one of the first cities in India to offer commercial WiFi access, thanks to a company called WiFiyNet. “Don’t let the oldworld charm of Mysore fool you. It has raced past hi-tech Bangalore, by going … Read More »
Treyspan Inc. will deploy and operate a citywide wireless system that will provide residents and visitors with access to the Internet for a subscription fee. More Read More »
Jason Calacanis was right in claiming that there is no good method for accurately representing blog popularity or influence. He called the blog search sites to the carpet and offered $50,000 in advertising on the Weblogs Inc Network (WIN) for the first search site to … Read More »
My colleague, Erick Schonfeld reports that Jeff Bonforte, president of SIPphone and the man spear-heading the Gizmo Project has jumped ship and joined Yahoo. Yahoo’s aggressiveness in the VoIP space is no surprise, but I wonder if Jeff’s departure leaves the two companies in … Read More »
The story of the Henrico County iBook sale (4-year-old used laptops for 50 bucks) is on the Internet, and everyone is a little disturbed…. because “insane mod scene” is putting it mildly. Slashdot linked to the text story of this news already, but they didn’t link … Read More »
Due to the number of visitors to the site looking for the SHARK review as mentioned on the IBM Research site (among other places) I thought it would be helpful to post this link to all the articles on jkOnTheRun that mention SHARK. Read More »
Simon Andrews points to a news item about BBC trying to develop a monster TiVo with capacity of 3.2 terabyte. Consumers can pick and choose what news programs they want to save and watch at a later stage. BBC is calling it Pandora/Promise.TV, and … Read More »
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