WiFi location startup Skyhook Wireless, which has the marketing-friendly browser plug-in Loki, has been making some pretty good progress since we last spoke to them in June. The Boston-based startup, which has raised $8.5 million from Bain Capital Ventures … Read More »
Archive for October 2006
After many delays, Swiss phone incumbent, Swisscom finally launched a rudimentary form of their Microsoft-based IPTV system. Bluewin TV, as it is called is promises 100-plus TV channels, 70 radio channels, and a whole slew of services. Of course if you are using … Read More »
(Disclosure: I still write a column for Business 2.0 magazine.) My former colleagues from Business 2.0 are blogging. Hey guys, welcome to the world of instant analysis, instant reporting. It is fun, and addictive. Erick knows it all too well. They will all bring new, interesting … Read More »
Comcast launched Fearnet, a broadband only on-demand movie channel dedicated to scary movies. GUBA is handling the movie download service for the channel, which is going to be one of the many Comcast has planned. Sony and Lionsgate are partners for this venture. Users … Read More »
If the pics from GPSPassions are legit, then I’d answer my own question with a resounding yes! Looks like these screenshots tell the story and could bring a big change to Windows Mobile devices running the Smartphone platform. Remember, devices running the Pocket PC Phone … Read More »
Compete.com, a six-year-old analytics firm, is formally debuting its public data tool tonight. Searchers can input any site on the web to get numbers and trend graphs for total U.S. visitors (absolute, not relative), rank among all sites, pages viewed per visit, and average length … Read More »
Jangl hooked up with Match.com, it seems. The dating site announced that it has launched an anonymous voice chat service called matchTalk. Valleywag had posted about this possible pairing a little while ago. Read More »
Google is famous for updating its logo to celebrate certain events and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they are not the only ones. TextMate, a famous text and source code editor for Mac OS X, celebrates Halloween in a rather pleasant way. First, … Read More »
Hey, remember that Delphi SkyFi3 handheld for XM’s satellite radio service we mentioned last month? Pre-orders started around $199 roughly six weeks ago, but it appears the commercial-free play-n-record XM radio should be appearing soon thanks to the latest FCC approvals. Actual price … Read More »
Who says video-sharing sites can’t go public? GoFish (which has reshaped itself as destination instead of a search engine these days) said today it had taken sold $12 million worth of stock as part of a reverse takeover by the publicly traded Unibio. Look … Read More »
John Gruber is a genius. The OSX-savvy writer and producer of the well-known Daring Fireball pointed out today that autocompletion is available in all OSX Cocoa-based applications. Straight from the horses mouth: The Cocoa text system has a built-in auto-complete feature that is tied to the … Read More »
Hands down, this is one of the most insightful head to head comparisons between push e-mail offerings from Microsoft and RIM. The author breaks it down feature by feature and then determines (with color coding) which service is superior, inferior and competitive … Read More »
More Must Reads
