AOL Video is running a promotion Saturday, giving away more than 30 free movie downloads. Can’t find the press release they emailed us online, but here’s a summary. You’d think all the competition in this space would bring prices down. Well, for one day at least,… Read More »
Archive for November, 2006
It’s hard to escape hearing about the launch of Microsoft’s Vista operating system for business customers today — especially with Steve Ballmer calling it “the biggest launch in our company’s history.” The consumer version won’t be widely available until January. With all the delays in the… Read More »
Yahoo emailed us and said they are testing a mobile messaging and social networking site aimed at the youth market called Mixd. One aspect of the site is the ability to start a group from a cell phone and use “reply to all” for SMS. Uh-oh… Read More »
We’ve written a few times about the startup Meraki Networks, which is building a business off of wireless mesh hardware and software based on the MIT’s Roofnet project. Google has been very interested in the Mountain View-based startup as a way to extend its WiFi network… Read More »
A hyper-hectic visit to New York, coupled with news breaking thick and fast, I almost forgot to blog about my recent book review of Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu and Richard Schmalensee for the Wall Street Journal. The book looks at rise… Read More »
Vinod Khosla, who recently set up his own venture firm, Khosla Ventures, has invested $6.2 million in iSkoot, the Cambridge, MA-based Skype-to-mobile extender service, according to PE Hub. Khosla has become quite active lately and has invested in companies like Slide and iLike. iSkoot has been… Read More »
First it was Ciena, and now Nortel is doing a reverse split, hoping to add some respectability to their stock price. The beleaguered telecom equipment maker which has been constantly resetting itself since the telecom bust, is going for 1-for-10 reverse split. The current share price… Read More »
