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The joint venture between the cable industry and Sprint Nextel launched Comcast’s Mobile Access today. The service is available in Portland and Boston. The turf wars continue.
Though the service is available to those with a Comcast cable connection, the broadband provider says the full value of the service comes when the subscribers also sign up [...]

The comparisons between the booming Yahoo Answers and the shuttering Google Answers (see our initial reporters’ log post from last night) are pretty stark. Google Answers wasn’t bad — it was an extremely cheap way to outsource random research questions and get a trustworthy result — but it never really took off. Furthermore, the product’s [...]

Nokia has partnered with Yahoo to offer Yahoo Mail and Messenger on cell phones that operate on Nokia’s Series 40 platform. Some of the mobile messaging startups we’ve written about recently might be in for trouble if the handset makers and carriers start to do more of these messaging deals with the Yahoos, AOLs, Microsofts [...]

Yesterday it was YouTube, today Revver says it will offer its video content on Verizon Wireless’ VCast service. Revver’s model of sharing revenues with its video makers will still apply over VCast, and the deal is exclusive for a year. How many more deals will Verizon sign to bring in users to the over-priced VCast?

The web isn’t based around topics anymore. On an increasing number of web pages, it’s hard to align content along a tidy vertical and sell ads against it. Social networks, especially, are full of users chatting, musing, and relating to one another – and rarely does that conversation confine itself to a sellable topic like [...]

Techmeme and its sister sites have all gone mobile for easy consumption on your mobiles.