Archive for November 2006
Kevin is such a HDTV nut that he suffers severe withdrawal pains when he has to leave his house. I’ve been searching high and low for a decent HDTV receiver that Kevin … Read More »
Skype has just released Skype 2.5 Beta for Mac that has features such as outbound SMS text messages and 10-way conference calling. The new software is more in sync with the UI. It has one cool feature, that I personally like. It shows the … Read More »
Gmail just launched a few new features — nice buttons, mail alerts within conversations, forwarding a whole conversation — and they’re all quite nice. But why stop there?
I personally am logged onto Gmail, Google Talk, and Google Calendar pretty much all my waking minutes. They … Read More »
Photo widget site Slide, led by PayPal mafia boss Max Levchin, has raised another round of funding from Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund. The amount is undisclosed, but VentureBeat reasonably conjectures it’s more than the $8 million the company raised last time around. … Read More »
AOL will on Wednesday make available AIM 6.0, bringing the largest instant messaging client up to speed with the rest of the web. It’s been a long time coming; version 5.0 of the client was released in July 2002.
The new client includes the addition of … Read More »
Conventional wisdom would say that more bandwidth is actually a good thing for VoIP. But that is not the case when it comes to ADSL2+, according to this article in the CommsBusiness. The article explains that in classic ADSL scenario when a file is being … Read More »
Malmö, Sweden-based Polar Rose just wrote in to tell us it has received $5.1 million in Series A funding from Nordic Venture Partners. The company promises it will offer facial recognition for all photos on the web, what Riya was doing before it Read More »
More Must Reads
By Om Malik
Nov. 14, 2006, 10:44am PT
CableLabs has announced a new testing initiative that will make multistream CableCARD (M-Card) a near term commercial reality. The M-Card will allow consumers to get digital cable services without the need for a special set top box, and will address some of the shortcomings of … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 14, 2006, 10:03am PT
We said yesterday it would likely take several years for mobile advertising to grow big enough to cause a major shift in the mobile industry — or in Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s terms, lead to free cell phones. Today Yahoo and … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 14, 2006, 9:44am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 14, 2006, 9:24am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 14, 2006, 8:54am PT
Looking for a another way to control or provide input to your desktop, laptop, Tablet or UMPC? If you have a Pocket PC with PPC 2002 or better, you can use it with PPC Tablet. This interesting application installs on your PDA and acts … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 14, 2006, 8:30am PT
By James Kendrick
Nov. 14, 2006, 8:10am PT
Wired Magazine has published an interview with author Richard Powers on the Wired web site and it also will appear in the dead-tree version. In the interview Mr Powers discusses how he writes on the Tablet PC because he finds it stimulates the creative process. … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 14, 2006, 7:27am PT
After buying Good Technology last week, Motorola said today it is buying the Emeryville, CA-based broadband hardware provider Netopia in a deal valued around $208 million. Motorola said the purchase will help the company in the DSL and IPTV markets, and will … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Nov. 14, 2006, 7:24am PT
Office 2007 has been released to manufacturing which basically means it’s finished but you can only get it with a MSDN subscription. I downloaded it yesterday and have now been using it for a day so it’s time for some very brief impressions. The first thing … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Nov. 14, 2006, 7:01am PT
The long awaited new ThinkPad Tablet PC from Lenovo has been announced today and information is flying about hot and heavy. The ThinkPad X60 is a lovely device with a 12.1 inch screen, integrated WWAN, 802.11n MIMO, WiFi, PC Card slot and up to 120 … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Nov. 14, 2006, 6:59am PT
TomeRaider is a very capable ebook reader for the Windows Mobile platform and a note I received from the developer clued me in to the new Symbian 60 beta version now available. The TomeRaider web site also has tons of books and reference material available … Read More »
By Chris Gilmer
Nov. 14, 2006, 4:57am PT
What do you use to take notes? Are you bombarded with yellow sticky notes when you sit down at your desk? What about accessing that yellow sticky on your desk when you are on the other side of the country, or down the street at the … Read More »
By Chris Gilmer
Nov. 14, 2006, 3:00am PT
Our friends from Scrybe got a hold of us, and let me know that I was unaware of some interesting new features that were hidden deep in the confines of the online application. As I posted earlier, Scrybe is an online planning … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 14, 2006, 12:39am PT
How fast can data travel over Ethernet? If you answered 10 Gigabit per second, then you would be off by about 90 gigabits per second. Infinera, a San Jose, Calif.-based start-up, along with University of California, Santa Cruz, Internet2 and Level3 Communications, today … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 13, 2006, 11:18pm PT
We are nearing the debut of an exciting transformation.
With a new name you will be hearing about later this week, we are going to become a site that tracks all things online video. In fact we have an unhealthy obsession with online video. Simply put, we … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Nov. 13, 2006, 9:21pm PT
The Microsoft UMPC team is hosting a webcast covering the devlopment of applications for the UMPC under Vista. From Microsoft:
An ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) is a fully functional computer that is small, mobile, and runs a complete version of a Windows operating system (currently Windows XP … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 13, 2006, 9:06pm PT
By James Kendrick
Nov. 13, 2006, 8:28pm PT
Kevin mentioned Podlinez and the cool way you can listen to the latest episode of the MobileTechRoundup podcast on your cell phone and I tried it out and aside from the long distance call it’s really cool. I visited Podlinez a few minutes ago and … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 13, 2006, 7:03pm PT
Yup, we sell these babies in our Amazon store, but right now you can’t touch this deal at Circuit City. This is not an affiliate deal for us … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Nov. 13, 2006, 6:46pm PT
Fox Interactive has made a bid of less than $5 million dollars for online photo-sharing startup BubbleShare, according to our sources. Talks have been going on for a while now, but the deal is not closed. Some details of the acquisition spilled in blog posts … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 13, 2006, 4:59pm PT
By Om Malik
Nov. 13, 2006, 4:52pm PT
If search volume is any indication, PlayStation 3 might surprise all the naysayers, including yours truly.
Online searches for ‘playstation 3’, increased 171 percent for the week ending November 11, 2006 compared to two weeks ago, the week ending October 28, 2006. Searches for ‘nintendo wii’ increased … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 13, 2006, 4:29pm PT
TextMarks, a startup that has an SMS service targeted at small communities, emailed us this weekend to say they have added widgets for web sites (yes, like MySpace). The widgets enable users to send a text message to update their web page, … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Nov. 13, 2006, 3:18pm PT
VCs spend how much time on online video? (via the Merc)
“I now spend about 60 percent of my time’” looking at video-related start-ups, said investor Mike Maples, who manages a $15 million microfund.
Venture capitalist Jim Breyer of Palo Alto-based Accel Partners, which has already made … Read More »
By James Kendrick
Nov. 13, 2006, 2:49pm PT
One of the coolest features of the Windows Mobile Pocket PC is the Today Screen, along with all the fun and productive plug-ins that you can get from third party developers. Oh sure, the plug-ins that Microsoft provides with the Windows Mobile OS are functional … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 13, 2006, 1:56pm PT
By Liz Gannes
Nov. 13, 2006, 1:06pm PT
Last week was all about widgets, but now we’re onto mashups. It’s not so big a leap, really! In today’s edition, dispatches about mashup proliferation from 30 Boxes, BusinessWeek, ProgrammableWeb, and Google.
First up, 30 Boxes said today it was releasing tools to … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 13, 2006, 12:23pm PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 13, 2006, 11:09am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Nov. 13, 2006, 10:29am PT
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 13, 2006, 9:53am PT
