Archive for December 2006
The line between handheld game consoles and mobile phones just keeps getting blurrier and blurrier. According to this Games Industry report, Konami has announced that they’re going to make several of their classic games available as demos on their new mobile portal. … Read More »
Networking industry insiders must be feeling left out of this so-called technology resurgence. To counter the Web 2.0 deals, today the industry came up with one of its own: Ericsson is buying Redback for about $1.9 billion. That’s about $25 a share, and a … Read More »
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ericsson is acquiring Redback Networks, maker of broadband routing gear for $25 a share, or $2.1 B, further accelerating the consolidation of the telecom equipment-supplier market. The company just pushed out a press release and point out that they … Read More »
Finding news so you don’t have to:
Crisis TV: Josh Spear finds a non-profit that funds and distributes reporting on humanitarian crises around the world. “WEdia.tv covered the famine in Mali and Niger, and its footage was picked up by every major American network … Read More »
Over the weekend, I ordered more RAM for my MacBook Pro. I’ve installed RAM in so many different machines over the years, I’ve lost count. I even did it on an original Bondi iMac which is not for the faint of heart.
This morning it took me … Read More »
Netsuite, Clearwire, and who knows even Facebook: what’s your take on the technology IPOs in 2007. Up, down or flat.
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One of the newest tech companies joining advertising with user-generated video is San Francisco-based Podaddies (say it Po-daddies, like a Creole sandwich). We caught up with CEO Nate Pagel this week to get a teaser on what the company hopes to do.
Pagel is probably in … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Om Malik
Dec. 19, 2006, 1:17pm PT
One of the big arguments made in the favor of WiMAX becoming a viable broadband option is the economies of scale. Many proponents of the technology believe that global standards at certain specific ranges of frequencies could allow chip makers access to a big market that … Read More »
By Rob Sayers
Dec. 19, 2006, 12:48pm PT
Soulver is a unique calculator application for the Mac. Instead of the standard Keypad/Pseudo LCD that most programs use, Soulver takes quite a different approach to number crunching.
Using Soulver is pretty much a matter of typing out what you want to know. … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 19, 2006, 12:48pm PT
Jason Calacanis is suddenly in love with LinkedIn, finding it a crucial business tool, instead of an annoyance. He likes their job-search features. Finally good to see that he is figuring out some of the good things about LinkedIn, though annoying email requests are … Read More »
By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 19, 2006, 12:44pm PT
This type of headline should give pause to any mobile computer user that plans to run Vista, but I’m still on the fence with my opinion. InfoWorld indicates that "Vista could sap notebook PC battery life", the thoughts being:
Extra power is needed for … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Dec. 19, 2006, 12:39pm PT
“The bottom line is that the page view has outgrown its usefulness. The industry needs to embrace change and develop new metrics that measure this new world more accurately,” writes Peter Daboll, Yahoo’s “Chief of Insights,” and former CEO of comScore, on the Yahoo blog. … Read More »
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 19, 2006, 11:51am PT
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 19, 2006, 11:08am PT
By Om Malik
Dec. 19, 2006, 10:34am PT
As they say, too much of a good thing sometimes is not all that good. Yesterday’s nice facelift and video enhancements brought down Digg earlier this morning, taking it out for nearly two hours. That is a first for Digg, which has worked hard to … Read More »
Call it American Idol voting meets the NPR crowd: PBS says it will use the Internet to “audition” three potential science shows, with online viewers voting in the winner. According to the PBS science Web site:
Here’s the experiment: PBS will broadcast three new science … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Dec. 19, 2006, 9:52am PT
Earthlink officially launched its MuniFi network in Milpitas, California today. The 10-square mile network is the company’s second live network in California after Anaheim (maybe some day San Francisco will get there too.) For the occasion the company is offering free WiFi service for … Read More »
Ever wonder how to save the videos you see on YouTube, MetaCafe, Veoh and the like so that you can store them or take them on the road? What used to involve some complicated steps is now as easy as copying and pasting a URL … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 19, 2006, 9:28am PT
GigaGamez is reporting that Doublefusion, an in-game advertising network has received $26 million in fresh funding from likes of Norwest, Time Warner and Hearst.
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By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 19, 2006, 9:28am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 19, 2006, 9:14am PT
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 19, 2006, 9:04am PT
The number of hardcore gamers is on the rise, for sure, and with the introduction of the Wii, we may be seeing more enter the ranks. The Wii is kind of like a gateway drug: once people that usually wouldn’t play a game console see some … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Dec. 19, 2006, 8:32am PT
By Kevin C. Tofel
Dec. 19, 2006, 7:59am PT
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 19, 2006, 7:54am PT
By Chris Gilmer
Dec. 19, 2006, 5:30am PT
Working in a comfy location, like the confines of your home office or local cafe could potentially aid in the relaxation and slacking in the work department. With no cubicles to pass the time working or suffer in a grey sea of boredom, what keeps you … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 19, 2006, 2:00am PT
Transglobal fiber networks that crisscrossed the planet were the most visible and expensive manifestation of the broadband boom (and later the bubble) of 1990s. Thanks to overbuilding, collapsing prices and shady dealings, the boom turned to a bust, and before we knew it, long haul networks … Read More »
By Liz Gannes
Dec. 19, 2006, 1:00am PT
Polar Rose is announcing Tuesday that it plans to release Firefox and Internet Explorer plug-ins that make use of its facial recognition technology early next year. The company hopes to build an index of shared photographs online, matching faces with labels provided by its users.
Malmö, … Read More »
VeriSign, a company better known for its security and domain businesses, is launching a content delivery network called VeriSign Intelligent CDN. It’s new territory for VeriSign, but a logical extension of its $62 million purchase of Kontiki earlier this year.
Prior to the acquisition, Kontiki … Read More »
Andy Plesser of Beet.TV let us know that he has tied up one of the first arrangements for a revenue share with Google Video. You can see an Allstate Insurance ad following a clip of Plesser interviewing Chad Hurley (second video in this post).
Google … Read More »
By Jackson West
Dec. 18, 2006, 5:30pm PT
By Pierre Khawand of People-OntheGo
A radio announcer was talking once about the qualities that he is looking for in a life partner. In summary, he said that he was seeking someone who has the looks of Cindy Crawford, the heart of mother Teresa, the brain … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 18, 2006, 5:00pm PT
Over the weekend, we wrote about Google & Orange’s plans to work on what amounts to be a Google Phone. Some folks wrote in and pointed out that close relationship between Google & Orange isn’t that difficult to imagine. For instance, one tipster reminded us … Read More »
By Om Malik
Dec. 18, 2006, 4:40pm PT
By Paul Kapustka
Dec. 18, 2006, 4:23pm PT
By Jackson West
Dec. 18, 2006, 3:30pm PT
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 18, 2006, 3:01pm PT
By Jason McMaster
Dec. 18, 2006, 3:01pm PT
There’s a new game company opening up in San Diego named Areae. As a company, Areae will specialize in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs). Normally, a new company entering into the MMO market wouldn’t garner too much attention, but this one has a … Read More »
