January, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2007

Roto Rooter offers Web Worker Nirvana

Web workers can work anywhere – but we all know that some settings are more pleasant than others. All other things being equal, we’d rather make use of free wi-fi at a quaint little cafe or on the beach than be stuck in some leftover cubicle … Read More »

Could PS3 Price Cuts Be On the Way In the States?

There’s been a lot of negative talk about the PS3 lately, we all know that, but Sony seems to be getting the idea. One of the first things that many analysts mention when discussing the PS3 is its high price. Debuting in the U.S. at $600 … Read More »

 
 

Clubland Documentary Premiering Online

From the team that produced Cocaine Cowboys and Raw Deal, comes a new production, Clubland. This forty-episode documentary series about competing nightclubs in South Beach will be broadcast online starting in February (see it on MySpace). The relatively low production costs of … Read More »

Aperto Raises $19M

WiMAX hardware company Aperto Networks says it has raised a ‘follow-on Series E financing round’ of $19 million, to bring the company’s total capitalization to $139 million — GunnAllen Venture Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors. Mo WiMAX, mo money.Read More »

Coming through on their promise to provide more color, the folks from Roo Group called today to let CEO Rob Petty give some more explanation to the company’s recent investment deal with News Corp., and hinted that another similar deal with another large media company … Read More »

If you are a baseball fan, then you have seen Gary Sheffield swing the bat, you get a feeling that if the bat connects with the ball, then the leather is in for some serious hiding. The non scientific description of such an act is called … Read More »

Zink, DEMO Fav So Far

Zink Imaging, the inkless mobile printing company, is the unofficial DEMO favorite so far. Everyone I’ve talked to on the floor says Zink stole the morning show. The Massachusetts-based startup, is creating an ecosystem for new types of devices — mobile printers — with … Read More »

Mobile Industry Is All About the Benjamins

One of our favorite topics here at Giga Gamez is the mobile industry, and for good reason, it’s a booming industry. Mobile and casual gaming companies are reporting huge revenue increases, and there’s more action than ever before. In fact, according to analysts, by … Read More »

Isn’t interesting how all Vista arguments for or against lead around to Rome, er, Apple? Even NBC’s Today Show gave almost as much attention to Steve Jobs as they did to Bill Gates in their studio on Monday, talking about the launch of the new … Read More »

OKWAP S868: smartphone with a virtual scroll wheel?

This will either go down as a "gotta have it feature" or a "why did they do this" gimmick: this smartphone from Taiwan offers a virtual scroll wheel. The OKWAP S868 runs WinMo 5, has a 2.4-inch touchscreen, alpha-numeric keypad and 2 Megapixel CMOS. … Read More »

Vista, Amanda and Lord of the Rings

Should you upgrade to Windows Vista? The reality is that’s unrealistic to evaluate whether or not to upgrade to Vista based on a comparison to Mac OS X or Linux. If someone is talking about the state of healthcare in the United States, is moving … Read More »

Jaman Gets a Star Turn at DEMO

Jaman, the global movie download service that Om profiled here last year, got a star turn at the DEMO conference in sunny SoCal today. Our Katie F. is at DEMO and is live blogging, doing a quick take on the rapid-fire presentations. Check out her … Read More »

More Must Reads

If all you knew about Amanda Congdon was that she hosted an awkward infotainment show on ABCNews.com, I guess it might surprise that the same Congdon once shined as the dynamic anchor of the videoblog Rocketboom. Before showing up at ABC, Congdon wowed the Web as … Read More »

Earlier this week, jkOTR reader Scott tipped us on a new product launch from BoxWave we missed last week. Actually, Scott had the inside track since the new BoxWave screen protectors … Read More »

Sorry we didn’t get to this one earlier today, but Farecast, a pretty cool service that helps you predict and ensure the best time to buy air flights, has raised $12.1 million from Sutter Hill Ventures, PAR Capital Management, Pinnacle Ventures, Erik Blachford, Greylock … Read More »

Update#2: Folks, we are all done with Babelgum and Joost invites. I am working to get all of you who have already listed their email addresses the invites. Since I have to do it one email at a time, please bear with me. It might take … Read More »

As recently discussed, Sony’s game division is doing poorly this quarter. The development and manufacturing costs of the PS3, as well as taking a loss on the hardware, has dropped their profits by roughly 54%. Hey, that’s the business, right? You have to spend … Read More »

Its not the Innertubes, its HBO…. Okay HBO Online! Details details….but still pretty darn good deal for Hayden Black of Goodnight Burbank, who is creating a pilot for HBO Online. New show’s working title – “Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Vlog” Read More »

Hayden Black, the creator of mock news show Goodnight Burbank, has signed a deal to create a pilot for the new HBO Online, according to an anonymous source. The source tells us the new show’s working title is “Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Vlog” and Black will be … Read More »

About a week back, Matt, James and I were wondering when OQO was going to update their Model 02 product order page for Vista. Looks like they did yesterday, which of course, was timed to coincide with the Microsoft Windows Vista launch. Gorkon, a jkOTR … Read More »

Okay, so you don’t care about SuperBowl (Being a Dallas fan, I don’t) but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer through the entire thing, just to sound smart the next day around the office water cooler. iTunes will be able to help, and you … Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 88 is 33:48 minutes long and is a 31 MB file in MP3 format.INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta … Read More »

update#6: Hey folks, we live-blogged the first day DEMO sessions to give you guys a taste of the events, and then followed up that coverage with some more focused stories. Live-blogging on the first day was a little experiment, and we’re trying to gage how interesting … Read More »

The odds are pretty good that as a web worker you carry a PDA (or BlackBerry or iPod or some other small piece of expensive electronics). After the first few times of having it fall out of your shirt pocket or get scratched by your keys, … Read More »

MySQL, the open source database vendor and a key beneficiary of the Web 2.0 boom is planning to go public, by end of the year, CEO Marten Mickos told the Computer Business Review. MySQL had raised $18.5 million in series C funding in early … Read More »

Mobio Unveils Mobile Lifestyle Portal With Over 50 Dynamic Applications And Widgets CUPERTINO, Calif. – January 31, 2007 – Mobio Networks today announced its flagship product GetMobio, the first mobile lifestyle portal that offers consumers over 50 dynamic applications and widgets that work together and are based … Read More »

Eagle-eyed jkOnTheRun reader Alan Pozner found the Samsung Q1P on PC Connection that can be ordered with Vista.  The new Vistagami will set you back $1277 and is showing as “on order”, so no idea when it will actually be available.  This is good news … Read More »

Web Worker Daily reader Nick Heppleston asks: As an avid reader of the WWD and as a professional developer who is thinking about going solo, the one thing that is holding me back is the fear of new customers drying up. As a developer and not a … Read More »

No, don’t get excited yet.  I have been following all of the various Fujitsu support websites for the appearance of the official Fujitsu Vista drivers and utilities and I don’t think we have them available yet.  Here are the global sites I have tracked and what … Read More »

This morning I called up a contact I’d originally met in Austin at the South by Southwest Interactive conference last year, Marc Brown of Buzznet. While not the first company you’d think of as a leader in online video, Buzznet did add video to … Read More »

So there’s two new fantasy MMOs with high name recongition launching now. Only three years ago, gamers and the industry would greet that announcement with at least a modicum of enthusiasm. Now the general reaction is more likely to be, “But… why bother?” Sony Online’s … Read More »

Forget the commercials, the contests, the surrounding fluff: When it comes to the Super Bowl, give me the damn ball. And that’s just what the NFL has decided to do, announcing Tuesday that it will provide Super Bowl video highlights, as well as a 90-minute … Read More »

I was so excited to see that after five years, 50 million lines of code, and 5 billion spent that I could finally wipe out that OS X install for a Windows Vista Ultimate Edition with Office Ultimate Edition 2007. I’ve been saving all this time … Read More »

PALM DESERT, Calif. — The American Idol-style demos haven’t even started yet at the DEMO convention, where I arrived this afternoon, and already the clamoring PR machine is in full effect. Most of the 68 companies here have put their ‘message’ onto the wire already, and … Read More »

It’s bound to happen, you find yourself without an internet connection and no access to dictionary.com when you are editing emails or documents. You aren’t happy with the way your Word application is spelling certain words, or want to get the full definition before using … Read More »

OK, the Microsoft Origami Project team has hit the giant-sized "publish" button in Redmond and…..we’re waiting for the download to propogate through the servers. Maybe everyone is downloading Vista? Oh, I don’t … Read More »

At a media luncheon on Tuesday, Vince Broady, head of games and entertainment, gave an update on Yahoo TV and Yahoo Movies, both of which were redesigned last fall. Yahoo TV is now seeing 7 million unique visitors per month, he said, while Yahoo … Read More »

Yahoo is cooking up new media model — one that involves creating little-to-no content. The company is harnessing its ability to build online audiences around brands, something it trumpeted at a media lunch held Tuesday at its Sunnyvale headquarters. Throughout presentations from the Yahoo Media Group, a … Read More »

When people talk about handheld failures, it’s pretty hard to forget about the N-Gage, Nokia’s failed excursion into the mobile arena. The N-Gage came on to the scene in 2003 and by 2005 it was on its way out. When the news hit that Nokia had … Read More »

The consortium of content providers and hardware manufacturers that backed AACS encryption finally admitted that hackers successfully pilfered the encryption keys. [Reuters] The good news about Windows Vista is it’s launching with some interesting P2P features like “People Near Me.” The bad news is the … Read More »

I’m on the fence with the new D.A.V.E. device that Seagate announced on a recent PodTech video. I want to like the device, which is a small portable hard-drive with integrated wireless … Read More »

Obopay has acquired Billmonk, a web-based tool for settling shared bills. It’s a small deal, but one that I take a special interest in, cause we actually use Billmonk to run our household! (via TechCrunch) Read More »

It is never a good idea when the founder and chief executive officer of a start-up gets into a public fight with his ex-boss, claiming that he came up with the idea first. Yes, we are talking about Ferran Moreno, co-founder and CEO of Whisher, who has … Read More »

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