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Archive for January 2007

G’Night Burbank going to HBO Online

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 »

 
 

The not so long tail

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 »

KLIC’s KP-100 terrestrial-based locator

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 »

MobileTechRoundup podcast 88: news on new devices

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 »

DEMO 2007 Live

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 »

Protecting That PDA

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 prepping for an IPO

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 »

Mobile Lifestyle Portal to launch at DEMO today

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 »

More Must Reads

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 »

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