January, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for January 2007

"Year of the Online Game" – O Rly?

Google is looking to get into games, according to CNN Money, and before this week is out, should be announcing a deal to buy Adscape Media Inc., and through them, work with publishers to feed ads through the Internet into their online games. (Presumably, … Read More »

Since customer service and support are a necessary part of our mobile lives, I’ve decided to blog bits and pieces of how Samsung handles my issue with Sammy. When not sleeping … Read More »

 
 

Love Thy Zon Tube

One part Amazon, one part video, and a whole lot of fun. Thanks to ZonTube, a new cool mash-up coming our way via Lifehacker. Oh the web was so made for this kind of mashery! Read More »

One week left before the Vista launch and Download Squad provides a Vista tip worth sharing: Outlook Sidebar Gadgets. If you hit the Windows Live Gallery and … Read More »

A Paris-based startup called Advestigo has packaged its digital video fingerprinting technology in a $15,900 (and up) appliance to be hooked up to video networks (warning: link is to PDF). The company claims each box would be able to handle 3,000 uploads per day. Video … Read More »

Note Taking Application Faceoff

Whether you’re writing a simple article for a blog, piecing together the next blockbuster hit, or penning a 500 page romance novel, there are quite a few options for helping you get all of that information organized and drafted. There really are enough to chose from … Read More »

Office 2008: Goodbye iWork?

The nail may just be in the coffin. Those of you who were paying attention last week may have seen the many screenshots of Office 2008 for Mac floating around. While it’s tough to gauge an application package as big as Microsoft Office on … Read More »

LifeHacker has found a great site which matches up Amazon’s music listings with music video listings from YouTube. Search ZonTube for an artist, album or song, click on a result, and then click ‘Play’ under the album art. The page will load … Read More »

Nothing Remote about Control Anymore

The title of this piece is a quote from Nancy Robinson, VP & Consumer Strategist at Iconoculture (from this recent CNET article). Now that’s a great quote! It’s right up there with something a very close friend/mentor used to say in the … Read More »

InformationWeek compares the smartphone platforms

This might be the most detailed smartphone platform summary I’ve seen in some time. InformationWeek has a lengthy overview on all of the main smartphone systems out there and provides a great comparison between Symbian, Linux, Palm, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and of course, the Mac OS … Read More »

MuniFi’s Weak Link: Public Use

Craig Settles, a consultant who studies all things MuniFi, sent out a report last night that says public access of city-wide Wi-Fi networks “will be widely viewed as financially the weakest pillar in the business case for municipal wireless,” by the end of 2007. Instead, … Read More »

I don’t know about you, but my plans tonight are being organized around the new episode of NBC’s breakout hit “Heroes” at nine — after all, “a new hero makes a shocking debut!” Also making their debut are a bunch of new features … Read More »

More Must Reads

Just a quick update on the competition between old-school telecom and upstarts like VoIP provider Vonage: Last week, AT&T announced its Unity pricing scheme, which cuts some roaming and per-minute costs for people who subscribe to both its wireless and wireline offerings. According to the … Read More »

Is Lee Crawford developing a new hosted online gaming platform at TwoFish? Read More »

In-game advertising is a popular subject nowadays. With in-game advertising becoming more and more popular as a way to earn extra revenue from gaming or to fund your project outright, there are plenty of opportunites out there to profit. What better way to pay for your … Read More »

These past few days there has been an interesting conversation about web-based RSS readers, including some comments about Google Reader’s growing popularity. The meme was sparked off after Leann Prescott, an analyst with Hitwise, posted an overview of the web-based RSS readers. Interestingly, the … Read More »

Vancouver-based mobile services management startup Mobidia says it’s added $3.2 million (3.75M Canadian) to its series A round (bringing the total to about $6 million,) led by existing investor BDC Venture Capital and including … Read More »

VGA iTunes compatible version (MP4 format, 640 x 480, 87.4 MB,13 minutes) VGA Windows Media Player version (WMV format, 640 x 480, 71 MB, 13 minutes) The Microsoft Origami Project team was generous enough to provide us the forthcoming Origami Expereience software and we give … Read More »

In this morning’s stories on NewTeeVee I mention no less than five companies whose name started with “pod”: PodShow, Podtrac, Podbridge, Podscope, and Podzinger. Seriously, they should just put smush those three letters onto one key on my keyboard! The funny thing is, the two … Read More »

Kiptronic, a San Francisco-based startup that coordinates dynamic ad insertion for audio and video podcasts, will announce today or tomorrow that it has raised $4 million in venture capital funding. The Series A round was led by Blueprint Ventures and Prism VentureWorks, and included existing … Read More »

Seems like there are a lot of new and interesting game companies showing up lately. Especially companies that are taking a different approach to the online business model. Twofish, a Lee Crawford company, has been raising venture capital since last year and are currently … Read More »

One thing many web workers have in common is that we’re also chair workers. It’s not too likely that you’re out in the sun working up a sweat as you go about your daily job. More likely, you’ve gotten engrossed in some intricate online task, and … Read More »

Networking startup Stoke is set to announce a $20 million Series C round of investment Monday, with a heavyweight list of VCs backing the rollout of its so-called multi-access gateway. While you may not want to dive so deep into the particulars of Stoke’s carrier-infrastructure offering, … Read More »

Last week, we saw a pretty exciting demo of a brand-new “AdSense for video“-enabling technology from speech recognition firm Nexidia. Sure, the demo depended on canned examples, but the product had only been available for three days at the point Drew Lanham, senior vice president … Read More »

Dear readers, We here at NewTeeVee Virtual HQ want to drop a note to apologize for any hiccups on the site. Over the weekend we moved NewTeeVee to be hosted on WordPress.com, and encountered a few unexpected issues. Most notably, for those of you wondering about truncated … Read More »

Earlier this morning, Cisco Systems and 3i along with Oman Investment Fund announced a $125 million investment in Nimbus, a media company based in Bombay. And with this big investment, thus began another crazy year of private equity investments in India. The PE investments in India … Read More »

Put this in the category – VCs say the strangest things. Tim Draper, doesn’t believe much there is much of a future for the fine art of writing amongst kids. During his opening keynote at Wharton Private Equity Conference, he argued that writing became … Read More »

Listen here ( MP3, 20.8 MB, 60 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link  (RSS) Marc Orchant and James Kendrick sit down (finally) for show #34 and have a chance to ruminate on finally meeting face to face at … Read More »

We’re web workers and for the most part, we’re comfortable with technology. We’re not as put off as the typical user is by having yet another login username and password, or a new line of icons in our toolbars. Bring it on, we say, we like … Read More »

In preperation of the Windows Vista launch, I am trying to acclimitaize myself with Windows XP operating system, and have a brand new machine which I want to use for a week, and then compare it with my Vista experience. Since I spend most of my time … Read More »

Due to the tremendous response to our call for new Web Worker Daily bloggers, we’ve gotten behind in reviewing and responding to the many emails. Within the next week, we will be responding to those who have already applied. Because we now have an amazing pool of … Read More »

What’s the hot new job destination for B-Schoolers this year? Private Equity, reports Business Week, which doesn’t bode well for the business. In 1980s it was Wall Street and in 1990s it was Silicon Valley, and both those went through a massive bubble and were … Read More »

Here’s our weekly round-up of the top stories on Giga Gamez from last week. WJA explores the Second Life backlash. Guitar Hero II is one of the top selling console games in the States, and yet you can’t play it on the PS3. We talked … Read More »

UMPC enthusiasts like Kevin Tofel have been installing Vista on their UMPCs and delighting in how well the new OS runs on the under-powered PCs and we’re starting to see a lot of them blogging about how well Vista is running.  There is no doubt that … Read More »

The third edition of Mashup Camp was, as usual, free to attendees through the sponsorship of big and not-so-big software and web companies. Those companies don’t support Mashup Camp just because it’s a nice thing. They’re not just trying to get in good with … Read More »

The Sharp Zaurus enthusiast community is buzzing with the news that Sharp is shutting down production of the Zaurus line of PDAs in February.  The Sharp Zaurus is a Linux-based clamshell PDA that has a huge community of owners and developers thanks to its open-source foundation … Read More »

The whole Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) moniker has been confusing since the launch of the handheld devices, especially since the decision was made somewhere to drop the Origami codename.  Since Ultra Mobile PC is a generic term people have been calling any small handheld a UMPC, … Read More »

Ever been somewhere that just completely bored you, like a doctor’s office or stuck in submarine with a madman, and wished that you had some cool games on your cell phone? My phone came with a crappy Bride of Dracula game and I STILL play it … Read More »

Whether you use the great software from Spb Software House or not if you have a Windows Mobile device you should head over and join the newly launched Spb Club web site.  Run by the Spb folks, you’ll find all sorts of discussions about Spb … Read More »

The latest round in the battle over net neutrality has started, and as usual the telcos have their game plan sussed out and in widespread, synchronized action. The message? Google is bad, and wants to control the Internet to keep its cash pile growing. Telcos, meanwhile, … Read More »

Andrew Michael Baron, sometimes overly open about his personal business, posted an interesting disclosure on his blog this morning: his raw revenue numbers. Rocketboom brought in $247,412 in 2006 (well, the working was unclear so this could be his personal take, but since he’s … Read More »

When we write about mobile technology on jkOnTheRun we usually focus on the hardware or software gadgets that help us make the most of our time away from the desk.  Nothing wrong with that as it’s the fun side of mobile tech that most everyone … Read More »

These days, there’s so much news and opinion online that the web worker hardly needs to resort to magazines and newspapers. Still, there are times when you can’t get to the web–like on a plane as I was yesterday for four hours–and times when you might … Read More »

Earlier this morning, AT&T announced its Unity plan, a nifty marketing ploy that would allow big-spending AT&T wireless and wireline customers to call each other for free. Beyond the headlines, the announcement really is a quick justification of Ed Whitacre’s merge and grow strategy. Moreover, … Read More »

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