February, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for February 2007

BURLINGAME, Calif. — For too long, innovation in the Voice over IP world has simply meant cheaper calling plans. But Tuesday night at the inaugural Launch Pad event, a short list of innovators showed that era may be at an end, as truly interesting voice-enabled applications… Read More »

BURLINGAME, Calif. — We get knocked down, but we get up again — so promises Pat Phelan, CEO of Allfreecalls.net, which is offline now but working hard to reappear. One of the casualties of the legal pressure brought by AT&T against the Iowa-based free-calling operations,… Read More »

 
 

I have been using a T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 5 smartphone for almost a week now and enjoying the seamless web integration that T-Mobile has put into the Dash.  Push email, the T-Zones connectivity, even web browsing on the Dash has been a real joy.  I… Read More »

Blockbuster is again in talks to acquire studio-owned online movie service Movielink for less than $50 million in cash and stock, according to the Wall Street Journal. Blockbuster, having worked its tail off to compete with Netflix in the mail-order DVD business, is looking for… Read More »

What’s on GigaNet

WebWorkerDaily: Five ways to be nice to your eyes WebWorkerDaily: Seriosity, Seriously? GigaGamez: Next up, Ad-supported mobile gaming GigaGamez: MMOs meet MySpace NewTeeVee: Blockbuster to get VOD, via Movielink NewTeeVee: Sex, lies and videotape- Reality NewTeeVee GigaOm Jobs: HTML Production Engineer at Zimbra Read More »

News Corp is pooling its efforts to show FOX television programming on more than 200 broadcast affiliate web sites, according to a press release sent to us by Fox Interactive Media. In general, local stations have been less than happy with networks selling programs on demand and… Read More »

Introducing the GigaGamez Stock Tracker

Since GigaGamez is all about the business of games, it just makes sense that we would want to take a look at what’s happening when it comes to gaming technology in the stock market. We’re going to be following the market closely and keeping an eye… Read More »

Medion’s UMPC looks delayed

That’s what Steve over at Carrypad found out after an e-mail conversation with the UMPC product manager. Obviously, Steve carries more weight than I do as I shot a note to the PM… Read More »

Your eyes are the products of millions of years of evolution. Unfortunately, this means that they’re optimized for spotting prey across the savanna, not for peering at letters built up of little dots on tiny screens. In recent years, optometrists have come to recognize a complex… Read More »

Web-based word processors add collaboration and remote access to Microsoft Word, but little else. Often, their makers claim stripping down Word for the web is a selling point — they say complicated functions would be better left to a desktop app. But Boston-based startup Virtual… Read More »

Google Maps Traffic: not just for mobiles

More Must Reads

It’s all fun and games until somebody gets their eye poked out — or caught on camera, uploaded, cached and mirrored across the internets. Maria Puenta in the USA Today article “Hello to less privacy” draws some rather dire conclusions from the countless crotch… Read More »

Mobile video startup MobiTV says it’s passed 2 million paying subscribers, which is double what the company had a year ago. I’m not much of a fan of the mobile video over 3G viewing experience right now, but it looks like more people are signing… Read More »

Three words: "It’s about time!". At this point, I wonder why most, if not all relatively new digital cameras don’t have a way to connect to a high-definition television set. Here’s why:… Read More »

If you sat through the too-long, too-boring narcissist display of Hollywood’s utter lack of creative imagination this past Sunday, aka the Oscars 2007, you know there is no way you want to watch the self congratulatory drivel ever again. All you want to do is watch the… Read More »

This is either a ridiculously silly idea, or it will revolutionize how we deal with business email. SecondLife and similar virtual reality worlds have taken our work lives and turned it into a game. But can we take a game and turn it into a new… Read More »

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