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 »
Archive for February 2007
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 »
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 »
If you’ve been waiting for the HP Pavilion tx1000 notebook that we saw last month, the wait is over. Warner at GBM tells us… Read More »
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 »
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 »
We reported on the addition of traffic data on Google Maps for mobiles last summer and now the service comes to the desktop. Google announced this morning that traffic… Read More »
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