Archive for February 2007
Microsoft Corp. and Alcatel-Lucent seems to have decided to enact some of the popular themes seen on day time, thus spicing up the technology headlines this morning. Unless they bury their hatchet soon, this feud is going to end up costing telecoms billions.
Microsoft (MSFT) has … Read More »
It’s been almost a year since Kevin Tofel joined me here at jkOnTheRun and he’s been a tremendous contributor to the site. He contributes a lot of good information that is often quoted and linked to by other bloggers which is great. So what’s the … Read More »
We’ve been all over the evolution of the flash hard drive here on jkOnTheRun because of the impact it can have on mobile PCs in the areas of performance and battery life. The largest capacity flash HDD was 128 GB until Adtron announced a new … Read More »
ETel, the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference is going to kick off on February 27th, with the GigaOM/ETel LaunchPad, followed by a special cocktail reception that we will be hosting at the conference venue, near the San Francisco airport. GigaTeam is going to be in … Read More »
The clock is ticking on start-ups that are capitalizing on the Iowa-based free calling schemes, as incumbents use their immense political, legal and fiscal muscles to shut down some of these services.
Like Allfreecalls.net, Fonpods and FreeConferenceCall.com are the latest to find a bullseye painted … Read More »
Everyone’s getting in on the ‘news‘ that Apple will supposedly be refreshing their entire line-up of Macs in this next quarter. That’s an awful tall order of things to come. But sounds interesting enough. I’m especially down with the talk of a … Read More »
Fox Interactive Media, the company behind MySpace, has decided to take control of some of its ever-increasing page inventory. FIM is betting that an acquisition of the online ad company Strategic Data Corp. is going help it better monetize its inventory, a subtle admission that it … Read More »
It’s hard to imagine a world where people are completely upbeat about the odds of the Nintendo Wii. It’s not like half of the news on the Internet is about how great the Wii is or how many puppies it has saved from drowning. Well, since … Read More »
Recently, Google put the moves on in-game advertising company Adscape which confused some of us at first. Adscape doesn’t have much in the way in the clients, but apparently that’s not what Google was looking at. Supposedly, among the things that Google acquired with … Read More »
Castfire, known for its podcast management system, is set to launch a video CMS in early March. Jackson over at NewTeeVee liked what he saw in an early demo from Castfire, so check out the post for more details and screenshots.
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More Must Reads
While Castfire isn’t exactly a household name, even among techies, the startup has been around for two years and provides audio content management software for a number of clients. In November, they signed a deal with C/Net to provide the software necessary to … Read More »
By Jason McMaster
Feb. 22, 2007, 7:01pm PT
You know, when I first heard about the Wii, I wasn’t all that excited. Though I’ve been a Nintendo fan since the NES, I wasn’t planning on getting one right away, but that’s when it happened. Nintendo has some sort of dark, marketing magic that just … Read More »
I don’t know where the folks at Gear Diary get all the stuff they give away. If you don’t believe me, hop over and check out their biggest give-away ever. They have 22 items up for grabs and it couldn’t be easier to enter, just leave … Read More »
From the head-scratching, why-is-this-news dept. comes a press release today of a deal between Revver and Verizon, under which Revver’s user-generated content will be available on Verizon’s fiber-based FiOS TV service “later this year.”
Run this by me again — I am paying a boatload … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 22, 2007, 3:01pm PT
So you want to ditch your corporate cubicle and join the ranks of web workers? But you have a mortgage, maybe a dependent or two, and a taste for Venti Mochas from Starbucks? You can make money in the new economy, though it might not be … Read More »
By Anne Zelenka
Feb. 22, 2007, 1:40pm PT
So you want to ditch your corporate cubicle and join the ranks of web workers? But you have a mortgage, maybe a dependent or two, and a taste for Venti Mochas from Starbucks? You can make money in the new economy, though it might not be … Read More »
By Wagner James Au
Feb. 22, 2007, 1:01pm PT
So here’s a fun but totally unscientific next gen console survey you can try doing on Google over the year, just like I did a few minutes ago:
Search “defective 360″: 2810 returns
Search “defective PS3″: 1570 returns
Search “defective Wii”: 931 returns
Therefore, unless someone set us up … Read More »
If you just can’t get into OneNote, Evernote or another note-taking application but you do want to snip, clip or save from the web, i-Lighter might be the browser add-on for you. … Read More »
James got me hooked on Booq bags about two years ago and I’ve never regretted my purchase. I have a Booq backpack that carefully caresses my Toshiba M205 and would hold any 12-inch notebook quite capably. In fact, I use it to carry my Samsung … Read More »
By Paul Kapustka
Feb. 22, 2007, 11:46am PT
Avaya announced today it would move to integrate its communications products with the Google Apps initiative, giving Google a partner with enterprise chops in its battle against Microsoft for the hearts and minds of corporate IT.
The holy grail of integrated communications — marrying voice with … Read More »
Diversion Media, publisher of broadband channels, announced the launch of Snowision, a video site for the snowboarding community.
Snowvision marks the second niche video site from Diversion, a New York-based company founded by Nicholas Butterworth, former CEO of MTV Interactive Group, and Tatum Lade, … Read More »
By Judi Sohn
Feb. 22, 2007, 10:22am PT
This morning, Google launched their long-rumored Google Apps Premier. It’s a hosted package aimed at businesses, featuring already-existing Google applications tied up in an ad-free bow, for a fee. While a lot will be said about Google’s frontal attack on Microsoft’s stranglehold on the … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 22, 2007, 9:53am PT
Alcatel-Lucent has invested in WiMAX chip maker, Sequans Communications. The investment is an extension of Sequans’ recent round of funding announced in July 2006. Sequans raised a total of $24 million thus far in its most recent (third) round of funding. Terms of the investment … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 22, 2007, 9:34am PT
So says Adams Media Research in their press release summing up the results of their “Video on the Internet” management report. That’s based on $1.7 billion in ad revenue from streamed content and $4.1 billion on pay-per-download models such as iTunes.
AMR’s analysis points … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Feb. 22, 2007, 9:19am PT
Yup, I’m such a sucker for anything related to HD, or high-definition. Still, when you can actually take 1280 x 720 (720p) video at 30fps on a … Read More »
By Jason McMaster
Feb. 22, 2007, 8:52am PT
There aren’t too many gamers nowadays that remember the TurboGrafx 16, let alone had one. I, sadly, can claim both. Though the TurboGrafx may have failed, a few fine games came out of it. Now it looks like mobile gamers are going to get to experience … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Feb. 22, 2007, 7:55am PT
Remember a while back when Access bought PalmSource and announced the next generation Palm OS based on Linux called ALP (Access Linux Platform)? Nothing much was heard after that until the 3GSM show a couple of weeks ago when Access was showing what it reportedly … Read More »
I get a lot of business cards and I must admit I keep them in stacks on my desk and enter them a few at a time into my contacts database when I have time. The NewSoft Biz Card Reader could change all that due … Read More »
While the New York Times wedding announcement section generally makes me nauseous, I know it’s a guilty pleasure of my mother’s. Especially since I’ve done nothing but let her down in the power-couple matrimony market on so many levels. That said, social strivers from … Read More »
Samsung is reportedly going to announce at CeBIT a new LCD monitor that has no VGA or DVI inputs, instead going with just a USB 2.0 input. The SyncMaster 940UX is a 19” monitor that should be released in May for Windows XP with Vista drivers … Read More »
The catch-22 of “I’m sorry” is that etiquette requires the apology, but people rarely believe the apologist. If you doubt that truism, let’s review the scorecard. Mel Gibson (sorry Jews), Michael Richards (sorry blacks), Isaiah Washington (sorry gays), and Hillary Clinton (sorry … Read More »
By Paul Kapustka
Feb. 22, 2007, 12:56am PT
Every now and then, Google does something to remind us all that despite its awesome market cap, in many ways it’s still a company learning the ropes of the new businesses its search success drags it into. The latest such gaffe, of course, is its slow … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 22, 2007, 12:12am PT
Google has always denied that it has any ambitions to take on Microsoft’s flagship and very lucrative Office business with its online apps. Not anymore.Fortune magazine “outs” Google’s office ambitions. The company has launched a paid version of its documents, spreadsheets, calendar and email … Read More »
