Adding a somewhat curious twist to its Internet-based calling scheme, Skype Wednesday announced a new program called SkypeFind, a business-recommendation and rating system that is integrated into the company’s latest beta client for Windows-based PCs. Continue »
Archive for February, 2007
NHL says blocked embeds were glitch
Latest update to our story on NewTeeVee, NHL says it didn’t tell YouTube to disable any embedding of its videos, and says any blocked embedding was a glitch on their end that “has since been corrected.” We’ve noticed several have now been fixed. Earlier this morning NHL said: “We’re trying to determine why this happened…it wasn’t at our request. We have a call into YouTube and should be able to tell you more later today.” Continue »
2007, the year of the tech IPO?
Business 2.0’s Michael Copeland argues that 2007 is going to be the biggest year for technology initial public offerings, and has a list of six companies likely to go public which includes some surprising names like Art.com, Postini and Zappos.com. Continue »
Cisco buys XML startup Reactivity
It has been a few years since Cisco Systems (CSCO) outlined a vision for what the San Jose based company calls Applications-Oriented Networking or AON. Think of it as Cisco-twist on Services Oriented Architecture! Like optical, high performance routing, storage and consumer, AON has been identified by CEO John Chambers as an area of strategic importance and future growth. Continue »
Mozes Raises $5M
Cell phone text message promotion startup Mozes says it’s raised $5 million in a first round of venture funding from Norwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. I ended up signing up for Mozes because it has a mobile service for the music festival NoisePop, which I’ll be at next week. Sweet. Continue »
Share your desktop with Yahoo Messenger
Unyte Lyte is an interesting little plugin for Yahoo messenger that allows you to share your desktop with others, and adds a little pizzaz to web conferencing, though it is much better for mundane tasks such as sharing desktops. It is a Windows only offering for now. Continue »
Motorola looking for game developers
First Virgin Airlines, and now Motorola - looks like game developers are very much in demand. Continue »
GrandCentral adds Gizmo Support
GrandCentral, the single-phone-number Web-based service launched last fall, is adding support for the free Gizmo Project Internet VoIP service, which may open up a whole new way to decrease spending on international or long-distance calling. Continue »
Jet-whacked
Just a short programming alert: after three days of no-sleep, jet lag is beginning to take its toll. You all know how lack of sleep is injurious to one’s grammer, so instead of inflicting more spelling-mistakes on you, I’m calling it an early night. See you tomorrow. Continue »
Future of portable storage… bacteria
A tiny MicroSD can storge many gigabytes - a miracle when compared to say five years ago. But given the size of our files, videos and what not, even that might now be enough. Answer to our growing need for storage is bacteria-based storage. I am not sure if I am ready for something like that. Will bacteria-based storage replace electronics in our daily work? Continue »
