April, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 2007

In Michigan, BPL moves forward

Nearly 10,000 homes in and around the city of Grand Ledge, west of Michigan’s capital, Lansing will soon be part of a Broadband over Powerline (BPL) pilot project that is being developed by utility.net, a LA-based BPL network services provider. The broadband service will be offered at… Read More »

It has been a constant theme of ours – carrier consolidation is going to cause some serious pain for telecom equipment makers. By using their dominant position, they can squeeze the proverbial blood from stone. Tellabs learned this hard lesson and reported a drop… Read More »

 
 

Google Snarks Back Against Viacom

Google filed a response to Viacom’s allegations of complicity in widespread copyright violations on YouTube today in New York’s federal district court. The suit, brought by Viacom, is seeking $1 billion in damages. Google has asked for a jury trial, and the San Jose… Read More »

I want my MTV (Executive)

It is not unusual for us to read about a senior Yahoo executive leaving to either start, or work for a start-up. Some are joining venture firms, like Andrew Braccia who was Yahoo’s vice president of consumer web search, and just joined Accel Partners. Read More »

It amounts to a hill of beans and then some. U.S.-based video startups gathered $682.17 million in venture capital funding in 2006, according to statistics gathered by Dow Jones/VentureOne and emailed to NewTeeVee. The amount was spread across both infrastructure and consumer plays, 74 companies in… Read More »

If you’ve got the chops to read the Russian or you want to cheat and read someone else’s translation, you too can add a clock in your Sony… Read More »

If there just isn’t enough Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cindy Lauper or Mudhoney in your online life, then you’ll be happy to know that VH1 Classic is making an effort to serve your needs. Their new site rollout is more video-centric, and features playlists compiled… Read More »

None other than Hugo Ortega received an OQO Model 02 complete with a double-capacity battery and docking station. In typical and fun Hugo style, he shares the unboxing… Read More »

China’s online video startups might have been the hot venture trend over the past year — see Jackson’s wistful note about making a career change — but are they making any money yet? Not so much, and it won’t likely happen for a while for… Read More »

Why E-Books Will Succeed

Why will e-book readers succeed? Not because e-books are good replacements for paper books — but because they’re good complements to paper books and documents, especially for work-related reading rather than pure pleasure. Time and again we see that technology doesn’t have to mean an end to… Read More »

The Geekapalooza contest celebration continues; we’ve already given away a Vista Ultimate license and a Samsung i320 smartphone. What’s next on the digital docket: how about an… Read More »

Quote 4/30/07

My start up was featured in a major news magazine. So I show up at a holiday party, magazine in hand and feeling good, only to have cold water splashed on me when I tried to explain social networking to the relatives. ‘But why would anyone… Read More »

More Must Reads

Following a rather weak first quarter earnings report and a dismal outlook, some feared that Motorola was going to start dumping excess inventory and into the market, and start aggressive discounting. Apparently that might have started already. SMS Text News reports… Read More »

Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video: Of course there’s YouTube video of the Bay Bridge fire. Didn’t think pavement could melt, didja? (SF Gate) Short versions of old TV shows coming to the web, says Sony, like 5-minute versions of… Read More »

We are all probably great at technology and product development. But I bet many of us lose our footing when it comes to marketing. *I need some advice on Marketing Do’s and Dont’s.* Could members of the FoundREAD community offer posts dedicated to things like: establishing effective public… Read More »

You can probably file this in the ‘And who reads those anyway?’ category, but Apple has updated the boilerplate on its press releases to include the iPhone — a clear indication of how important they consider the upcoming device. If you’ve ever had the pleasure to read… Read More »

I am sitting in a restaurant checking my email on the Fujitsu P1610 when the waitress comes over to take my order. The young kid sees me working on the Fuji and asks “is that a touch screen?” I tell her yes and she says “Ooh, that… Read More »

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