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 »
Archive for April 2007
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 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 »
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.
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 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 »
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 »
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