April 27, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for April 27, 2007

When we looked at the back page of Friday’s Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent case with Verizon, with what looked like some black-pen editing, the… Read More »

Last night’s presidential debate featuring candidates for the Democratic Party nomination hosted by MSNBC was available live at their website. Candidates fielded questions from Brian Williams as well as from good old “regular Americans,” and focused on the issue of the Iraq war. Read More »

 
 

We don’t have any details at the moment, but you might be interested in this Robert Scoble post from earlier today. Here’s a short excerpt: "I am hanging out with a bunch of Charles River Ventures partnersthis week in Phoenix and one of them, Mobeus,… Read More »

King Ed Walks into the Sunset

Ed Whitacre, having realized his dream to put together AT&T (well almost) is walking into the sunset, ready to hang up his gun sling, and enjoy life. The AT&T CEO is going to hand over the reins of the sprawling Ma Bell Empire to his… Read More »

Update: Rocketboom, the internet video show (vlog) has decided to opt out of Abbey Corps, an online video project that wanted to become a new kind of a network for the post-TV video content. We confirmed this information with Andrew Baron, earlier today. Abbey Corps made… Read More »

Sites like Gmail, Google Reader and del.icio.us are essential, functional and extensible. We live in them. But aesthetically, they don’t win raves out of the box. Thank goodness a web application’s look & feel is only skin deep. With a few add-ons and… Read More »

It’s that time of year again — when crotchety old men gather around novelty helmet phones to pluck the fruits of the NCAA’s talent orchard, selecting a handful of 21-year-olds from the thousands who have been chasing the dream, risking life and limb on the gridiron… Read More »

Digg fans are getting their own Wayback Machine type mashup for locating lost Digg stories. DuggBack is a site that helps you find removed stories using a mix of mirrors and caches. The service uses the Digg API, and mirror services from DuggMirror, Coral CDN,… Read More »

Do PS3 owners want a Third Eye?

Sony unveiled a rather fugly PS3 camera yesterday coupled with a top-heavy noise-reducing microphone. The press release promises the device “will enable gamers to enjoy their [PS3] like never before.” Will it? We won’t know for sure until its release this summer for an… Read More »

Venture capital has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into companies building equipment to enable FMC (fixed-to-mobile convergence) products and services. To date, the cellular operator market opportunity has languished but the tide may be changing if the MVNOs take advantage of the technology. FMC, among other… Read More »

Forbes magazine recently published an article by YouTube CEO Chad Hurley in which Hurley explained the benefits, as he saw them, of partnering with YouTube. Hurley’s argument was twofold: That YouTube subverts the traditional media structure by democratizing distribution while simultaneously supporting that media structure… Read More »

Our first contest in our massive Geekapalooza contest was a smashing success but we’re not going to rest on our laurels, no siree.  It’s time to kick off the second contest in the series and some lucky winner is going to snap up a Samsung… Read More »

More Must Reads

Time Warner Cable is making some noise today about its formerly named ‘Mobile Access’ cellular service, now called Pivot. The company announced the service and posted a phone number on its web site where you can order it in certain markets. I’m not sure… Read More »

If you walk the Web 2.0 walk, there’s a strong attraction to the notion of keeping your data “in the cloud” – that is, using web-based applications to manage everything. From e-mail to appointments to project management to time-tracking to invoicing to document management to party… Read More »

WebWorkerDaily: Cashboard, a tool that keeps web workers working WebWorkerDaily: Web-based task management, in your space NewTeeVee: Neokast, a P2P streaming start-up offers some details NewTeeVee: Is there place for Long form Internet TV? Found+READ: Vesting hacks Part III:How to accelerate your vesting upon a… Read More »

In an announcement that shouldn’t surprise regular GigaOM readers in the slightest (warning signs emerged as far back as last February, and reached crescendo pitch in November and December), Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. just announced that CEO Ken Kutaragi, the… Read More »

Google has added ticker symbols on news in Google News. Users who have searched for public companies on Google News can now see the relevant ticker symbol(s) displayed at the end of the news cluster ( example). The ticker leads the… Read More »

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