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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 kind […] Read more »

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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. MSNBC’s debate page […] Read more »

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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, just […] Read more »

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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 longtime […] Read more »

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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 »

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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 tweaks, it’s easy […] Read more »

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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 »

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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, Wayback […] Read more »

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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 undisclosed price. […] Read more »

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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 […] Read more »

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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 by […] Read more »

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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 the service […] Read more »

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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 »

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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 sale Read more »

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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 “father of the Playstation”, will leave […] Read more »

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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 user to the corresponding company […] Read more »

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Linda Epstein has published a review of the HP tx1000 Entertainment Notebook and it is a typically thorough review of the newest touch-screen notebook from HP.  The tx1000 is an entertainment powerhouse with a lot of design features geared to make the user experience an enjoyable […] Read more »

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You may not be aware that MobileTechRoundup co-host Matt Miller is in Spain attending the S60 Summit (lucky bugger stiff) and he’s blogged about the new widget capability that’s being touted for the S60 platform.  What are widgets for the S60?  I’ll let Matt explain: Widgets […] Read more »

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Web work is fun, but getting paid is important too, and if you’re an independent there’s no accounting department to handle that for you. A relatively new application, Cashboard, offers a new take on this essential activity perfect for those who use the web as their […] Read more »

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It’s highly appropriate that Neokast, the still-mysterious streaming video startup, is showing a bit of its chops by supporting a live stream of some eagles hatching in the wild. Cautiously, slowly, Neokast is emerging from the egg, almost ready to fly. Yet we’re still not sure […] Read more »

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I’m a programmer with an Idea. I have a working demo. I have the funds to cover hardware, bandwidth, software development cost, ect. I am currently doing most of the development myself, using Odesk hires, and hiring friends for contract work, with no formal contracts. *When […] Read more »

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This is the fourth and final article in a series of Venture Hacks on how to get the most out of your founder’s equity. Our previous vesting hacks have discussed getting vested for time served, acceleration upon termination, and acceleration upon a sale. In conclusion, we […] Read more »

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Former MPAA chief Jack Valenti died Thursday at the age of 85. While a somewhat reviled figure among online critics, it was his job to be Hollywood’s lightning rod for criticism of copyright policy and the ratings system. “A gentleman, very old school” said Joi Ito, […] Read more »

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Boy, we must have made the first scavenger hunt in our contest series way too easy as the very first commenter nailed it right out of the box.  Akula is the lucky winner of the boxed Windows Vista Ultimate prize for correctly finding the first hands-on […] Read more »