June, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 2007

All of the hoopla must have worked its magic on me yesterday. Around 6:15 pm, 15 minutes after the Apple iPhone was available here in … Read More »

Reader Cody Blotske sent in this photo of the Miller Lite girls using a Tablet PC to collect visitor information for a contest at some unknown event.  I’m waiting for Cody to chime in to tell us where this event took place but he said this … Read More »

 
 

NewTeeVee Events

Our own GigaOM will be joining the Ask a Ninja team at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications’ BlogFerence in Herzliya, Israel which runs Sunday and Monday. Saturday in San Francisco, grab your laptop and head down to the Dogpatch for SF … Read More »

The excitement of June 29th has come and gone and today I, like many others, am reflecting back on my decision to tread into new territory by purchasing a phone … Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/iFN5367h8P4 Everyone’s probably heard about the iPhone (and the potential for Exchange syncing through IMAP) enough today, so here’s a quick video to introduce to an Exchange syncing solution for other phones: DataViz’s RoadSync for Exchange. It does cost $49.95, but provides Direct Push … Read More »

What I did on the iDay

Just got off the place from San Francisco in Newark, en route to Tel-Aviv. The iFever has spread the nation and the nerds are really going wild. Scoble, Digg boys, and a whole bunch of people are blogging while waiting for their iPhone. Mike Davidson … Read More »

Gruber’s Got His

John Gruber just Twittered: I suddenly feel taller, younger, healthier. Convinced that my teeth are now whiter. There you have it folks. If you don’t have an iPhone, get in line now! You can see pics from his experience here on flickr. Read More »

Earlier this week I turned on my antique cathode ray tube and flipped the channels looking for something to watch. I sat through about 20 minutes of an MTV Real World/Road Rules challenge, then decided I had better places to find video programming, and fired up … Read More »

Waiting for Rev B of The iPhone

The gadget junky in me is screaming out for an iPhone. I even gave my best pitch to my wife on why she wanted a semi-used Samsung Blackjack, but I knew, and she knew it wasn’t to be. Yet. In early January 2007 (B.i. – … Read More »

Shift in Website Development Due to iPhone?

Web developers have been more and more concerned with coding for mobile devices. Now that the iPhone is here, I wonder if that may change further. The iPhone – unlike most other cellular phones on the market – browses using a wide-screen web browser … Read More »

What does it take to create a career for yourself in online video, and where do you go from there? At the Web Video Summit in San Jose Thursday, Sarah Meyers was dragged on stage to announce her new channels on Justin.tv. The … Read More »

More Must Reads

Nothing says wet hot American summer like steaks on the grill, beers in the hand, and explosions in the sky. Get ready to call in sick next Wednesday, because it’s Independence Day! While fireworks are definitely best in person, these video should whet your … Read More »

LinkedIn, FaceBook, Blogger, Twitter, Jaiku…these days it’s not unusual for web workers to maintain membership in multiple online communities. The problem with this is that at some point you hit a level of diminishing returns: you can spend so much time managing and maintaining your online … Read More »

Prom Queen DVD, now on sale at Amazon for $9.99, letting you watch all the minisodes in one shot on your living room set. (Amazon) AOL and YouTube Mashup. Could the two companies be working together? A screenshot leads to speculation. (Web TV Wire) HBO’s … Read More »

If you’ve heard about Quicksilver but have been too timid to familiarize yourself with it, or to peek under the hood a bit, this screencast is for you! Perhaps too often, we (as in the collective web) focus our attention on the cutting edge features of Quicksilver. … Read More »

NBC’s DotComedy is finally jumping on the user-generated content train, announcing the addition of a new channel of viewer-create videos. The site will allow viewer-submitted clips to be embedded on web pages, though isn’t adding that functionality yet for NBC’s original programming. The best … Read More »

Update: Andy Abramson has more details on the story. CTO/CXO and several others are gone.  Still no word from the company or their PR department. Sunrocket, one of the many VoIP service providers that has been suffering as a result of an all-out voice assault … Read More »

Up and running! Sorry for the delay in updates! When I tried to activate my iPhone, AT&T turned service to my Treo off, but the iPhone still wasn’t activated. I went about 2 1/2 hours without any cell coverage. When I couldn’t get a WiFi signal at … Read More »

This post was written by Laurie Sullivan, a potential NewTeeVee contributor. Let us know what you think. If you’re a video fanatic looking to pick up an Apple iPhone today you might be a bit disappointed. There’s no video camera in the version set to debut at … Read More »

As we’ve been counting down to this iPhone morn, our inboxes have been stuffed with applications and accessories geared for the year’s biggest phone phenom. Most are just addons that could likely fit on any phone, and are using the launch to goose sales, but some … Read More »

With all the attention given the iPhone over the last few weeks, I’ve started to feel sorry for the Apple TV. While the iPhone has been seen as one of Apple’s most important announcements ever, compared with the original Mac launch, the Apple TV continues to … Read More »

Everyone is wondering if iPhone is going to cannibalize the iPod business. With the help of folks at ZTail, we have put together a little tool that takes the search data for iPhone and compares it with iPod’s historical pricing, which comes from Ztail … Read More »

The introduction of the iPhone later today will signal a sea change for the music industry, especially mobile music. It won’t solve the music industry’s woes immediately, but it will herald a new era in which music can elegantly coexist with a phone on … Read More »

The creators of Lonelygirl15 are out to prove that their hit online series is not a fluke — and social network Bebo has signed up to bring viewers and sponsors to the team’s new project, a British spinoff called Kate Modern. The show, set … Read More »

Mate Hugo Ortega needs help and if we all pitch in maybe we can save him from himself.  He has posted an unboxing video where he opens the cool new Raon Digital Everun UMPC in his car in front of the FedEx shop.  He couldn’t … Read More »

Recently, Google rolled out a new look for its Google Docs & Spreadsheets software application … not exactly a major upgrade, as the tools themselves remain the same, but it’s still a new interface for organizing your documents. Google Docs is beginning to emerge as … Read More »

It’s a long story that I will steel myself to tell one day, but the gist of it is Vista and the Windows Mobile Device Center combined to turn my lovely xv6700 smartphone into a brick.  It just sits there staring at me forlornly, no longer … Read More »

Continuing from where I left off in my previous post, “Founding in a War Zone”:http://gigaom.com/2007/06/22/founding-in-a-war-zone/: I and my cofounder “Eran Galperin”:http://www.octabox.com/about.html had both just been sent to the Israel-Lebanon border with our Army Reserve units. It was July 2006 and our units were unexpectedly deployed as … Read More »

Now here’s a welcome surprise for my fellow AT&T wireless customers who aren’t on, or planning to be on, an iPhone line today. According to Wired, Endgadget, and this Howard Forums thread AT&T has flipped a switch on this fine … Read More »

Update: Looks like EDGE got the booster injection this morning. They are talking about the iPhone even on ESPN SportsCenter – which kinda tells you how big this iPhone launch is turning out to be. The two CEOs, Steve Jobs and Randall Stephenson, are of course … Read More »

If there is any place I have wanted to visit, it has been Israel. A country so closely linked with the technology industry, and one with a bloody and violent history, and yet one of the most fascination places on the planet. I have been invited … Read More »

Valleywag today published a letter from an anonymous Facebook platform developer complaining about the abusive limits Facebook is imposing on viral growth. “Facebook just recently unceremoniously undercut the very thing that was driving the virality of most the initial applications, which is the ability of people … Read More »

10. I heard that Safari’s pop-up blocker will stop telemarketer calls.9. So….where’d you get your black turtleneck?8. Hey who brought the beach ball? That’s not even funny!7. Yeah, I’m streaming this … Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/r58Eqrvm3Wo Yesterday’s video showing how to use Internet Sharing on Windows Mobile for a PC seems to be working well for folks based on the e-mail I’m getting. Jose asks me if this will work for a Mac. C’mon: use a Windows Mobile smartphone … Read More »

Verizon has no doubt been watching all the iPhone hoopla and I’ll bet they’ve been watching the reviewers who pretty much have panned the AT&T network to a man.  They released a press release today informing us that Verizon stores will be open all day tomorrow, … Read More »

I’m at the Under the Radar conference today, where the focus is entertainment and media. Some notes from the audience, the hallways, and the lunch: Pluggd has switched its strategy away from podcasting (yeah, like everybody else) and is doing online video ads (yeah, … Read More »

How have vidshare sites changed this week? Let us count the ways: 1. Vimeo, the vidshare offspring of College Humor, launched a new version. The biggest change (besides lookin’ a whole lot more chill) is the addition of user-level privacy settings. You can choose which of … Read More »

Update: Readers, I checked with Walt Mossberg about the SIM card situation, and the mistake is entirely mine in misreading his report. I never said there wasn’t a SIM slot or that the iPhone couldn’t physically accept SIM cards, even those from non-AT&T carriers. That means the … Read More »

Palm was generous enough to spend a good twenty minutes with me at the Digital Experience show. For a three-hour show with several hundred attendees, that’s quite a bit of time … Read More »

I hit up the Seagate folks last night to get a quick demo of their portable FreeAgent Go drive. Sure, portable USB drives are a dime a dozen these days, … Read More »

I’m scratching my head over Google’s latest money-burning effort in which they plan to lure more gadget developers with the promise of cash. The first part of it sounds okay; they’re going to reward successful developers and lure new hopefuls with grants of $5,000 a … Read More »

Attendance last night at the UGTV conference in New York showed traditional media is taking user-generated content seriously. Representatives from Disney/ABC, NBC, CBS, MTV, and the BBC joined new media companies including Heavy Joost and blip.tv in a discussion over the disrupted industry … Read More »

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