June, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 2007

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 »

iPhone Campout Live Blog

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 »

Let Your Apple TV in on iPhone Mania

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 »

iPhone versus iPod

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 »

4 Things I Learned in the War Zone

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 »

More Must Reads

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 »

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