June, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for June 2007

The final episode of The Sopranos may have left some fans hungry for definitive resolution, but what David Chase denied, YouTubers have supplied in spades. Hundreds of response videos have popped up over the last two weeks — spoofs, alternate endings, detailed deconstructions … Read More »

Who knows what tech projects lurk behind closed doors at Microsoft? Long Zheng knows. Actually, so do the people behind the closed doors, but we don’t hear from them much. ;) … Read More »

 
 

Neokast Beta Ready to Test

The P2P streaming video startup Neokast is scheduled to release its beta program today at 9 p.m. Chicago time, according to the company’s blog. Neokast, which we’ve written about a couple times before, says its QuicKast client “allows anyone to stream live to … Read More »

What's on GigaNET

Things are running a little slow this morning, which is typically what happens if have too much fun, and end up watching the funnies on the big screen. We had the 2nd edition of NewTeeVee Pier Screenings yesterday, and only now are trying to get … Read More »

Nokia has long been in an enviable position in the mobile phone arena due … Read More »

Verizon has a million FiOS customers

They are popping champagne in New Jersey. Verizon says it now has a million customers for its FiOS data service and half-a-million FiOS TV subscribers. These numbers are tracking in line with analyst estimates. Verizon announced this just before CEO Ivan Seidenberg Read More »

Popular video sharing site and viewing application creator Veoh will be rolling out a new downloadable player, VeohTV, that promises to make viewing, browsing and searching for video from around the web as easy as navigating the on-screen menus from your cable provider. … Read More »

Thank you all who came out to our lovely pier and enjoyed a cold beer in the glow of satirical videos and propane heat lamps. The San Franciscan summer smiled on us with a mild evening of popcorn, prizes, and parody at the June Read More »

Yahoo! Go 2.0 is now available in the US and 13 other countries (Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, Thailand and Vietnam) offering a totally new Internet experience on your mobile phone.  The new version offers a lot of … Read More »

Seeking .Mac For Windows Safari

Last night, I made Safari my default Web browser in Windows. With any luck, I won’t be turning back to Internet Explorer or Firefox any time soon. But while some initial issues with the beta version of Safari 3 have been well-documented, including security and … Read More »

Hotspots are a geek’s best friend

Contrary to what you may think from reading jkOnTheRun there are a whole bunch of establishments other than Starbucks that have WiFi hotspots, some for pay and others for free.  I’ve been … Read More »

3 lessons from Marc Andreessen's productivity heresy

Former Netscape CEO and now Ning overlord, Marc Andreessen recently posted something of a manifesto with respect to personal productivity. Given productivity is an issue dear to the hearts of WWD readers, I thought we’d take a look at some of Marc’s ideas and … Read More »

More Must Reads

Craig Pringle loves his Motion LS800, I had a chance to see him play with it in Seattle earlier this year.  Today he’s a happy camper as he and Hugo Ortega put 2 GB of memory in his precious and he’s happily reporting it … Read More »

What does it take to be a tech blogger?  Lots and lots of web site tracking, looking for the nuggets of tech news that merit further research, keeping up with new happenings and generally tearing up the web.  Google Reader makes it much easier to keep … Read More »

Steve Jobs and the iPhone must really have a strange effect on people, especially grown men who are in charge of a company that is as old as the collective ages of me and Steve and Dupree. Never before has the senior management of AT&T been … Read More »

Execs at the Weinstein Company announced this week that Michael Moore’s Sicko, scheduled to open nationwide on June 29, will open Friday on a single screen at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square theater in New York. Distributor Lionsgate, meanwhile, will be offering sneak preview screenings … Read More »

Google has snapped up yet another start-up – Zenter, which is building online presentations. This is yet-another-exit for YCombinator, the madrassa of the Web 2.0 crowd. In Microsoft world those are known as PowerPoints. Google had earlier bought Tonic Systems, a start-up … Read More »

CHICAGO — Sure, telecom is back from the dead. But for how long? That was the unanswered question floating around the opening day of the telecom industry’s big trade show here Tuesday, as exuberance over record revenues and booming bandwidth demand was tempered by … Read More »

Ars reports that AT&T stores will be closing early on June 29th in order to setup and prepare for the 6pm launch of the iSecondComing, er, iPhone. There will be nice velvet ropes to que the eager techies into the stores and handle sales … Read More »

We’re raring to go for tonight’s NewTeeVee and Metacafe Pier Screenings, with a full slate of cheeky parody videos and a great live-action contingent of Gregg Spiridellis, Jason Schultz, Heather Gold. There are just ten tickets left, so get your last-minute … Read More »

Anyone who’s been using a Mac for a few months has probably noticed that there is a glut of text editors available for the OS X platform. If you’re in the web/design category, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the similar situation of too many FTP client … Read More »

The United Kingdom is tops in streamed online video consumption, compared to the United States, France and Germany according to the latest report from comScore. Eighty percent of the Internet browsing public over the age of 15 watched a video in April. Viewers went … Read More »

MySpace and Sony Pictures Television today launched their minisode network with an impressive selection from fifteen different shows of yore. Everything from the original Charlie’s Angels and The Partridge Family to the buxom V.I.P. and Sheena are available in easily snacked upon six-minute clips. … Read More »

Well if you just look at the overall rating that Cisco Chang gave the Q1 back in May and the Q1 Ultra today, you’d come away with … Read More »

IBS Names New CEO; David Lebow, former general manager of AOL Media Networks, is new head at Internet Broadcasting. (release) Nielsen to Merge TV and Web Ratings, once it finalizes purchase of NetRatings and creates new software to track Nielsen family usage of web and TV. … Read More »

Apple’s iTunes store is one of the better download experiences on the Internet. But it’s still quite frustrating to download movies or television shows from the store. It is not Apple’s fault: it is just the nature of the network — from Apple servers to … Read More »

Remember those registry tweaks we used to address some Vista disk issues? You don’t have to delve into the dungeon of the registry to change those and many … Read More »

Looks like folks from Fring are all set to release the Windows Mobile version of their VoIP-IM aggregation client, that allows you to connect to diverse services such as Skype and Gtalk. The software is going to work on around 300 Windows Mobile series 5.0 … Read More »

I’m in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco this week observing the “criminal fraud trial of ex-Brocade CEO Greg Reyes”:http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006/2006-121.htm. Reyes helped found the “storage area network company”:http://www.brocade.com/company_info/index.jsp in 1995, and coached it into one of the dotcom-era’s highest fliers by 2000. Now Reyes is … Read More »

Terry Semel-Sue Decker-Jerry Yang drama had us all distracted from the fact that Yahoo (YHOO) is going to report yet another bad quarter. The company told Wall Street analysts that the June quarter is going to come in towards the lower half of revenue … Read More »

Dear cellular carriers, Hi, my name is Kevin. You might not remember me since you have so many customers, but I send you about $2,000 year for your services. For that amount … Read More »

The United States Office of Personnel Management has released their annual report to Congress on the Status of Telework in the Federal Government. Based on surveying a variety of federal agencies, it paints a fairly rosy picture of the state of web work in government … Read More »

If you’ve ever had the good bad fortune to call a wireless carrier’s technical support you will find the following account all too familiar and sadly not atypical.  I had to call T-Mobile’s tech support once a few months ago and it was an exercise in … Read More »

Richard Martin provides a well-rounded UMPC overview article in this week’s print issue of InformationWeek. The mag arrived in my mailbox yesterday but you can read the full … Read More »

There are no shortage of strange USB peripherals that you can pick up, many in odd sizes and shapes.  There are even USB drives shaped like sushi, not that I’d use one.  One USB device that some might actually find useful is the Mini USB … Read More »

True road warriors are prone to whip their notebook computers out anywhere.  That’s what makes them road warriors.  How many of these stout warriors have you seen performing a delicate balancing act in airports or hotel lobbies, notebook perched on their laps, papers strewn about, phone … Read More »

The last episode of the web series Prom Queen airs today, so you have till about 4 p.m. PDT if you want to pack in the archives before spoilers start littering the internet (Shut up already about the Sopranos finale, people! I might hear you!). … Read More »

The “departure yesterday of Terry Semel as CEO”:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=16&articleId=9025200&intsrc=hm_topic was newsworthy for sure, but more interesting to us was that Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang took up the helm, again. It is noteworthy that Yahoo!’s board didn’t give Jerry the common title of “interim CEO” (which would have indicated … Read More »

It has been nearly fourteen months since my co-founder, “Adam Smith”:http://www.xobni.com/executive_bios.php#adam_smith, and I spent a week holed up in the East Campus dorm at MIT deciding what we were going to make out of a small investment from “Y Combinator”:http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_5657753?nclick_check=1 to deal with a big pain … Read More »

2007 is turning out to be a nice year for technology initial public offerings, especially for companies that are involved with communications gear, services and chips. Deutsche Bank analyst Ted Tobiason crunched some numbers and came up with some pretty interesting findings: * The deal volume … Read More »

The telecom scandals that rocked the capital markets in the early part of this decade are fast becoming a distant (and somewhat faded memory.) Even though 100s of thousands lost their jobs, and billions of investor capital evaporated into thin air, the perpetrators have mostly gone … Read More »

As part of YouTube’s assimilation into Google, the fast growing video site is going international and is rolling out local versions of its video site in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the U.K. Each new version of the site has been translated … Read More »

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