Archive for August, 2007

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Hire IQ: 7 hiring tips for startups

copywryter, Friday, August 31, 2007 at 4:26 AM PT Comments (0)

Editor’s Note: Trevor is the editor of Red Canary, a great online magazine/community just like Found|READ, but which is focused on “fast-growth Canadian companies,” rather than startups. Trevor’s July 2006 Red Canary post on “hiring tips for startups” is obviously very relevant to Found|READers, and is republished here as the start of what we […]

Roxio Launches Popcorn 3 for Mac

Blake Snow, Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 7:19 PM PT Comments (2)

Roxio released Popcorn 3 for Macintosh yesterday, which promises to shorten video conversion and DVD burn times as well as adding TiVo-to-DVD or TiVo-to-device support.

New and enhanced features include automatic TiVoToGo, which starts encoding TV shows as soon as they are transferred to your shiny Mac; batch DVD conversions that compress multiple DVDs into a […]

GigaNET Headlines…Thursday

Carolyn Pritchard, Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 6:30 PM PT Comments (0)

Found/Read: Why one software developer went to South America to incubate his startup.

Web Worker Daily: Time-saving tips for working in Microsoft Word.

NewTeeVee: Dailymotion raises $34 million in a second venture capital round — less than two weeks after competitor Metacafe secured $30 million.

Kwari Marks Birth of Anti-Social Networking

Blake Snow, Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 1:11 PM PT Comments (15)

Here’s a novel approach to online gaming: Instead of getting players to buy software or pay monthly subscription fees, make them pay for their ammo. That’s the idea behind Kwari, a UK-based first-person shooter coming to the PC later this year.

The publisher, Kwari Ltd., also promises to throw gambling into the online gaming mix. “All […]

Updated: Helio Cuts 100 Jobs

Om Malik, Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 11:04 AM PT Comments (42)

Update: Helio has cut a 100 jobs out its total workforce of over 700 employees, in an effort to streamline its operations and refocus its field sales team towards direct sales, a company spokesperson told us this afternoon. The vast majority of these changes came in field sales. Few changes were made back […]

Earthlink Troubles Spell End Of MuniFi As Third Pipe

Om Malik, Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 10:45 AM PT Comments (27)

EarthLink (ENLK), the beleaguered Atlanta-based Internet service provider that was recently forced to resort to draconian measures — including pulling back on some of its next-generation efforts — has been one of the biggest champions of “MuniFi as the third broadband pipe movement.”

Fighting the cable and phone company duopoly, it was one of the […]

VoIP, Comm Eating Enterprise Bandwidth

Om Malik, Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 9:58 AM PT Comments (5)

VoIP and other Communications technologies are the main driver of bandwidth consumption in the enterprise, according to a survey conducted by Network General, a QoS company. Nearly 80 percent of respondents expect the network traffic from all their communications applications to increase during the next […]

Opera Mini on Blackberry

Om Malik, Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 7:42 AM PT Comments (9)

Given how many of our readers are Blackberry users, it is prudent to share this news with them: Opera, the Oslo, Norway-based software company has released the new beta of Opera Mini 4, the world’s most popular mobile Web browser which now is optimized for BlackBerry. Get it fresh here. Amongst the new enhancements, […]

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