August, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for August 2007

If you’ve been scratching your head over oil companies’ green PR attempts, there’s a new goodie coming up: Chevron (CVX) is due to unveil its latest eco PR effort, and this time it amounts to an earth-friendly-version of SimCity. We were recently emailed a link… Read More »

 
 

Those boys at GottaBeMobile are planning a meetup in Colorado Springs on September 8 to get a chance to meet their readers.  They will have lots of Tablets and UMPCs to play with along with lots of swag so if you’re in the area drop by.… Read More »

According to the::unwired the HTC Shift is to be officially announced at GITEX in Dubai next week.  The Shift is the UMPC with multiple personalities possessing a slider keyboard and dual operating systems, although the inclusion of Windows Mobile 6 has not been confirmed… Read More »

While Google’s (GOOG) YouTube continues to gain market share and increase its lead in the Web video market, funding to its competitors continues to flow unabated. Yesterday, Dailymotion raised $34 million, following on the heels of Veoh ($26 million) and MetaCafe ($30 million.) These… Read More »

Ed Hardy recently got his hands, er fingers, on the Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard that we’ve been raving about for the past year or two. It worked like a… Read More »

Joost Becomes Widget Platform

Joost just released version 0.12.0 of its P2P TV client this week. The new releases offers end users a bunch of bug fixes, but developers get a special treat: Joost has opened up its API and now makes it possible to develop third-party… Read More »

In a Microsoft productivity survey done in the last couple of years, workers around the world said they only consider about two thirds of their working hours to be productive. If workers could cut those wasted hours, they’d work less and get the same amount… Read More »

In a development that could have serious implications for your future iPod, IBM (IBM) has announced a possible breakthrough in the ability to store large amounts of data in a minute amount of space. Scientists from IBM have shown that a single atom… Read More »

I mentioned in my first impressions of the HP 2710p that the lack of a jog dial like that on the tc1100 was a big… Read More »

Editor’s Note: Trevor is the editor of “Red Canary”:http://www.redcanary.ca/, 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… Read More »

NBC Universal is saying it won’t renew an agreement to sell its television shows on Apple’s iTunes, according to the New York Times. NBC is iTunes’ No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple’s online store, with 40 percent of total downloads. The situation has a… Read More »

More Must Reads

The funniest thing on YouTube right now isn’t the latest installment from Smosh, but the meta-ironic actions of a certain litigious content megalopoly in issuing takedown notices for content it doesn’t even have a clear claim to own. Christopher Knight produced some humorously… Read More »

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… Read More »

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. Read More »

VC $$$ for Cleantech: A report released today by research firm New Energy Finance notes that VC and private equity investment in the cleantech sector surged 67 percent in 2006 over the previous year. Yet clean energy VCs only invested 73 percent of… Read More »

Paris-based Dailymotion has raised $34 million in a second venture capital round, the company just told us, confirming a report by The Wall Street Journal’s online edition (behind paywall). The funding comes on the heels of close competitor Metacafe announcing it had secured… Read More »

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