Archive for September, 2007

Free For All… Office Sweepstakes

Om Malik, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 11:31 PM PT Comments (6)

Everyone wants a piece of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Office suite. Google (GOOG), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), IBM (IBM), dozens of start-ups and now, Adobe Systems (ADBE). The company today bought Virtual Ubiquity, a Waltham, Mass.-based start-up behind Buzzword, an online word processing software offering. I guess this is one way to respond to Microsoft Silverlight [...]

Rackspace Enters Small Biz Email Race With Webmail.us Buy

Om Malik, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 9:30 PM PT Comments (13)

Small- and medium-sized businesses are the hot target markets right now, whether it’s voice and broadband or web services. The biggest opportunity, however, seems to be in hosted email, as Yahoo’s (YHOO) $350 million bet on Zimbra and Google’s (GOOG) Apps initiative demonstrate.
Rackspace, a San Antonio, Tex.-based managed hosting company, today made its own [...]

Joost Launches; CEO Volpi Caught On Video

Edit Staff, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 9:00 PM PT Comments (0)

After being in beta for a long time, Peer-to-Peer TV sharing service, Joost is all set to go live. With over 50,000 beta downloads a week, Joost is hoping to achieve 2-to-3 million unique users by end of 2007, CEO Michael Volpi told Liz Gannes, who visited their offices in New York and captured [...]

Findory Is Finally Done

Om Malik, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 8:48 PM PT Comments (0)

Greg Linden, the founder of news aggregation service Findory is shutting down the service on November 1, 2007, according to a blog post on his personal blog. It is a shame!
Findory was riding the “information personalization” trend that is only going to gain importance in coming years. The excessive amount of content is making [...]

iRobot and the Frankenstein Complex

Kevin Kelleher, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 1:00 PM PT Comments (8)

When will American’s learn to stop worrying and love robots? That question must be echoing inside consumer robotics company iRobot (IRBT).
The Burlington, Mass., company went public nearly two years ago and its share price has spent much of last year below the $24 offering price. Revenue from consumer products –60% of iRobot’s revenue last year [...]

Earth2Tech’s EcoTour of Google Earth

Om Malik, Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 9:58 AM PT Comments (1)

Google Earth’s bird’s-eye view of the globe is being used by environmentalists, concerned citizens, and yes, eco-bloggers, to map the effects of climate change, tag renewable energy plants, and point out environmental degradations of the land. Scientists, such as Dr. Jon Blower from the University of Reading, even use Google Earth to visualize multiple [...]

Facebook Games: Scrabulous Is Fabulous

Wagner James Au, Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 9:15 AM PT Comments (23)

Forget about Zombies, Ninjas, or even Texas Hold ‘Em– if you’re looking for the Facebook game with the numbers that matter most, think more old school.
Facebook developers recently added a Daily Active Users metric to their Applications page, and those numbers drastically changed my thinking of what games are currently working on the social network. [...]

5 Stories You May Have Missed This Week — And Shouldn’t Have

Edit Staff, Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 2:00 AM PT Comments (1)

• Amazon vs. Apple — where should you shop for MP3s?
• Why Facebook needs big money…fast.
• VoIP and its self-imposed cheap-calling rut.
• Midnight iPhone Madness in NYC.
• A Silicon Valley Funding Advisory (inspired by the Dept. of Homeland Security).

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