Archive for September, 2007

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7 Reasons Why Second Life Should Matter For Biz Executives

Wagner James Au, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 10:42 PM PT Comments (19)

Here’s some recent Second Life-related news items:
• A development studio based on an SL avatar secured venture funding from a NYC financier.
• A consortium of U.S. government agencies (including the Navy and Air Force) announced plans to develop a substantial presence in SL.
• An international coalition of labor unions is preparing to strike on behalf of Italian IBM [...]

Doerr: We Need Government to Drive Greentech

Edit Staff, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 10:20 PM PT Comments (1)

John Doerr, the high-profile Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner, closed Silicon Valley Projections 2008, a sold-out forum on responses to climate change, with a call for greater participation by the government in driving greentech forward. “More than anything else, we need the political will among mainstream America and our political leaders to challenge [...]

Project Playlist’s Gets $3M To Keep Experimenting

Adena DeMonte, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 3:57 PM PT Comments (7)

Project Playlist calls itself a “social music experiment.” In other words, it’s just one of the many options available when it comes to adding an embeddable music player to MySpace or Facebook profiles. Its simple player lets users aggregate free MP3 files available on the Net and put them together in a widget that can [...]

How to bootstrap your startup

"Matt Rogers, Founder, Aroxo", Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 3:52 PM PT Comments (12)

Editor’s Note: Matt Rogers is the founder of Aroxo, a new web-retail site based in London. He is also a regular contributor to Found|READ. This essay on bootstrapping, originally published Sept. 12, has been updated especially for us. We’ll update it with links to Matt’s earlier Found|READ pieces as soon as our redesign is complete. […]

And VoIP Comes To IPhone

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 10:00 AM PT Comments (6)

We wrote about the Skype for iPhone web service earlier this summer, and now two more VoIP startups are trying to bring their magic to the popular phone from Apple (AAPL).

Truphone, a UK-based maker of software that allows you to send and receive phone calls over Wi-Fi on Nokia (NOK) mobile phones, has started […]

Sling Media, EchoStar & Ma Bell: The Buyout Game

Om Malik, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 2:45 AM PT Comments (11)

The $380 million purchase of Sling Media by EchoStar (DISH) may turn out be act one of a drama that climaxes with AT&T (T) buying EchoStar’s satellite broadcast business. The company has asked its board of directors to split the company into two divisions — both publicly traded.

One division would consist of the consumer […]

Midnight Madness: Benjamins for iPhones in Manhattan

Liz Gannes, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (10)

In New York this week for the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings, I was stranded without a crucial piece of Apple (AAPL) equipment and had to make an emergency run to the store tonight. I decided that with the time difference in my favor I’d go out and see my cousin’s friend’s band first, since she had […]

Vonage: How Low Can You Go?

Om Malik, Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 10:40 PM PT Comments (25)

Vonage (VG), the Holmdel, NJ-based VoIP service provider has been on the ropes for so long that you think it can’t get any worse. But it does! Earlier this year the company lost a patent infringement case to Verizon, and was asked by the courts to pay Verizon, $66 million in back payments and […]

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