October, 2007 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for October 2007

When Cartman and friends jumped into World of Warcraft for an episode of South Park last year, it garnered huge buzz, even winning an Emmy. A WoW-themed truck commercial uploaded to YouTube earlier this month has already attracted an amazing 1.6 million views … Read More »

The Daily Sprout

Atraverda Raises $21.4M: Atraverda, a materials-based startup that uses a conductive ceramic technology to reduce lead in batteries, announced it has closed a Series B financing round of $21.4 million — release. Green Wood Label Systems Under Fire: The Forest Stewardship Council says some companies … Read More »

 
 

Wall Street's "Click or Close" Rule can help you sell.

Wayne Mulligan is an ex-Wall Street analyst and broker now working on his own startup, TickerHound. Wayne cut his teeth cold calling strangers to sell them stocks during one of the worst Bear Markets since the depression. (Think “Boiler Room” with more credibility.) It … Read More »

Google to Facebook: I Want to Suck Your (Social) Blood

Maybe Google should have doodled a vampire on their home page today, in honor of Halloween and their announcement of OpenSocial, a set of APIs that allows web developers to write applications once, then deploy them on a variety of different social networking platforms. This … Read More »

Looks like Adobe just caught up to the rest of us and admits that maybe… just MAYBE… people will want to read digital content on more than one … Read More »

How to 'get across the moat' with potential investors

Editor’s Note: Following up on yesterday’s topic, I’m putting together a post on how to amend your business plan with a “global scope,” as well as how to find angel investors who can support you in this important strategy. Meanwhile, I went to angel investor … Read More »

The Pirate Bay will move away from the BitTorrent protocol within the next 12 months, one of the site’s admins has announced in a video interview. The Pirate Bay is actively developing its own, yet-to-be-named P2P protocol that will feature … Read More »

Procrastination and time wasting are, in many ways, easier traps for web workers to fall into than they are for many other kinds of workers. You’ve probably seen the alarming numbers on how much time Internet connected workers tend to waste on everything from personal … Read More »

BlogTV Launches New Player

Lifecasting site BlogTV launched its new video player today, and it has a host of new features. The new player lets broadcasters and their co-hosts synchronize the recording of a show and keep track of entire text conversations held during the broadcast. It also sports an … Read More »

Curmudgeon or not, you gotta appreciate Mike Cane‘s ability to scour “the Internets” for useful information. Rumor has it that he has successfully surfed to the end … Read More »

Yes Marylanders, it IS a Tabletkiosk

The Homeland Security program we mentioned earlier today has been confirmed by Tabletkiosk to indeed be using their Slate PCs for the Critical Infrastructure Inspection Management System that was developed by the MD state police along with John Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory and the … Read More »

Palm Centro: a C-note slam dunk?

The Palm Centro didn’t offer any major new features when it arrived, but it certainly brings new value to the smartphone market. That’s the idea I get when I read the Read More »

More Must Reads

The music of the Boston Pops is only vaguely familiar to me, something my parents would have on in the background when we lived in Rhode Island. Which is precisely why the venerable music institution is trying to reach younger audiences by putting its concerts online … Read More »

The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on Google’s mobile phone efforts and how it is beginning to draw some interest from carriers, especially in the United States. Sprint (S) and Verizon (VZ) are in talks with Google (GOOG), according to the Journal, and an … Read More »

If our web stats are any indication, I’d say that the Verizon Voyager is one hot little number. Our story with hands-on video is one of the top … Read More »

Microsoft is not a name particularly associated with remote web work. And yet, some people within the company happily telecommute. One notable example is Chris Sells, a Program Manager in the Distributed Systems Group. Chris recently posted a series of articles to … Read More »

The green initiatives roll out of Google so fast and furiously, we have a hard time keeping track of them all: a massive corporate solar system, more renewable energy plans on the way, and hybrid car investments, to name just a few. This morning Googlers … Read More »

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