ImageTree, a Morgantown, W. Va.-based startup that provides imaging and sensing data services about forests, has closed a $4.5 million Series B round of funding. The investment was led by Battelle Ventures, which last week said it had… Read More »
Archive for October 2007
There are three things certain in life, death, taxes and there will always be coffee in Starbucks. At least until today. I stopped earlier in my local SBUX and ordered my usual caffeinated beverage and the barista started frothing the milk. She stopped… Read More »
So Leopard finally launched last Friday at 6pm. It’s great, it’s lame – no matter your stance, it’s here. And in case you were unaware, it’s at least a little better (and dare I say, technically advanced?) than Microsoft’s Vista which hasn’t received the… Read More »
We just got tipped off to a video startup called PlayCafe.tv, an online game show that combines live hosts and viewer participation. The startup appears to have also gone by the name Livefire.tv, according to parts of its web site. PlayCafe/Livefire was founded by Read More »
I really hope I don’t see the Drivemocion on my next trip to New York City. I just know some hacker cab-driver is going to create a way to customize it… Read More »
The PDA market just can’t catch a break. First, they all seem to be getting replaced by those new-fangled smartphones and now, the latest and greatest… Read More »
As a web worker, you’re likely loaded up with gadgets of all sorts. There seems to be a pretty good correlation between those of us who work on the web and those of us who accumulate things that beep, buzz, light up, transmit, and receive. But… Read More »
This past Friday, after my little FedEx experience, I promptly backed up my hard drive and then did an Erase & Install of Leopard. Once Leopard was installed I began moving over necessary files, including my Mail files. To get your new version of Mail to recognize… Read More »
The hybrid P2P-CDN business model is becoming increasingly popular with content distributors, largely due to rapid growth in the demand for online video. Even pure-play P2P companies like Pando have started dabbling with P2P CDNs. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have become a highly competitive… Read More »
In the new Mail.app that is packaged with Leopard, there are a few dozen email templates to spice up what you send out. Now you can have over 100 of them to choose from. Equinux has released their first stationery pack with over 100 new… Read More »
Babelgum Partners with Cachelogic; Internet TV network to use Cachelogic’s Velocix network to power content streaming. (release) PeerApp to Support HTTP Video Streaming; new software supports the HTTP video-streaming protocol and caches traffic without requiring ISPs to install proxy servers or change definitions or configurations. (emailed… Read More »
Touch screen devices are nothing new but since the debut of the iPhone, actually even before it launched, OEMs have been adding advanced touch capabilities to their devices. One of the first touch phones to appear was the HTC Touch, a Windows Mobile smartphone that added… Read More »