There were a pair of stories this weekend about divShare co-founder David Altschul’s unusual decision to put his company’s assets up for sale on an auction site called DNForum. Founded in December 2006, DivShare is a site where users can share all kinds of media with one another, including audio and video files.
Altschul’s move to […]
Things aren’t going terribly well for the “One Laptop Per Child” project, reports The Wall Street Journal. The project, which started as a noble effort to educate the children of poor nations via $100 laptops computers, has run into stiff competition from the likes of Intel (INTC), which is using its overseas sales […]
Having trouble finding a gift for someone? Giftoscope, a new web service will help with some quirky suggestions. Add Siberia to the list of places where Microsoft is building data centers. Chicago and Dublin are two recent locations of Microsoft’s data center build outs. Contrary to recent reports video start-up BrightSpot is not dead yet and is […]
Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August. With features like this, Zoho’s office apps might someday entirely replace Microsoft Office in the toolbox of many web workers.
But other online word processors take what looks like […]
Policy-makers want to split the Universal Service Fund, which brings in around $7 billion or so every year and is used to subsidize the old-fashioned phone systems in rural areas, into three distinct parts: one to subsidize wireless services, another for the old-fashioned phone services, and a slice to subsidize the broadband buildout in rural […]
It was starting to look like the merger that time forgot. For months, there had been chatter about a possible corporate coupling between XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) and Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI). The discussion reached a fevered pitch in February, when it became clear that both companies were in favor of a deal — not […]
I recently had a business-life changing experience. Our company, digital-telepathy, was once a full-service interactive agency for Web 2.0 companies. We provided business strategy, design, development and marketing services for web apps. We were pulling in about $300,000 a project. However, I started to notice that our team (including me) was constantly stressed […]
Play around with Songza, a music search engine and Internet jukebox, and the first question that pops up into your head will be: How can this be legal? Whether the latest offering from Humanized, a Chicago-based company, is skirting the legal limits or not, or if it will even be around for long, one thing […]
