Archive for November 2007
Our guest for Episode #17 is Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren. “”The day that an MP3 player is always connected [to the internet] is the day when broadcast radio vanishes” Westergen, a leader in the fight to save Internet Radio, said on the show. He also … Read More »
While we were taking some time off to recoup our brains and spirits after last week’s conference, quarterlife creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick confirmed rumors they’d sold a second run of their web show (currently running on quarterlife.com and MySpace) to NBC. … Read More »
Written by René Seifert, entrepreneur in Europe & India
As companies such as Google (GOOG) ready their Health 2.0 plans, numerous German firms are promising to bring more online transparency to that country’s notoriously over-regulated health care market. Incumbents with strong content portals like Read More »
The Omni Group has been working feverishly on their version of a GTD (Getting Things Done) application for the Apple platform. They’ve been letting 16,000 individuals play with their “sneaky peek” of the application and enhancing the code daily for months.
Well I just heard … Read More »
You know the routine. That computer you bought two years ago was a speed demon and never encountered problems. Now, it’s slow as molasses and ties you up in bizarre, inexplicable routines for which you have no idea what the cause is. You need a tune-up, … Read More »
So I’m rocking this afternoon with the iPod Touch and a knock on the door of Mobile Tech Manor brings more gadgety joy to the scene. You can’t get one until next week but Verizon was good enough to get their new Voyager in … Read More »
Two acclaimed boutique game studios recently released music-based games for the iPod, and I hope they are pioneers of a new frontier. The iPod interface offers such intriguing possibilities for play style, and with 100 million versions of the iPod sold, the install base … Read More »
I had to run out to pick up a *gasp* paper book that just came out so I’m sitting in the Barnes & Noble Cafe with a … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Jane Pinckard
Nov. 16, 2007, 1:30pm PT
The market for online games in China shows no signs of cooling off as NetDragon, an online games developer, this week reported a nearly 2,700 percent profit increase, to $35.8 million, over the same nine-month period last year.
NetDragon’s earnings growth is based on three popular … Read More »
FCC Chair Math Might Be Off; Kevin Martin’s original estimation that he could regulate the cable cos might falter due to some inaccurate data. (MultiChannel News)
Magnify.net Releases Vlog in a Box; toolset promises to let users set up a video blog page with just a … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Nov. 16, 2007, 11:00am PT
There’s certainly no shortage of online office applications these days. You can find anything from general-purpose office suites (such as Google Docs or Zoho‘s ever-growing suite) to dedicated CRM solutions at a variety of price points. If you’re running a small or medium … Read More »
Yup, we’re a pair of early adopters ’round these parts, but this little MADtv humor is very appropriate me thinks. Enjoy!(via Gear Live)
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MySpace recently launched two original web series: the high-minded (and high-priced) quarterlife, about 20-nothings in existential crises (check out Karina’s review), and the blatantly low-brow Roommates, about slender women lounging in bikinis. While the two take very different approaches to webisodic entertainment, they … Read More »
My alternative power projects continue, although today’s entry won’t power or charge either a laptop or UMPC. However, I can charge my iPhone, Dash and various Nokia devices with … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 16, 2007, 9:00am PT
The wheels of a $500 million academic and industry collaboration to fight carbon emissions with bio-energy, are starting to turn. On the 1st of December Christopher Somerville will officially start his work as the Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, (EBI), a first … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Nov. 16, 2007, 8:00am PT
Perhaps a Little Too Social – Shoeboxed.com starts off by letting you upload all your scanned and electronic receipts, and then takes care of organizing and categorizing them for you. But it doesn’t stop there: this is a social web site, where you can show … Read More »
Reader Brook Zerihun just sent me this snipping from the Best Buy online store:
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By Anne Zelenka
Nov. 16, 2007, 7:30am PT
Next week, those of us here in the U.S. will celebrate our annual Feast of Gluttony…er, I mean Thanksgiving, a time devoted to expressing gratitude for all the good things in our lives, including — and in some cases especially — really yummy food. And thus … Read More »
Got a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone or Windows Mobile 6 Standard Edition device? If so and you always wanted Agendus Smartphone Standard Edition but didn’t have the coin to … Read More »
By Bruce Judson
Nov. 16, 2007, 6:57am PT
By Craig Rubens
Nov. 16, 2007, 6:26am PT
By Om Malik
Nov. 16, 2007, 3:15am PT
Copper, some telecom insiders joke, is like a cockroach – it never dies and keeps coming back. Someone always comes up with a way to use the copper in a new sort of a way. When we are all dreaming of a fiber to the … Read More »
By Edit Staff
Nov. 16, 2007, 3:14am PT
DivX acquired Aachen, Germany-based MainConcept for $22 million with another $6 million in earn outs and placing a big bet on the H.264 video compression technology, which unlike DivX’s own technology is an open standard. With the deal, DivX is acknowledging that the … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 16, 2007, 12:16am PT
The Wall Street Journal’s report about Google’s big mobile plans is one that covers all bases, and leaves you where you started from: scratching your head. The Journal says Google may or may not buy a carrier; invest in a carrier; partner with … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Nov. 16, 2007, 12:05am PT
Cleantech Fringe Photo Spread: CNET has an eye-candy photo essay of cutting edge photogenic clean energy tech. Purdy — CNET
Yum, Fat in a Box: Pacific Natural Energy (PNE) has developed FatBox which can transform fat into fuel. I’m sure it’s very useful but it sounds … Read More »
Get ready to put your skeptic face on. A company raises more than $50 million from VCs and hedge funds before even launching a web site. They’re talking about people using their company name as a verb. They’re saying their model is so revolutionary they’ll have … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 15, 2007, 6:32pm PT
“Are you going to have this event next year?” That was the most common refrain we heard as we were wrapping up our NewTeeVee Live conference last night. How do you answer that question? By saying yes, of course, barring any unforeseen circumstances, we are … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 15, 2007, 6:10pm PT
Yesterday, at our NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, I announced that we had closed our Series B financing. The amount of money we raised, however, was misreported (it’s more than the figures being circulated out there), but for now, I am not disclosing … Read More »
I became much more powerful today. Well, not so much me personally, but my overall plan to create the power I use on my mobile devices got a big … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Nov. 15, 2007, 4:02pm PT
It’s starting to feel like a mad dash to the legislative finish line. With just days to go before the Thanksgiving holiday, my estimation earlier this week that Congress might wholesale the environmental integrity of the Energy Bill remains a possibility, but overall, as discussions … Read More »
By Samuel Dean
Nov. 15, 2007, 4:00pm PT
Sure, Microsoft Word and Pages are rich applications that can handle very complex documents, and GoogleDocs is widely used and liked, but sometimes word processing needs are specialized. Do you frequently hop in and out of a text editor such as WordPad? Do you write blog … Read More »
By Josh Pigford
Nov. 15, 2007, 3:06pm PT
A little hidden gem in Leopard has been discovered. It would seem Address Book holds the key to a slew of additional image filters that can be applied to user images in Address Book. From my rough guess, there are about 25+ new filters here … Read More »
Well my friends, the time has come
To raise the roof and have some fun
Throw away the work to be done
Let the music play on
(play on, play on)
– Lionel Richie, All Night Long
Following the wall-to-wall liveblogging of yesterday’s sold-out NewTeeVee Live conference, … Read More »
I’ve never been sold on emoze as a push e-mail and contact syncing solution simply because it requires your host PC to be on all the time. If that doesn’t bother you, the free application might be worth a look, especially if you have a … Read More »
By Josh Pigford
Nov. 15, 2007, 2:17pm PT
