Actors Guild Preps for Negotiations; new media expected to play a big role as formal talks with the studios set to begin sometime after March 31. (The Wall Street Journal) Veoh to Raise Another $40 Million?; Silicon Alley Insiders hears the video company is trying to… Read More »
Archive for February 2008
You may have thought you’d seen phones with slide-out QWERTY keyboards before but RIM is saying it ain’t so. Their recent filing “Hybrid Portrait-Landscape Handheld Device With Trackball Navigation and Qwerty Hideaway Keyboard” says once you put a trackball on that device it’s a whole… Read More »
I remember a few years back when some universities handed out iPods to freshmen to use at school and Abilene Christian University in Texas has upped the ante. The university plans to hand out iPhones and iPod Touches to new freshmen to be used as part… Read More »
The Wall Street Journal today discusses the trials and tribulations of the U.S. dollar in a page one story, pointing out for whom it is causing problems, worldwide, and there was this one tiny bit that caught my eye: Yet for all of the gloom, the… Read More »
Got a great idea for something you and your team could build in 3 months? Willing to spend those three months living in Philadelphia from mid-May through August this year? Then you might want to head over to DreamIt Ventures and put in an application… Read More »
The iPhone is a great media player, but requires that the vast majority of your content be synchronized over from a PC or Mac. There are exceptions that take… Read More »
Following last week’s move by Dailymotion to bring high-definition video to the Web, MySpaceTV is launching an HD video player for the social network with a trailer for Iron Man. The trailer for the Marvel movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as the comic book hero,… Read More »
If you read our write-up about four wee wind startups making turbines for the small-scale wind power market and are looking for a weekend project, there are a few things you should check out before climbing onto the roof with a pinwheel. Do you have enough… Read More »
Now that professional writers are done protesting the web, will they flock to it? In this quick video interview, Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West, tells us which parts of the new WGA contract the Guild is happy about, what new… Read More »
I love this post, by founder-blogger Scott Converse about his experience trying to find the right CEO to run his company, ClickCaster. Helpful as his investors are to him, Scott writes, it turns out that with respect to this particular challenge, they didn’t… Read More »
Brad Feld maintains a great blog, and yesterday he linked to this terrific post called Notes From Buffett Meeting, dated Feb. 15. The notes are from a Q&A session that Buffett gave to students at the Emory’s Goizueta Business School and… Read More »