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Video Bumps Cisco Router Sales

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the online video boom is helping Cisco Systems sell a lot of its top-of-the-line CRS-1 routers. The San Jose-based router and switch maker said that the total global cumulative shipments of CRS-1 Routers have doubled in less than nine months, … Read More »

Apple today stunned the tech world with the announcement of two new products to augment both the iPod and the MacBook lines.  First up is the newest entry in the iPod line, the iPod Grope.  The iPod Grope is bigger than the iPod Touch with a … Read More »

 
 

At Cisco, Online Video Boom Helping Router Sales

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the online video boom is helping Cisco Systems sell a lot of its top-of-the-line CRS-1 routers. The San Jose-based router and switch maker said that the total global cumulative shipments of CRS-1 Routers have doubled in less than nine months, … Read More »

Would a weekly TAB summary podcast be useful?

I’ve been throwing around the idea of doing a weekly podcast basically covering the previous weeks posts. There would be extra dialogue in there so it’s not just me reading the posts, but I figured it might be a good way for people to get an … Read More »

Safran Digital Group poked its head up today with the news it had cut a deal to produce the Xbox’ first original video content. We caught up with the company’s co-founder and COO Jake Zim this afternoon to get the nitty-gritty details. Though he … Read More »

After months of controversy, Dutch politician Geert Wilders has released his anti-Islam short film Fitna online, a move many fear will incite a repeat of the violence resulting from the 2005 publication of cartoons of Muhammad. But so far, reaction to the film has been … Read More »

The Daily Sprout

“Sector Snap: Ethanol Shares Decline”: The USDA estimates that there will be 8 percent less corn planted this year as compared to last year’s record crop. Ethanol stocked dipped following the forecast for higher corn costs – AP via Climateer Investing. New Thermochemical and Catalytic … Read More »

How Google Can Eat Amazon's Lunch

I can’t believe I’m going to do this, but I’m going to do it. Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how blogs have become an ecosystem of recycled conversations about an original thought that happened long ago. Even so, I am going to talk about a post that … Read More »

There must be a break in the clouds because Google Docs is about to get a little sunshine in the form of offline functionality. Read More »

The first casualty in the battle to offer the most HD channels could ironically be video quality. A sharp-eyed poster over on the AVS Forum noticed that Comcast is recompressing some of its HD programming in an effort to squeeze more channels into its pipe. … Read More »

Clip2Net: Free and Speedy Collaboration Tools

Many web workers are remote collaborators, and if you’re like me, e-mail and online storage sites are among your primary collaboration tools. If you share a lot of files, folders and screenshots with others, take a look at a freeware application called Clip2Net. It lets … Read More »

Cleantech Funding Roundup: 5 Startups Bring In Over $50 Million

Lotsa little funding announcements popped up on my radar today, kicking the week off with a feeling that the cleantech investing train won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Plus, it’s helping us ignore that whole recession thing. Following is more than $50 million in green-tinged deal … Read More »

More Must Reads

In a moment of rare (but appreciated) Internet candor about money, Yuri Baranovsky, creator of the hit web series Break a Leg, lays out exactly how much moolah his efforts over the past two years have yielded him. Short answer: bupkiss. Gawker quoted him Read More »

According to a post on the Google Docs Blog, Google Gears, a Firefox extension that enables users to create and edit files without an Internet connection, will bless Google Docs with offline access in the coming … Read More »

Where to begin with The C-Spot, a new “multiplatform comedy channel” distributed by Sony Pictures? Let’s set aside the fact that the online comedy space is already overcrowded. The biggest problem for this new comedy “platform” is that the “C” … Read More »

The fight against climate change in the U.S. is getting billions of VC dollars for tech innovation, the attention of presidential candidates, and game-changing legislation. So what else could it possibly need? Better advertising, at least according to Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice … Read More »

Independent web workers have many challenges to deal with, including deciding what technology to focus on. Make the wrong decision, and the market can leave you behind. Now job search engine SimplyHired has put together a little application to make … Read More »

While a picture is often worth a thousand words, being able to marry your words to your pictures or video and letting anyone you want add their words effortlessly makes VoiceThread a unique and powerful tool. With VoiceThread, you start with a image – it might … Read More »

The fight against climate change in the U.S. is getting billions of VC dollars for tech innovation, the attention of presidential candidates, and game-changing legislation. So what else could it possibly need? Better advertising, at least according to Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice … Read More »

Our most recent podcast should dispel any doubts regarding the target market for Celio’s REDFLY mobile companion but if you still aren’t convinced, today’s press release should take care of … Read More »

The big news in the blog world today is the $2.75 million in funding received by Publish2, a startup founded by former GigaOM contributors Robert Young and Scott Karp. I wrote about the company quite some time ago and still have not seen a … Read More »

With the 3,700 songs of my iTunes library constantly pushing some sort of noise out of my speakers, iTunes is easily the most used app on my computer. It literally never gets closed. With it being my most used app, I’ve taken quite a bit of time … Read More »

As I have argued time and time again, the inbox and the mobile address book are two natural social environments. Xoopit is trying to capitalize on this simple fact of common sense with a plug-in that will turn your GMail into a social environment most relevant … Read More »

CTIA is here and that means plenty of phone announcements are likely this week. Verizon Wireless kicks things off with five new models … Read More »

Web workers on the go live and die by connectivity. In the olden days this used to mean finding a spare ethernet drop at your client’s office, but fortunately, we’ve advanced since then. Now we get the bulk of our connectivity over the air using a … Read More »

Even though silicon is one of the most abundant materials in the world, pure silicon — the kind used in solar cells — is hard to come by. In fact the growing demand for pure silicon led Ontario-based solar silicon purification startup 6N … Read More »

Reality Digital, a white-label video company with a great customer list, has raised $6.3 million in second-round funding from OpenView Venture Partners. The San Francisco-based startup provides video community sites for media and advertising clients such as MTV, Lonely Planet, MLB and … Read More »

MTV Expands Mobility with Mywaves; marks the first time video from the Viacom brand will be available on the free, ad-supported mobile site. (Hollywood Reporter) iCarly a Hit Both Offline and On; show about a tween who creates her own web show accounted for 20 percent … Read More »

Firefox users rejoice! The “Send to OneNote” feature that’s native to Internet Explorer can be replicated in Firefox with the “Clip to OneNote” extension. The extension was originally written … Read More »

Apple promised to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007 and Microsoft released a Universal Binary version of Office in January 2008, but a Remote Desktop Connection Client that runs natively on Intel Macs is still in beta. Except now that … Read More »

AT&T, the San Antonio, Texas-based phone company, is going through some executive changes and making some cuts in its big VP corps, sources tell me. Cutting costs at this level shows that Ma Bell’s C-Suite is worried about today’s economic realities. First the juicy bit: Ma Bell … Read More »

Just as we were starting to pick up the oldteevee pieces in the wake of the crippling writers’ strike, the actors guilds have started contract negotiations with Hollywood studios. If they go on strike, what will that mean for web video? Honestly, probably not … Read More »

WordPress, the open source blog management software, has released version 2.5 of their popular web application. WordPress has been quickly adopted because it presents a very flexible and easy to manage web publishing system. Out of the box it is a fully … Read More »

Normally I don’t get into the whole theme/skinning thing with my phones but when I saw this post this morning I knew I had to check it out.  The theme is inspired by images of the BlackBerry 9000 that recently surfaced and it looked so … Read More »

CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly.MoTR 127 is 38 minutes long and is a 34.8 MB file in MP3 format. INTRO: Based on “Time v2.1″ by Meta Sektion, … Read More »

HP has a new, middle-of-the-road option if you don’t want to go with a full-blown Windows Home Server solution. The new mv2150 Media Vault starts … Read More »

They’re just throwing darts at a wall. Or worse… “Oh, Look! Mr. Peepers just picked the very same [startups] your investment software did!” OK, venture capital may be slightly more sophisticated than this — but I have trouble with VCs who nobly claim that their business … Read More »

HP today has released the Elite Auto Focus Webcam, a USB cam that sports a 3 MP lens.  The Elite Webcam can achieve up to 12 MP with software interpolation and will … Read More »

Mashups ahoy! WhitePages.com, which has name, address, and phone number data for 180 million people in the US, has opened up a RESTful API to give access to anyone. If you can handle writing a RESTful query (or use one of the mashup engines that … Read More »

* Earth2Tech: Want a greener home? Sustainable Spaces can help. * NewTeeVee: Legaltorrents.com relaunches, now get more free & legal torrents. * Ostatic: Branding open source projects. * FoundRead: 10 Tips to widget-up your start-up brand. * WebWorkerDaily Survey: What kind of a web … Read More »

Among clean tech solutions, we often hear about wind, solar, geothermal, and then “energy efficiency.” This one large category rarely gets the specific treatment–other than a mention of compact fluorescent lightbulbs–that the other segments of the market do. But one company we found, Read More »

This year there are a plethora of options for getting your 2007 U.S. tax returns in on time and without spending all of your refund on software and filing fees. Get an overview of what’s out there and don’t be shy about letting us know what … Read More »

Kevin recently told us about SugarSync, a unique and full-featured way to keep files synchronized across multiple devices.  I had some free time last night so I decided to check it out and found it to be pretty cool and I am going to give … Read More »

vtap, a video search service for mobile phone, is doing something a little crazy. It’s taking an app it designed for mobile phones to the web — usually things go the other direction. The company, which first launched for the iPhone and Windows Mobile … Read More »

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