March, 2008 — Tech News and Analysis

Archive for March 2008

Let Your Voice be Heard with VoiceThread

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 »

10 iTunes Add-ons Worth Checking Out

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 »

Community Activity: March 31, 2008

Reality Digital Raises $6.3M

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 »

More Must Reads

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 »

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