Archive for September 2008
The biggest drawback to the Netflix streaming service was its lack of quality content (unless you consider Improve Your Sailing Skills quality). But Netflix took a small step towards fixing that problem today by adding TV content from CBS and the Disney Channel.
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Updated: Today is the big announcement in New York by T-Mobile, which will show off its spiffy new G1 phone powered by Google. The G1 is the first smartphone to run the Google Android operating system and is expected to work seamlessly with Google services like … Read More »
No doubt we like our Skype around here. It’s a daily-use app for us to chat about mobile technology bits and to record videos of those conversations. I often overlook … Read More »
A venture-backed startup’s attempts to offer free broadband in the AWS-3 spectrum have moved closer to reality today. The company released FCC-observed tests results today that show that devices operating in the band of spectrum eyed by M2Z Networks won’t interfere with devices … Read More »
Sony has built the "world’s lightest Blu-ray notebook" and they just might have captured the title for the most expensive one too. The Vaio TT is an 11-inch beauty that weighs in at only 2.87 pounds even though it’s got a Blu-ray burner onboard. Like … Read More »
Before the day’s T-Mobile & Google Android news kicks off in full gear, I thought I’d get one iPhone observation out there. I happened to be nosing around to see if the … Read More »
Ooma, a Palo Alto, Calif,-based company that has created a VoIP phone hardware and services platform has raised another $16 million in third round of funding from it’s existing and new investors. Ooma had previously raised $27 million in two rounds of funding, bringing … Read More »
I get to go to the first TechCrunch Meetup in Paris today!
I’ll be wearing two hats there (hopefully neither of them a lampshade, but there will be an open bar, so we’ll see…). One is my entrepreneur hat; of course I’m hoping somebody who hasn’t … Read More »
More Must Reads
By Stacey Higginbotham
Sep. 23, 2008, 1:30am PT
A spinout of Flextronics — Aricent, which is comprised of several communications software assets including Hughes Software and noted design firm Frog Design — has scored $60 million in capital to expand its operations. Proceeds from the funding, which involved Bahrain-based … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Sep. 23, 2008, 12:00am PT
A commenter on Engadget points to the first T-Mobile photo of the G1 Android phone to be announced tomorrow. Oops, T-Mobile.
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For the first time ever, “The Godfather” trilogy will be available as a digital download, starting Sept. 23.
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“The Incredible Hulk” smashes its way to the top of the Most BitTorrented movie this week, and “No Good TV” rides the Paris Hilton wave for a big jump in viewership.
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Adap.tv, a online video advertising company that changed strategies earlier this year after dipping a toe in the market, has seen enough luck with its second try to merit a big $13 million funding round from new investor Spark Capital and returning investors Redpoint … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Sep. 22, 2008, 7:11pm PT
Green Mobile Power!: The telecom trade group GSMA is calling for renewable power sources, like solar, wind and sustainable biofuels to power 118,000 off-grid base stations in developing countries by 2012 — release.
The Campaigns Debate Climate Change Plans: Well, not the candidates themselves, but their … Read More »
Ever need to extend the physical range of a USB device from a computer but you just didn’t have a long enough USB cable and no quick way to run out for one? Me neither, but let’s forget the odds of this situation simply because it’s … Read More »
By John SanGiovanni
Sep. 22, 2008, 6:00pm PT
With vastly better performance, desktop-grade web browsing, and high-resolution displays, a new category of mobile devices is emerging: the “superphones” and their impact on the wireless business is difficult to overstate.
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There’s lots of talk today about the CBS’ EyeMobile application for the iPhone. Cool idea, but reports neglect to say it requires an jailbroken device.
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By Edit Staff
Sep. 22, 2008, 4:26pm PT
A tipster this weekend told the folks over at NewTeVee about an upcoming streaming video web site by The Pirate Bay called The Pirate City. The site was apparently launched last week to commemorate the 30th birthday of one of the Pirate … Read More »
By Samuel Dean
Sep. 22, 2008, 4:00pm PT
I’ve written before about my favorite, free online meeting and collaboration application: Yugma. Mac, Windows and Linux users will find this application to be a very slick solution. Recently, I’ve been experimenting with some features in Yugma that I hadn’t been using before. A … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Sep. 22, 2008, 2:54pm PT
On Friday, Comcast filed its network management plan, which we covered as did NewTeeVee. However, in the comments of the post, it became clear that customers don’t really know what they’re buying when they shell out $30 to $100 a month for a … Read More »
I’ve fooled around with enough mobile devices to run into this problem at least a dozen times. Here’s the situation: you don’t have drivers for everything and there are some mystery devices in the Windows Device Manager that go by the non-descript name of “PCI Device”. … Read More »
A tipster this weekend told us about an upcoming streaming video web site by The Pirate Bay called The Pirate City. The site was apparently launched last week to commemorate the 30th birthday of one of the Pirate Bay’s admins, but … Read More »
TheAppleBlog points to an amazing statistic being thrown around by the Associated Press regarding their Mobile News channel. They had a very healthy 16 million page views in August but that’s not the amazing part. It seems that 95% of those 16 million page views … Read More »
By Josh Pigford
Sep. 22, 2008, 1:13pm PT
This morning, SanDisk announced its next foray into the world of digital music. Too bad this digital music idea, like their previous ones, will be going the way of the dodo bird.
SanDisk’s slotMusic product is a 1GB microSD card loaded with an album. You … Read More »
We may be looking at the dawn of an incredibly politically incorrect new meme, courtesy of Oprah Winfrey’s crusade against pedophiles. A 40-second clip of Oprah reading out loud a message from a pedophile, threatening the nation’s children with the full force of “9,000 … Read More »
By Tony Borroz
Sep. 22, 2008, 12:30pm PT
By Om Malik
Sep. 22, 2008, 12:30pm PT
T-Mobile USA needs a picker-upper. Its number of new subscribers is slowing, as is revenue from its voice ops. Meanwhile, its data revenue lags that of its rivals. But help may be on the way — in the form of the Google phone.
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By Stacey Higginbotham
Sep. 22, 2008, 11:48am PT
An article in BusinessWeek today claims that wireless data demand is exceeding capacity, which is causing carriers to limit services and charge higher rates. But that just doesn’t jibe with what carriers — or applications developers — are telling me. The real reason carriers … Read More »
NextNewNetworks says that the loss of three high-profile shows was just a coincidence, and that it is actually ramping up development of new programming.
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By Josh Pigford
Sep. 22, 2008, 11:21am PT
This past week the Associated Press announced that their Mobile News Network received some 16 million page views for the month of August. How does this relate to Apple? 95% of those 16 million page views originated from iPhone and iPod touch users via Mobile Safari … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Sep. 22, 2008, 11:00am PT
We’ve written before about some of the big-ticket telepresence systems – and our skepticism about their place in the average web worker’s life. But between the super-expensive systems and the cheapest of webcams, there seems to be another level of telepresence emerging – systems that … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Sep. 22, 2008, 10:23am PT
With the expiration of the renewable energy tax credits looming large, solar companies are scrambling to get their solar projects connected to the grid before the end of the year. GreenVolts, developer of large, concentrated photovoltaic arrays said today that it’s raised $30 … Read More »
By Aliza Sherman
Sep. 22, 2008, 10:00am PT
To find out more about photo rights on the Web, I turned to a lawyer, Deena B. Burgess, Esq., Managing Partner with the Law Offices of Deena Burgess, and gave her a few scenarios to comment on. Here is what she had to say.
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Anystream Buys Voxant; encoding and rights management firm picks up licensed content distributor, financial terms not disclosed. (Multichannel News)
DigiMeld Launches Video Portal; DigiMeld TV lets video producers self-publish live or on-demand streaming channels. (release)
Sony Video DRM: One Download, One Re-Download; company’s video download restrictions … Read More »
The concept of Mobile Internet Devices, MIDs, is simple on the surface. They have been touted as devices with a primary focus on the Internet. They are to give the MID owner a simple and cheap method to get web work done, working with email and … Read More »
IVT, a startup that’s been quietly accumulating an impressive list of customers for the last three years, is launching itself to the public tomorrow as a service for corporate video. The company describes itself as a “YouTube for business,” something that was simply a … Read More »
I’m not getting this concept at all from SanDisk. The latest and greatest idea appears to be combining their core competencies in flash memory and digital audio players to create: Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Sep. 22, 2008, 8:20am PT
