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Archive for 2009

NetGear’s latest set-top box, the Digital Entertainer Live (EVA2000), is a good idea, on paper. The $150 device, powered by Verismo’s VuNow technology, lets you access video content from the Web and your home network. It lacks any built-in storage, but… Read More »

Happy New Year Everybody

From everyone here at The GigaOM Network, wishing you all a very happy and prosperous 2010. Read More »

 
 

As the year draws to a close, I thought it might be interesting to go back and review some of the big news and my favorite WWD posts from 2009. It was a tough year for many of us. The parlous state of the economy made… Read More »

Happy New Year to you and yours from jkOnTheRun! May you have a safe and happy transition into the new year. We are honored and humbled that you spend time with us. Read More »

I admit that I may be painting myself as a bit of an odd duck here, but I’m the type of person who purposely avoids taking transit during peak hours, going grocery shopping when most others do, hitting the gym during busy times and just generally… Read More »

As we’ve reported, oDesk, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based online staffing startup, has pioneered new ways for tech workers distributed around the globe to find work. The company also collects lots of data on the tech skill sets that workers have around the world. Here’s a look. Read More »

NewTeeVee’s Top Ten Posts of 2009

Another year is almost in the books, which means it’s time to look back at the stories that got the most eyeballs on NewTeeVee over the course of 2009. This year, Michael Jackson and Barack Obama were big draws, as one might expect. But two other… Read More »

It is Thursday and that means it’s time for another Palm Press. Palm Press is our weekly look at the world of Palm. The webOS App Catalog is closing in on 1,000 apps. While this falls a little short of the number of apps in… Read More »

Hulu wrapped up a banner year, registering a record number of unique users and a record number of video streams, according to data from comScore’s Video Metrix. With more than 924 million videos viewed in November, the online video site could easily end… Read More »

We’re not just counting down to the ball dropping tonight, but also Fox channels disappearing off some Time Warner Cable users’ TVs, if the two companies can’t agree on fees for broadcast channels appearing on cable. So it’s come to this: Time Warner has Read More »

I recently reviewed Waveboard 2.0 for the iPhone, but I would be remiss in not mentioning that there is also a desktop version of the app: Waveboard Mac, available in both free and Read More »

I recently made the switch to the newest version of the web development application Espresso. After having used Coda for all my previous web development needs, I’m naturally making some comparisons between the two. I’ll leave the blow by blow evaluation to others but… Read More »

More Must Reads

Video encoding provider Envivio has raised $1 million worth of debt in a convertible note filed today with the SEC. The South San Francisco, Calif.-based company, which was one of the first allowed onto Apple’s new HTTP streaming platform, had last raised funding… Read More »

This community has the smartest tech people around, and is a good place to pose a problem one of our readers needs to solve. I will let Sanjay speak for himself: I am an avid reader of jkOnTheRun from India (New Delhi) for the last few years… Read More »

Crunching the numbers on venture capital investments in green technology companies in 2009, Greentech Media Research (GTM) finds the sector both weathered this year’s financial storm, and thrived in terms of total deals. More startups shared the wealth in 2009, with 356 deals, up from… Read More »

Negotiations Continue As DirecTV-Rainbow/MSG Deadline Approaches; the multi-year distribution contracts for Rainbow Media’s national services AMC, We TV, IFC and Fuse conclude with DirecTV on Dec. 31, as do the deals for regional sports networks MSG and MSG Plus. (Multichannel News) Google Applies for YouTube Gaming… Read More »

Web workers are dependent on, well, our web. So what do you do when yours is broken and you can’t convince the cable company of that? What do you do when everyone’s is broken and no one can convince the cable company of it, for… Read More »

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