Five years after it launched Voicewing by rebranding DeltaThree, Verizon is shutting down the VoIP service that never managed to get any traction. It was launched to compete with Vonage. AT&T stopped signing up new customers for CallVantage, another Vonage competitor,… Read More »
Archive for January 2009
According to the Albuquerque Business Journal, Qwest has cut off a rival local exchange carrier over a billing dispute. Qwest and SkyWi, a wireless broadband provider that pays Qwest for backhaul, have been involved in a billing dispute that resulted in Qwest cutting off… Read More »
Depending on who you ask, Second Life is either an early pioneer in what promises to be a brave new virtual world of peer-to-peer interaction, rife with business opportunities, or a non-starter that got way too much hype way too early and won’t live up to… Read More »
Tesla Motors held the first of two planned town hall meetings with customers this week, where it explained to buyers who have not received pre-ordered 2008 Roadsters why the company has decided to charge for options previously included in the sports car’s base price. But… Read More »
Morgan Webb, the TV host, gamer, and model, threw her hat in the ring for tech news video shows in August 2007, and produced the daily show WebbAlert as a side project with her husband. But the show ended its run this week, with Webb
“Challenging” usually has positive connotations: something tough but invigorating and capable of making you stronger. These days, it’s being used more and more as a euphemism for “terrible.” Dustin Shindo, CEO of Hawaii-based solar company Hoku Scientific, used the word in his company’s press release announcing a… Read More »
The problem with tracking the top-Twittered broadcast TV shows is that some programs have rather common names. Case in point: When people Twitter about “Lost” they could be talking about the popular TV show, or how they can’t find their keys. In compiling this week’s list,… Read More »
It made it on safely! More to come later… http://www.youtube.com/v/gyO7NNvKHeM&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01 Read More »
It looks like February is shaping up quite nicely. Aside from the Mobile World Congress in mid-month, Amazon is hosting a press conference on February 9th. All signs are pointing to a new Kindle device and it wouldn’t surprise me if it looks like the… Read More »
Crazy Apple Concepts From 90′s, No Grunge Model Though – Here are some great Flickr photos of concept designs of Apple products from the early 90′s. Some of it is just bizarre, and others are not so different from concepts that continue to crop up… Read More »
In the war between Google and Internet service providers, Google is trying a new weapon — information. The search giant has teamed up with New America Foundation‘s Open Technology Institute and PlanetLab Consortium to create Measurement Labs, a server platform and a series of software… Read More »
This looks ironic since I was just complaining about too many social networks, but the timing is out of my hands. Our crack technical staff (that means you, Chancey!) just got our jkOnTheRun Twitter account set up with TwitterFeed. That means you can subscribe… Read More »
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