5 location-based apps for the iPhone (TheAppleBlog) Palm Pre release date tweeted by beta tester (jkOnTheRun) Facebook says some 40% of its videos are webcam uploads (NewTeeVee) What relocating web workers need to consider (WebWorkerDaily) IBM donates smart grid tools to Carnegie Mellon (Earth2Tech) Read More »
Archive for March 2009
If you’re an active Twitter user, then you’re already familiar with Bit.ly, a web service that not only allows you to shorten URLs to meet the 140-character limit of the Twitter system, but offers up analytics, such as how many people clicked on the link… Read More »
Digital video commercials accounted for 3 percent of U.S. Internet advertising revenue in 2008, according to a report released today by the IAB. The category brought in $734 million, up from $324 million in 2007. But that’s just counting “TV-like advertisements…in a player environment,” so… Read More »
With the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement that Apple’s new iPhone software update will include Google Maps integration, you can expect an explosion of location-based apps to start appearing in the App Store. There are already a few location-based apps available now, including ones we’ve written… Read More »
Just hours after his auto task force announced that it had rejected General Motors and Chrysler’s turnaround plans, President Barack Obama stepped up to the White House podium to explain the task force decision, reassure the communities hardest hit by auto industry layoffs, and set… Read More »
We BlackBerry addicts will soon get to cash in on some of that Skype action as reported by Reuters. Skype will be coming to the RIM BlackBerry in May according to Skype COO Scott Durchslag. What is not clear is if Skype will only work… Read More »
Former AOL CEO to be News Corp Chief Digital Officer; Jon Miller will lead all digital initiatives and will likely join the Hulu board. Meanwhile, current Fox Interactive President Peter Levinsohn will be president of new media and digital distribution for Fox Filmed Entertainment. (Deadline… Read More »
In case you’ve seen the most recent rumors about an Apple netbook currently circulating, which got their start at 9to5mac.com (whose server load problems seem to indicate that a lot of you have probably already seen this or are trying to as we speak),… Read More »
As we touched on this morning, YouTube is prepping a redesign of its site to separate premium content from UGC. YouTube needs to make money, but will its latest moves to embrace Hollywood kill the community that turned the site into the online video behemoth… Read More »
Ocean power may be down, but it’s not out. Atlantis Resources, a Singapore-based developer of tidal turbines, said today that it raised $14 million in funding, with Norway’s Statkraft, an energy company, coming… Read More »
Last week we got news via our very own sister site, GigaOM, that Skype would finally being releasing their own official app for the iPhone and iPod touch, and that the release date was imminent. Skype has… Read More »
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