Disney is finalizing talks to put clips from its properties like ESPN and ABC on YouTube, according to paidContent. But if that wasn’t enough to stir the online video pot, Disney is evidently also in discussions to put full episodes of its content on YouTube… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
A Japanese newspaper reported that Dell plans to resell mobile data airtime from NTTDoCoMo along with its notebooks, according to TechRadar. The idea of a PC maker as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) may be more appealing to device makers than the current… Read More »
I’m not a big fan of moving, but I tend to do it a lot. Once a year is a rare treat, and generally it’s much more frequent than that. Since I’m preparing for a move once again, and I’ve actually become much more aware of what… Read More »
Fring, a mobile messaging client that works across different smartphone platforms, today released a new Twitter 2.0 add-on software that allows folks to see other Twitter profiles, check out their own followers and see who’s following them, conduct keyword searches and open links like… Read More »
We’ve been all over the Foxit eSlick e-book reader since its announcement, as we are such big fans of the electronic book variety. The eSlick is interesting as it is to get the ability to handle e-books from eReader and that makes it a very… Read More »
Charles River Ventures (CRV), well known for its network infrastructure and chip investments such as Big Band Networks, Netezza and Virtusa, has closed its fourteenth fund at $320 million. They have also invested in consumer web companies, with investments in Social Media and Vlingo,… Read More »
Cloud-services platform provider OpSource and content-distribution kingpin Akamai today are announcing some details about strategic partnership that’s now a few months old. I wonder if the decision to go public was influenced by Gartner’s March 26 report predicting the cloud… Read More »
Updated: A critical week lies ahead for the U.S. auto industry and GM’s Chevy Volt: On Monday, President Barack Obama is scheduled to reveal the next chapter in the government’s bailout plan, announcing the first recommendations from his auto task force, which test drove GM’s plug-in… Read More »
Skype will release a version of its VoIP application for the iPhone and the iPod touch on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. I was the first to report news of the pending release last week. (Gee, thanks for giving us credit, WSJ… Read More »
Facebook has become such an integral part of life for more than 175 million people that little about the company really surprises me anymore. A few months ago, they became world’s largest online photo site. Today, Liz Gannes points out over at NewTeeVee that… Read More »
While sites everywhere seem to have developed an advertiser-inspired aversion to user-generated video, Facebook is welcoming personal video clips with open arms. Software engineer Chris Putnam, the lead video developer for the site, told me last week that nearly a whopping 40 percent of Facebook video… Read More »
Saving energy may not sound as fun as, say, stealing cars, shooting zombies or becoming a Guitar Hero. But Adaptive Meter, a startup that presented at our Green:Net conference last week, thinks it can make energy conservation an engaging game. The company, which… Read More »
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