BT Group introduced packages earlier this week that add mobile broadband to home services such as voice, web and video that it provides to customers. By coming out with a combined mobile and fixed broadband package, it’s mirroring a trial plan offered by AT&T… Read More »
Archive for April 2009
Welcome to the first App Store Roundtable. The iPhone and the App Store are always hot news, and for good reason. It’s a fantastic marketplace for developers, and there’s always something exciting happening somewhere for the press to report on. But sometimes the issues faced by… Read More »
The nation’s ever growing push for a smarter electric grid means it will become increasingly similar to a computer network with two-way communication. While that has many benefits, it could also leave the grid more vulnerable to attack. That’s why two influential U.S. lawmakers, Rep. Bennie… Read More »
I’ve been a beta tester for many company’s products, but none of them ever offered me a trip to Hawaii. That’s exactly what Celio is doing with their REDFLY Mobile Viewer software: test it, provide feedback and you’ve got a chance to win two… Read More »
The venture model is ailing, and folks in the industry are promoting two different diagnoses for the sickness. One group says the industry needs more exits and should promote the return of smaller initial public offerings, while the other says the industry has grown… Read More »
To paraphrase the famous Wes Anderson and Robert De Niro American Express ads, “My life happens here; my bag is Timbuk2.” I’ve lived an untethered, web working, co-working lifestyle for around nine years. In my previous life as an R&D consultant, hopping between Paris, London,… Read More »
Quantenna Raises $14 Million; company provides chips for wireless HD transmission, Quantenna has raised more than $42 million to date. (VentureBeat) Elsewhere in the wireless HD world, Amimon rolled out its second-gen chips today. Lost‘s Big DVR Audience Poses Advertiser Problem; one-third of the show’s… Read More »
It may only be circumstantial evidence, but a lot of comments I saw on Twitter led me to believe that many developers didn’t have the spare cash to attend Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference this year. That was an incorrect impression. The truth was actually quite… Read More »
The notion of virtualization in the computing industry — using software to better utilize computers and thus require less of them — has been around for over a decade, and VMware was one of the pioneers of adding virtualization to data centers. But in the… Read More »
Microsoft might not be creating a Zune Phone, but they are going to offer voice control features into Windows Mobile 6.5. The features won’t be natively integrated into the mobile operating system, but instead will become available as a free download to Windows Mobile… Read More »
Popular user-curated news and ephemera site Reddit today launched Reddit.TV for browsing videos shared on its site. The Reddit.TV interface is similar to StumbleVideo or Twitmatic, where you’re presented with one zeitgeisty video at a time. Videos are presented in categories like… Read More »
Evidently teamwork was just a little too blah for the mayors of San Francisco and Portland, Ore. While last month the governors of California, Oregon and Washington said they wanted to build a “B.C. to Baja green highway,” with alternative fuel and charging stations along… Read More »
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