Colin Dixon is a Senior Partner with The Diffusion Group (TDG) and a GigaOM Pro analyst. Here is a synopsis of his recent report “The Evolution of Over-the-Top Video,” which is available for GigaOM Pro subscribers. As the number of companies seeking to… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
David Gelbaum’s Quercus Trust is at it again. The quiet venture capital firm, along with frequent co-investor 21Ventures, has just led a second round of investment in startup Advanced Telemetry, which has built a wireless dashboard for monitoring and managing energy consumption. True to form,… Read More »
Apple commands a relatively paltry share of the worldwide cell phone market, despite the success of their iPhone. That’s because, regardless of appearances, the field is overwhelmingly dominated by regular old dumbphones, which still outsell smartphones by a wide margin. In fact, Apple and RIM still… Read More »
Alas, fuel cell makers always seem to need more and more funds to reach commercialization. Just a year ago, fuel cell developer Intelligent Energy announced it had raised $13.6 million to help it reach commercial production. But this morning the Loughborough, England-based company… Read More »
In my article Macs in the Enterprise: A Firsthand Tale, I mentioned the hardship I was having dealing with editing documents directly from a SharePoint site. As a result, I can only perform the most basic of tasks. I can upload and approve documents, but I… Read More »
Wired Internet service providers, by and large, view peer-to-peer file-sharing as a voracious, bandwidth-eating monster. With that in mind, they have justified tiered pricing, aggressive traffic shaping and bandwidth caps all in the name of stopping P2P traffic from overrunning the network. Handily,… Read More »
Cleantech investor and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla has already funneled tens of millions of dollars of his own money into dozens of cleantech startups — many of them biofuel firms — yet has had few, if any, big success stories to date. Many of… Read More »
Mochi Media is adding a virtual currency/microtransaction system to its network of online Flash games today. Players can use Mochi Coins to buy in-game upgrades for 16 titles from its game developer partners. Want a “tactical chain saw” in SAS Zombie Assault II>? (And… Read More »
Skyline Solar plans to begin commercial production of — and officially start selling — its concentrating photovoltaic systems in the fourth quarter of this year, Tim Keating, vice president of marketing, tells us. It could be a risky time to enter the market, with… Read More »
Venture firms were still shy about making investments in startups during the second quarter of 2009, and the industry as a whole will likely return to 1996 funding levels, with VCs investing between $11 billion and $14 billion for the year, according to the MoneyTree… Read More »
The Google Calendar display problem I experienced on my Palm Pre gave me fits, but I found a fix that worked well: I had palm.com remotely wipe and rebuild my Pre from my Palm Profile, which restored my calendar events. Once my calendar events were back… Read More »
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