Verizon Added 300,000 New New FiOS TV Subs in Q2; telco now has 2.5 million subscribers to its TV service. (GigaOM) No wonder the company’s CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, said at an investor conference yesterday that “Video is going to be the core product in the… Read More »
Archive for September 2009
iTunes U (iTunes Link), part of the iTunes Store, is an amazing venue for top-notch educational content from the world’s greatest universities, institutions, museums and other public educational foundations. From language lessons to audiobooks to lectures and more, iTunes U is a great place for… Read More »
While the idea of an investment bubble growing for the smart grid isn’t new, the rhetoric around the question of whether or not we’re in the midst of a smart grid bubble has only risen in recent weeks. At the AlwaysOn Going Green conference in… Read More »
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom’s Joost and Joltid today announced and filed a lawsuit against Michaelangelo Volpi, Joost’s former president, CEO and chairman; and his current private equity firm and Joost investor, Index Ventures. The suit claims that Volpi and Index breached fiduciary duty, interfered… Read More »
So it was almost a year ago that I went off to Baltimore, Maryland for the big Clearwire WiMAX launch. Yes, the company offered WiMAX service before, but this was the big kick-off between Sprint and Clearwire for a national 4G network.… Read More »
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom’s Joost and Joltid today announced that they have filed a lawsuit against Michaelangelo Volpi, Joost’s former president, CEO and chairman, and his current private equity firm (and Joost investor), Index Ventures. The suit claims that Volpi and Index breached fiduciary… Read More »
We all have to follow never-ending streams of information to varying degrees. Small business owners and web workers have to keep their fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in their markets and with their customers and clients. Writers and bloggers read for inspiration… Read More »
Snow Leopard is selling like hotcakes. It’s selling much better than Tiger, and a lot better than Leopard, too. If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say those strong sales numbers had something to do with price. Microsoft appears to think so, too. For a… Read More »
Like a desperate gambler down to his last few chips, Palm is ditching Windows Mobile and going all in with its own webOS. But the company will have to find a way to boost sales of its Pre and the upcoming Pixi if it hopes to… Read More »
Algae fuel has become the latest beloved cleantech product of politicians. Last month Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), co-sponsor of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, toured algae fuel startup Aurora Biofuels’ lab and earlier this month kicked off an algae-fueled road trip (using fuel from… Read More »
The phrase “killer feature” is an awfully tired phrase in the smartphone world. Every phone needs one, every smartphone platform must have one, and supposedly we consumers all want one. Now that we have several smartphone platforms vying for our cash, it is more important than… Read More »
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg yesterday said the giant carrier is giving up on the landline and will be reorganized to reflect those changes. He cited the inevitable decline in landline subscriptions and said that video is the core product in this new era… Read More »
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