When Amazon introduced its CloudFront CDN (content delivery network) last year, one of the knocks against the service was that it wasn’t primed for delivering video. That changed today, with the addition of video streaming capabilities in the form of Adobe’s Flash Media Server 3.5. Read More »
Archive for December 2009
McDonald’s, the fast food chain that is everywhere, is dropping the $3 charge for two hours of Wi-Fi access in its restaurants and will be giving it away, like those great toys in the Happy Meals. McDonald’s will begin offering free Wi-Fi in mid-January to… Read More »
The European Commission is dropping its long-standing antitrust case against Microsoft involving browsers after the company agreed to offer users easy alternative choices to Internet Explorer, even as its market share continues to dip. The announcement was delivered in Brussels by Europe’s competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes. Read More »
As Om reports over on GigaOM, Evernote’s Android app has moved out of beta and should be available in the Android Market today (or, as James over at jkOnTherun notes, it can be downloaded and installed directly from Evernote). The Android version… Read More »
I’m not entirely sure project management is something you should do on your iPhone, or any portable device for that matter, but if you’re stuck and you need something to help keep track of things while you’re on the go, you could do much worse than… Read More »
My favorite note-taking app is being released for the Android platform today, according to GigaOM. The Android version will provide the ability to take notes and add photos and voice recordings as notes. As with all versions of Evernote, user notes will be synced across… Read More »
Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based company that makes my favorite cross-platform app, is all set to release the final Android version of it. It will be available for download in the Android market sometime today. Read More »
Codexis, a Redwood City, Calif.-based startup that counts oil giants Shell and Chevron among its backers, is in the business of so-called evolved biocatalysts: It takes a natural microbe or enzyme and tweaks the DNA sequences to create new variants, then searches for the variants best… Read More »
The good times are back in Silicon Valley, thanks to late-stage investors willing to bet on fast-growing Internet startups. Zynga, a San Francisco-based social games company, has raised a whopping $180 million in funding from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm. Read More »
Ah, December — apparently the season for throwing things at elected leaders. A year after President Bush ducked a shoe tossed at him by an Iraqi journalist, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was assaulted by a small souvenir model of the Milan Cathedral (which… Read More »
Features like Foursquare’s tips give us a glimpse of a useful and monetizable service where we can get valuable recommendations in real-time, via mobile access to reviews that are local, current, relevant, actionable and come from friends. Read More »
It looks like Verizon is following T-Mobile and AT&T into the deep end of the hotspot pool. In July of this year, the carrier began to offer free Wi-Fi access on the Boingo network to Verizon home broadband customers. Today, that privilege is granted… Read More »
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