Widevine has nabbed an additional $15 million in a strategic investment from Liberty Global, a global cable operator, and Samsung Ventures to boost its business for multiplatform digital rights management. The DRM provider is looking to use the funding to expand its… Read More »
Archive for December 2009
James pointed out a holiday price drop on the Nokia Booklet 3G this morning, so I’ll be fair to the other kids in netbook land — the LG X120 is down to $49 through Christmas Eve at RadioShack stores. Like the Booklet 3G, the X120… Read More »
It’s hard to know where to begin. The weekend has seen a series of events unfold that manage to combine — beautifully, perfectly — into a single glorious mutually-annihilating maelstrom of silliness. On Friday the Wall Street Journal published an inflammatory piece by Randall Stross which… Read More »
I can’t wait for 2009 to be over. I can only think of one other year (early 20s: bad marriage, even worse divorce) that was as stressful, distressing, scary and plain old difficult as this one has been. Over the course of the year, I… Read More »
After losses and drama, more than $100 million in outside funding and a $500 million valuation, reports say London-based Spinvox could be bought for a mere $150 million by Nuance Communications, as Nuance tries to consolidate its leadership position in speech and voice recognition services. Read More »
Now this is a clever use of digital image processing — Sony’s DSC-WX1 can seamlessly stitch pictures together for a massively wide panoramic image. Dave Zatz recently took the WX1 for a spin — and I do mean “spin” literally. Aside from the standard bells… Read More »
Back in November we reported on the news that some of Apple’s new 27-inch iMacs were turning up with shattered screens and dodgy “flashing” displays. At the time, the most plausible explanation for the physical damage was that the packaging designed to protect the machines… Read More »
According to information gathered from parts suppliers for Apple’s iPhone 3GS, the handset is headed for a record quarter. Apple’s Taiwanese suppliers for the iPhone’s components have reported a 31 percent increase in volume of orders placed for the parts. Read More »
The blogosphere is buzzing around news of “the Google Phone,” but there still seems to be more questions than answers surrounding such a device. There’s no doubt that “it” is real, but — and sorry to loosely borrow from former President Clinton — “it”… Read More »
Nokia’s first effort to break into the netbook market is a pretty nice machine. The build quality of the Booklet 3G is first-rate, and just about the only negative comments reviewers have is over the high price. Nokia has built an expensive netbook, and the market… Read More »
Amazon, with its Spot Instances service announced today, is bringing dynamic pricing to the cloud by allowing customers to bid for compute cycles. The move helps Amazon boost margins by ensuring unused capacity doesn’t sit idle, and may even help it charge more for urgent jobs. Read More »
Twitter video service Twitvid.com today launched a real-time search engine for videos shared on Twitter. Twitvid not only tracks videos shared through its own service, but any YouTube link shared on Twitter. Read More »
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