Leap Wireless will form a joint venture to expand its footprint in South Texas, an effort to make itself more attractive to potential suitors amid an increasingly brutal prepaid space that is pushing the mobile industry toward consolidation. Read More »
Archive for February 2010
For any creator out there, the following question must be a scary one: What do you do when you no longer work for the company that owns the rights to the show you created? For Woody Tondorf, it’s been a way of life since December… Read More »
Because I hail from Massachusetts, where our politicians are famous for being against something before they are for it, I’ll just state this: I was dead set against another data plan for wireless Internet before I was for it. I pay $70 a month for my… Read More »
Sellaband — a crowdfunding service that helped musicians raise money from members to record CDs — is bankrupt, according to a co-founder and minority investor in the company, who says it ran out of money. The service has reportedly filed for court protection in the Netherlands. Read More »
Gartner offers up the worldwide smartphone market share numbers and 2009 shows some continuing trends as the new guard marches forward. But as a consumer, why do you even care about these measures? There’s at least one good reason I can think of. Read More »
Report: NBCU-Comcast Will Likely Look OK To FCC, DOJ; a confidential report to Congress on Comcast’s proposed deal for control of NBC Universal starts from the premise that the deal will go through. (Multichannel News) Ooyala Adds Product Enhancements; white-label video publishing firm added new features… Read More »
Big news today as two of the iPhone’s biggest game makers become one through acquisition. ngmoco, makers of such hits as Rolando 2 and Eliminate Pro, has purchased Freeverse, another hit game maker with some significant successes under its belt,… Read More »
Productivity can seem so elusive at times. It can be hard to prioritize, manage the workload and stay focused, but with a few simple steps and a good dose of discipline, you can be on your way to more control over… Read More »
It seems like you can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting a tech pundit eager to tell you that RSS is dead. Personally, I’m not buying it. RSS feeds and readers are the No. 1 way I stay up to date with online content,… Read More »
When Apple updated the new iMacs with the Core i5 and i7 processors, it also quietly introduced a change to the built-in iSight camera with a new lens and a different focal length. An improvement to the barcode scanning algorithm for Delicious Library is coming… Read More »
With all the attention on fuel cell startup Bloom Energy this week, you might think that Bloom invented the fuel cell. But many industries, in particular phone companies, have been developing and using the technology for some time already — as backup power for cellular… Read More »
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