A Canadian company called Hulavision has sued Hulu and founding partner NBC Universal, claiming that the broadcaster stole trade secrets and plans for a premium video site, even pilfering the company’s name, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. Hulavision claims that… Read More »
Archive for March 2010
Whether your hard drive has failed or your OS has become corrupt, you may occasionally have to reinstall the Mac OS. Â Fortunately, Apple does a beautiful job of making installing or reinstalling your operating system relatively painless compared to our Windows brethren. Unfortunately, it’s still… Read More »
Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre auditioned singers via YouTube video clips for a performance of a piece called Lux Aurumque, and then stitched together 185 of the clips that were submitted in order to create a virtual choir composed of individual singers from a dozen countries. Read More »
Boxee users now have direct access to Streamy Award-nominated shows like Anyone But Me and Blue Movies, thanks to an official Koldcast TV app for Boxee that was unveiled today. The app, which was just announced on Boxee’s… Read More »
Power, pricing and electric vehicles, oh my. The group of North American power grid operators that manage most of North America’s electric grid, expect 1 million plug-in vehicles could be deployed on the continent within five years — and they aim to be prepared. Read More »
Calix Networks, a Petaluma, Calif.-based broadband gear maker, sold 6.33 million shares at $13 each to raise $82 million from the public markets. One of the rare telecom IPOs, it could help boost the fortunes of other IPO candidates like Force 10 and Telx. Read More »
Software market research firm Flurry Analytics has posted some interesting information about where Apple’s iPhone stands in regards to the gaming market at large. The report also includes details about how the iPhone is stacking up in the mobile market against its two major… Read More »
We at the GigaOM Network are proud to announce that 2010 California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and leading greentech investor Vinod Khosla will be speaking at Green:Net 2010 on April 29th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Read More »
In the “old” days, if something wasn’t going well for us, we’d share our difficulties with our friends and family. Today, with the advent of blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social tools, we can broadcast our lives to the world. And the world talks back. Read More »
Apple has started making the iPad available on its online education store in packs of 10 with an appallingly–stingy discount of only $20 per iPad. If Apple wants to start a computing revolution with the iPad, it absolutely must get the device… Read More »
Widevine, Verimatrix Settle Patent Dispute; Under the settlement, Widevine granted Verimatrix a license to the two asserted Widevine patents and their foreign counterparts. (Multichannel News) Qik Comes Built-In to the HTC EVO 4G Android Phone; not only will Qik work on the new HTC EVO 4G,… Read More »
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