The current status of the International Association for Web Television and the potential relationship between the not-yet-officially-a-nonprofit organization and the for-profit Streamy Awards dominated Wednesday night’s town hall meeting. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski today defended to cable industry executives the agency’s plan’s to reclassify broadband, pitching the commission’s “Third Way” for regulation and attempting to assure the audience that the agency would continue to operate in good faith. Read More »
The idea of reading on mobile devices is not new. Devices like the Amazon Kindle and the Sony eReader have been around for a while, but with the buzz surrounding iBooks sparking more interest, are digital books worth it? Read More »
Silentale is a service that works to unify your address books, and gives you one place to archive your messages. It’s similar to Threadsy, which aims to bring together your email and social network inboxes in one place, although you can’t compose messages directly in Silentale. Read More »
Is there a business in providing intelligible data sets to information workers, application developers and analysts in a world where once expensive data such as turn-by-turn directions or real-time financial quotes are now free? Microsoft, with its Project Dallas, joins other firms hoping that there is. Read More »
A new iPhone means a lot of speculation prior to launch. It’s fun to follow, especially when you find rumors that are “sure things” that are directly opposite. Dwight Silverman has come up with a theory about the next phone from Cupertino that is certainly new. Read More »
The worldwide market for global payments will grow to $633.4 billion by 2014, up from $68.7 billion in 2009, according to a new report by Generator Research. Meanwhile, mobile payment users will grow 600 percent, to 490 million in 2014 from 81.3 million last year. Read More »
Comedy site My Damn Channel is bringing the New York stage show Celebrity Autobiography to web audiences sadly deprived of the chance to hear Kristin Johnston’s interpretation of the writings of Mr. T. Read More »
C3Nano, working on a low-cost coating for more efficient solar panels, won attention from investors, greentech insiders and the Department of Energy this week by winning the $200,000 grand prize in the MIT Clean Energy Prize contest. Read More »
Anyone looking to start a business should listen to Naval Ravikant. He’s been both entrepreneur and angel investor and has loads of wisdom for people wondering what to look for in a business partner or how to get a meeting with a VC. Read More »
With Ciena’s acquisition of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks complete, the company is ready to deliver what’s next — with a greater global scale and the opportunity to advance its leadership position rapidly. Learn more with Ciena’s Vectors Virtual Seminar. Read More »
Ever wanted to listen to all your Rock music? Or wanted to hear only your recent music purchases? We’ll walk you through creating a Smart Playlist and how to set up different “rules” to control what songs automatically show up in your playlist. Read More »