Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, but I’m getting a little bored with the current crop of “superphones,” as Om likes to call them. Most of the recent top-end smartphones appear to be slight enhancements over what’s currently available. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
On Wednesday, the first episode of Pioneer One debuted as a free torrent, and the sci-fi pilot, distributed by the VODO platform and promoted by a conglomerate of P2P services, is proving there may be a market for independently-produced and P2P-distributed content. Read More »
Kevin Costner is becoming a spokesman for entrepreneurs who claim their products can do wonders to clean up oil spills. The actor testified on a U.S. Senate’s Committee yesterday about a centrifuge technology from his company Ocean Therapy Solutions that separates oil from water. Read More »
A number of users of the Q&A startup Quora are reporting that the site is unavailable to Facebook employees using the corporate network. It’s not clear why the startup service would do this, unless it sees Facebook’s testing of a similar product as a competitive threat. Read More »
Today on the Net: The BBC iPlayer has live streaming video of the World Cup on the iPad, Shaw introduces a TV Everywhere offering with its Broadband VOD Player, and Nielsen is ahead of schedule in rolling out meters to combine TV and Internet measurement. Read More »
A week of the World Cup has passed and traffic online and at sites like Twitter have hit impressive highs. Tweets hit a record during the Japan-Cameroon game of 2,940 tweets per second, while Cisco noted that web traffic over was up 27 percent. Read More »
The multitouch surfaces of the trackpad on Apple’s recent MacBooks and of the Magic Mouse are great. But have you ever wished that you could use them to do even more? jitouch 2 is an application that extends your Mac with a range of additional gestures. Read More »
With the resignation of five of the eleven members of the IAWTV board of directors comes a special election to be held in July. And with the formation of an awards committee comes new progress towards determining the IAWTV’s relationship with the Streamy Awards. Read More »
As plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars gradually make their way to dealers’ lots over the next 12 months, we are likely to see more aggressive price cutting and hardcore marketing deals in an attempt to lure consumers away from their good ol’ gasoline vehicles. Read More »
Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Read More »
The only thing keeping pace with the proliferation of angel investors is the size of their funding rounds. Keith Rabois, an active investor in companies like YouTube and Yelp, shared his thoughts with us on the growing number of angels. Read More »
About 40 percent of people use TV and the web at the same time each week, and users spend about 4 percent of their TV time surfing the web, according to Nielsen. But chances are, they’re not surfing topics related to what they’re watching on TV. Read More »
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