Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday in Mountain View, Calif. After five impressive years’ worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schooled them in the art of giving its companies funding. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Microsoft should be making its own handsets, says Peter Bright of Ars Technica. There’s merit in the argument, but it’s far too late for such a change. Doing so would cut off hardware partners that also build Windows notebooks and desktops — a recipe for disaster. Read More »
One of the first disappointments a brand new iPad owner often faces is the fact they simply can’t use their magic new toy right out of the box. To setup an iOS device, you need a computer running a compatible version of iTunes. But why? Read More »
So I’m putting Shows About Craigslist into the Online Video Vault of Overdoneness. The only reason I feel comfortable calling it a day on this genre, though, is that the reality series Craigslist TV might be as good as it’s going to get. Read More »
Monsoon Multimedia is soon coming to market with a new box called the Vulkano that incorporates place-shifting, time-shifting, web video and personal media sharing all in a single platform, eliminating the need for multiple devices to watch video whenever and wherever users want to. Read More »
Motorola today said it sold 8.3 million handsets in the second quarter, earning the Mobile Devices division $1.7 billion in sales and returning the unit to profitability after a string of quarterly losses. What’s the biggest catalyst for such a change? In a word: Android. Read More »
With the newly released Safari 5.0.1, extensions have now gone public. Here’s a list of seven extensions you should install right away. Have you been playing around with Safari extensions? What are your favorites so far? Read More »
Mimicking the overall solar industry this year, thin film solar darling First Solar, delivered a solidly mixed bag for its quarterly earnings today, announcing revenues that topped expectations, raised earnings guidance for the year, a drop in profits and lowered revenue guidance for the year. Read More »
The most interesting thing about WikiLeaks and its release of 90,000 secret Afghan documents earlier this week isn’t the details of the U.S.-backed war in Afghanistan — it’s what the incident says about the evolution of a truly distributed and Internet-enabled new media ecosystem. Read More »
Consumers can now rent Blu-ray discs at more than 13,000 Redbox kiosks around the country. They’ll have to pay a premium to watch their rentals in high-def, however; Blu-ray discs cost $1.50 a pop, as opposed to the $1 per night that Redbox is famous for. Read More »
One of the problems with working people in other time zones is figuring out whether it’s a good time to call them; scheduling meetings can become positively nightmarish if you have participants in several time zones. Here are some tools that make things a little easier. Read More »
An ongoing digital strategy by the European Union (EU) could force Apple into allowing Adobe’s Flash to run on the iPhone. The incomplete plans outlined by the EU, known as the Digital Agenda, aim to redefine how antitrust rules are practiced. Read More »
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