Snapfish by HP has acquired the video technology platform behind the personal video-sharing site Motionbox, according to an emailed release. The buy means that Snapfish.com users will be able to use the service to upload and share video in addition to still images. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
AT&T doesn’t want mobile data usage to slow, but it’s herding users toward new punitive mobile data plans and Wi-Fi hotspots. Today at MobileBeat, AT&T CTO of Operations John Donovan laid out plans to translate data usage into dollars. Read More »
Consumer Reports has tested the alleged reception problem on the new iPhone 4 and has confirmed it is indeed a function of the design of the phone’s antenna. The organization is refusing to recommend the iPhone 4 to consumers due to the severity of the problem. Read More »
Phoenix Motorcars hopes to rise from the ashes of bankruptcy to show a “newly configured” electric truck at a conference in Phoenix, Ariz. this month, and start making deliveries to commercial and government fleet customers toward the end of this year. Read More »
Any user that reads a lot of Mac-centric blogs may have heard of Instapaper, which is most easily defined as “A simple tool to save web pages for reading later.” After four days, I’m completely convinced that this is not a tool I could live without. Read More »
To make it easier for dissidents in countries such as China and North Korea to communicate without government sanctions, researchers have developed software that can hide information inside messages posted to Twitter, as well as in images that can be uploaded to sites such as Flickr. Read More »
3Crowd Technologies, a startup providing technology that helps publishers manage content delivery in the cloud, announced that it has made its CrowdDirector product generally available. And as proof that it works, 3Crowd said it has managed to sign up Break Media and Revision3 as customers. Read More »
The collaboration market has grown rapidly over the past few years, with many companies trying to grab a slice of an ever-expanding pie. The result of this healthy competition is that there’s now more choice than ever before: Read More »
BitTorrent is embracing the web with a new SDK that makes it possible to develop web apps for its popular uTorrent client. Users will be able to install these apps within the client, and the company promises that the app ecosystem will be “completely open.” Read More »
Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla have just turbo charged diesel engine startup EcoMotors International with a “substantial” amount of second-round financing. EcoMotors announced today that Khosla’s venture capital firm Khosla Ventures and Gates are the “two exclusive investors” in this round. Read More »
Twitter has scaled back its plans to store billions of tweets using Cassandra, but the interest in this news and NoSQL data stores in general goes beyond one company’s decision. It touches on the changing nature of the web and the software that underlies it. Read More »
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