Today on the Net: Critics come out against the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal joint venture, Time Warner Expands its TV Everywhere offerings with Verizon and Teevox launched an app to turn your mobile phone into a remote for watching Hulu and Netflix on a computer. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
As part of a plan that would expand royalty payments from radio stations, the National Association of Broadcasters is looking for the U.S. government to require FM radio tuners in all future phones. There’s merit to both sides, but do you want an FM radio mandate? Read More »
LaCie’s cloud file storage service Wuala (which Om wrote about quite a while back when it was first launched) has announced the availability of a new feature, Wuala Sync, which allows users to automatically synchronize their files online and across multiple computers and operating systems. Read More »
Startup Inkling is bringing interactive college textbooks to the iPad, having secured Series A financing for the venture. The textbooks take advantage of the strengths of the iPad, with augmented graphics and video in the content, while allowing note sharing in real-time among students. Read More »
Companies were afraid of Microsoft in the 90s. If they decided to enter your space, you’d be out of business, if you weren’t lucky enough to be bought by them. That’s not the case anymore. In this sense, Apple is the Microsoft of this decade. Read More »
Video podcasters and other online video producers will like Google TV, judging from a new clip that is providing us with an in-depth look at the Google TV interface. Turns out, Google TV will feature a full-fledged podcast directory as well as universal video content search. Read More »
The nature of collaboration is changing thanks to social media, a rising number of teleworkers and –most importantly– broadband. Instead of one-on-one collaboration over distances and in offices folks can now collaborate with multiple people easily. I ran across two examples of this shift this week. Read More »
Smith Electric Vehicles U.S., an electric truck and van maker based in Kansas City, Mo. and backed by $32 million in stimulus grants, has become the great green hope for its loss-making parent company, the United Kingdom’s Tanfield Group. Read More »
Looking for some sound effects to use in a presentation or project? Check out the Freesound Project, a large collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings and bleeps. You can search for sounds by tag, description, username or filename. Read More »
Perhaps the last refuge from social media is the book, where many of us go to find shelter from the smoggy haze of status updates, tweets and comments hanging over our media lives. But the solitary paradise known as the book is going social too. Read More »
Posting a video that shows unflattering photos of well-known Democratic politicians to the tune of the Baha Men’s Who Let the Dogs Out on an official GOP website may not have been the best idea, but it sure got the party a lot of attention. Read More »
Visa and Bank of America are reportedly partnering for a trial program that will allow customers to pay for purchases using only a smartphone. Although the wireless payment battle is far from over, Visa’s solution has an advantage because consumers can use their existing handsets. Read More »
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