In the first 24 hours of Weezer’s YouTube invasion, timed to promote their new album Hurley, the multiple videos featuring cameos by the band earned a combined five million views. But the promotion may not have had much effect on record sales. Read More »
Archive for September 2010
ChaCha said it will stop delivering text messages to T-Mobile USA customers if the carrier moves ahead with a plan to charge businesses for texts. ChaCha probably won’t be the last company to take such a drastic step in response to the proposed toll. Read More »
Siphon is an add-on that lets you sync a list of add-ons between multiple Firefox installs. Big deal, you might be thinking, Firefox already has Firefox Sync. You’d be right, except that Siphon provides the ability to manage which add-ons are installed via a management interface. Read More »
Novell has put itself on the auction block, but a deal has been slow in closing. According to sources close to the company, this likely stems from the difficulty of accurately assessing the value of Novell’s patent portfolio in conjunction with its legacy product portfolio… Read More »
Dailymotion is getting into the Halloween spirit this year by picking up the horror web series Camera Obscura. The 20-episode series will run exclusively on the site beginning Oct. 1, and Dailymotion may soon follow it up with more. Read More »
AT&T today said it plans to launch its fourth-generation LTE network by mid-2011 and will cover 75 million people by the end of next year. The carrier will spend $700 million this year rolling out the faster networks, with trials set for Dallas and Baltimore. Read More »
Yahoo today tried to reestablish itself as a technology company with a press event at its Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters. While that’s an uphill battle in perception as well as execution, the company does indeed have new technology leadership. Read More »
While Apple and Adobe bicker over whether HTML5 or Flash is the best platform for delivery of video, games and other interactive applications, Silverlight gets nary a mention — even from its own team. And Microsoft itself is moving to HTML5 for many of its products. Read More »
Cleaning up text — which can incorporate doing things like correcting erroneous capitalization, removing unnecessary spaces and removing duplicate entries — can be a laborious, time-consuming process. Next time you need to do some text cleanup, check out CleanHaven, a free text cleanup tool Read More »
MeeGo may have been neglected at Nokia World this week, but a German company is readying a MeeGo tablet for launch next week. MeeGo is a joint venture of Intel and Nokia, and the WeTab is an iPad competitor that is running the open platform. Read More »
T-Mobile is hoping the sun is shining down on one of its cell towers in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. That’s because the gear is T-Mobile’s first solar-powered cell site in the U.S. and enables T-Mobile to tap into the sun to provide subscribers wireless broadband services. Read More »
The smart grid demands an efficient, scalable communications hub — and SmartSynch’s GridRouter is the first tool uniquely positioned to act as such a hub. It’s changing how the smart grid operates, making it more cost-effective, more efficient and more adaptable. Read More »
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