Apple streamed its last event, and it seemed likely that was the start of a trend. Well, trend confirmed, as Italy’s Apple PR branch has just released an announcement saying that it will indeed be streaming the event live at Apple.com today at 10 AM PDT. Read More »
Archive for October 2010
Verizon Wireless will begin selling Samsung’s Galaxy S tablet for $600 next month. Many are bemoaning the no-contract price for this Android 2.2 slate, but it does offer features that Apple’s iPad doesn’t yet. There’s a market for 7-inch tablets, no matter what Steve Jobs says. Read More »
Kontiki announced this morning that it has raised a $10.7 million funding round led by MK Capital, with New World Ventures and Cross Creek Capital also participating in the funding. It says it will use the funds to expand product development and sales and marketing programs. Read More »
Video conferencing company LifeSize today announced the LifeSize Bridge 2200, an HD video conferencing product. The Austin, Texas-based company (now a division of Logitech) says that because the 16-port product is modular, it should enable businesses using it to scale their video conferencing needs as required.… Read More »
Somebody jumped the gun at Apple’s official Discussions page early this morning, adding new sections for iMovie ’11, iPhoto ’11 and GarageBand ’11. There’s also one called “MBA (Need official name)” which means a new MacBook Air is all but certain at today’s event. Read More »
Somebody jumped the gun at Apple’s official Discussions page early this morning, adding new sections for iMovie ’11, iPhoto ’11 and GarageBand ’11. There’s also one called “MBA (Need official name)” which means a new MacBook Air is all but certain at today’s event. Read More »
Boxee is announcing the shipping date for its Boxee Box today: Amazon will start to ship the set-top box on November 10, and other stores will start selling it on November 17. Boxee’s new software version 1.0 will be previewed on the 10th as well. Read More »
Four months after CEO Mark Kingdon left the San Francisco-based Linden Labs — the company behind once hot virtual world, Second Life — interim CEO and founder Phil Rosedale is leaving the company to work on his new company, LoveMachine, which is working on collaboration software. Read More »
Swivel.com, a SF-based startup funded by C/Net Founder Halsey Minor quietly shut down. Quite a shame considering big data visualization is so hot. The groundbreaking data visualization company had thousands of users (I was one of them). Less than ten paid for it. Read More »
Schneider Electric likes to say that 70 percent of the world’s electrons flow through its equipment. What’s it doing to make those electrons flow more intelligently? Read More »
Cell phone makers and carriers often like to tout their “green” accomplishments — like the bright green Reclaim phone partly made from bioplastic (yeah, that’s corn). But phone companies are also making some more serious moves. Here’s 10 ways that phone companies are going green. Read More »
Video chat firm Paltalk, which provides software for large-scale, multi-user video chat sessions, has acquired Camfrog, another video chat provider with a large user base in Asia-Pacific. The acquisition will make Paltalk one of the largest overall providers of video chat software in the world. Read More »
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