We can’t wait for a standard for TV apps to evolve, believes Prisa Digital’s Javier Lasa. It’s time to experiment now, give the consumers what they want, and learn from our mistakes. Lasa shares some of the things he learned developing TV apps in this Q&A. Read More »
Archive for March 2011
Microsoft paid $7.5 million for a block of IP addresses during the bankruptcy auction of Nortel Networks. Nortel’s assets included the block of 666,624 of the IPv4 addresses that ran out last month. Does this set a valuation for the emerging secondary market for such addresses?… Read More »
Mapr, a stealth-mode start-up with about 30 employees is developing a version of Hadoop and plans to compete with the likes of Cloudera. The company is likely to launch later this year and has been funded by Lightspeed Venture Partners and NEA. Read More »
The latest beta version of screen sharing app Mikogo has received some updates that make it into a more useful web conferencing tool, including a multi-user whiteboard and an HTML viewer, which means that participants can now join a Mikogo session using only a browser. Read More »
With so much data flowing over networks and with so much computing power needed to crunch that data, computing infrastructure needs to be as low power as possible to both make the era of “big data” economical and also more eco-friendly. Read More »
Color got a lot of undeserved attention for raising way more money than it’s worth, but another new iOS app more than merits its hype. Superbrothers’ Sword & Sworcery EP for the iPad is an intriguing new game catching fire among reviewers and users alike. Read More »
After a series of both delays and mis-steps, Microsoft is finally doing what it should have done in the first place with its Windows Phone 7 software update: posting a status page that refreshes weekly. Unfortunately, some handsets may still wait weeks for the NoDo update. Read More »
A startup called Color has raised a whopping $41 million from a group of funds including Sequoia Capital. Is the company’s photo-sharing app worth that much? Probably not. The funding is likely just a bet that the team involved will eventually come up with something worthwhile. Read More »
The Kauffman Foundation claims in a new report that high-paying jobs in the financial sector have drained the prospective pool of startup founders until it’s pretty shallow. It may even be responsible for allowing “potentially weaker” startups to gain funding. Here’s a look at the arguments. Read More »
Deluxis is a small startup with a big dream: to create a subscription-based network for compelling online-only content on the web. But is it time for TV-quality shows to start going to the web first? And if so, can Deluxis attract the audiences those shows deserve?… Read More »
Aircell, the company behind Gogo in-flight Internet Wi-Fi service is ready to add smartphones in airplane seats. Today the company announced an Android device for voice calls on the GoGo Biz Voice service that could be used to sell apps and services to a captive audience. Read More »
On paper, Color, the app which grabbed headlines Wednesday for securing $41 million in pre-release startup funding, looks pretty good. It’s a photo (and video) sharing app (those do well) with a geo-local twist (ditto) that’s built around the concept of the group (natch). Read More »
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