Nimbuzz, a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based Internet telephony company says it has signed up 50 million registered users across the globe. That’s minuscule when compared to Skype, but it’s still significant milestone for the upstart company which signs up 100,000 new users a day. Read More »
Archive for June 2011
Sony content disappeared from Netflix Friday, after distributor Starz had reached an IP distribution cap in its contract. Starz had reached a maximum number of users that can access the service from online video services — with the vast majority of those subscribers coming from Netflix. Read More »
There are a lot of new features coming in iOS 5, and they should enable App Store developers to do a lot more with their software. There are a few apps in particular that would benefit from some of the things iOS 5 has to offer. Read More »
As Turntable.fm has shown, a new era of social music may be upon us, one that is less about scaling wide, but more about going deep. The third era of social music is about immersion as sites add more immediacy and intimacy to the experience. Read More »
Zynga has been releasing details about its innovative hybrid cloud deployment, called Z Cloud, over the past year, and it has finally revealed the final piece of the puzzle. Namely, that the private cloud component of its infrastructure was built using Cloud.com’s CloudStack software. Read More »
Twitter and Facebook are great tools for reporting on world events — but what happens when we turn those tools on one another? We got a glimpse of that in Vancouver, and it was a glimpse of a future that some would rather not see. Read More »
Advances in smartphones, near-field communication, geo-location, and augmented reality are changing the game for mobile commerce. Join the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab on June 21 to discover how entrepreneurs are leveraging these technologies to create dynamic, convenient commerce experiences while increasing sales for brick and mortar… Read More »
In May, Microsoft released its annual “Work Without Walls” survey, which ranks the best cities for telecommuting. Microsoft is hardly the only organizations to draw up such as list. Forbes and Money magazine have also crowned top telecommuting cities. But are these lists useful? Read More »
Transparency is something we want from our collaborators, know has value, but often lag about providing ourselves. While studies show transparency nearly always results in better outcomes, people often withhold information because they feel it would take too much time or are uncomfortable sharing it. Read More »
If you’re going paperless by transferring all your printed documents to digital text or PDF files, using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) makes the job much easier by eliminating manual input. Luckily, you can use your iPhone to do OCR, eliminating the need for any additional equipment. Read More »
Join Matt and Kevin for the weekly live podcast on all things mobile. This week: thoughts on Apple licensing technology from Nokia, a follow up on WWDC and iOS 5 and first impressions of the HTC Evo 3D smartphone. Participate in the live chat room! Read More »
Hulu topped all other ad networks for online video ads served, with 1.3 billion ad impressions during the month of May, according to comScore. That’s more than a quarter of the 4.6 billion ads that were served up by online video properties during the month. Read More »
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