Socialcam was always a departure from Justin.tv’s live streaming business. After all, Socialcam is all about capturing videos and sharing them with friends later. Still, it was surprising to learn that the Socialcam app would be spinning out of Justin.tv and going it alone. Read More »
Archive for August 2011
Mobile payments start-up Boku has signed a deal with Telefonica, the huge mobile carrier with almost 300 million subscribers, who will use Boku to power its payment API for BlueVia, its global developer program. It comes a week after Boku secured deals with two French carriers. Read More »
The HP TouchPad hardware may not have a future, but at least updated software for the tablet does: QuickOffice HD is today updated to include document editing. That’s good news for the several hundred thousand new TouchPad owners looking to be more productive with their tablet. Read More »
Amazon is expected to enter the tablet market soon; if priced at $300 or less, Forrester believes Amazon can sell 3 to 5 million slates this year. I don’t know about those sales figures, but I do know how Amazon could price it’s tablet even lower. Read More »
Last time we saw the Deckster, its creators were looking for funding in order to make their product a reality. Now, four months later, the Deckster is finally a shipping product, and I received a production sample to test out. Here’s what I found. Read More »
WebKit technology is what powers some of the top browsers (especially mobile) today. While Apple and Google are its most visible champions, the support for WebKit and ancillary technologies is coming from unlikely quarters such as Amazon and Boxee. Here’s its new BFF. Read More »
Hurricane Irene wasn’t the raging monster that some forecasters expected, but it’s left millions without power for days, and even weeks, at a time. However, outages from major storms could be shorter and faster to fix after smarter grid technology is installed. Read More »
Infinia, a solar startup which is using Stirling engines to produce solar power, is looking to raise $25 million in funding, and has closed $6 million of that round according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More »
Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt admitted in an interview in Edinburgh on the weekend that Google is taking a hard line on the real-name issue with Google+ because it sees the social network as an “identity service” on which it can build other products. Read More »
A new iPhone is expected soon, and Apple’s supply chain is kicking into high gear in order to meet what is likely to be voracious demand. Shipments of the iPhone 4 could outnumber iPhone 5 almost 4 to 1, according to a report. Read More »
Google chairman Eric Schmidt was on a diplomacy mission to UK broadcasters late last week. His pitch? The Internet will make TV more personal, more social and enable better monetization and measurement opportunities. And Google wants to help them take advantage of those changes. Read More »
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