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Strands Expands Further With NetworthIQ Buy

Jason Harris, Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 4:00 AM PT Comments (2)

Strands, a social recommendation startup whose core product is focused on music, today made another move aimed at expanding into other areas with an agreement to buy NetworthIQ for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition of NetworthIQ, Corvallis, Ore.-based Strands is looking to further build its moneyStrands personal finance application by giving users quality [...]

Nimbuzz’s All-in-One Mobile IM & VoIP App

Jason Harris, Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 3:34 PM PT Comments (3)

Nimbuzz, a little-known mobile VoIP company out of the Netherlands, has released a mobile client that not only allows users to conduct VoIP calls, but to engage in IM conversations and share media such as photos, music and video. Nimbuzz, which claims to have received an undisclosed amount of funding from Skype’s original investors, Mangrove [...]

New App Fixes Nokia Select A Network Nag

Jason Harris, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 8:29 AM PT Comments (3)

The iPhone’s ability to switch seamlessly between Wi-Fi networks and AT&T’s EDGE network with minimal mucking around by the user still remains unmatched. If you’re using one of Nokia’s increasing number of Wi-Fi enabled phones, the experience is the opposite: painful. Unless you permanently set a preference in each individual application, you’re annoyingly prompted to [...]

SlingPlayer Mobile Clients Get an Update

Jason Harris, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 9:00 AM PT Comments (0)

SlingPlayer Mobile has announced updates for their clients on Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 smartphones. The new SlingPlayer client adds support for additional handsets including the Nokia N95 8GB, Samsung i750 and Treo 500v, among others. The new clients support Sling’s newly released set-top boxes as well.
SlingPlayer Mobile is a mobile extension of [...]

Whisher Adds a Symbian App

Jason Harris, Monday, April 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM PT Comments (1)

Updated: Whisher has sent this special offer to our readers. They are giving away WiFi Out credit to GigaOM readers, and you can get the details here. The deal allows you to get free WiFi at Starbucks, Hilton Hotels, International airports and other locations.
Whisher, which provides access to Wi-Fi hotspots around the world in [...]

Jeff Pulver Steps Down From PulverMedia Board

Jason Harris, Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 8:53 AM PT Comments (4)

Jeff Pulver said today that he has resigned from the board of Pulvermedia, the company he founded. Pulver is a pioneer in the VoIP world and Pulvermedia — the company behind the VON conferences and magazine — has been a rallying point in the VoIP community.
As Om reported last month, rumors have been swirling recently [...]

Sampa: A Simple Way to Bring Families Together

Jason Harris, Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 3:30 PM PT Comments (10)

As a new parent, I am constantly faced with the dilemma of how to best keep my extended family in the loop with regards to events in my daughter’s life. I could easily start a blog, on which I could post written updates along with images. But I would prefer not to have [...]

Sniff Aims To Answer the Question, Where You At?

Jason Harris, Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 9:34 AM PT Comments (4)

If the first five seconds of every cell phone conversation were recorded, researchers would probably find that many start with the phrase “Where are you?” Answering that question before it’s asked is the aim of a new location-based web application called sniff, which stands for Social Network Integrated Friend Finder.
A permissions-based application, sniff uses “a [...]

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