I got a chance to check out Metalink’s wireless chip technology a few months ago, as the company played a crystal-clear high definition movie and ran it over three blazing-fast wirelessly-connected TV’s. If the demo was the norm, it was as easy and fast as… Read More »
Bio:Katie Fehrenbacher, Editor, Earth2Tech
Katie Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for over 7 years. She is the founding Editor of Earth2Tech, which she launched in July 2007. Prior to starting Earth2Tech she was a Staff Writer for GigaOM where she covered wireless and broadband technology. She has been a Reporter at Red Herring, an Editor at Engadget and began her career as a Reporter in the Silicon Valley bureau of the largest Japanese daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Recent Posts
With every teenager sporting a cell phone these days, the college dorm phone is quickly being relegated to the closet. Rave Wireless, a New York city-based startup that makes mobile software, saw this coming, and has started creating applications for cell phones that could help college… Read More »
Following the crowd of the young online travel startups that are pushing community-based features, Yahoo is adding some more social functions to its Yahoo Travel site. While Yahoo launched Trip Planner late last year, looking to create a community around travel, the company has added the… Read More »
Niall stopped by Earthlink’s SF store last night and snapped these photos. He says the store opended up on Thursday and has been touting DSL, VoIP, Helio, Mindspring, and muni WiFi. The company thinks that boots-on-the-ground in targeted cities can help convince customers. We’ll see. And if… Read More »
Chalk another on the board for the MVNO fallout. EasyMobile, the mobile service created by the crew behind Europe’s bright-orange “Easy” brand–EasyJet, EasyPizza, EasyMoney– is closing its service in the Netherlands after just 9 months. Well, as they say–easy come, easy go. Or as Om says,… Read More »
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sherpalo Ventures (a venture vehicle of Google-backer, Ram Shriram) have decided that India is the next big market for mobile commerce–using the cellphone as a connected wallet to buy and sell stuff. With over 100 million Indian wireless subscribers—-more than double the… Read More »
Clearwire pulled back its IPO plans yesterday, and turned to the more generous and less demanding private sector, scoring more than double what it planned to raise from the public markets. It was a smart move in the light of the sorry state of tech IPOs. Despite… Read More »
