Things aren’t going terribly well for the “One Laptop Per Child” project, reports The Wall Street Journal. The project, which started as a noble effort to educate the children of poor nations via $100 laptops computers, has run into stiff competition from the likes of Intel […] Read more »
Having trouble finding a gift for someone? Giftoscope, a new web service will help with some quirky suggestions. Add Siberia to the list of places where Microsoft is building data centers. Chicago and Dublin are two recent locations of Microsoft’s data center build outs. Contrary to […] Read more »
Policy-makers want to split the Universal Service Fund, which brings in around $7 billion or so every year and is used to subsidize the old-fashioned phone systems in rural areas, into three distinct parts: one to subsidize wireless services, another for the old-fashioned phone services, and […] Read more »
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Play around with Songza, a music search engine and Internet jukebox, and the first question that pops up into your head will be: How can this be legal? Whether the latest offering from Humanized, a Chicago-based company, is skirting the legal limits or not, or if […] Read more »
Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far, a story in The New York Times gives US mobile web usage a B-minus grade. According to Rethink Research mobile web accounts for “12 percent of average revenue per user in 2007, far below the expected 50 percent” while […] Read more »
(Updated) Portland-based Jive Software, an enterprise collaboration software company we have covered in the past is dreaming of an IPO, perhaps as early next year, CMO Sam Lawrence tells John Cook. The 90-person, six-year-old company is hoping to close out 2007 with revenues of about $17 […] Read more »
We have put most of the major panel and keynote clips on NewTeeVee. These include a chat with YouTube co-founder Steve Chen , CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith keynote, Mika Salmi, Search & Discovery Panel, Crossover Hits Panel, The Monetization Panel and our introduction. AT&T’s Ralph […] Read more »
From Russia with love (for movie lovers) comes ZML.com, which is planning to become the Allofmp3.com of flicks. Crazy as it might sound, but they are using a collective licensing agreement with an obscure Russian rights holders agency to offer movies for download for $2 to […] Read more »
[qi:_webworkerdaily] We have been busy this weekend, rolling out new designs. In addition to this blog, WebWorkerDaily got a big makeover too. ACS did the design for WWD. Thanks guys for all your hard work. New WWD is wider, cleaner and simpler. Hopefully you get a […] Read more »
A cleaner, simpler reboot. What do you think? Read more »
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In this week’s episode of The GigaOM Show, we chat with Jim Greer, CEO and co-founder of Kongregate and Jameson Hsu, co-founder and CEO of Mochi Media about monetizing casual games. We discuss a wide range of topics, including the upcoming launch of Google’s game-related AdSense […] Read more »
[qi:017] Anne Zelenka, who writes about Web 2.0 topics for us, has a very thoughtful follow-up to my post about teams and individual bloggers on on her personal blog. “It’s a natural tendency to limit exactly who we grant personhood and individuality too,” she writes, eloquently […] Read more »
Now we all know that Facebook is worth one gazillion dollars, but how about the people who are always social networking? In other words, how much is your personal network worth? Germany-based Xing has come up with a tool called MyNetworkValue that lets you put a […] Read more »
T-Mobile launched the new Sidekick Slide earlier this month amid much fanfare, only to discover some major design flaws that got the device to reset itself. That really charged up the customers. The Motorola-made device from Danger Inc. was quickly pulled from the market. T-Mobile today […] Read more »
[qi:090] Remember how we complained about Google-owned GrandCentral doing a switcheroo on their promise of one number for life? Well, Skype is doing the same to some Londoners who have SkypeIn mumbers. The company sent an email to some of the “0207″ number owners with this […] Read more »
[qi:___wimax] Indian incumbent BSNL plans to spend about $750 million on a nationwide WiMAX network that will primarily target rural areas and small towns and cover a sixth of the country’s ever-growing population. This has to be one of the largest WiMAX rollouts anywhere on the […] Read more »
[qi:090] The VoIP community, like so many others, got swept up in the Facebook platform euphoria. Not a day passed without some startup or another unveiling their Facebook application amid much fanfare. Well, the party is over, and it has become clear that VoIP apps have […] Read more »
[qi:114] Verizon is rolling out major speed boosts for its FiOS broadband subscribers across its entire service area. These new tiers offer up to 50 Mbps/20 Mbps or up to 30 Mbps/15 Mbps, depending on the state in which the service is sold, at costs ranging […] Read more »
[qi:005] It was sort of a good-news-bad-news kind of email. Toby Padilla, founder of MusicMobs, wrote in to let me know that he was joining Last.fm as VP of desktop & client software, and will be working on developing cool products for the social music company […] Read more »
Google is building two different Internet switches. Here is the skinny! Read more »
[qi:032] YouTube co-founder Steve Chen during an onstage chat at our NewTeeVee Live conference responded to our questions about video quality by saying that YouTube will boost the quality of the videos, but not at the expense of user experience. Buffering and video playback delays were […] Read more »
[qi:086] With its old-line businesses losing steam, AT&T is looking at new revenue streams. It has already diversified into video through its U-verse and HomeZone services; now it’s looking to shore up its Yellow Pages business. It is buying click-to-call service provider Ingenio and plans to […] Read more »
[qi:076] Fred Wilson this morning laments how TechMeme, a site that tracks the world of tech blogs, is changing. “I still go to it every day to take the temperature of the tech blog scene, but I don’t see my friends on it so much anymore,” […] Read more »
[qi:090] Skype, the P2P voice service that cost eBay billions of dollars, might be up for sale, according to The Guardian. Currently in favour around London’s webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy Skype, the web telephony firm, from eBay. […] Read more »
Google’s wireless ambitions are big, and so are the challenges. Read more »
AT&T Mobility CEO & President Ralph de la Vega is not too worried about Google and its wireless ambitions. “Running a wireless network is a capital-intensive business,” he said in a chat earlier this week. “It’s not a business for the faint of heart.” He said […] Read more »
MeeMix, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based social music startup, is joining competitors including MOG, Last.fm and Pandora by offering music-oriented communities centered around your listening habits. I met MeeMix Founder and CEO Gilad Shlang when I visited Tel Aviv earlier this year. Shlang had articulated to me […] Read more »
Offering bundles of television channels no one wants to watch along with Showtime and HBO is one of the many things detractors say is wrong with the cable TV business. Many consumers would rather pick and choose channels they want and pay accordingly. The cable companies […] Read more »
[qi:090] Mobile VoIP is going to become a major force over the next five years, rapidly outpacing voice over Wi-Fi, according to a recently released report by research firm Disruptive Analysis. The report predicts that the number of VoIP over 3G users will top 250 million […] Read more »
[qi:051] Google, has been known to come up with its own technologies when dissatisfied with commercial and/or open source offerings. The company had previously started making its own server hardware. And now it seems the company engineers are building high-speed switches according to its own stringent […] Read more »
Our guest for Episode #17 is Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren. “”The day that an MP3 player is always connected [to the internet] is the day when broadcast radio vanishes” Westergen, a leader in the fight to save Internet Radio, said on the show. He also brought […] Read more »
[qi:027] Copper, some telecom insiders joke, is like a cockroach – it never dies and keeps coming back. Someone always comes up with a way to use the copper in a new sort of a way. When we are all dreaming of a fiber to the […] Read more »
DivX, a video codec and software company based in San Diego, Calif., announced yesterday that it was acquiring Aachen, Germany-based MainConcept for $22 million with another $6 million in earn outs. For DivX CEO Kevin Hell the acquisition is a bet on the future of video: […] Read more »
[qi:022] The Wall Street Journal’s report about Google’s big mobile plans is one that covers all bases, and leaves you where you started from: scratching your head. The Journal says Google may or may not buy a carrier; invest in a carrier; partner with a carrier, […] Read more »
“Are you going to have this event next year?” That was the most common refrain we heard as we were wrapping up our NewTeeVee Live conference last night. How do you answer that question? By saying yes, of course, barring any unforeseen circumstances, we are going […] Read more »
[qi:110] Yesterday, at our NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, I announced that we had closed our Series B financing. The amount of money we raised, however, was misreported (it’s more than the figures being circulated out there), but for now, I am not disclosing the […] Read more »
[qi:010] Google, which has been battling Facebook for talent recently, is facing an attack from another source. VMWare, the server and PC virtualization company that went public this summer, is hiring all the engineers it can find. Ann Winblad, a general partner at venture capital firm […] Read more »
Back in 2006 a whole crop of VoIP app companies cropped up, each one trying to figure out how they can make a business out of voice, including in-fashion, if pointless forays such as embeddable widgets for social networks. One had to look really hard to […] Read more »
[qi:034] Over on The New York Times’ Bits Blog, Saul Hansell writes that both Google and Yahoo are thinking about using email as a backbone of a social environment. About time, is what I would like to say, and what took you so long, for crying […] Read more »
We are throwing pre-game warm up pitches, for NewTeeVee Live is less two hours away. Our first conference that will explore future of online video and its business implications has sold out. It would be an understatement to say we are nervous and excited. Nevertheless, say […] Read more »
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