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The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup

Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, May 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM PT Comments (19)

In my years covering technology, I’ve gotten more than my fair share of pitches related to the latest consumer Internet startup. Thanks to this I’ve been able to witness what amounts to be a near-familiar life cycle for these companies. Not every company hits every step, but most of these will be familiar to those [...]

Academics, HP Wants to Fund YOU!

Stacey Higginbotham, Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM PT Comments (0)

HP Labs is asking academic and research institutions for research proposals that focus on cloud computing, sustainable IT, transferring data seamlessly across a variety of media, dealing with the information explosion and dynamic computing. The computer company will offer $50,000 or $75,000 for selected proposals — primarily to pay a graduate student to help. While [...]

MySpace Builds a Bigger Walled Garden

Stacey Higginbotham, Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 10:05 AM PT Comments (7)

MySpace today launched announced a data availability initiative that will allow users to opt in to sharing their MySpace information on a variety of partner sites. While not exactly complete data portability (the social networking company also said it was joining the Data Portability Project), it’s a start.
MySpace is launching its data availability efforts with [...]

Think Niche to Slay eBay

Stacey Higginbotham, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 9:27 AM PT Comments (6)

Another site billing itself as an eBay killer is launching today. Fididel offers real-time negotiation and trains negotiators that can work on behalf of sellers to help them get good prices, which makes it a potential shopping place for those disillusioned with eBay’s auction sniping. Yes, sellers and investors are unhappy with eBay at the [...]

AT&T Goes With the FLO

Stacey Higginbotham, Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM PT Comments (0)

AT&T, after months of waiting, is finally launching its MediaFLO mobile broadcast television service. The Vu service, which is based on Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology, will roll out May 4th in 58 cities across the country. Much like Verizon’s V-Cast service, which is based on the same technology, AT&T’s service will require new handsets capable of [...]

Ruby Gets Some Enterprise-level Support

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 9:01 PM PT Comments (2)

As Ruby on Rails rose to prominence in the last few years, the platform has faced derision from some programmers over its inability to scale for enterprise applications. Ruby on Rails might be good for making interactive web pages, but it was no C or Java. Benchmark Capital aims to change that with an investment [...]

Worried by iPhone, Mobile Cos Turn To Synaptics

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 6:00 PM PT Comments (1)

The LG Secret launched today with a touch screen powered by Synaptics touch capacitors, a technology whose star has risen in the consumer devices universe in the wake of the iPhone. The iPhone uses a grid layout of capacitive sensors to enable multi-finger gestures, something that wouldn’t be possible with resistive sensors. Sensing capacitors are [...]

HP’s Circuit Innovation

Stacey Higginbotham, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM PT Comments (3)

Hewlett-Packard has come up with a new type of circuit called a memristor — a conflation of the words memory and resistance — in the form of a chip capable of storing data and processing it without being limited to the binary zeros and ones. The technology was theorized almost 40 years ago, but [...]

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