Vancouver-based mobile services management startup Mobidia says it’s added $3.2 million (3.75M Canadian) to its series A round (bringing the total to about $6 million,) led by existing investor BDC Venture Capital and including … Read More »
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The Sharp Zaurus enthusiast community is buzzing with the news that Sharp is shutting down production of the Zaurus line of PDAs in February. The Sharp Zaurus is a Linux-based clamshell PDA that has a huge community of owners and developers thanks to its open-source foundation … Read More »
Put me in the cynics’ camp with Andy and Om when it comes to VoIP-on-mobile start-ups whose main selling point is a convoluted method to escape high (usually international) roaming fees. The newest entrant into an already crowded field is Nimbuzz, which gets a … Read More »
If you have been holding your breath for native Skype client to show up on your mobile phone, you could kick your mortal coil before that happens. At CES, Skype was busy announcing Wi-Fi based Skype devices, and actively denying any possibility of a a … Read More »
CBS CEO Leslie Moonves’ keynote at CES managed to squeeze in more Web 2.0 buzz words, and viral videos references than I’ve heard all week — the Numa Numa kid, diet coke and mentos, Second Life, YouTube, wikis, avatars, mashups. Well, CBS has been proactive … Read More »
Got a demo of Office 2008 for the Mac at Macworld today. There’s no fancy ribbon interface like the new Windows Office, but instead an “elements gallery” with animated scrolling access to various menus. It’ll be available “in the second half of 2007.” Sheridan Jones, group marketing … Read More »
Steve Jobs is a great storyteller. If he were a fiction writer, he would stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Tom Clancy and John Grisham. Mesmerizing in prose, master of the climax. Today’s performance at the Macworld Keynote was no different. We hyper clicked, … Read More »
If you are a Sprint Nextel customer, at some point you have suffered from dropped calls. It seems that malaise is spreading to the service provider itself, which has hit a massive air pocket. The company today gave a guidance that could make anyone cringe. … Read More »
With GUBA facing an upheaval in the boardroom, the company has put itself for sale. The San Francisco-based online video startup has hired a high powered banker to shop it around. Our investment banking sources say that Blake Warner of Thomas Weisel Partners is the … Read More »
Update: Akamai spokesperson declined to comment. We are still waiting to hear from Apple. Apple’s holly jolly Christmas, that resulted in extended outages and infuriating delays for customers trying to access the iTunes Store have been well reported. Some of us (guilty as charged) were amazed … Read More »
Developers have to make some hard choices when it comes to deciding what gaming console platform to embrace. Wii or PS3? Read More »
Spock, the so-called people-based search startup that we’ve written about in the past, is announcing it’s raised $7 million in a Series A funding. Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures are behind the round. The startup is in … Read More »
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