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Recently, PortableApps released an overhauled version 1.5 of its PortableApps.com Suite.  I’ve written about PortableApps in previous versions, and several readers agreed that its suite is incredibly useful, especially if you like to carry around a USB thumb drive stocked with applications that you … Read More »

It’s been a while since I had a chance to chat with Om and it’s been even longer since he’s appeared in a video or audio podcast. Sounds like an opportunity to me, so we sat down and recorded a short podcast this weekend. In under … Read More »

 
 

Blogo 1.2 Adds New Options

A while back we looked at Blogo, a unified blogging and microblogging client. Now they’ve put out version 1.2, which extends Blogo to support new targets and adds some useful options as well. If you’re an OS X user who posts online frequently, it’s … Read More »

Learning From Apple, Part 1: Tutorials & Tips

Whether you’re new to the Mac or have been using one for some time, there’s usually always something new you can learn about it to make your workflow, personal projects, or fun time a little easier or more enjoyable. To that end, Apple makes plenty of … Read More »

App Store Deal of the Week: Effector

Nearly two months ago, we penned the sad news that Air-O-Matic’s “Pull My Finger” application was denied from entry to the App Store. Pull My Finger (if you couldn’t guess) was a fart noise machine for iPhone. It was one of those times … Read More »

There’s something about web content that (profitable!) CollegeHumor just seems to understand and anticipate better than anyone else. To see how the site’s original video team works its magic, check out this behind-the-scenes look. Read More »

NTV New York 2.0 Recap

Thanks very much to all who joined us last night in New York City for our viral ads edition of the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings. After any number of snafus (including the NYU campus police denying us our beer!), the video line-up for the evening and the … Read More »

Unobserved by mainstream journalists, Skype quietly closed its popular Skypecast personal broadcasting service late last month. The decision is setting off howls of protest from loyal users, who are ready to bolt to competitive services. Read More »

My Top 3 Pier Screening Machinima Entries

For today’s Pier Screening finalists we chose a single machinima selection, Robbie Dingo’s Watch the World(s), a beautiful tribute to the process of artistic creation. (I wrote on my Second Life blog about how Robbie created it.) We actually received … Read More »

Weebly challenges TypePad, WordPress

Weebly, a San Francisco-based web publishing start-up and a YCombinator alumnus, is throwing its hat in the hosted-blogging arena, challenging existing players’ SixApart’s TypePad and Automattic’s WordPress.com offerings. The company also announced that it has raised $650,000 in angel funding by a group of … Read More »

Did MySpace just buy Photobucket?

Updated with Photobucket stats: MySpace is buying Photobucket reports Valleywag, even though it is not offering any details on the price MySpace is paying for the photo-hosting company. According to reports, Photobucket had hired Lehman Brothers to shop it around and was looking for $300 … Read More »

Intel-Mac users having Joost problems

Some Intel-Mac users are having Joost problems which is showing some strange error messages, reports NewTeeVee. After loading the software, many folks, including me, have not been able to log into the service. Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl in NTV comments writes, “Yes, we’re … Read More »

More Must Reads

BREAKING: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday that the commission told large telcos to stop blocking calls into numbers for the Iowa-based free calling operations, threatening punitive actions if the carriers didn’t comply. While the immediate FCC pressure was a victory for the Iowa telcos and Internet … Read More »

T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi cellular converged phone service is supposedly breaking out of its Seattle trial and going nationwide this summer, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article says that some time in mid-June T-Mobile is going to do a national launch of its ‘Hotspot at … Read More »

Steve Jobs has a new product plan on his mind – iGreen. In a pretty obvious response to Greenpeace’s brutally low “green rating” of Apple’s use of chemicals and its recycling methods, Steve Jobs blogged about the steps Apple has taken, and will take, to … Read More »

It has been a constant theme of ours – carrier consolidation is going to cause some serious pain for telecom equipment makers. By using their dominant position, they can squeeze the proverbial blood from stone. Tellabs learned this hard lesson and reported a drop … Read More »

I was recently meeting with a Web 2.0 company discussing their network infrastructure plans. As I started asking questions about their racks of servers, their storage area network (SAN), their plans for routing, load-balancing and network security, the CTO of the company stopped me and … Read More »

Yahoo has teamed up with Sandisk and start-up Zing to promote a new digital music player with wireless connectivity, reports the Wall Street Journal. The new digital music player will essentially be a special edition of previously announced Sansa Connect that … Read More »

Dash Navigation, the startup with a broadband and GPS car device, is looking for 2,000 testers for its product. They want gadget-loving consumers that spend a lot of time in their cars. Sounds like everyone we know. See if you qualify. Read More »

WEEKEND FEATURE: The importance of a technical innovation cannot be appreciated unless it results in what amount to small joys of daily life. The first time I understood the power of mobile phones, when my brother called me to share the news of his fatherhood. At the … Read More »

GBrowser, the mythical Google may actually materialize sometime in the distant future, but for now Birmingham, UK-based Glaxstar is building its own GBrowser (as their website tantalizes, “The G****le Web is coming!!”) that hopes to make the web a safer place for the kids under … Read More »

Intel has invested an undisclosed amount of money in ElephantDrive, an Amazon S3-based online storage company. (via) Read More »

An announcement was made by Wizzard Media that will impact thousands of podcasters like us MobileTechRoundupers.  The company announced it has acquired Liberated Syndication, known to podcasters as Libsyn.  The Wizzard announcement states their intent is to improve content monetization and we’ll just have to … Read More »

If you like local politics, bureacracy and a drawn-out waiting game — tune into San Francisco’s ongoing Wi-Fi plans. I did yesterday, and spent three hours sitting through the city’s Budget and Finance Committee meeting, watching community advocates fight and supervisors play politics. One things for … Read More »

Web Worker Daily has 27 tips to take the pain out of conference calling. While these are great tips for virtual workers, the tips should come in handy for all who spend way too much time on conference calls. Read More »

No seriously… just read this post on NewteeVee and decide for yourself. Read More »

So much for brotherly love between Time magazine “person of the year” alumni. Class of 1984, Apple thinks little of YOU, the class of 2006. Seriously! Read More »

Blogger has started doing custom domains, giving many respite from the dreaded and downmarket blogspot.com domain. Google provides hosting for people who want to sign-up for this service. Add this to yet another offering from Google for your own domain! Now if people sign up … Read More »

Webworkerdaily has a comparison of some of the top new ajaxy start pages. Find out the winner here. Read More »

Don’t have time to listen to a lengthy podcast today? No problem; just hit up the new Mobility Site Minute podcast hosted by Chris Leckness. I spoke with Chris on the phone yesterday and he shared his reasons for the new tech podcast. … Read More »

My little nephew Sid is barely three, but has already become an XBox 360 fanatic. If the growing popularity (and traffic) of games-related posts on GigaOM wasn’t enough, Sid’s passion for Microsoft’s hot-selling console convinced me that gaming was the future. As online gaming becomes more … Read More »

Our new blogger Judi Sohn has 11 tips for web workers to better manage their time. Read More »

While everyone is swarming around the Web 2.0 conference today, yesterday’s Mobile 2.0 conference was a more calm event that showed off some interesting mobile startups and examined trends like mobile-created content, access to the web via cell phones and … Read More »

Web Worker Daily takes a first look at Scrybe, the  much talked about planner/calendar application. Read More »

Online travel search company SideStep has bought hotel review site TravelPost. SideStep was one of the first of the new wave of meta-search travel sites around, though now there are many. We guess they have to stand out somehow — why not buy a … Read More »

Earthlink has been signing up a stream of cities in its plans to build and sell metro-sized WiFi networks — Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, Anaheim. But not all cities are proving easy markets to crack. That’s partly why Earthlink has been talking to the owners … Read More »

The DEMO conference was held last week while I was working hard in Boston and one of the coolest things I’ve seen come out of the conference is the HearHere podcast searching tool.  HearHere lets you type in a search term for something you want … Read More »

Chris, Jack and Steve have a great podcast interview on episode number eight of Mobility Guys. Tyler Welch, a Microsoft MVP lead, answers questions on the Microsoft MVP program, which I found to be extremely interesting. The conversation turns towards DRM as Tyler’s … Read More »

Those Mobility Guys are back with podcast number seven. This ep is great roundtable of must-have software for your mobile device, ranging from utilities to remote connectivity and RSS readers. The best part (in my humble opinion of course) is when James gets completely blamed … Read More »

I thought I was cool in college with a scientific calculator (I wasn’t), but Saint Mary’s University really puts me to shame. The school has adopted several mobile technology methods … Read More »

So you are a budding podcaster, longing to record those bits of brilliance in the field.  Maybe conduct interviews of your cat, capture the wit of your neighbors sitting on their back deck.  HHB has you covered with the FlashMic, a high-quality microphone with a gig … Read More »

Podcasts are everywhere now that they have a home on the iTunes Music Store but even so there are many people who are unfamiliar with them.  I found a great “introduction to podcasts” article from the Irish Times that explains the history and ins and outs … Read More »

AcroDesign Technologies Launches New AudioBay, Introducing Podcasting to the Pocket PC AudioBay offers a complete podcasting solution for Pocket PCs—from recording to hosting Colchester, VT, USA (March 16, 2006) — AcroDesign Technologies today released the AudioBay Podcasting application for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs.  AudioBay provides everything needed to … Read More »

$8.5 million for Bit Torrent, a Prodigem acquisition, and then Verisign buys Kontiki for $62 million and change – clearly digital content distribution is picking up steam. Brightcove, another digital distributor/producer, is already one of the hottest start-ups around. Read More »

Author Scott Sigler first made news when he decided to release his book EarthCore as a weekly podcast last year. Sigler produced the audio book himself and released it a few chapters at a time via podcast and garnered 10,000 subscribers. The innovative … Read More »

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