Nokia shot out a press release this morning on the new Nokia N81 handset: it’s now available and shipping. You’ve got your choice with and without the 8 GB of … Read More »
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have kicked off the Web 2.0 Summit by saying nothing, but today was all about MySpace — both in and out of San Francisco. Chris DeWolfe and Rupert Murdoch were on stage talking about opening up the MySpace platform right … Read More »
We’re at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, sitting on the floor in a room packed with people here to see Mark Zuckerberg kick off a strong first-day lineup. The Facebook CEO basically just admitted to the much-discussed Facebook $15 billion valuation financing, telling interviewer … Read More »
Internet Tablet Talk has official images of the soon-to-be-announced Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. We’ll have to wait for the official announcement to see what new mobile goodness … Read More »
Have you ever wondered why the “secret questions” on everything from your bank account to email account all have a certain bland quality to them? Where were you born? What was your first school? Bo-ring. We think it’s time for question writers to get a creative … Read More »
Oracle (ORCL) continues on its enterprise software roll-up strategy. Having already gobbled up dozens of companies including PeopleSoft, it now has plans to buy BEA Systems (BEAS), offering $17 a share, or about $6.7 billion. Oracle offer is 25 percent higher than BEA’s recent … Read More »
Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, alongside another key ex-Skyper Geoffrey Prentice and former investment banker Mattias Ljungman, are slowly and surely becoming big investors in European early-stage companies. Their new VC fund, Atomico, is taking some of the gains they made from the … Read More »
After spending 11 hours in the plane (and another four hours in the airport and commuting to the Airports) I am finally home, completely wrecked and jet lagged. Nevertheless, the good news is that I have lots of good stuff to write about. In case you were … Read More »
Ooyala, a video startup founded by former Google employees we’ve been keeping an eye on, invited us over to its office this week. The company has grand ambitions of creating a “user-centric monetization model,” where objects in videos like a car or an actress are … Read More »
I had grand visions of videoblogging my trip to New York this week, but fate (in the form of a camera-snatcher) got in the way. Early on, though, I visited Jakob Lodwick, Jonathan Marcus, and the rest of the team at Vimeo and Connected Ventures. … Read More »
As I understand it, iTunes for Windows allows you to sync your iPod – or more importantly (these days) your iPhone – with Outlook for contacts and calendar items. That seems well and good for Windows users I suppose, but not so for my co-worker … Read More »
In New York this week for the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings, I was stranded without a crucial piece of Apple (AAPL) equipment and had to make an emergency run to the store tonight. I decided that with the time difference in my favor I’d … Read More »
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