CTIA 2007: Symbian, the mobile OS company is expected to announce an upgrade to its OS to version 9.5 at CTIA, that hopefully will decrease its reliance on smartphones, its main patron Nokia, and also ward off competition from fast growing rival mobile operating systems,… Read More »
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Trying to create an upstart hipster cell phone company is utterly expensive. Peter Adderton and Sky Dayton, the CEOs of MVNOs Amp’d Mobile and Helio, know this all too well by now. Amp’d is adding another $107 million in funding, according to PEHub… Read More »
MocoNews confirms that Disney is buying Beijing-based mobile content company Enorbus and says the price is around $20 million. The deal had been rumored by local media back in September 2006. Enorbus is backed by the Carlyle Group and Qualcomm. Read More »
When it comes to adapting information technology, Washington is always about two years behind the rest of the country. So it makes sense that, finally, Web 2.0 is catching hold and gathering momentum here, in early 2007. Washington’s political operative and consulting class has been energized by… Read More »
WebWorkerDaily: 5 ways to use Skype Prime to make money? WebWorkerDaily: Redundant Internet for Web Workers? NewTeeVee: Five Features Flash Should Have NewTeeVee: AppleTV to help Vlogs GigaGamez: New PC Gaming Standard based on Open Source Read More »
The location based AIM plugin powered by Skyhook Wireless that we wrote about last October is now available. LBS via AIM and Wi-Fi access points — check it out. Read More »
Most likely you’ve seen cell phone “short codes” when advertisers slap them on candy wrappers or big media brands like American Idol create text message-based voting campaigns. You know, text a message to this 5 or so digit mobile code and get some free stuff you… Read More »
Thank You For Suing! Viacom has just rung the opening bell on a bull market in the video fingerprinting technology start-ups. Not a day goes by when we hear about some tiny tot making claims that they can catch nefarious videos in the act,… Read More »
A half-dozen tech companies are hoping a prototype of a device will help solve the serious lack of competition in the wireless access space. Microsoft, Google, Dell, HP, Philips and Intel are planning on delivering a device to the FCC today, according to the Washington… Read More »
AllPeers, the Firefox-based P2P system is going open source. Sand Hill Road is having a midlife crisis. (Link) Yellow Pages, still in black, despite Internet boom. (Link) Problem with too much TechCrunch love, TechCrashing. (Link) What comes after AJAX? Dare to learn. (Link) Kickin’ it with… Read More »
Is the idea of “presence” really one of the next steps in communications applications, or is it just a fancy way of not having to answer your phone? Alec Saunders, one of the founders of VoIP presence software startup iotum, definitely hopes it’s the former, and… Read More »
“The main appeal for Photoshop has always been derived from a rich and powerful desktop user experience that will be near impossible to replicate in a web app. How do you create a 20MB proof online,” writes Wired Journal. Good point! Read More »
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