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Dash recruiting 2,000 testers

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 »

Jajah… talking too much?

Markus Gobel, our good friend from Germany lays the smack down on callback service, Jajah, for basically issuing a press release everytime they get mobile.jajah.com to work on some new mobile browser. This over aggressive PR is giving us a reason to pause as … Read More »

 
 

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Who uses dot mobi?

The Wall Street Journal has a PR-friendly story about dot mobi addresses. Other than when I’ve researched dot mobi I’ve rarely met a company that is focusing efforts on these — more just buying them in a defensive move. M:Metrics says that there are no … Read More »

On Craigslist, Sex Clicks

Compete.com has a hilarious explanation of why Craigslist rocks. Sex or lack there of, is the driving force behind the most-loveable property on the web. Read More »

del.icio.us launches new Firefox plugin

del.icio.us has launched a new and improved add-on that integrates del.icio.us into the Firefox web browser. There are over two million del.icio.us users. ” From the new sidebar you can sort and search your bookmarks instantly, view tag intersections, and even modify your bookmarks,” the del.icio.us … Read More »

Nokia Pays $20M to Qualcomm

Nokia says it has paid Qualcomm $20 million for UMTS patent licenses that cover the second quarter of 2007. This new license deal is not part of the broader agreements that are set to expire on April 9, 2007. We marked out a handy timeline … Read More »

Cellfish Raises Another $10M

Mobile content company Cellfish Media announced it has added another $10 million to its first round of funding from the Solidarity Fund QFL. The startup has now raised $60 million and is looking to launch a new mobile and web based product this summer. Read More »

Pipex to build UK WiMAX network with NSN

Okay so they got off to a slow start, but Nokia Siemens Networks is doing its very best to convince the world that it is not flatfooted, firing off press releases by the dozen it seems. Yesterday they announced a deal with ad-supported MVNO, … Read More »

Arlington’s MuniFi Goes to EarthLink

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Telegeography says, “neuf Cegetel, backed by French mobile operator SFR and Louis Dreyfus group, has finalised its 100% acquisition of Parisian FTTx operator Erenis.” SFR is owned by Vivendi (56%) and Vodafone (44%). Read More »

Many readers have written to us complaining about the most recent Skype 3.1 upgrade. The Skype forums are overrun with a litany of complaints. Since we use Mac OS X, we are not quite sure what is going on, since the type of problem is … Read More »

The Mayor of Mexico City says the entire city will be a free Wi-Fi hotspot by 2008, courtesy of a deal signed with Chinese network gear maker ZTE. Read More »

Venture Beat points out Venture Hacks, a how-to on hacking your way across venture land from entrepreneurs Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi. Read More »

Having watched its clients get fat off the Internet boom 2.0, web metrics firm, Comscore is looking to go public and has filed an S-1 with the SEC. The Reston, Virginia-based company had revenues of just over $66 million in 2006, and net … Read More »

Topix has new shiny million dollar dot-com mansion. And they are letting the masses in for decoration… err, editing of the news. I can’t just get excited about this bit of news. They used to be a good site to find niche news … Read More »

April Fool’s day passed with some attempted jokes from the tech industry (oh you, Google), while Nokia and Siemens decided that was a good day to officially open its new network joint venture, ‘Nokia Siemens Networks’, for business. Only the launch wasn’t so fun-filled for … Read More »

Freescale, a chip company that was carved out of Motorola says it has launched a new GPON subsystem that was co-developed with Alcatel-Lucent. ALU recently became one of the big suppliers of GPON gear to Verizon’s FiOS network, that is going through major … Read More »

Now this is a good reason to buy the AppleTV. The Major League Baseball video highlights for the 2007 season will be available on iTunes Store and will include a daily 25 minute “MLB.com Daily Rewind” highlight show and two weekly “Games of the Week,” featuring … Read More »

Cnet says the iPhone will be available on June 11 according to a customer service manager at Cingular. I’ve tried to follow news stories by calling my carrier’s customer service line and asking questions — often I’ve found the results to be unreliable. But who … Read More »

Shai Agassi, president of SAP’s product and technology group is leaving the company, reports WSJ, to pursue other interests in climate change and alternative energy. Of course, it could be that it is easier to solve world’s problems than fix SAP. (Hat tip, Mr.Z!) Read More »

Skype has released new Skype for Windows version 3.2 (beta). You can download it here. The new software allows you to import contacts from web based email applications such as MSN Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. You can also take your video snapshots and … Read More »

StreetAdvisor, a site housing local reviews, recommendations, news, and information, becomes publicly available today. The difference between this startup (which happens to be based in Australia) and the competition? It wants to do it all on an individual street basis. That brings the critical mass … Read More »

Reed Hastings is joining the Microsoft board. We assume Microsoft won’t be adopting Hastings’ vacation policy (also in the news today), but you never know. Read More »

We already knew that AT&T had a deal in place with Napster for the company’s mobile music service. Now the companies are adding some promotional details of the plan. AT&T’s broadband and wireless customers can access Napster for free for a year when they … Read More »

Jim Forbes’ obit of Infoworld reminds us of the unique position Infoworld enjoyed in Silicon Valley. But the world of tech is going online, and so is Infoworld. Read More »

MIT Advertising Blog: “Twitter, which looks like a pinnacle of narcissism and is more boring to read then The Dullest Blog in the World” And now there is advertising to go with it. Yikes. Read More »

Versatel, a German DSL operator is planning to go public by summer of 2007 and will list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The carrier is owned by Apax Partners and nearly half the proceeds of the IPO will be used to beef up company’s … Read More »

Agloco 101: “I don’t think Agloco’s a scam. It is a poorly conceived scheme that appeals to those who know very little about finance, share issuance and regulation.” Our previous coverage on Agloco. Read More »

CTIA 2007, Orlando: Helio announced the Ocean, a seriously slick looking messaging phone. It’s a dual slider with separate QWERTY and numeric key pads, and a comprehensive messaging interface — we’ll have to check this one out on the floor. It’s manufactured by Pantech, designed … Read More »

After first saying he would grant an injunction to stop Vonage from using technology that Verizon said violated its patents, a federal judge said Friday he would instead wait two weeks to consider Vonage’s requests to stay the injunction, Reuters is reporting. Better make all … Read More »

Temex Chile has turned on its WiMAX network in 15 towns in the South American nation. The network is based on 802.16e-2005 standard and uses the 3.5 GHz frequencies. The network uses Alcatel-Lucent gear. Telmex wants to cover 91% of the country with its WiMAX … Read More »

The meaty part of this latest move against the free-caller operations (which AP didn’t quite explain in its just-the-facts-ma’am report) is AT&T’s claim that it can prove one of the newest defendants falsified call-traffic statistics in order to help set higher interconnect rates. More … Read More »

Will Disney distribute its content through Joost? The company is considering it, says an exec. Read more at NewTeeVee. Read More »

Despite years of market hype cycles pumping up the short range wireless technology UWB, investors are still interested. UWB chip company Artimi says Khosla Ventures just added $5 million to its series B, bringing its total to $50 million. Read More »

Trolltech (those Greenphone guys) says Skype has chosen its Linux development technology Qtopia as the “prefered platform” for Skype’s certified Wi-Fi phones. That includes the Netgear and Belkin Wi-Fi phones and other Skype certified WiFi devices in the future. The companies already have a … 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 »

Mobile social gaming startup Frengo, which is backed by $2.3 million from Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures, is officially announcing its service today. The company creates games based on SMS and the web, with themes like March Madness-style polls, make-your-own text quizes (which are … 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 »

Let the Asterisk price wars continue: Fonality on Monday at VON is slated to unveil the Trixbox appliance, a $999 Intel-based box meant to serve as an IP PBX for small businesses. Pre-configured Sangoma line cards and Octasic’s echo-cancellation hardware are part of the … Read More »

LAUNCHED MONDAY: Another podcast company is going live, with its first point of differentiation being it doesn’t start with “pod.” That’s not to say the name is memorable, though; it’s Personal Life Media. The tagline? Juicy lifestyle content for you, the web-enabled Boomer. Whoo-hoo. Founded in … Read More »

With the plethora of conferences, it feels like the “March Madness” of conferences! Here are a couple notable ones: This year seems to be the year of Internet-driven TV, film and broadcasting. The Video on the Net Conference will spend March 19-22 hashing out the details … Read More »

As soon as I get some free time I’m going to try to tackle this Wi-Fi detector project from MAKE — it pulses to the strength of a Wi-Fi signal. Read More »

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