I am one of two founders in a startup. Both of us come from a creative background – but even though *we are artists,* we are both firmly grounded in and have a good grasp of technology and business. Still, one of the core qualities of […] Read more »
A few days after everyone went into a tizzy over Facebook launching an iPhone-specific website, another social networking service, Multiply has come out with its iPhone-ready site. (Check it out here at http://multiply.com/m.) It is amazing how many social services are spending money and optimizing for […] Read more »
If you’re like me, you’ve had seven (or more) kinds of problems with your Airport Extreme. Maybe today’s update will fix it for you, even though Apple’s description is terse as usual, offering only “general fixes and compatibility updates.” While you’re at it, don’t forget to […] Read more »
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Every founder knows the pain of a sales call. Sales calls aren’t tough because ‘The Spiel’ is tough. Sales calls are painful because getting turned down is painful. What helped me and my cofounders make the Dean’s List in engineering school (while launching our peer-to-peer credit […] Read more »
Unbox Movies Direct to TiVo; starting today, TiVo subscribers can order movies from Amazon’s Unbox using only their remote control. (AP) Study Supports Sponsored P2P, with Sprint sponsoring free music over file sharing networks, free content in exchange for sponsored advertising could catch on according to […] Read more »
I’ve read this press release three times, and I still don’t know what it means, exactly, except that several traditional media corporations have jumped into online games in a huge way. Thanks to a joint investment by three VC firms, TimeWarner, NBC, and Bertelsmann (along with […] Read more »
“New for the Olympics is 2,400 hours of live coverage which includes more than 1,000 hours of live streaming media (covering 24 separate sports) over 17 days,” NBC Universal Executive Officer Bob Wright told the audience yesterday for his keynote at NXTComm in a preview of […] Read more »
The nation’s dominant Internet service provider, AT&T, is working to develop a system to prevent the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted content according to an article by James S. Granelli in the LA Times. Consumer advocates vehemently oppose any such attempt, with IP Democracy declaring any such […] Read more »
After spending $680 million to scoop-up Right Media, Yahoo today announced a deal with Comcast to sell display and video advertising on Comcast’s web sites, which get a total of 2.5 billion page views a month. The deal also covers planned Fancast website. Comcast has been […] Read more »
Om, writing at GigaOM, is less than optimistic about the new BitTorrent Entertainment Network (not yet live as of this writing — when it actually launches Monday we’ll do a full review). Om thinks the company hasn’t settled the outstanding doubts about ISP demands, ease-of-use issues, […] Read more »
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If you’re the type who has trouble keeping your Desktop organized, then my friend, I may have the solution for you. Hazel comes in the form of a preference pane for your System Preferences, and helps you to easily setup fairly powerful workflows to perform on […] Read more »
Fujitsu obviously reads jkOnTheRun and have just posted Vista drivers for the P1610! Here’s whats available now: Read more »
December is one of the busiest months for gaming… for obvious reasons. The holiday season pushes game sales way up, and, of course, it doesn’t hurt that most companies wait to release their newest products right before the busiest shopping time of the year. To that […] Read more »
We all know that the Internet is available on your mobile phone – but how about bringing the Internet to your cordless home phone? In case you have forgotten (because you use your mobile phone for everything), your home phone is cordless but not too mobile. […] Read more »
Oh I remember, I embedded it in the headrest of the Toyota. (Autoblog via Steve French) Read more »
MechCommander was at the cutting edge of gaming technology when it was first introduced in the late 90′s and I’ll bet I spent more hours playing the game than I care to admit. It quickly became a benchmark for games at that time it was so […] Read more »
The Daily Deal has a piece on the recent trend of venture capital investments in the blogs and they look at Huffington Post, Paid Content and us. That is a nice surprise to get early on Monday morning. I did not get a chance to chat […] Read more »
I hope that Origami OEMs will start putting ExpressCard slots in the devices now that Novatel is soon to release their Merlin EVDO card. The small ExpressCard slot is tailor-made for the Origami and having EVDO on the portable would be oh so sweet. Surprisingly Novatel […] Read more »
A new photographic tool calculates various optical equations such as depth of field or hyperfocal distance to let photographers make more effective use of photographic equipment Hampshire, United Kingdom. – April 24, 2006: Douglas Software announces today the release of version 1.1.0 of Camera module for […] Read more »
One observation about this whole Web 2.0 thing – all the smart entrepreneurs are incredibly young. I just thought it would be fun to give them a little bit of a history lesson and introduce them to names, ideas, and things from the recent past – […] Read more »
GigaTunes December 2005, an ethereal mix of globetronic sounds to wind down 2005! Read more »
As Jeff says, enough of this Web 2.0 stuff. I am going back to the roots. You will see what I mean. Read more »
As you may have heard, it would appear the Treo 700 is going to be announced tomorrow Monday September 26th, 2005. TreoCentral.com will be covering the event live. Rumors are claiming they’re going with Windows. R.I.P., PalmOS? That isn’t stopping me from having more fun with […] Read more »
Alera Technologies announced the availability of the USB Copy Cruiser Plus (UCCP) that provides a direct USB to USB connection between two devices eliminating the need to connect either device to a computer to copy files back and forth. The UCCP has two standard USB 2.0 […] Read more »
Frost & Sullivan says that the North American VoIP residential revenues will hit $4.07 billion by 2010, up 1300% from 2004 sales of $295.1 million. Do some math here, you can very quickly find out that the numbers paint a pretty bleak picture for most VoIP […] Read more »
Armaan Khan wants to see a mini Tablet similar to one I have begged for in the past but with a big difference- coming from Apple. An Apple mini Tablet (the iNote?) would be a big seller I think and long overdue. Armaan’s thoughts: Imagine a […] Read more »
Networking Pipeline: VoIP Can Save Enterprises From $9,600 To $28,000 Per Site. Survey also finds that ShoreTel and Nortel offer the lowest start-up costs, while Avaya and Cisco prices were the highest. Read more »
SanDisk recently announced two new media card readers in the MobileMate line. The MobileMate SD+ 5-in-1 reader supports SD™, MiniSD™, MultiMediaCard™, RS-MMC™ and TransFlash™ while the 4-in-1 MobileMate MS+ reader has one slot for Memory Stick™, Memory Stick PRO™, Memory Stick Duo™ and Memory Stick PRO […] Read more »
I want Apple to add a “SIP address” field to the Mac OS X Address Book. I want everybody I know to get a VoIP SIP account. I want all of them to e-mail me their sip:username@isp.com address. Upon updating my address book, i want all […] Read more »
My former boss at Forbes.com David Churbuck as joined the blog world, with his new offering, D.C. Churbuck Reports. As a former reporter – 13 years at Forbes, four at PC Week, four at daily newspapers, he still has the writing bug, and boy it is […] Read more »
This is the kind of day most start-ups wait for. Flarion has just learned that that Siemens will build wireless equipment based on its Flash-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology, and will market it to the new and emerging telecom markets like those in Eastern Europe, […] Read more »
Forbes has a fascinating look at NTT DoCoMo and the changes inside the company, and its decision to embrace open standards. The story is about Kei-Ichi Enoki, an executive vice president at the company and how he is pushing I-Mode into new markets. “Consumers don’t care […] Read more »
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Comcast has finally called off its bid for Disney. Brian L. Roberts, President and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast, said “We have always been disciplined in our approach to acquisitions. Being disciplined means knowing when it is time to walk away. That time is now.” Right […] Read more »
SBC is finally flexing its muscles in the UNE-P side of things, The company and clueless Washington have once again proved that with enough money, anything is for sale. In case you were wondering about my rant, I was responding to this news that SBC has […] Read more »
The quarterly earnings data is in! A quick tabulation shows that the wireless industry is going through a mini-boom, and that just might be a harbinger of bad things to come. From Texas Instruments to RF Micro Devices to Nokia, to Cingular, AT&T and Sprint, everyone […] Read more »
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