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March 10, 2010 (yesterday)
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One of the more solid and genuinely useful Internet startups out there, travel fare aggregator Kayak, was dissected in a report released today by NeXt Up Research for SharesPost. NeXt Up thinks that with a heavy advertising spend, Kayak should hav...
Not too long ago, Toyota reigned as the seemingly untouchable hybrid leader. That dominance in terms of both market share (50 percent of hybrids sold in the U.S.) and mindshare (no alt-fuel vehicle on the market is better known or more widely rec...
Foursquare, the New York-based location services startup, has more than 500,000 users and 1.4 million venues, it announced today, one year after it launched at SXSW. The company says it had its biggest day ever last Friday, with 275,000 check-ins ...
The iPhone has a number of advantages over its smartphone competitors, but one thing it hasnt had that users have been clamoring for is true multitasking. Push notifications were intended as a workaround designed to give users the ability to stay up-to-date with multiple apps without having to actually run them at the same time.
Its still only a partial solution, though, and one many iPhone users arent satisfied with. True multitasking is still high on the want list of many iPhone users, and really remains...
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Microsoft faces a tough assignment in trying to get back in the smartphone game. Nokias Symbian maintains a massive presence in overseas markets, while Apples iPhone and Googles Android have gained tremendous momentum in the superphone era. And Wi...
Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company, has raised $20 million in new venture funding, according to company executives. Intel Capital and previous investor RRE Ventures led the current round, which included Softbank, Founders Collective...
Leading up to South by Southwest my inbox has been littered with friend requests on Gowalla, a check-in service that I can use to show those friends where I am at any point in time. Underneath each request is a line that reads: We recommend you ac...
When iTunes web preview pages first appeared for songs and albums the industry was abuzz with the possibility that iTunes could be migrating to the cloud. iTunes preview has so far had little impact on how we use purchased media content, but it ...
Verizon Wireless will bring its first 4G handsets to market by the middle of 2011, CTO Anthony Melone said in a Wall Street Journal piece (hat tip Engadget). But using those super-fast Long Term Evolution phones is going to cost you.
We learned l...
We know there are lot of entrants in the group deals space see my recent piece, Groupon and the Wannabes but now the competitors are seriously bulking up. LivingSocial which has more than a million daily email subscribers is today announcing i...
Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. Its just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced...
Faced with declining revenues and increasingly dismal prospects, some mainstream media outlets are adopting questionable tactics, specifically dead-end web pages stuffed with outbound links and pay-per-click ads. A liberally funded LA startup is ...
The future of media will be information consumed on superphones while on the go, said Rob Glaser, chairman of RealNetworks, today in his first public speech since stepping down from his CEO position. In the speech, given in Seattle at a Mobile Bro...
March 9, 2010
GigaOM
Did you know that Google Maps most-requested feature addition is biking directions, in large part due to a vocal 50,000-signature-strong group of Bike There petitioners? I wouldnt have guessed it! The petitioners wish is being granted tonight, wit...
Google Apps is moving closer to being an integrated corporate dashboard with the announcement tonight of Google Apps Marketplace at a developer event at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The company will give vendors multiple hooks into it...
It goes without saying Google has gigantic ambitions. We hear a lot about its various products but it is hard to contextualize those efforts. A new video from Australian weekly news show Hungry Beast, is a graphical representation of Googles grand...
The Comedy Central-Hulu announcement last week made me recall my New Year’s resolution, one that I wanted to share publicly, and encourage you to embrace as well. It is simple in its concept, but epic in scope. It involves eliminating something f...
March 8, 2010
GigaOM
The FCC said today that as part of its National Broadband Plan it might allocate spectrum for a free or low-cost wireless broadband network as a means to help address the affordability of broadband for poor people. If all this sounds familiar to y...
Green:Net 2010 is the GigaOM Network’s conference where green and IT meet. While alternative energy gets a lot of attention at most green conferences, only Green:Net offers a specific point of view as to how entrepreneurs can leverage computing an...
Facebook plans to add friend location information as soon as next month, reports The New York Times Bits blog today. Honestly, this news is so expected that the fact that it was reported using anonymous sources attributed as several people briefed...
Apple has a default set of apps that come with every iPhone and iPod touch that you cant remove from the device, and that provide some basic features that are likely to appeal to a wide swath of users. The iPad will have a default set, too, but it...
Cisco has unveiled a new routing system that it claims can handle 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system. And its all about the video.
The company in a much-hyped announcement this morning introduced the CRS-3, a router that can move up to 322 terabits per second enough to download the entire printed collection of the Library of Congress in one second, Cisco said, or deliver all movies ever made in about four minutes. The router has been tested by AT&T (s t) in a successful trial of ...
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Quiet Khosla Ventures-backed startup Transonic Combustion has garnered attention over the last few days after revealing the geeky details of its scheme for a more efficient fuel-injection system. The company, which presented at the Department of E...
When you have a group of friends that likes to get together, the planning tools long email threads, calling people individually, SMS or Foursquare when youre already at a location arent ideal. Sure, if youre really on top of things you could cre...
Apple has secured a patent for a system that would enable consumers to use an electronic gadget say, um, an iPhone in place of keys to unlock their cars and front doors. Its an effort that could finally move the needle for the short-range wirele...
Where, a geo-enabled local search and recommendation service by Boston-based uLocate Communications has launched Where Ads, a hyper-local advertising network. The company is launching the new network because the company believes that its access to...
Since more than 30,000 people are coming here to Austin for South by Southwest, I figured Id offer up a list of local companies that members of the digerati should take the time to meet while theyre in town. Austin has a ton of startups, but I tr...
A few days ago, Jay Adelson, chief executive officer of San Francisco-based social media company, Digg, told me that his company now has hundreds of servers. And the size of its infrastructure was continuing to grow with its usage. And that is af...
When it was first unveiled, Apple’s new iTunes LP format -– codenamed “Cocktail” and introduced at a “rock and roll event” in San Francisco -– promised to give consumers a new reason to buy albums instead of individual songs. Offering expanded cov...
In the coverage of New York Times writer Zachary Kouwe, who resigned recently amid accusations of plagiarism, much has been said about the demands of writing for the always-on Web, and how this might have contributed to Kouwes missteps – something...
Now heres a killer app for the throngs of geeks about to descend on Austin later this week: TabbedOut. The iPhone application allows users to order, review and pay for their tabs at local bars. It sounds like the perfect fix for those full-to-the-...
March 7, 2010
GigaOM
Do you feel that Internet access is a fundamental right? Four in five adults in more than 26 different countries agree with you, according to a new poll sponsored by the BBC World Service. The poll asked more than 27,000 adults about their attit...
March 4, 2010
GigaOM
Barak Berkowitz, a veteran of Silicon Valley has joined Wolfram Alpha, an intelligent search engine by Wolfram Research, a Champaign, IL company founded by scientist Stephen Wolfram. He joins as the managing director, a position that is roughly eq...
Men are more positively inclined towards social media activities and use social networking sites more than women, according to what Liberty Mutual called a comprehensive national survey of online behavior it released yesterday. This is somewhat ...
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Compiled Networks, a stealthy Austin, Texas-based startup, is building an appliance that can securely link two clouds at the network level. But before it started on its cloud product the founders al...
March 3, 2010
GigaOM
The big daddy awards show, The Oscars, is getting with the social-media picture this year and live-streaming from its red carpet to the web. A live show on Oscar.com from 3-5 p.m. PT on Sunday will be followed by behind-the-scenes clips and interv...
I dont often look at my cellular phone bills, but I happened to glance at the latest one from T-Mobile. My first full monthly billing cycle didnt show anything out of the ordinary, but the monthly data usage happened to catch my eye. I thought I c...
March 2, 2010
GigaOM
Perhaps inspired by the speed of the medium, the integration of real-time tweets and other updates into major search engines has happened more quickly than I might have expected. Its pretty amazing that raw Twitter posts already show up by default...
Elliott Associates, L.P., a hedge fund with a significant position in shares of Novell, after the close of trading in U.S. stock markets today placed an unsolicited offer to buy the open source-focused software company for close to $2 billion. The...
During the past two weeks, the only time I would remember that the Winter Olympics were underway was when I was looking at the stats of our NewTeeVee blog or checking out Mathew Ingrams Twitter stream. In the case of NewTeeVee, we saw a whole lot ...
March 1, 2010
GigaOM
Twitter today gave seven real-time search and discovery companies that range from funded startups to part-time, one-man operations access to 100 percent of its tweets. Twitters Firehose is a valuable asset; the company has made partners like Googl...
Its hard out there for a systems vendor that is, if the death of Liquid Computing, an Ottawa, Ontario-based startup that until last week was building a unified computing box to help manage the virtualization of the data center, is any indication....
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The prepaid guys pummeled each other during the fourth quarter of 2009 while the nations two largest carriers enjoyed their view from the throne. Users continued to move toward prepaid thanks to an ultra-competitive prepaid market that encourages ...
Google today announced it has acquired the web photo editing tool Picnik. The Flash-based Picnik, which faces lots of competition from services like FotoFlexer, Snipshot and Photoshop Express, is perhaps the cutest of the bunch, and is also integr...
As in so many other cities that arent located in or near Silicon Valley, the startup scene in Toronto is a fairly small and close-knit community. It benefits from events such as Demo Camp and Bar Camp, where young entrepreneurs can come and bounc...
Today the news came out that Platial, a first-generation map mashup startup, was throwing in the towel on its product and encouraging users to export their data. The company actually ran out of money 18 months ago, said co-founder and former CEO D...
Rosum, a company that offers a way to use broadcast TV signals to derive location, today said its technology will be used (PDF) in a new chip from mobile TV chip maker Siano. The Alloy chip is aimed at providing location and timing information for...
Social networking startup Fabulis last week suddenly found its bank account locked and scheduled for termination, based on what several Citibank employees told founder and CEO Jason Goldberg was an issue of objectionable content on the companys bl...
Gift cards, as far as my friend Barry Ritholz is concerned, represent the end of civility, as with them the giver says: I put very little thought into buying this for you. But for me, lack of time or information about the recipient’s tastes pro...
If you work for the U.S. Army and spend all your spare time hacking the iPhone and Android or fooling around with HTML5, this is a contest for you: The Armys Chief Information Office is launching a competition aimed at mobile and web apps, with...
Mobile giving campaigns are already under way for relief efforts in Chile, which experienced a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake Saturday morning. Americans can text the word CHILE to one of several short codes to donate $10 to the American Red Cro...
Babelgum founder Silvio Scaglia was taken into custody by Italian police last Friday. Law enforcement officials had issued a warrant for Scaglias arrest earlier last week as the result of a wide-scale money laundering investigation, and he is e...
The rumors of an impending IPO for smart grid networking darling Silver Spring Networks are now…more detailed rumors. The latest comes from Dow Jones Clean Technology Insight, which reported Friday that Silver Spring has picked a banker for an IPO...
Do you catch up on the news in multiple ways during a typical day on a mobile phone, on the web, via a newspaper and get that news from more than one place (major news portal, TV broadcast channel)? And do you like to share that news through s...
Smartphones, including iPhones were all the rage at SxSW in 2009.
Last year, the hordes of South by Southwest-attending geeks toting iPhones blew out the AT&T network around the convention center in Austin, resulting in dropped calls and crap...
February 25, 2010
GigaOM
Music subscription service provider MOG has raised $9.5 million in a new round of venture funding, with UK-based Balderton Capital joining lead investor Menlo Ventures, an existing stakeholder, in the round. The new money builds on at least $12.5 ...
Facebook was on Tuesday granted a U.S. patent for aspects of its news feed, as was first reported by AllFacebook. The patent, which covers methods for dynamically parsing and distributing information about what users have done on a social network ...