Archive for July 28th, 2008
GigaNET: iPhone, Hulu, Passwords and Price
jkOnTheRun: How the iPhone is changing the face of the Internet. NewTeeVee: Hulu, which lets users embed full-length TV episodes and movies on their blogs and personal pages, is rolling out new widgets that expand those embedding options. Web Worker Daily: Seven different ways to keep track of the explosion of passwords, from simple to complex. Earth2Tech: Most IT decision makers may believe in making their technology infrastructure greener and more energy efficient, but more than half of thos...
Cool (Cuil) New Search Engine Launches
Seems like everyone and their brothers and sisters is writing or blogging about the launch of a new search engine today that apparently digs even deeper into the Internet to bring more accurate searches. The new SE, called Cuil (and pronounced “Cool”) has a different look, with more text after each returned search, rather than Google’s list of links and links and links. On my first searches, very fast results, but with mixed results — some odd balls, some right on the ...
sipgate vs. T-Mobile Round II
Thilo Salmon of sipgate, makers of a SIP-based client that works on the Apple iPhone, wrote me today regarding sipgate vs. T-Mobile Round II, which was soundly won today by sipgate after a German court issued a preliminary injunction against T-Mobile Germany. (See Round I - T-Mobile VoIP Shenanigans - AGAIN!) Thilo told me, “I thought you might like to learn the we did not go down, but fought back. T-Mobile Germany not only bans VoIP, IM and VPN usage, but also caps data on their iPhone ...
Yahoo Music: The Beauty of the Refund
With Yahoo Music shutting down its store and DRM licensing servers on September 30, anybody who ever bought music from the Yahoo! Music Store would no longer have a license to play their music. Now, however, Yahoo has announced that it will issue refunds to its customers for the full value of their purchases. According to a report on CNet, Yahoo is also looking at making copies of the music its customers bought available to them as MP3s without any DRM. Or just burn them to CD! ReadW...
NYC Now with the Most HD via Verizon’s FiOS
With Verizon launching its FiOS TV service in New York City, our biggest city is now able to receive the most HDTV. With 100 HD channels, it offers customers more HD than Time Warner or Cablevision. The new channel lineup will also be offered to existing FiOS TV markets in the New York metropolitan area, including parts of Long Island, the suburbs just north of the city and northern New Jersey. FiOS TV is delivered over the nation’s most advanced fiber-optic network straight to customers&#...
WebHuddle Integrates Lypp API and Enables Teleconferencing
WebHuddle’s Web Conferencing and Desktop Sharing solution has integrated Teleconferencing / Conference Calling via Lypp. WebHuddle is an open source Web Conferencing & Desktop Sharing solution that works on both Mac & Windows. It is both free to download and use. For a limited time WebHuddle is offering free Teleconferencing via Lypp as well. WebHuddle + Lypp works rather well even though it is in early beta. ...
Everyone Loves a Google-Killer
Cuil may not be cool - or that stable - but it has certainly caught the attention of the blogosphere. Who knows if Cuil will become a viable and popular alternative to Google but there’s no doubt people are fascinated with a well-financed search player looking to take on Google. If it’s not Cuil getting people hot and bothered, it’s Powerset or Mahalo or Wikia. When you’re King Kong - especially one making oodles of dough - it’s not surprise that people are fascina...
The Brookings Plan for Rural Broadband
These days, it’s trendy to trash U.S. infrastructure, from our crumbling roads to our tepid broadband, but luckily we have think tanks to get out there and write papers telling politicians and taxpayers just how to improve the situation. The Brookings Institution recently put up a series on how to improve America’s infrastructure, including how to change our wireless spectrum auctions and how to increase broadband penetration. I’m most interested in increasing broadband penet...
End the War (on Drugs)
America’s war on drugs is much older than either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan; it long predates the war on terror. We have spent a fortune on it; obviously in money; not so obviously in lives. We are losing this war. Worse, the war on drugs is a substantial obstacle to victory in Afghanistan and a bonanza to bad guys almost everywhere including the both the mean and affluent streets of almost every city in the US. A surge isn’t going to win the war on drugs. We can’t decla...
CIA Offers VoIP Service?
Apparently the CIA wants to get into the VoIP biz. Oh wait, not that CIA, this CIA. Basically it’s cia.gov vs. cia.com. Relatedly, fbi.com (not fbi.gov) is a blank page - cybersquatter? Anyway, Cybersurf Internet Access (CIA) is a trade name of 3web Corp. 3web Corp. is a subsidiary of Cybersurf Corp. (”Cybersurf”). It’s a Canadian-based company offering high-speed Internet and VoIP services. Their site states, “CIA Home Phone is a fantastic new residential phone s...
Win a free iPhone
Luca is sponsoring a free 3G iPhone giveaway (unlocked of course) to help promote his Hictu service. I sure hope Luca has one on hand considering the iPhone shortages. (though Greg Galitzine says the iPhone shortages are dissipating) Anyway, go check out the contest details if you want a chance at a free iPhone. Tags: contact, Hictu, iPhone, Luca Filigheddu Related Entries HyperOffice for the Apple iPhone - Jul 16, 2008 iPhone Microsoft Exchange Email Problems - Jul 15, 2008 Tom writes R...
College student could get 5 years for Hacking VoIP system & changing grades
We all thought it was pretty cool when Matthew Broderick changed his high school grades in War Games, right? Harmless prank after all and even if he got caught, the worst he’d have to suffer is a few nights of detention - certainly not jail time. Well, a 19-year-old college student & computer science major, Christopher Fowler was accused of stealing his professor’s identity to change his grades and was put behind bars according to FOX 5 Atlanta. Even more interesting than chan...
Motorola Creates New Divisions in Advance of Split
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Motorola has divided itself into three units, rather than two. In March Motorola said it would spin off its handset business in the wake of poor performance. Now, according to WSJ, it has further split its units into: a set-top-box and home-networking business, a networking gear business, and the handset business. Analysts view the move as a precursor to selling those divisions, although the company denied this in the article. The set-top-box and home n...
VonagePro Launches
Vonage today launched their VonagePro service, their premium service offering that features a brand new softphone with single phone number identity, built-in contacts support, custom ringtones, and more. Mary Grikas, Executive Director of Device Development for Vonage about the launch of Vonage Companion told me, “As far as the VoIP landscape goes, we feel strongly and we believe that the future of VoIP is not going just be based on price and bundling. Price our experience has told us, d...
My Nokia N81 Review
Ive been trialing Nokia smartphones via their Blogger Relations program for a couple of years now (developed by Andy Abramson and his agency Comunicano), and have been lucky enough to use a wide variety of great phones. Of course its a bit of a misnomer to call these things phones theyll all pretty smart devices in all kinds of ways. This review is for the N81, which Ive had for ages, and as with the past few Nokia phones, Im getting it second hand. My oldest son, Max, has been gett...
My Nokia N81 Review
Ive been trialing Nokia smartphones via their Blogger Relations program for a couple of years now (developed by Andy Abramson and his agency Comunicano), and have been lucky enough to use a wide variety of great phones. Of course its a bit of a misnomer to call these things phones theyll all pretty smart devices in all kinds of ways. This review is for the N81, which Ive had for ages, and as with the past few Nokia phones, Im getting it second hand. My oldest son, Max, has been gett...
Know when to FIRE Yourself
When working for someone else, have you ever found yourself following the directions of “a boss” and thinking along the way how stupid the work you were asked to do really was? And did you think the person was asking you to do something to more or less just waste (your) time? And did you ever ask yourself, why it was YOU who had to do this work? This happened to me several times at the first job I had after graduating from college. This was the first time I realized I wished I knew h...
Cuil Finally Gets Going
These days, anyone starting a search-related effort almost certainly has to deal with the G-Factor. Are they trying to take on Google? How are they going to beat that awesome search-and-advertising money machine from Mountain View, Calif.? It is hardly a surprise that Anna Patterson, president and co-founder of Menlo Park, Calif.-based Cuil (pronounced cool), has been fielding those questions from the media, as the company gets ready to launch on Monday, July 28. Can Cuil Beat Google? ...
GigaOM Interview: Michael Dell, CEO & Founder of Dell Inc.
Last week, at the Fortune Brainstorm: Tech Conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif., I caught up with Michael Dell, founder and chief executive officer of Dell Inc., the Round Rock, Texas-based computer hardware maker. He’s been trying to get Dell’s mojo back for over a year now, and in the past three months, things have started to come together, with sales, profits and the company’s stock price beginning to move in the right direction. We had a wide-ranging conversation, one that ...
On BitTorrent, FCC Chastises Comcast
I love the irony of the FCC and its complete and utter lack of rationality. It continues to show its Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde personality. The very same week it allows two satellite radio companies — Sirrus & XM — to merge, overlooking its very own reservations, promoting monopoly in that business, it is telling Comcast to stop messing around with P2P traffic. There will be no fines for Comcast for blocking the traffic. Now you know I don’t care much for Comcast’s...
Russia, The Final Frontier For Data Centers?
To paraphrase (and mangle) StarTrek’s famous tagline: Can Russia be the place where Internet companies boldly go looking for the final frontier of data center? At least one blog thinks so, and points to the massive hydroelectric power capacity on tap in Russia. An article in this week’s The Economist points to RusHydro, a Russian company that has capacity of producing 25 gigawatts of electricity. Much of the unused part is in Russia, RusHydro says. It has 5GW of new capacity under ...
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