Archive for October 24th, 2008
First “Powered By Ifbyphone” iPhone App On iTunes Store
Congrats to NLP Technologies who released the “Call Me Back!” iPhone app, powered by Ifbyphone, on the iTunes app store this week. The idea is that you can get yourself out of a sticky situation by scheduling a call to yourself in advance. As the NLP Technologies website says, “Call Me Back!” is a lifesaver. It allows you to interrupt a meeting by telling your phone to call you, or by scheduling a call in advance. “Call Me Back” is available now for the iPhone and i...
Is Halo the New RuneScape?
It wasn’t all that long ago that the gaming world was crazy, crazy, crazy about RuneScape, with thousands of players simultaneously online and with all kinds of personal things that needed attention. When I last looked, 146,523 players were online playing RuneScape — that’s the size of a large city in most states! Doesn’t sound much different than what’s happening with Halo, don’t you think? Online game playing, virtual teams shooting up virtual worlds and...
BroadSoft Cuts Jobs As Sales Slow
BroadSoft, a Gaithersburg, Md.,-based VoIP application platform maker, has cut about a dozen positions, according to a source familiar with the company. The cuts are said to have taken place in its sales, product management and engineering divisions, in both the Americas and the EMEA region. BroadSoft had about 300 employees, so a dozen cuts represents a fairly small percentage. What’s significant is the reasons behind them — sales have started to slow, not just for BroadSoft but fo...
Yahoo’s Big Bet on the Cornhusker State
Yahoo said today it plans to invest $100 million to build a data center and service center in two Nebraskan cities — a few days after is said it would cut expenses and lay off 1,500 people. The Internet portal company qualified for millions in tax breaks there, according to a Lincoln, Neb., paper, but the report didn’t say how much, or what the incentives entailed. But Yahoo must invest at least $100 million in the state and create a 100 jobs with a minimum average salary of $68,700...
Updated Schedule of 2008 Jeff Pulver Social Media Events:
- Oct 27th: Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and friends) in NYC - Click here to RSVP - Oct 28th: Social Media Pizza #1 in Boston - Click here to RSVP - Nov 5th: Breakfast wtih Jeff Pulver (and friends) in Tel Aviv - Click here to RSVP - Nov 13th: Social Media Jungle (invitation only event) - Nov 20th: Breakfast with Jeff Pulver (and friends) in Minneapolis - Click here to RSVP Additional events will be posted in the near future. Note: You need to have a Facebook account in order to RSVP to these eve...
Get Your Ticket Now for NewTeeVee Live!
Have you seen the line-up for next month’s NewTeeVee Live conference? You might have heard that the CEOs of Hulu and Netflix are coming, and also the creator of CSI. True! But did you know that we’ve also got a guy who brags that he’s still actively funding digital media deals — including a new one just last week? That would be Richard Wolpert, managing director of The Mail Room Fund, an investment partnership of William Morris Agency, AT&T, Accel and Venrock. Anoth...
Videotron’s Wireless Network Plans Announced
This is mostly a news item, and I don’t do many of those. For many, it’s an old news item by now, but not for everyone. I’ve been out of pocket almost all week, and this is the best I can do here, and didn’t want this to pass unmentioned. On Tuesday, Videotron announced their wireless network plans, and they’re pretty ambitious. I was hoping to participate on the briefing call that day, but was too tied up at the Avaya analyst conference. In the current economic cli...
7 Wacky Wi-Fi Gadgets
I’m a big believer that Wi-Fi will come to dominate the home networking environment because of its ubiquity and familiarity to consumers. If I needed more proof, I got it earlier this week while chatting with Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance, about the more than 1,000 gadgets her organization has certified this past year. The Alliance shared with me some of the more outlandish gadgets that have garnered its seal of approval. I know they aren’t all new, bu...
fring updates Symbian VoIP client
fring, just released fring’s latest version 3.36 for all Symbian 9 devices. fring, the “Swiss Army knife” of mobile VoIP/IM apps supports MSN Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, SIP, and more. fring’s blog writes, “Having upgraded the GUI (the way it looks to you and me) fring is now better looking (as if that were possible) and more user friendly with an upgraded menu structure, and all of your favorite online communities and cool new fring Add-ons available ...
Tell me something I don’t know - Telefónica & Microsoft team up for Live Messenger VoIP
Just saw a news release put out today that Telefonica and Microsoft have teamed up for Live Messenger VoIP. CNet also picked up this news. Only one problem - on October 2nd, I discovered Microsoft had added something called “Voype” (a service by Telefonica) to Live Messenger. The article was title “Windows Live Messenger Back in the VoIP game!”. In the article I wrote: Ok, now my head is getting dizzy from the number of times Microsoft Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messeng...
Rovio Wi-Fi VoIP Robotic Webcam
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skype in cisco telepresence?
Fiber Broadband Big in Japan & Korea
Click for full size image In Japan and South Korea, fiber-based consumer broadband connections now represent the most popular Internet access technology, ahead of DSL and cable, according to a report issued by OECD earlier today. Around 45 percent of connections in Japan use fiber, while in Korea that number is around 39 percent – about 12.2 per 100 inhabitants. In 30 OECD countries, DSL is still the most popular technology, with a 60 percent market share, but fiber is growing fast a...
Wired’s So Wrong About Blogging
In an odd opinion piece recently, Wired’s Paul Boutin declared that blogging is dead. Well, he’s wrong. I mean, Seth Godin and Tom Peters can’t be wrong, can they? Technorati Tags: blogs, seth godin, tom peters ...
Use VoIP to Telecommute for a Merry Christmas!
How do save money in this worldwide tight economy so that you can have a Merry Christmas with lots of gift giving? (Not that gift giving is the main point of Christmas) Well, one way is by using VoIP to telecommute. Research done by Aastra found that commuters driving into the UK’s largest cities could potentially save enough money by Christmas to buy more than half a kilometer of wrapping paper if they worked from home just one day a week. Based on commuters with 50-mile round trips, the ...
Will the Kindle Get an Oprah Bump?
Oprah Winfrey doesn’t really strike me as a gadget girl. Of course, I’ve never even watched her show, so maybe she is. One way or another, when I saw the Financial Times reporting that the cultural icon looked ready to endorse the Amazon Kindle today, I made a point of setting my DVR. I also trundled over to Amazon’s site to check out the trailer for the show, in which Oprah trills about her new “favorite gadget,” calling it “life-changing.” If Oprah co...
Five Questions with…Blip.TV CEO Mike Hudack
Earlier this week, Blip.TV raised an undisclosed amount of venture capital to expand its online television business, which now features more than 37,000 shows. Last month, Blip said it served more than 51 million video views, a 50% increase from a year earlier. At a time when many online companies are retrenching, Blip.tv plans to expand its sales and advertising teams based, albeit cautiously, based on the belief that ad dollars will flow to online video because it can provide advertisers with...
To Prep for Downturn, VCs Turn to Triage
The credit crunch has scared America straight for a few quarters at least. This means that consumers aren’t buying, and corporations are putting spending on hold. As such, venture firms have been sowing panic among their portfolio companies, telling them to cut early and cut often. The resulting layoffs are already filtering through the startup ecosystem. Layoffs are one thing, but it’s the wholesale shutdown of companies during a downturn that epitomizes the Darwinian nature of cap...
The Ericsson Experience Center Comes to Town
It’s not quite the circus coming to town, but the Ericsson Experience Center isn’t too far off when it comes to a very cool road show that only analysts and the media could love. I was one of those analysts invited to attend the Toronto stop on their travelling roadshow today, and as vendor experiences go, this one was right up there. I’ve seen these types of roadshows before, and you really have to see it to appreciate how sophisticated the inside of a trailer can get. ItR...
UPDATED: Lots of Google Phone Apps Downloaded…Wink! Wink!
UPDATED: Some folks downloaded a lot of stuff from the app market for the Google phone, aka the T-Mobile G1, in the first 24 hours after it opened its doors, according to mobile ad and analytics firm Medialets. And yup, that’s about as precise as they’re going to get. Medialets says there were anywhere from 206,000 to 770,000 (that’s not a typo) app downloads in the first day. And it blames Google’s limited metrics data for the gaping range. The firm also offered the fo...
Opie and da Fonz discuss the election
[source] tip o’ hat to BoingBoing . . . Technorati Tags: BarackObama, Politics ...
Ron Howard’s Call to Action:
Ron Howard wants to talk about the election. So does Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler. See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die — I found this video to pretty amazing and brought back memories of years past. ...
McCain’s Brother does a Billy Carter
Joe McCain Calls 911 To Complain About Traffic posted 4:57 pm Thu October 23, 2008 He called the police emergency line because he was angry he was stuck in traffic. The 911 call came into the City of Alexandria on Oct. 21st That’s creating some buzz because it appears to come from Joe McCain, John McCain’s brother. Operator: 911 state your emergency Caller: It’s not an emergency but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and...
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