FON, Time Warner deal confirmed
It has been more than twenty days since we reported that FON, the share-your-Wi-Fi service company was in talks with Time Warner Cable. Today, a news report from Associated Press confirms the deal an...
RIM Announces New BlackBerry Application Suite for Windows Mobile-based Devices
New Software Will Deliver Virtual BlackBerry Solution — Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced plans to expand its support for Windows Mobile®-based devices...
New Model for Sharing: Free Music With Ads
For years, music labels have been trying to prevent fans from downloading their songs on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Now, some of them would like to encourage people to listen to music that w...
Free World Dialup and Verizon's patent on "name translation"
I am at a loss to explain how the patent office granted Verizon a patent on "name translation" given the extensive coverage of Free World Dialup (FWD) as the first instance of Internet to PSTN calling...
Switch on for Square Mile wi-fi
The City of London has fired up its first mesh wi-fi network, promising net access from just about anywhere in the Square Mile. — The area in London is not just Europe's leading financial centre - i...
HTC Advantage (X7500) unboxed
It's been a long time coming but finally the HTC Advantage is available to buy! Our friends at Clove Technology kindly let us have a look at the device so, following on from our popular Samsung i600 ...
As Environmentalism Grows, Online Publishers Go Green
ONLINE publishers are strapping on their Birkenstocks. — Buoyed by the breakaway success of "An Inconvenient Truth," the film documentary of Al Gore's environmental lecture, publishers like The Wash...
Mobile screens become solar cells
A new patent has been granted to Motorola covering the use of a mobile phone LCD screen as a solar cell. — The Display and Solar Cell Device patent would allow mobile phones and other devices to be ...
Digital Subscribers Like Free Radio, Too
As a group, fans of digital radio do not listen to traditional radio less than everyone else. In fact, they listen to slightly more, according to a study recently released by Arbitron and Edison Medi...
IAB Declares War On Web Measurement Firms
DISCONTENT OVER THE STATE OF Web traffic metrics is coming to a head. — The Interactive Advertising Bureau late last week issued an open letter to comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings requesting they su...
Is social networking dead? Nope. We've only just seen the beginning. Here's why
Social networking lacks credibility. — And it's not hard to understand why. Small VC firms receive two or three proposals for new social networking sites every single week. Large VC firms are gett...
TV's Dirty Secrets
Callers to premium-rate phone competitions on the GMTV breakfast show have been defrauded out of millions of pounds, a BBC investigation has found. — Panorama found a company working for GMTV had be...
Kids and teens have pushed at least 6 immersive online worlds to over 2m UU/mth in the US
Wagner James Au has a great post on GigaOm about Gaia. Gaia is a casual immersive MMORPG that describes itself as: … In an interview with Gaia's CEO, Craig Sherman, he quotes that Gaia has gone …
Google Ranked "Most Powerful Brand" By BRANDZ
Gary Price reports that Millward Brown Optimor's BRANDZ Top 100 has ranked Google the most powerful brand. The top 10 global brands are: — 1. Google with $66.4 billion — 2. General Electric with ...