How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million
I closed the initial funding of Seesmic in September 2007. The main investment came from Atomico's Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (they invested $5.5 million on the $6 million). Talking to blogger...
Firefox 3 B3: Lots of Fire, Not Enough Fox
Firefox 2 disappointed with an oh-so 1990s look and feel. Anyone remember Mac OS 8.5 or Windows 3.0, for reference? The browser's successor doesn't look any more modern. Safari and, gasp, even Inte...
Mobile exec: Google, Yahoo are stealing our billions
Mobile carriers need to step up their game and make mobile services easier to use, says Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, lest they willingly hand over business to media giants like Google. Sarin made the com...
Sony Ericsson: why we chose Windows
Mobile World Congress Why has Sony Ericsson succumbed to Microsoft? — The way the company's chief technology officer Mats Lindoff explained it to us, is that you can't crack the US market without it...
Google Tests Video Ads on Search Results Pages
Google has always had a love-hate relationship with advertising. Its power and wealth come from the $16 billion a year of advertising that it sells. Yet on its most important pages, the results from...
Toshiba to drop HD DVD, sources say
Company says no decision has been made — The format war has turned into a format death watch. — Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, relia...
If You Can't Let Go, Twitter
SOMETIMES, you just have to trust your relatives. You have to be willing to let them leave the house unchallenged. Suspend disbelief and let them take the car. — That's what I tell my three daught...
Forrester Report: Online Community Best Practices
Left: One of the 5 diagrams from the report: Successful online communities experience the following stages. — I spent a few months researching and preparing for this two-piece report series. I'm pr...
AT&T Adds to HSUPA Device Lineup With Two New LaptopConnect Cards From Option
Option GT Ultra and Option GT Ultra Express Available for Use on AT&T's 3G — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced today two new LaptopConnect cards from Option, the GT Ultra and GT Ultra Express.
Microsoft to Replace Head of Mobile Group
Microsoft plans to announce the replacement of the head of its mobile phone group as part of a broader executive reshuffling, people familiar with the matter said.
Microsoft drums up its very own Xbox 360 shortage
The word on the street, nay, the word straight from Jeff Bell's mouth, is that the Xbox 360 is experiencing stock shortages, which could hurt sales for January and February. We'd already heard of Eli...
Zimbra's newest Desktop: Look ma! No browser!
I fell in love with Zimbra's AJAX-style interface the first time I saw it. Slick, powerful, and much more extensible than Microsoft Outlook ever dreamed of being. There was just one thing I hated ab...
Comcast Reports 2007 Results and Provides Outlook for 2008
Financial Tables — 2007 Consolidated Revenue increased 24% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Income increased 21% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Cash Flow increased 25% — 2007 EPS of $0.83; Adjuste...
What happens if your site gets ‘blacklisted’ by Google?
What is the impact on a website of being ‘blacklisted’ by Google? Recently the insurance comparison website GoCompare.com faced precisely this dilemma after the search engine picked up on irregular i...
So What Happened At YouTube's Videocracy Event?
YouTube trotted out all their heavy hitters for their Videocracy event in NYC last night. — Here are some highlights of what they said: — For Content Partners/Creators — Get ready for active sha...
PageOnce to Put All Your Online Accounts in One Place
Personal content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a company that was on thi...
You make the game with Yamake on N-Gage
Espoo, Finland - Yamake for N-Gage, by Nokia Games Publishing, makes it possible for players to create their own games from a range of mini games by adding content, then playing and sharing them with ...
AOL, Citysearch Hook Up Locally
Matchup expands content and local ad opportunities — Valentine's Day is a perfect occasion to get together, which AOL and IAC's Citysearch will do with local content and advertising. — An interest...
Michael Bay Relishes Blu-ray's Victories
When Paramount Home Entertainment decided to support HD DVD exclusively, Michael Bay was vocally opposed. Since the decision came just as his Transformers would debut on high-definition home video, B...
Sprint's Limited WiMAX Launch Imminent
A Sprint official acknowledges, however, that the carrier's full-scale deployment still awaits budget approval by new management. — Yardena Arar, PC World — Recommend this story? — BARCELONA, Sp...