Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Business, CNET Networks, Company, Dell, Personal computer, Small business, Verizon Wireless, WIRELESS
Dell Small Business
is selling the S2409W for $209 after $90-worth of instant savings. (http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/30/crunchdeals-dell-24-inch-monitor-for-188/ 3/30)
Verizon Wireless on Saturday confirmed a Friday report that the carrier will market a 3G-enabled netbook by midyear. Although a Verizon Wireless representative did not offer detailed plans, the original reports suggested that the company would link up with at least two PC makers. CNET (3/28)
Growing concern over energy consumption — both from manufacturing companies and consumers — has led to a new breed of television. And, according to this report, the new energy-saving machines not only are good for the planet, but they also feature higher-quality images. TWICE (3/30)
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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Asia, CNET Networks, Computers, Europe, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Open source, us
To save energy and reduce carbon emissions, Google said it would provide software to allow consumers, over their telephones or computer, to monitor electricity consumption in their homes. Google said it was in talks with utilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia to distribute the open-source software that will provide homeowners with information that can save them 5% to 15% a month on their utility bills, according to some studies. Reuters (3/17)
Boston Power’s Sonata batteries, which are said to have a three-year life span, are now being sold by Hewlett-Packard under its Enviro brand. The batteries work on 18 different HP laptops and are being sold for $149.99 each. InformationWeek (3/16) , CNET (3/16)
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Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: CBSSports.com, CNET Networks, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes, Linux, MobiTV, Wi-Fi
This year, iPhone and iPod Touch users can watch all 63 games of the NCAA hoops tourney live from their devices via a new app from MobiTV and CBSSports.com. The app costs $4.99 and will include real-time in game box scores and player stats presented as an overlay on top of the video – a very thoughtful feature. The one catch is that the app requires a Wi-Fi connection to stream video, but this makes sense – live video over AT&T’s 3G network is not pretty. Of course the games are also available on CBS’ MMOD site as well as for purchase on iTunes for $1.99 a pop the day after they’re played. (Cynopsis 3/13)
Shipments of mobile Internet devices will grow eightfold between 2007 and 2012 to more than 416 million, iSuppli predicted in a new report. “People like MID functionality because it opens up services, applications, business models and cross-industry relationships that were never possible before,” said Senior Analyst Francis Sideco. Home Media Magazine (3/12) , EE Times (3/12)
Developers of Google’s Android software will offer updates to T-Mobile’s G1 handset for the first time since its October launch, adding such features as an on-screen virtual QWERTY keyboard, video recording and playback as well as stereo Bluetooth support, according to reports. The upgrade, dubbed “Cupcake,” is also expected to fix some flaws in the open-source operating system as well as update its underlying Linux kernel. CNET (3/12) , CRN/ChannelWeb (3/12)
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Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: App Store, Apple, CNET Networks, iPhone, Mobile phone, Nokia, TheStreet.com, Verizon Wireless and Nokia
A new site distributing unauthorized applications for the iPhone called the Cydia Store is due to launch this week, per the WSJ. Founded by 27-year-old doctoral student Jay Freeman, the store is named after the developer’s Cycorder app rejected by Apple’s App Store that turns the iPhone into a camcorder. Disclaimer: running such apps requires users to unlock or “jailbreak” their phones, thus voiding the warranty. (Cynopsis 3/9)
Nokia and Verizon Wireless have started to collaborate to produce a touch-screen handset designed to work on the carrier’s planned 4G Long-Term Evolution network, according to a report from TheStreet.com. Both Verizon Wireless and Nokia declined comment. cellular-news (U.K.) (3/8) , The Street.com (3/5) , CNET (3/6)
The cell phone is the third-most important invention of the past 30 years, according to a panel of eight experts from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, which voted the Internet and computers above wireless devices. The New York Times (3/7)
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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Amazon, Amazon.com, AmazonKindle, Apple, CNET Networks, Macworld, VerizonWireless, Yahoo
Verizon Wireless is prepared to back the competitors of Amazon‘s Kindle electronic reader by letting subscribers use the carrier’s network to download books, newspapers and other material, according to a Verizon Wireless executive. The executive also said he doubted the recession would inhibit the growth of such nonessential technologies as e-readers. Reuters (1/6)
I wrote this on the “Wall of Suggested Innovations” last night at CES Unveiled. To this end, I submit my plea to Apple. If you build it, they will come. And if you do, can you get Jobs to present it on his MacWorld Reunion Tour?
By midyear, Intel plans to have a media processor that will be compatible with Adobe’s Flash media player to allow for the screening of Web content via set-tops, digital TVs and other home-entertainment players. Intel also is partnering with Yahoo! on the “Widget Channel,” a platform for weather, news, games and other online content to be shown on TV screens. Multichannel News (1/5) , CNET (1/5)
Broadcom and Adobe Systems also announced a partnership to place Adobe’s Flash platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television and set-top box system-on-a-chip platforms. Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash is the standard for delivering online video to websites including YouTube and Hulu. (Cynopsis 1/7)
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Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: Barnes & Noble, CBS Interactive, CNET Networks, DoubleClick, Google, Google Affiliate Network, Performics, Quincy Smith
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Amazon, watch out. Earlier today, Google launched an affiliate ad network. Or, rather, it rebranded Performics, the affiliate ad network that came along with its purchase of DoubleClick, as the “Google Affiliate Network.” As with other affiliate networks such as Amazon’s, participating Website publishers get paid a fee for each referral that results in a sale. Existing advertisers include Bank of America, Barnes & Noble, Citi, Target, and Verizon. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/30/google-launches-affiliate-advertising-network-courtesy-of-doubleclick 6/30)
CBS announced the closing of its acquisition of CNET today. The deal, first announced last month, will bring CNET under the control of Quincy Smith’s CBS Interactive division, “the premier online content network for information and entertainment.” (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/30/cbs-finishes-acquisition-of-cnet-quincy-smith-addresses-the-troops 6/30)
Slide and Vh1 excel at making products geared towards America’s lowest common denominator. The first makes SuperPoke, a popular social network app that lets you send text messages saying you’ve done “stuff” to your friends. The latter produces reality show classics like “Flavor of Love”, “Rock of Love”, and “I Love New York”. And next week, their powers will combine to bring you VH1’s SuperPoke!Fest: a four day reality show marathon to promote a new show called “I Love Money” that will give users a chance to see their very own SuperPokes live, onscreen! (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/30/slide-and-vh1-team-up-to-annoy-the-hell-out-of-you 6/30)
Yahoo launched a suite of new Olympics-themed content including a new website from Yahoo Sports, a new mobile web site (m.yahoo.com/2008games) and a special search feature providing shortcuts to help users find Olympics schedules, news, metal tallies and scoring. (Cynopsis 7/2)
The luxury giant LVMH for the second time successfully challenged eBay in a French court, arguing that 90 percent of the Louis Vuitton bags and Dior perfumes sold on eBay are fakes. (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/technology/01ebay.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin 7/1)
Antoine Antoniol/Bloomberg News
Pierre Gode, an LVMH adviser, outside of court.
For most people on the Web, if Google or Yahoo cannot find something, it doesn’t exist. That has been one of the biggest drawbacks to creating a Website or application that displays itself as a Flash (SWF) file. Search engines could see the file, but they could not see what was in it. Until now. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/30/once-nearly-invisible-to-search-engines-flash-files-can-now-be-found-and-indexed 6/30)
Television viewers are turning to the internet for a variety of reasons – catching up on episodes they missed, reading up on their favorite personalities, even viewing a show’s bloopers or deleted scenes – according to a survey jointly conducted by Nielsen and CTAM. But both groups wanted the industry to know online viewing is no way replacing linear TV viewing; 94% of cable or satellite subscribers surveyed said they still prefer watching shows the old fashioned way. Here some likes and dislikes that came up in the study, along with some general trends:
- About 35% of adult broadband users surveyed have watched a full episode online
- Of those who went online looking for TV content, 87% turned to a network website
- The most popular forms were movie trailers (53%), UGV (45%), music videos & news (37%), comedy (31%) and sports clips (31%)
- A small but growing percentage of users are watching shows on their desktop PCs (14%), laptops (9%), video-enabled mobile phones (6%) and other portable devices (5%)
Online ad spending will continue to grow at double-digit rates through 2013 despite economic conditions, according to a new report from JupiterResearch cited in CNET. Online ad spending is expected to increase 19% this year in the U.S. to $23.8 billion with search continuing to be the dominant category. Video advertising is projected to quadruple to $5.1 billion by 2013. (Cynopsis 7/2)
Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: CNET Networks, CrunchGear, Kevin Johnson, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Steven Sinofsky, Windows 7, Windows Vista
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
If you’ve been waiting to see what Windows 7 will look like then you may want to head over to CrunchGear to check out a bevy of screen shots that hit Techcrunch earlier today. Of course, the release is a couple years out, but Techcrunch confirmed that this is what the current build of Windows 7 looks like. Coincidentally, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky was interviewed by CNET about Windows 7, but gave very little, if any, details on the subject. As the saying goes, though, a picture is worth a thousand words. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/27/leaked-screen-shots-of-windows-7-hit-crunchgears-inbox 5/27)
Online advertising is a “very, very” significant growth opportunity for Microsoft, says Kevin Johnson, the exec who is leading the software giant’s effort in the area. Johnson is prepping an “engagement mapping” system to scrutinize all the ads a user sees before clicking on a search ad. (Iwantmedia 5/28, http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/26/magazines/fortune/tech/kirkpatrick_johnson.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008052805 5/26)
Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson
Shares in Yell Group rose as much as 5.4% early on Tuesday as traders cited market talk of bid interest from Microsoft. The British-based Yell declines to comment on the talk. Yell is a classified advertising directories company, operating both in print and online. (Iwantmedia 5/28, http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSL2760450620080527 5/27)
Yahoo plans to offer real-time stock quotes to users of its finance Web pages. Data will be provided by Kansas City, Mo.-based Bats Trading. Google and rival Web sites from Microsoft and AOL provide quotes with more than a 10-minute delay and charge users for real-time data. (Iwantmedia 5/28, http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aEyPi1i2yMVI 5/28)
Facebook has announced it will make its third-party developer platform open source which could be a huge step toward breaking down the wall between its site and the rest of the web. (http://www.halflifesource.com/052808/facebook_launches_open_source_initiative/article2456.htm 5/27)
Comcast-owned G4 is making some of its programming — including “Code Monkeys” and “Attack of the Show!” — available on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace. “G4 is a natural fit to be part of the Xbox Live community,” said Neal Tiles, G4′s president. “Our young, male audience spends more time interfacing with technology than any other network.” (Broadcasting & Cable 5/27, GameDaily BIZ 5/27)
Premium movie channel Starz has announced that it will soon enter a distribution deal with Verizon Communications. The deal brings the Starz Play online video offering to the telecom’s 8.5 million high-speed Internet subscribers for $5.99 a month. (Los Angeles Times 5/28, Reuters 5/27, Light Reading 5/27)
