I have to admit that this is the best article I have read pertaining to how and why Skype works. Silly me I always just assumed they were using some derivation of SIP. A good read indeed. Could SIP Really Save Skype? .
This is a great article in the WSJ (Subscription required) on the new ability of cars to park themselves. My question is when will technology be so good that certain persons amongst us will forget how to drive. I mean remember before cell phones had address books and you could remember tons of your friends … Continue reading
Here at eComm, the last demo of the conference is one of the most impressive. Voxygen’s “next generation Caller ID” revolutionizes customer service by linking actions on a web site to a click to call button. The example they showed included a customer who browsed a camera shopping website, filled in a form for a … Continue reading
From this report on Boy genius it looks like Comcast and Sprint have got into bed together. Whats interesting is that it looks like they are combining Hi-Speed cable and Wireless 4G/3G access together in one bundle which is a real differentiator if you ask me. So this begs the question. When will Verizon FiOS … Continue reading
The Mobile Internet Is Going To Explode.
Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality. TechCrunch The near-final industrial design for the CrunchPad. The San Francisco Business Times reported Friday that Mr. Arrington has incorporated … Continue reading
A year ago, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington announced his plan to build a “dead-simple Web tablet for $200,” using crowdsourced designs from his readers. Today Arrington, who normally has little use for traditional journalism, used an old-school local newspaper, the San Francisco Business Times, to announce the formation of Crunchpad, Inc, a startup company with … Continue reading
Google will start selling ads targeted to viewers’ likely interests, the online ad giant’s first step into a controversial type of Web advertising its competitors already offer. Google will use data it collects about what Web sites users visit and what it knows about the content of those sites to sort its massive audience of … Continue reading
Tynt, a start-up that allows publishers to monitor and track when users copy content from a web site, has secured $3.9 million in series A funding led by iNovia Capital, AVAC Ltd, along with angel investors. Tynt’s product, Tracer, lets website publishers see what content is being copied and pasted off their sites. Each time … Continue reading
The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple’s App Store, but it isn’t the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We’ve gotten word from SocialMedia, a popular ad platform for social network applications, that one of the company’s clients pulled in over $700,000 in … Continue reading
