It seems that Facebook has begun testing a new feature that will allow users to recommend pages to their friends as they’re browsing the Facebook website. At the time of writing I’ve not been able to access this new feature myself, so it’s likely only been rolled out to a specific area or user-base....
Fiber Broadband is finally coming into its own, thanks to the growing number of fiber broadband deployments across the world. However, fiber broadband’s growing popularity is coming at the cost of DSL, one of the more widely deployed broadband technologies. According to Infonetics Research, the worldwide Passive Optical Networking (PON) market jumped 20 percent...
Barnes Noble today announced a new Nook device that focuses solely on the reading experience. The $139 e-reader offers a 6-inch e-Ink display, much like Amazon’s Kindle, but eliminates the keyboard by using infrared touchscreen technology, similar to the new Kobo reader announced yesterday. Barnes Noble is squarely taking aim at Amazon’s Kindle by...
The European Commission has released a new Intellectual Property Rights Strategy (IPRS) which requires all European Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to cooperate in fighting online copyright infringement. This is part of IPR Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC which will be reviewed in Spring 2012, so there is still potentially room for changes. Though the directive doesn’t...
Evernote, once described to me as “my remote brain”, is releasing a new Google Chrome extension today to make clipping and saving webpages easier than ever. It’s optimized to grab the body of any blog post on any site. It automatically recognizes the structure of any post, and “captures it beautifully without any need...
The folks at Evernote just keep bringing the updates (among other news), and today they improved the overall functionality of its Google Chrome web browser extension. One of the key reasons I use Evernote is the ability to make notes from “clipping” web site content, and since Chrome is my primary browser (of late)...
‘Entrepreneur’ is a pretty broad, and often abused, word. How do you define it and what do you need to do to call yourself one? I don’t have the answer, but I do know that there are a lot of different types of entrepreneurs. Here are a few typical entrepreneurs you might meet. Which...
Yandex, one of the leading Internet companies in Russia, this morning announced the pricing of its initial public offering of a little under 52.2 million Class A ordinary shares at $25.00 per share. The shares will begin trading later today on NASDAQ under the symbol “YNDX”. The offering would give Yandex a market cap...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt at Mobile World Congress Google chairman Eric Schmidt is sitting on a panel right now at eG8 Forum. The panel is moderated by Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen. For the CEO of a sleepy networking equipment company, Verwayyen is actually a good panel moderator, pushing back on some of the panelists’...
Conversocial is a real-time social media management system which lets companies run marketing and customer support through Facebook Pages and Twitter. While competitors like coTweet, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Context Optional and Socialite also let you manage Facebook fan pages, Conversocial’s emphasis on enterprise tools somewhat mark it out from the pack. Today it announces a...