A former China Mobile chairman has received the death penalty after being found guilty of accepting an estimated $2.6 million (16.48 million yuan) in bribes, according to AFP. The man, Li Hua, formerly held the position of chairman and general manager of the state owned mobile operator’s Sichuan branch. Earlier this year Hua turned...
Daily Archives: August 30, 2011
Subscription movie service Moviepass gets a second chance
After a false start earlier this summer, Moviepass might finally be able to launch its subscription movie ticket service, thanks to a partnership with theater voucher provider Hollywood Movie Money. The deal breathes new life into Moviepass, which had its first effort to create a Netflix-like, all-you-can-eat subscription plan shut down by movie theaters...
Turntable.fm Claims its 1st Victim: Are Group Listening Services Viable?
They continued: “In future we may post a more entrepreneur-focused post-mortem to go into detail about why MixApp didn’t find its path to financial success (or at least stability), but to summarize the crucial factors in our decision to shut down: 1. Quite simply, we can’t afford the hosting costs any more! 2. With...
Video games are the future, and there’s no way to avoid them
Of the many hobbies one might have overlooked in the past, playing video games is one activity that will soon become unavoidable. Current demands in gaming are directing developers to create games that help us interact with our environment in real-time, seamlessly integrating technology into our lives. In a recent study by Latitude Research,...
You Can Vote To Tell Nokia What It Should Call Its First Windows Phone (NOK, MSFT)
Image: via Engadget See Also: Microsoft May Have Accidentally Shown Us What Windows 8 Will Look Like THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Can Windows Phone Become Microsoft’s Next Billion Dollar Business? Android Gains More Market Share Versus iPhone, RIM Is In A Tailspin Over the weekend, Nokia exec Chanse Arrington asked people via Twitter to vote...
ReadyTalk Adds Conference Planning, Meetings to Salesforce
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. If you’ve seen the ReadyTalk conferencing platform at work, you know it has...
Oracle Blasts HP In New Court Filing (ORCL, HPQ)
See Also: This 26-Year Old Founder Is Raising $100 Million To Take On Giants Like Microsoft Microsoft Just Put Out This ’70s Spoof Video Making Fun Of VMWare THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Can Windows Phone Become Microsoft’s Next Billion Dollar Business? Oracle says that HP played a nasty trick on it last year. Last October,...
Marvel At Sony’s Microscopic OLED Electronic Viewfinder
One of the marquee features of Sony’s new Alpha and NEX cameras, which by the way look excellent, is the new electronic viewfinder. I’ve never been particularly attracted to these things, preferring the mirror-based optical viewfinder on DSLRs or simply the large, bright LCDs on the back of most cameras. But Fujifilm’s X100 (despite...
Cool: Wi-Fi breaks the sound barrier
Want a challenge? Try building a Wi-Fi network for a car designed to break the speed of sound. Thanks to Steven Crowley, who dug through the FCC’s experimental radio applications, I got a chance to see what may be the fastest Wi-Fi network around. North American Eagle is using gear from Tropos to add...
Groupon’s PR Boss Suddenly Quit After Just Two Months On The Job – Here’s Why
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason See Also: Andrew Mason Fires Back At Groupon Critics Groupon Tries Sneaky New Way To Get Around SEC ‘Quiet Period’ Rules—Think The SEC Will Notice? No, We Are Not Accusing News Corp And Kara Swisher Of Helping Groupon Violate The SEC’s Quiet Period Rules The vice president of global communications...