Updated. Sonic.net could soon be one of the first ISPs to introduce a TV service delivered over its broadband service. With the filing of a video franchise application with California’s Public Utilities Commission, Sonic is on its way to creating its own streaming video service. Until recently, Sonic operated as a standalone broadband ISP...
Daily Archives: September 7, 2011
CardFlick brings beautiful design and contact-sharing muscle to the iPhone
Cardflick, a new app which launched in the iTunes store today, hopes to revolutionize how people stay connected with their mobile phones. The beautiful app lets people “flick” their contact details between phones, with all the information stored in the cloud. What’s more, once you’ve accepted someone’s contact request, you can call or email them...
The Fight Between Google And Apple Is About To Get Ugly (GOOG, AAPL)
Image: erjkprunczyk via Flickr See Also: Yes, Android Fragmentation Is Still A Huge Problem. This Chart Proves It Eric Schmidt: The Next Big Android Launch Is Coming In October Or November All Android Partners Are Equal (But Some Are More Equal Than Others) HTC has filed another patent suit against Apple. The catch: this...
No, licensing journalists isn’t the answer
Is the media industry in turmoil? Clearly it is, with publishers fighting declines in circulation and advertising revenue, combined with competition from digital-native entities such as blog networks and the “democracy of distribution” that comes from social-media tools like Twitter and Facebook. Journalism itself is even said to be in jeopardy, or at least...
Appistry Revamps its Big Data Analysis Products
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. Some of the larger-scale data deployments are handled by cloud software vendor Appistry...
Design Student Starts Blog, Grows it, Sells it: Inhabitat Gets Acquired by Internet Brands
Jill Fehrenbacher, founder of green design blog Inhabitat, announced this morning that her nearly 7 year old site has been acquired by media network Internet Brands. Fehrenbacher says she started the site when a student, as a way to engage in public conversation about specific topics of interest to her. That sounds like the...
Facebook Adds Former Clinton White House Chief Of Staff And Politico Erksine Bowles To Board
After adding Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to its board a few months ago, Facebook has added President Bill Clinton’s former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles to its board of directors. We’ve pasted the release below. Bowles has an extensive history in politics, serving as President Bill Clinton’s Administrator of the Small Business...
Zoom! Enhance! The iPhone 5 (Or A Sail Boat) Supposedly Spotted In A Distorted Reflection
Some people see Elvis in a potato chip. Some see the Virgin Mary in water stains. Others, meanwhile, see the iPhone 5 hiding in the reflection of a plate. So, you remember that sushi photo from earlier this morning? The one that was maybe-but-probably-not-but-seriously-MAYBE taken with an iPhone 5? We were perfectly content with...
After the CEO, Yahoo needs to fire its board
There is one place Yahoo can easily finish first: the company with the worst and most ineffectual board with the spine of a centipede. I have not been a fan of Yahoo’s board for a long time and nothing really has changed my mind. Even before the firing of Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s board has been taking actions befitting...
Watch five years of Kiva micro-loans spread social impact across the globe [Video]
Microlender Kiva just released this video called ‘Intercontinental Ballistic Microfinance,’ which charts the donors and recipients of five years worth of microloans using their lending platform. The video visualizes data in different colors to represent different loan types, such as agriculture, education, food, health, retail and services. More than 620,000 lenders have funded more...