TechAddress

Southwest Airlines To Offer Inflight Broadband

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:30:20 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Now that inflight broadband is back in fashion, why shouldn’t low cost operators get in on the the action. Southwest Airlines will soon start testing satellite-delivered broadband Internet access on four of its planes. Southern California-based company, Row 44, which also has cut a similar deal with Alaska Airlines, will provide the technology […]

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Oh No Not Again Moto

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:30:14 +0000

Source:GigaOM
CEO change hasn’t seem to have had no impact on Motorola which continues to spiral downward. Their handset business is proving to be a disaster. Fourth quarter 2007 mobile phone sales slumped to 40.9 million units vs 65.7 million in 4Q 2006. Mobile division sales were down 38% year over year, with mobile devices […]

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Developers: Verizon Wants You!

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:30:10 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Two months after saying it would open up its network to other devices, Verizon Wireless is inviting developers to a mid-March conference where they can learn more about building software and devices that will run on its network. It’s an important step, because without people to build devices on Verizon’s CDMA network, the commitment to […]

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ARM Strength: 10 Billion Processors

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:32:23 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Stock markets around the world are tumbling, with the Dow staying firmly in negative territory even in the face of an emergency interest-rate cut. And ready or not, the parade of technology earnings is on its way as well.

A handful of tech bellwethers have already delivered their results for the latest quarter, and if last […]Source:GigaOM
ARM, a Cambridge, England-based company that licenses microprocessor-related technologies, says the total number of processors that use ARM technology now exceeds 10 billion. The first ARM chip shipped back in 1991. The ARM-based chips are in every hot device: the Nokia N95, iPods, the iPhone, TomTom portable GPS systems, even the Nintendo DS. They surely […]

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Coventi heading to the deadpool

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:36:15 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Typically when you sign up for a two-year contract with a wireless carrier, you get to pick a handset — one that is either free or, at the very least, highly subsidized. But AT&T today started offering a new plan that allows you to buy a SIM card from them, while you bring your own […]Source:GigaOM
Virtual meeting company Unisfair has scored $10 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners after proving that meeting people face-to-face isn’t always necessary or cost effective. As a telecommuter, I’m duty-bound to agree, although I’d rather gouge out my eyes than attend a virtual product launch party.

Still, many people must attend product […]Source:GigaOM
Google Documents is slowly becoming the big gorilla of the online document, crushing smaller players by its sheer mass. WebWorkerDaily reports that one such service, Coventi Pages, is heading to the deadpool, and will shut down on February 1, 2008. It’s slick features weren’t enough!

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Sprint Lightens its Load

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:30:08 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Sprint told Wall Street today that it plans to cut 4,000 jobs and close 125 stores — and Wall Street, despite having been warned, was decidedly unimpressed. Stay tuned for Sprint’s Feb. 28 earnings call to hear more about its WiMax network and Xohm…who knows what else?

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Zude! Startup Scores $5.3M

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:30:40 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Fifth Generation Systems, owner of drag-and-drop web page customization technology provider Zude, has raised an additional $5.3 million in a second round of venture capital. It also added Dan Bricklin, a computer science superstar and co-creator of spreadsheet software VisiCalc, to its board. Perhaps that money and Bricklin’s talents will go toward perfecting Zude’s […]

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Honesty Is Always the Best Policy

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:30:45 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Or so learned Greg L. Reyes, former CEO of Brocade Communications, earlier today. Reyes was sentenced to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay a $15 million fine, the first public company executive to be tried and convicted of fraud in the stock options accounting dragnet that began three years ago. Apparently it […]

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Library of Congress Goes Web 2.0

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:30:17 +0000

Source:GigaOM
Armed with a belief in the wisdom of crowds, the Library of Congress has made two of its photo collections available on Flickr. The government library hopes that more people will be able to view the photos online — and help librarians organize them by way of user-generated tags. Check out the pilot project at […]

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RIP Apple TV, Hello Apple TV

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:30:17 +0000

Source:GigaOM
After finally admitting that the company did a poor job with the Apple TV, Steve Jobs in his Macworld keynote today unveiled a totally new interface with loads of functionality that should be enough for any Apple zealot to jump for joy. But how much faith do people really have in Apple to make its […]

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Ticketmaster Wants a Cut of Online TicketsNow

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:30:45 +0000

Source:GigaOM
With its $265 million deal to buy TicketsNow, Ticketmaster has finally succumbed to the siren song of ticket scalping. The ticketing giant had long complained about online ticket brokers, but perhaps eBay’s success after buying StubHub back a year ago, the grim performance of its online TicketExchange platform, and its upcoming spin out as […]

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Apple Unveils iTunes Movie Rentals, more

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:38:14 +0000

Source:GigaOM
In addition to unveiling a movie rental service for iTunes and an updated version of Apple TV (with a lower price), Steve Jobs in his Macworld keytnote today announced the MacBook Air, which at a maximum thickness of 0.76 inches (and 3 lbs), is the world’s thinnest notebook.

It sports both a full-sized keyboard and a […]Source:GigaOM
Fabrik, a vendor of physical and on-demand storage products, said at Macworld today in San Francisco that it has made a deeper foray into the consumer storage market by purchasing G-Technology, a vendor of attached storage products for Macintosh computers. The acquisition comes less than a year Fabrik acquired SimpleTech. G-Tech gives the company a […]Source:GigaOM
As expected, Steve Jobs in his keynote at Macworld unveiled iTunes movie rentals. Library titles will cost $2.99 each, new releases will be $3.99. Jobs also announced Apple TV Take 2 and other product news. NewTeeVee editor Liz Gannes is at the conference and is liveblogging all the details.
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