TechAddress http://www.techaddress.com Providing the Latest User-Generated and Aggregate Technology News Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en Hurry Up and Bounce http://www.techaddress.com/2008/01/09/hurry-up-and-bounce/ http://www.techaddress.com/2008/01/09/hurry-up-and-bounce/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:30:54 +0000 dell Asides AAPL AMZN APPL T INTC TWX BBY gme rimm CYCL http://www.techaddress.com/2008/01/09/hurry-up-and-bounce/ Source:GigaOM
A bounce in technology stocks, at this point, is inevitable. With the S&P’s tech sector down 10 percent so far this year — and a bearish-looking 20 percent since last summer — it’s just a matter of time before the sellers get tired and others step in to buy, if only for short-term gains.

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LaunchBox Digital, an early-stage investment firm founded by three tech industry veterans and with an initial focus on web and mobile businesses, is due to be unveiled Thursday, we’ve learned. The Washington, D.C.-based company will provide between six and 10 entrepreneurs seed investment and help in incorporation through an intensive, 12-week program, during which […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/11/15/launchbox-digital-set-to-launch/feed/ Hulu, NBC-News Corp Online Service Launches http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/28/hulu-nbc-news-corp-online-service-launches/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/28/hulu-nbc-news-corp-online-service-launches/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:30:35 +0000 youtube media news corp nbc NewTeeVee MSFT CMCSA NWS GE YHOO hulu TWX Polls http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/28/hulu-nbc-news-corp-online-service-launches/ Source:GigaOM

The long-awaited and much-derided NBC (GE) and News Corp (NWS) joint venture Hulu will make a somewhat public debut this week, opening up a private beta tonight of its web video service and initiating distribution of its movies, TV shows, and mashups on AOL (TWX), Comcast (CMCSA), MSN (MSFT), MySpace, and Yahoo (YHOO). Full […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/28/hulu-nbc-news-corp-online-service-launches/feed/ Boopsie Gives Mobile Search a Speed Boost http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/26/boopsie-gives-mobile-search-a-speed-boost/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/26/boopsie-gives-mobile-search-a-speed-boost/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:31:19 +0000 AOL google microsoft yahoo startups mobile goog nokia MSFT YHOO TWX Boopsie http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/26/boopsie-gives-mobile-search-a-speed-boost/ Source:GigaOM
Mobile search, despite the presence of giants such as Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) and AOL (TWX), is wide open. Any startup has as good a chance as any of the the big boys, just as long as they have cutting-edge technology and enough business acumen to capitalize on it. One such startup that […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/26/boopsie-gives-mobile-search-a-speed-boost/feed/ AOL to Cut 2,000 Employees, 20% of Work Force http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/15/aol-to-cut-2000-employees-20-of-work-force/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/15/aol-to-cut-2000-employees-20-of-work-force/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:30:05 +0000 AOL google online advertising microsoft web yahoo goog MSFT YHOO TWX randy falco Platform A http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/15/aol-to-cut-2000-employees-20-of-work-force/ Source:GigaOM
Kara Swisher got her hands on a memo sent out to AOL (TWX) employees earlier today from CEO Randy Falco. Here is a summary of what it says:

The focus is advertising and the new venture, Platform-A.
New web-based properties, including super-hot TMZ.com, are the focus; he calls it the “publishing business.”
Not giving up on Access business […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/15/aol-to-cut-2000-employees-20-of-work-force/feed/ Update: Oracle Wants to Buy BEA Systems, BEA Wants More Money http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/12/update-oracle-wants-to-buy-bea-systems-bea-wants-more-money/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/12/update-oracle-wants-to-buy-bea-systems-bea-wants-more-money/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:33:32 +0000 Random Access MOT TWX BEAS ORCL http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/12/update-oracle-wants-to-buy-bea-systems-bea-wants-more-money/ Source:GigaOM
By M.R. Rangaswami, publisher of SandHill.com and co-founder of Sand Hill Group

They say that youth is fleeting. In the enterprise software industry, the youth are fleeing.

One need only look at the hairlines of today’s software leaders. The current wunderkinds are not looking to create the next wave of corporate computing applications, but are instead […]Source:GigaOM
Oracle (ORCL) continues on its enterprise software roll-up strategy. Having already gobbled up dozens of companies including PeopleSoft, it now has plans to buy BEA Systems (BEAS), offering $17 a share, or about $6.7 billion. Oracle offer is 25 percent higher than BEA’s recent closing price. Update: BEA, however, says that’s not good enough.

BEA has […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/12/update-oracle-wants-to-buy-bea-systems-bea-wants-more-money/feed/ Startup Vidoop Has A Plan To Monetize User Logins http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/05/startup-vidoop-has-a-plan-to-monetize-user-logins/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/05/startup-vidoop-has-a-plan-to-monetize-user-logins/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:30:25 +0000 web goog MSFT YHOO TWX SBUX TM SCHW F http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/05/startup-vidoop-has-a-plan-to-monetize-user-logins/ Source:GigaOM
Protecting your customers’ private information has always been a pain. Data security is just hard to provide, and thanks to hackers, even harder to protect. Web 2.0 and social networking have only made things worse, providing more opportunities for a breach every hour.

Yet web security has long been a last vestige of innovation in the […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/10/05/startup-vidoop-has-a-plan-to-monetize-user-logins/feed/ Britney, Euro iPhone, WiMAX in Japan, & AOL Dial-down http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/19/britney-euro-iphone-wimax-in-japan-aol-dial-down/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/19/britney-euro-iphone-wimax-in-japan-aol-dial-down/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:34:28 +0000 UK Shorts AAPL Interesting TWX WBPK VIAB http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/19/britney-euro-iphone-wimax-in-japan-aol-dial-down/ Source:GigaOM
If you’re like me — tired of old-school personal finance software à la Quicken, you’re in for a treat. Mint, one of the best online personal finance startups I’ve seen, launched yesterday at the TechCrunch40 event. (It was the winner of TechCrunch40’s $50,000 award.)

I’ve been using the beta version for a few weeks now, and […]Source:GigaOM
Britney Spears might have bombed at the MTV Video Awards, but she has proved to be da bomb for Viacom (VIAB), making visitors out of water cooler gossipers.

Will French, Brits and Germans fall for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone? T-Mobile (Germany)and O2 (UK) think so, and Orange is hoping they will. And you want to […]

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]]> http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/19/britney-euro-iphone-wimax-in-japan-aol-dial-down/feed/ Will The Ad Slowdown Reach The Web? http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/12/will-the-ad-slowdown-reach-the-web/ http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/12/will-the-ad-slowdown-reach-the-web/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:30:34 +0000 web MSN YHOO EXPGY TWX CFC IACI http://www.techaddress.com/2007/09/12/will-the-ad-slowdown-reach-the-web/ Source:GigaOM
The housing boom hasn’t turned into a bust quite yet, but it is losing steam fast. In the meantime, the impact of the credit crunch is being felt in other areas of the U.S. economy, including advertising. A new report released today by TNS Media Intelligence shows that overall spending on advertising declined for the […]

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