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The Mobile Gadgeteer (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable future. We chatted a bit about the Sony Reader update, MWg Zinc II that James just received (one arrived at my house today...
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Moco News (Free subscription) | yesterday
In front of a standing-room only crowd, Om Malik , founder of GigaOmni Media, kicked off an afternoon panel pitting mobile versus web and did his best to dig up the details everyone wanted to hear from the likes of Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ), MySpace, Facebook and Skydeck. Neither MySpace or Facebook would disclose the exact number of users or traffic they're seeing on mobile, but both said it's an incredibly...
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jkOnTheRun (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The OLPC has captured the hearts and imaginations of us for some time and fueled the original cheap mini-notebook dream. The original dream of a $200 laptop for children quickly caught fire and Nicholas Negroponte has seen the OLPC program grow and grow. Our buddy Om Malik is attending the...
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
On surface, Facebook Connect seems to be yet-another-Web-ID system. Despite scant details, the system could help build a money-making advertising platform for the fast growing social networking company. It could also help cement Facebook as a key component of web infrastructure. Full details inside.
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Bay Area startup ZipZapPlay has launched the latest entry in the quickly growing build-and-share-your-own-game space in alpha this week, a service by the name of Playcrafter . ZipZapPlay CEO Curt Bererton and Chief Creative Officer Mathilde Pignol stopped by the GigaOM office recently to give us a hands-on demo, and what impressed Om and I most was the site’s whimsical beauty. That’s no surprise, as...
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Today Cisco Systems said it plans to spend $120 million to buy Seattle-based Pure Networks, a company that makes software to manage home networks. Pure’s network management software and underlying protocols, which make a connected device visible to a network, are becoming more important now that devices beyond computers and their peripherals are networked in [...]
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I am hanging out here at the Facebook developer conference, generally taking in the sights and sounds. The venue is getting crowded, even though we got over an hour to go before Facebook executives take the stage. You can check out my preview on what to expect, and also enjoy some of these photos I [...]
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The recent flurry of announcements regarding devices that can be used to play movies and other video-based content, delivered via the Internet, on the TV has many in the industry believing that the tide is finally turning. The numbers, however, tell a somewhat different story.
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In its second-quarter earnings call this morning, AT&T highlighted the awesome growth of its wireless business, which surged 14.8 percent to $11 billion and accounted for roughly a third of its $30.9 billion in revenue for the period. The company also said that the 3G iPhone was selling twice as fast as the first one, [...]
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notebooks.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Giga Om Network's acquired jkOnTheRun, a mobile technology blog that's run by our friends James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. These two guys are very passionate about mobile technology and I'm glad to hear that James is now officially a full time blogger.
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mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Congratulations to my friend Om Malik and to the founders of the jkOnTheRun mobile blog for what sounds like a match made in blogging heaven. James and Kevin get to continue doing what they have been doing for some time now, which is focusing on great mobile-related content, and the GigaOm network expands to cover [...]
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Andy Grove, the former chairman of Intel turned plug-in vehicle advocate, challenged the attendees of the Plug-In 2008 conference on Tuesday to put 10 million plug-in hybrid electric vehicles on the roads in four years. Those plug-ins should be retrofitted from vehicles with poor mileage like SUVs, pickups and minivans, he said. Grove called on the [...]
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The first time I heard about Neil Tagare was back in the go-go ’90s, when he was the man behind the international fiber network FLAG Telecom. FLAG went public in 2000, but by then Tagare was already onto his next big idea: building a $1.5 billion global network that would carry Internet traffic from most [...]
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The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Om Malik of GigaOm fame has announced that his company, Giga Omni Media, have acquired mobile gadgets blog jkOnTheRun. No amount have been specified. The reason for buying the blog is of course that it is a great one, filling an empty space in the GigaOm network. The choice was to either build a blog in [...]
