9
Jan

Skype Access Makes It Easy To Go Boingo

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Mobile, Voice, Broadband

Skype, which has a long standing relationship with Boingo, is making it simpler (and easier) to get access to Boingo hotspots around the world. It announced a new plan that allows Skype users to pay for Boingo Wi-Fi hotspots using Skype Credit. The feature is called Skype Access and is currently available to Mac users […]

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8
Jan

Social App Startup Renkoo Reboots… Again

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Startups

Joyce Park (left) & Adam Rifkin (right) by Ifindkarma via Flickr Renkoo, a Redwood City, Calif-based startup that is fast approaching its fourth birthday is rebooting…again. Co-founded by Adam Rifkin (CEO) and Joyce Park (CTO), the company had launched Renkoo.com as a social planner, pitching themselves as Evite 2.0. But in 2007, the pair […]

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6
Jan

Apple Gives Desktop Apps an Internet Life

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Apple, Featured

It wasn’t quite the same lively Macworld keynote without Steve Jobs, but it looks like self-deprecating Phil Schiller, Apple’s VP of worldwide product marketing, did an admirable job of introducing a whole slew of products, including the new Macbook Pro (17-inch version) and the new DRM free iTunes music store, without so much as mentioning […]

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5
Jan

With Microsoft in Sight, Cisco invests in Xobni

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Startups

Xobni, a San Francisco-based maker of software for email services, has raised $7 million in fresh funding led by Cisco Systems. Existing investors Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures and Atomico also invested in this round of founding. In a blog posting, the company said that their Outlook add-on software has been downloaded more […]

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5
Jan

Turin, Force 10 Networks in Merger Talks

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Startups, Broadband

The current economic downturn has put a chill on telecom spending, forcing everyone from Alcatel-Lucent to Ciena Corp. to run for cover. The situation is even more precarious for startups that find themselves in desperate competition for business. Against such a backdrop, we are hearing rumors that Turin Networks, a Petaluma, Calif.-based company is in […]

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2
Jan

Will the Great Depressed Push Facebook Higher?

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Google, facebook

Hitwise, a data analytics and research company, today released a report that indicated a big spike in Facebook traffic on Christmas Eve. The research firm says that Facebook hit a new high, with traffic “reaching 2.18% of all U.S. Internet visits compared with 1.42% average for November.”
That’s up 54 percent from November 2008 and 53 […]

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2
Jan

8020, Publisher of JPG Mag Shuts Down

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Startups

JPG magazine, the flag ship offering of 8020 Publishing, Inc., a San Francisco startup is shutting down. And so is the company. The subscribers were informed of the decision in an email earlier today. 8020 was co-founded by Technorati and BitTorrent alumni and was backed by C/net founder Halsey Minor’s Minor Ventures.
We all deeply believe […]

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29
Dec

On Twitter, Followers Aren’t Really Friends

Posted by: Om Malik
in twitter, web, facebook

This past weekend, we had yet another tempest in a teapot here in the blogosphere, this time over what, exactly, determines the authority of a tweet on Twitter. Some argued that the number of followers is the best yardstick with which to measure how important a tweet was, while others argued that it is who […]

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26
Dec

For Amazon, Netbooks Are a Smash Hit

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Mobile

Santa was apparently good to Amazon.com this year; the e-tailer says its 14th holiday (shopping) season was its best ever, though it doesn’t offer any data to back up that cheery claim. Its biggest sellers (based on number of units ordered) included the Samsung 52-inch LCD TV, iPod Touch, Acer Aspire One netbook and Nintendo […]

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26
Dec

Tools To Use: Tip’d, a Financial Social News Service

Posted by: Om Malik
in web, Startups

Like many, the market collapse of the past few months has forced me to pay closer-than-usual attention to financial news. I’ve had to rely primarily on mainstream publications; with my day set up to revolve around all things tech, unearthing valuable, alternate sources of info can be a challenge. Sure Paul Kedrosky and […]

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