Clearly this dude is wearing a TV on his chest, so he’s probably in pain. From his website: → Read More
Happy Verizon and AT&T iPad day! Yep, today’s the day that the tablet is available from the two wireless carriers. Here’s what you need to know. → Read More
The White iPhone is now gone from the Apple Store, marking the final step in its long, troubled life. The White iPhone, slated to be launched this year, was Apple’s black swan, an odd, exciting, and desirable piece of kit that, alas, was too beautiful for this world. → Read More
If I were a betting man, I’d bet on LinkedIn going public some time in 2011. But I’m not, so I’ll just share with you that the social networking service provider has been significantly beefing up its board of directors this year.
Case in point: this morning, LinkedIn announced the appointment of its seventh board member, Stan Meresman. We’ll forgive you if that name doesn’t ring any bells with you immediately, but suffice to say this is a man with heaps of experience serving on boards of and advising public tech companies under his belt. → Read More
Y Combinator-backed startup ReadyForZero is announcing a $260,000 seed round of funding from a number of well-known angel investors including Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube; Dave McClure, Benjamin Ling, Nils Johnson, and Maneesh Arora.
Launched in private beta in September, ReadyForZero is an easy to use web-based platform to help guide consumers out of credit card debt. ReadyForZero is trying to help those consumers who are having trouble paying their debt off, as opposed to those who are already in collections or bankruptcy. Essentially the site is trying to help people be able to eventually not carry any balances month to month. The company says that in the US alone there are 100 million people with revolving balances, meaning they carry credit card debt from month to month. Combined they owe $900 billion to banks and credit card companies. → Read More
With more than four million users, Mint’s personal finance platform no doubt has a massive amount of data that it can mine regarding consumer’s spending habits. In fact, the site already uses some of this data to show seasonal trends. Today, the Intuit owned company is launching its realtime customer data insights to the public, after soft launching the product almost two months ago.
Mint Data aggregates anonymous spending data from Mint’s users to give you realtime insight on what people are spending on across the country. For example, the platform lists the most popular restaurants in San Francisco (by visits), the top shopping spots in New York City (by highest average spend), and the highest spending cities in the U.S. → Read More
Milo, a startup that highlights local inventory at brick and mortar stores in product search results, is taking its platform mobile today with the release of a free Android app. Milo.com tracks the real-time availability and prices of more than 3 million products at over 50,000 stores across the U.S., including Target, Macy’s, Best Buy, Crate & Barrel and more.
Using the Android’s phone geolocation, the app will identify a user’s location and return realtime results for a product’s availability at stores in the area. Users will also be able to access where stores are located and how the price compares to other stores in a given area. So if I searched for a juicer in Palo Alto, Milo would return availability of the device at the stores nearby, including Target, Macy’s and Crate & Barrel. The app will also give me driving directions to local stores. → Read More
Nintendo today reported [PDF] it swung to a net loss of 2.01 billion Yen ($24.5 million) in the first half of fiscal 2010 after recording a handsome 69.49 billion ($850 million) profit in the same time frame last year. It was big N’s first net loss in the fiscal first half in seven years. → Read More
Cybersecurity solutions provider Endgame Systems has raised a whopping $29 million in first-round funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and TechOperators.
Coinciding with the financing announcement, the company is today releasing ipTrust, a cloud-based botnet and malware detection service. → Read More
Sometimes it feels that the likes of Brightcove and Ooyala, and their myriad competitors, are something of a hammer to crack a nut in the world of enterprise video platforms. To small and medium sized firms these players can appear pretty expensive and complex in their pricing, so smaller businesses often grudgingly revert to cheap or free consumer platforms like YouTube where the the constraints don’t suit enterprises. It’s a little like the days when online publishing was ruled by CMS systems like Interwoven, before platforms like Typepad and Wordpress came along. So a new video platform launches today with the aim of bringing a simpler, all-you-can-eat pricing and service package which could well attract a lot of firms.
The 23Video startup has come up with it’s own technology platform to allow companies to create a full, out-of-the-box video site, mapped to your own domain, with a branded videoplayer for $675 a month, which includes 1 Terabyte of traffic (equivalent to an average of 160,000 videos a month). Extra traffic is $250 per TB. While Ooyala offers a $500/month package, you need to contact their sales people. And the same sales process happens over at Brightcove, where your $99 / mo will get you just 50 Videos and 40 GB of bandwidth. With 23Video you can get up and running with a credit card. → Read More
Away Put Your Earbuds, I Am Retractable LimeWire Ordered To Shut Down To Infinity And Beyond With Scott Tubeless Toilet Paper Caution: Nooks Can Get Their Content Remotely Detonated Too Lomography Sprocket Rocket Is A Compact Retro-Cam → Read More
The final piece of the US Galaxy S puzzle has now fallen into place, with US Cellular’s version — the Mesmerize — becoming available today.
The phone is pretty much the standard version minus the front-facing camera. You still get that gorgeous 4″ Super-AMOLED display, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, and 5MP camera.
It’ll run you $199 on a two-year contract, after an $80 mail-in rebate in the form of a Visa Debit card.
I love those things.
If you’re on US Cellular and keen for a new handset, you really can’t do better than this one.
Keen for some hot PR action? I’ve included the full, unedited Press Release for you after the jump. → Read More
Remember when Amazon got in trouble for the ironic crime of remotely un-publishing 1984 from users’ Kindles? Well, they’re not the only ones capable of doing that, although in Barnes & Noble’s case it’s more of a technical snafu than a willful breach of user rights. → Read More
There’s something in the air tonight… an update perhaps? To your Droid 2, maybe?
Correct! Verizon have said that the latest software version — v2.3.20 — for the Motorola Droid 2 will start rolling out to a limited number of people tonight.
But what does the update bring? I have a list for you after the jump! → Read More
Yesterday, all we had were rumours, now it’s official — the myTouch will launch on November 3rd for $199 on a two-year contract. My how times change.
Of course, if you’re clever, you can scoop it up for less than that.
There isn’t really much more to add: you already know that it runs Froyo, is HSPA+ compatible, sports the latest 1GHz snapdragon processor, has a front facing camera, a 3.8″ 800×480 screen, a 5MP/720p camera, and will launch in 4 colours. → Read More
Something is definitely up at uber nerd site and “Directory of Wonderful Things” BoingBoing.net. A trip to the front page brings up the charming image above, which seems to be some sort of vulgar message from someone called “the|one” to site editor Cory Doctorow. The hack also ingeniously incorporates the “Jesse Slaughter Dun Goofed” viral video. → Read More
I got taken to task yesterday by some humorless fanboys for what was clearly satire, so I’m going to play this one straight. It seems that both Best Buy and Amazon have ceased to issue pre-orders for the Kinect, although you can still buy a bundle with a new 360. This augurs well for Microsoft’s big bid to expand the gamer demographic.
Maybe that $500 million ad push is working! → Read More
It’s a well-established tradition at tech conventions, where nerds like us abound, to stock one’s booth with beautiful women — “come for the girls, stay for the iPod cases” seems to be the idea, and in general it works. But how do you attract the attention of highly-disciplined Lieutenants and cold-hearted strategists? Why, a robot with a .50-cal, of course. → Read More
Ok, now I know that BlackBerries are popular with those “corporate” types with their “business trips” and their “incomes”, but this limited edition £750 BlackBerry Bold 9700 just seems a little …overpriced.
What do you get for £750? Gold accents? Nope. Leather trimming? Nope. A concierge service? Not that, either.
How about some custom wallpapers, pre-loaded Monocle travel guides, a 16GB MicroSD card, and a “special strap”.
I’m in the mood for itemisation right now, so let’s play a round of “What’s Worth What?!” → Read More
We’ve learned that former Digger and teen entrepreneur Brian Wong has just wrapped up a $300K angel round for his mobile gaming ad startup Kiip. You first read about Wong when our own Mike Arrington wrote about the 19 year old being the youngest founder to ever receive venture investment. → Read More
