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FCC Pushes for Information on Comcast-Level 3 Dispute
Cable giant Comcast has locked horns with fiber-based communication services Level 3 Communications over streaming movies over its networks. While Level 3 hasn’t filed a formal complaint with the FCC, enough has happened in the dispute to catch their attention so the administration is looking into the matter. The initial foray will be to uncover ...
Yammer Raises $25 million More from Investors
According to Peter Kafka at All Things D, Yammer—the Twitter for work—is looking at a rising sun this investment cycle, Chatting at work is serious business for Yammer. The two-year-old start-up has raised a $25 million funding round led by U.S. Venture Partners, complementing the $15 million it has already raised to date. Yammer offers ...
Mobclix Visualizes the Android Marketplace
Mobclix has just released their index and an infographic to go along with it. After an extensive survey of Android owners (1,025) across the Mobclix Exchange in October, they’ve come up with these stats for us to enjoy, Key Findings 60% of Android users are under the age of 34 8% of Android users switched ...
EU Launches (Another) Antitrust Probe into Google
The word juggernaut still does an excellent job of encompassing Google’s capability in the information and search markets. They have been a powerful force in the Internet industry and for all appearances will continue to be into the future. As a result, every year someone somewhere takes umbrage at their size and momentum and an ...
Is Facebook About to Integrate With Skype?
An app developer has discovered some API hooks in the Facebook code that would allow for Skype integration. Since this has been spoken about before—i.e., Facebook looking into video teleconference back in 2009—it seems a likely team up. The Next Web is running a story about the discovery and the developer who pointed it out, ...
MIT Hacks Kinect for Gesture-based Browser Navigation Chrome Extension
The Xbox Kinect camera-interface has been the center of a lot of amusing controversy lately and it’s also been the center of a groundswell of amazing innovations. The newest invention to leap out of this little-developed device produced by Microsoft has been a gesture-based navigation extension for the open source Chrome browser. ReadWriteWeb brings us ...
Rumors of Google Acquisition of Groupon Suggest 2.5 Billion Dollar Deal
We have known for a few weeks now that Groupon and Google have been in talks, but not exactly what they’ve been talking about. Now rumors are surfacing of a possible acquisition of Groupon by Google for quite a hefty sum. The critical-mass coupon service which takes advantage of crowd interest to allow businesses to ...
Microsoft Pondering Xbox Streaming Internet-TV Service
Both Google and Apple are working out how they might offer TV subscription services via Internet-based systems and set-top boxes. Not to be left out, Microsoft has been poking around the industry, looking at how they might offer something similar through their Xbox game console—a device that a lot of households already have attached to ...
Play World of Warcraft on the iPad With everyAir
MMO zealots can rejoice, it’s possible to play video games from your desktop on your iPad—although you do have to stream them. And there’s even some suggestion of an app being developed for the iPhone to do the same thing (although that’s still in its nascent stages.) While not everyone plays World of Warcraft, it ...
Policy Lags Behind Technology, the Vanguard of Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare. The stuff of spy novels and giddily spiraling cyberpunk stories by the likes of William Gibson—while we don’t have vat grown ninjas yet, we do have the Information Age and the Internet and that means that information is key. As our lives become increasingly digitized and networked, though, it leaves us vulnerable to outside ...