CNN Live Shutting Down. Is Live Video Streaming Dead?
Yesterday, I read over at NewTeeVee that CNN has laid off all of it’s news staff for their online channel – information that came serendipitously to NTV blogger Liz Gannes just as the day…
Was the Twitter Retweet Feature Designed to Bring Value to Google and Bing Search
Speculation about why Twitter has chosen to architect the new "Retweet feature" without the ability to edit, and why they chose to call it Retweet even though it does not serve the same function…
Switching Horses at Cisco’s Collaboration Summit
Well, it’s official. Cisco, the company that rebranded all its voice communications gear “Unified Communications” a couple of years ago, has demoted the term. The ascendant star is “Collaboration”. And I got some of…
Seesmic Adds New Twitter Features Quicker than the Rest
The development team refining the Seesmic Desktop and the Seesmic Web just shipped two new products using Twitter APIs: lists and geolocation. The release keeps the team in what they consider an almost weekly…
Google Provides Free Holiday Wi-Fi In Airports
By Drew Clark
Google is now a wireless carrier, working with airports across the country to provide free wireless from now through January 15, the company said Tuesday. Currently, the wireless will be available in 47 airports…
Unified Communications Angle on HP 3Com Deal
This week HP announced its intent to acquire networking vendor 3COM. This acquisition certainly ups the growing competition amongst IT industry leaders – H-P, Cisco, IBM and Microsoft. As a networking infrastructure and VoIP/UC…
Google Acquires Gizmo5 Soft Phone Service
By Sean P. Aune
It looks like Google is on another buying spree! Earlier this week we carried the announcement that Google had purchased AdMob, and then that same day we got rumors that Google was purchasing Gizmo5.…
You Heard That They’re Making a Facebook Movie, Right?
Once again, social media has thrown me a wicked curveball, and here I am standing at the plate, completely befuddled. Get this: There’s a Facebook movie coming out! I’m not kidding! There’s an honest-to-God…
Are We Putting Too Much Stock in Facebook Fan Pages?
I was part of a panel at a conference for realtors last week — more of an unconference really — where the topics are chosen on the fly and you pretty much go with…
HP Takes Out 3Com: What’s The Next Step in Consolidation?
People have been asking me for a while what the next ‘shot’ would be in the tech titan border-clash. Cisco entered the server market with UCS, and everyone was wondering what the response would…