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Startup touts a single-die, global mobile TV chip

A tiny startup is announcing a single-die IC for world mobile TV. Now, it competes with DiBcom, Siano and Newport Media in this space. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Semiconductor  |  

Analyzing the Twitter-Jaiku-Pownce Business Model and Issues

Micro- or Nano-blogging, Presence Messengers and ways to share or send stuff are part of the same ecosystem: services that operate with a slightly different or overlapping focus. Tumblr, Dodgeball, Jaiku, more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

Pownce lets you share your stuff and life with your friends

I have been checking out Pownce. I am not impressed by the browser interface but the desktop application is much cooler since it is based on Adobe’s AIR. While we are still waiting for the Pownce API more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

Arbitron Portable People Meter Eavesdrops on Your Musical Life

A new fangled way to get stats on who's listening to what. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Gadgets and Tools  |  

Last.fm Acquired By CBS

Last.fm understood the importance of listeners, putting the listener in charge, and was successfully acquired by CBS in May this year. Read the post by Richard on being acquired. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Music  |  

New Farecast Service Tells You Whether That Hotel Rate Is Really A Deal - Consumerist

Farecast.com is testing a great new feature that evaluates a hotel's given rate, then tells you how much of a deal it really is when compared to past quotes and fares at similar hotels. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Search  |  

maps.amung.us - Map your site visitors in real-time

With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from - live! Our maps update themselves on your site without having to reload the whole page. That's right, ditch your static map more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Gadgets and Tools  |  

Mobile startups growing: photos, videos, presence detection and storage

An interesting article by Matt Marshall - "If you’re in the mobile industry, and you’re not growing, you have a problem. We’re in the midst of a mobile revolution (all arrows pointing up), and numerous more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Mobile 2.0  |  

MIT startup raises multicore bar with new 64-core CPU

A new startup out of MIT emerged from stealth mode today to announce that they're shipping a 64-core processor for the embedded market. The company, called Tilera, was founded by Dr. Anat Agarwal, the more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Hardware  |  

Google's Genetic Start-Up

"We'd like to give all of you an opportunity to meet your genome." That was the offer made to a roomful of analysts by Jay Flatley, chief executive of biotech Illumina. And in his sales pitch, he spilled more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Biotech  |