Top Items:
Om Malik / GigaOM:
FON, Time Warner deal confirmed — It has been more than twenty days since we reported that FON, the share-your-Wi-Fi service company was in talks with Time Warner Cable. Today, a news report from Associated Press confirms the deal and adds, that Time Warner Cable "will let its home broadband customers turn …
Discussion:
Alec Saunders .LOG
RELATED:
Associated Press:
Time Warner, Fon in Wi-Fi joint deal — Broadband customers will be allowed to host wireless hot spots. — In a big win for a little Wi-Fi start-up called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its residential broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hot spots …
rim.com:
RIM Announces New BlackBerry Application Suite for Windows Mobile-based Devices — New Software Will Deliver Virtual BlackBerry Solution — Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced plans to expand its support for Windows Mobile®-based devices …
Chris Pirillo:
Google Calendar Security Notice — Uh, guys... y'all gotta tell your friends not to store usernames and passwords in public documents - at least, not without protecting them with passwords themselves. More importantly, the last thing you want to do is set a reminder for yourself …
RELATED:
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme:
Google Calendar Nightmare Release … In a bid to enhance the collaboration and socialization aspects of Google Calendar, the Google Calendar team recently added the functionality to "Search and Add Events from the Web". According to the official site:
Discussion:
Google Blogoscoped
Robert Levine / New York Times:
New Model for Sharing: Free Music With Ads — For years, music labels have been trying to prevent fans from downloading their songs on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Now, some of them would like to encourage people to listen to music that way — provided they view some advertising first.
The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Free World Dialup and Verizon's patent on "name translation" — I am at a loss to explain how the patent office granted Verizon a patent on "name translation" given the extensive coverage of Free World Dialup (FWD) as the first instance of Internet to PSTN calling in October 1995.
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Switch on for Square Mile wi-fi — The City of London has fired up its first mesh wi-fi network, promising net access from just about anywhere in the Square Mile. — The area in London is not just Europe's leading financial centre - it is said to be the continent's most advanced wireless network too.
Discussion:
Gadget Lab
Matt / Tracy and Matt's Blog:
HTC Advantage (X7500) unboxed — It's been a long time coming but finally the HTC Advantage is available to buy! Our friends at Clove Technology kindly let us have a look at the device so, following on from our popular Samsung i600 unboxed video, I am pleased to bring you our HTC Advantage unboxing video!
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
As Environmentalism Grows, Online Publishers Go Green — ONLINE publishers are strapping on their Birkenstocks. — Buoyed by the breakaway success of "An Inconvenient Truth," the film documentary of Al Gore's environmental lecture, publishers like The Washington Post …
Mad4 Mobile Phones.com:
Mobile screens become solar cells — A new patent has been granted to Motorola covering the use of a mobile phone LCD screen as a solar cell. — The Display and Solar Cell Device patent would allow mobile phones and other devices to be fitted with a solar cell screen that would power …
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Digital Subscribers Like Free Radio, Too — As a group, fans of digital radio do not listen to traditional radio less than everyone else. In fact, they listen to slightly more, according to a study recently released by Arbitron and Edison Media Research. — The study was conducted through …
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
IAB Declares War On Web Measurement Firms — DISCONTENT OVER THE STATE OF Web traffic metrics is coming to a head. — The Interactive Advertising Bureau late last week issued an open letter to comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings requesting they submit to a third-party audit of their measurement processes.
Discussion:
Web Analytics Demystified
Alex Krupp / Sensemaking:
Is social networking dead? Nope. We've only just seen the beginning. Here's why — Social networking lacks credibility. — And it's not hard to understand why. Small VC firms receive two or three proposals for new social networking sites every single week. Large VC firms are getting two or three every single day.
Discussion:
Online Media Cultist
BBC:
TV's Dirty Secrets — Callers to premium-rate phone competitions on the GMTV breakfast show have been defrauded out of millions of pounds, a BBC investigation has found. — Panorama found a company working for GMTV had been finalising shortlists of potential winners "long before" phone lines closed, for the past four years.
Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Kids and teens have pushed at least 6 immersive online worlds to over 2m UU/mth in the US — Wagner James Au has a great post on GigaOm about Gaia. Gaia is a casual immersive MMORPG that describes itself as: … In an interview with Gaia's CEO, Craig Sherman, he quotes that Gaia has gone …
RELATED:
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:Move over MySpace, Gaia Online is here
Discussion:
Screenwerk, PSFK Trend: PSFK, Bloggers Blog, i-boy, mathewingram.com/work and ben barren
Barry Schwartz / SearchCap:
Google Ranked "Most Powerful Brand" By BRANDZ — Gary Price reports that Millward Brown Optimor's BRANDZ Top 100 has ranked Google the most powerful brand. The top 10 global brands are: — 1. Google with $66.4 billion — 2. General Electric with $61.9 billion — 3. Microsoft with $55 billion
RELATED:
