// Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 3 September 2010 at 06:38

Given the opportunity, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will happily extemporize at a high level about the ideas that drive his company (which is now up to 145 million users). Williams contended tonight that the medium of Twitter is (gasp!) actually well-suited to handle information (...)

// Twitter Has 145M Users, Mobile Use Up 62 Percent

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 3 September 2010 at 05:13

Mobile use of Twitter has climbed by more than 60 percent since April, when the company introduced its official iPhone client, Twitter CEO Ev Williams says. The service also has 145 million registered users, up almost 40 percent from the number it had four months (...)

// Meet Angry Birds the Next Big Entertainment Franchise (Video)

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 3 September 2010 at 01:50

I hear birds squawking in my sleep. I see green pigs dance in front of my eyes. Like millions, I am addicted to Angry Birds, the game. In this video, CEO Mikael Hed and executive Peter Vesterbacka share the secrets of capturing all our idle (...)

// Apple Just Gave Bandwidth Providers a Present

VoIP Watch - 3 September 2010 at 01:07

Apple has conquered the wireless world with the iPhone and iPad. Now they want to do to the cable industry what they have done to the wireless carriers. Forced them to get bigger pipes to deliver more big file content, more quickly. The announcement yesterday about streaming video is a dream (...)

// Seriously, FCC, Get a Move On

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 3 September 2010 at 01:00

The FCC today released a new report, Internet Access Services, which gives the state of Internet in the US — at the end of June 2009. The problem is that the report has data that is 14 months old, which makes it pretty much (...)

// 4chan Decides to Do Something Nice For a Change

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 3 September 2010 at 00:03

The anarchic online community known as 4chan isn’t known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming — it’s mostly known for posting sophomoric humor and graphic sexual imagery. But today, someone decided the Internet should wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy (...)

// Announcing the Mobilize Launchpad Finalists!

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 23:45

Can I get a drumroll please? Or maybe just the trill of a thousand ringtones to celebrate the selection of our Mobilize 2010 Launchpad finalists? GigaOM helps cut through the hype to present 10 companies we think have interesting products and ideas in the mobile (...)

// iPod touch Is Close, But Still No Contract-Free iPhone

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 22:43

Apple found a way to cram a large number of iPhone 4 features in the new iPod touch: retina display, two cameras with FaceTime support, and the A4 chip. So it’s just like a contract-free iPhone 4 without voice right? Wrong on at least three (...)

// Digg Exec: Sorry About the Bugs, But Glad You Care!

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 21:41

Digg VP of Product Management Keval Desai finally got a chance to breathe today. He put a positive spin on recent events, telling us that Digg is not proud of recent problems, but it’s excited that its new platform allows the company to iterate (...)

// HP Will Pay $2.4 Billion for 3PAR

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 20:56

UPDATED: For months at length, Fremont, Calif.-based storage company, 3PAR could barely get above $10 a share. And then a couple of weeks ago, Dell changed that with a $18 a share offer to buy the company. Now, HP is offering $33 a (...)

// AOL vs. Yahoo: A Tale of Two Search Deals

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 20:19

As AOL renews its existing search partnership with Google for five years, and expands the terms of the deal to include mobile advertising and a YouTube distribution agreement, Yahoo announces that it has lost a lucrative search-advertising deal with NHN, South Korea’s largest search engine (...)

// Sponsor post: Sponsor post: CrowdConf: 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 20:18

CrowdConf: 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work Oct. 4, 2010, San Francisco, Calif. at the St. Regis Hotel We bring together researchers, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars, and artists to discuss the rapidly democratizing and flattening of the global labor (...)

// Twitter for iPad Review: Ahead of the Pack

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 19:15

The folks at Twitter took their time releasing an app for the iPad, but it was time well spent. Having used more Twitter apps than I can count on multiple platforms, this iPad version is better than any of them for following the (...)

// Android Devs Wait Patiently For Profitable Future

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 18:30

Apple’s iOS platform has paid out more than a billion dollars to third-party developers through the iTunes App Store, but such success is yet to be found in Google’s Android Market. Developers tell Bloomberg they still have "high hopes" that Android revenues will come in (...)

// Ping, Facebook Break Up: It Happened Last Night

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 17:50

At one time, Apple and Facebook were best friends forever. It was rumored that Facebook would form the underpinning of what is now Ping. No more — apparently the two companies are not working on Ping together, and consumers are the ones who pay the (...)

// 8x8 Virtual Office Pro Review

Tom Keating’s VoIP Blog - 2 September 2010 at 17:20

8x8 sent me a trial account of 8x8 Virtual Office Pro to review. What is Virtual Office Pro? Think of it as your web-based communications portal handling phone calls (auto-attendant, VoIP), internet fax, hosted conferencing and hosted application sharing. The only missing piece from the (...)

// BuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 16:23

BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytics dashboard that the site uses to monitor the spread of these Internet "memes" to any website, brand or publisher that wants to track the popularity of their online (...)

// Vlingo Adds Voice Check-ins to Foursquare

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 2 September 2010 at 15:17

Vlingo today added voice support to Foursquare on Android handsets, allowing Foursquare users to check in, find friends and send shouts through speech-to-text. Vlingo users can also update their social status in both Facebook and Twitter by using the Vlingo widget and speaking their (...)

// General Admission tickets for #140conf Boston for Students

Jeff Pulver Blog - 2 September 2010 at 14:25

Since 1997, when asked, I have provided access to college students (both Graduate and Undergraduate) to many of the events which I have been associated with. In keeping with this tradition, General Admission tickets for the upcoming #140conf: Boston are now available for the first 250 students (...)

// Forget About 3D TV, I Want My Apple TV

Mark Evans Blog - 2 September 2010 at 13:07

How many rabbits can Steve Jobs pulled out of his magical Apple hat? Since the iPod’s launch in late-2001, Apple has been steadily introducing new and improved products that have transformed it into the world’s most exciting and leading consumer electronics company. The launch yesterday of (...)

// Live Blog: Apple’s Digital Media Event

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 18:59

We’re here at the Yreba Buena Center for the Apple Music event, and for all of you without Apple hardware who can’t see the live stream, we’re going to live blog the thrill, chills and anticipated product releases. So check back for the (...)

// Akamai Powering Apple Live Stream (And I Can Prove It)

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 18:42

Apple has queued up Akamai to power today’s highly anticipated live stream of of product announcements by CEO Steve Jobs in San Francisco. Contrary to reports the company would use its new data center, the stream will be outsourced to Apple’s long-time CDN (...)

// Why Apple’s FaceTime Is a Huge Opportunity

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 17:46

As Apple dissenters are more than eager to tell you, a front-facing camera is nothing new; it’s been available oversears for years. However, Apple did include something with every iPhone 4 they shipped that set it apart from other devices with front-facing cameras: (...)

// Tweet To Win Free Ticket to #140conf: Boston - Today!

Jeff Pulver Blog - 1 September 2010 at 17:23

#140conf Boston is taking place on September 14th. I have 3 tickets to give away today. For a chance to win one of the tickets 1. Tweet out the reason you’d like a free conference pass, in the following format: I’d like to attend #140conf because... 2. Make sure you’re following (...)

// Facebook Credits Are Coming to a Target Near You

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 17:21

Facebook’s virtual currency is making its way into the real world, in a deal announced today with Target. The retail chain will become the first brick-and-mortar retailer to carry Facebook Credits, which will be available via gift cards at the company’s 1,750 outlets starting Sept. (...)

// Holy Smokes! At 5.2 GHz IBM Chip is Super Fast

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 16:31

The z190, a brand new chip from IBM, runs at a breathtaking speed of 5.2 GHz and it is meant to power a new mainframe system that is trying to tame the flow of data emerging from modern enterprises and their customers.

// Alcatel-Lucent Buys “Write Once, Run Anywhere” Platform

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 15:49

Alcatel - Lucent today announced it has acquired Open-Plug, a software provider focused on mobile platforms, for an undisclosed amount. The purchase provides A-L with a cross-platform development framework, similar to Nokia’s Qt, supporting handets running iOS, Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile (...)

// Video: Meet iTunes for Android. It’s Good.

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 15:41

No matter what you think about iTunes, the seamless way it syncs with the iPhone is very convenient. Android phone owners wanting a full-featured program that provides a similar syncing experience should look no further than doubleTwist. It is like iTunes for Android, and it’s (...)

// Orange HD Voice Arrives in the UK-But Growth Hurdles and Solutions Abound

VoIP Watch - 1 September 2010 at 15:20

There’s a revolution going on in voice communications, and it’s all about HD Voice. Today, in the UK, Orange (press release), one of the largest mobile operators in the world unveiled their new HD Voice service that works on a small number of handsets from Nokia and Samsung that move the (...)

// What Agency Should Own Social Media?

Mark Evans Blog - 1 September 2010 at 12:36

As social media becomes a more integral part of many company’s operations, there’s a battle being waged behind the scenes pitting public relations, digital and advertising agencies against each. The prize they’re pursuing is the mandate to help companies create strategic and tactical (...)

// Apple to Live Stream Press Event Tomorrow

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 02:20

For the first time in a long time, an Apple press event will be live-streamed to the public. Tomorrow Apple.com will host a stream of the rumored and expected announcements of a new iPod Touch, iTunes rentals, and an overhaul of the Apple (...)

// FDA has App Stores Under Surveillance

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 1 September 2010 at 00:26

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is actively watching app stores for apps that it deems fill a medical purpose with an eye toward regulating them, according to an attorney specializing in health care issues. Developers should be aware that apps may warrant FDA (...)

// Video: Flash on Android Is Shockingly Bad

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 23:36

Flash has been touted as one of the advantages for Android mobile devices. But how does Flash video perform on handsets running Google’s mobile OS? To find out we asked Kevin Tofel to test Flash video on his Nexus One — and the results are not (...)

// 5 New Features In the Cards for Palm WebOS 2.0

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 23:00

Ever since HP bought Palm in April, many have wondered where the company would take webOS, the innovative mobile platform used on the Palm Pre and Pixi handsets. Today Palm offers a glimpse, sharing several new features you can expect to see in webOS 2.0 (...)

// New Digg CEO Must Grab the Reins and Go

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 22:09

Digg, which is in the midst of a hot-button redesign, has hired a new CEO, long-time Amazon executive Matt Williams, as TechCrunch first reported today and Digg has confirmed to us. Williams was most recently general manager of Amazon’s payments (...)

// VMware Goes Beyond Data Centers to Control the Cloud

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 21:33

Today VMware unveiled new products, new partnerships, and two acqusitions to help it become not just the operating system for the data center, but the means of assuring the flow of enterprise bits between data centers — or what many actually define as the (...)

// Beat the Buzz With a Sneak Peek at Catfish

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 21:14

San Fran residents, are you busy on Thursday, Sept. 9? Because if you’re not, GigaOM and NewTeeVee want to invite you out to the movies to see a sneak preview of Catfish, a documentary that explores online identity, relationships and love in the time of (...)

// Mapping LTE’s Assault on Global 4G Domination

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 19:54

The number of carrier commitments for LTE has jumped 71 percent in the last six months and the world map for potential LTE service is quickly getting full. WiMAX may be used in some areas around the world, but LTE looks to be the global (...)

// Tell Us About the Mobile You

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 19:00

If we know one thing about our readers, it’s that you use the latest mobile phone platforms and newest gadgets, and you have strong opinions about which devices to buy next. Take our mobile survey to help us identify the next big trends in (...)

// AngelList Designates Scouts to Refer New Startup Deals

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 18:16

AngelList, a matchmaking newsletter for early startups and seed investors, has aided funding rounds for some 40 startups since launching earlier this year. Now the service is recruiting a volunteer workforce so it can scale to meet growing (...)

// This Week Is a Coming-Out Party for Android Tablets

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 17:45

After nearly five months of owning the consumer tablet market, Apple’s iPad is about to face its first real competition from optimized tablets running on Android. Samsung will take center stage by introducing their Galaxy Tab slate this week, but others are sure to (...)

// Chartbeat Raises $3M Round For Real-Time Analytics

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 17:24

Chartbeat, which offers real-time website analytics, has closed a $3-million Series A round of financing from a group of VCs led by Index Ventures. This is the first external financing the startup has taken after being founded by betaworks, the venture group/incubator run by John (...)

// Apptio Raises a Cool $16.5M for Enterprise IT

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 16:35

Apptio, a Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company, today said it’s raised a $16.5 million Series C round of funding led by Shasta Ventures, which includes participation from current investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group just a year after the last (...)

// TweetPhoto Renames Itself As It Grows Beyond Twitter

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 15:58

TweetPhoto says it has expanded its features beyond Twitter, to the point where it needs a new name. The company today announced it has changed its name to Plixi, and wants to become a photo-sharing platform for multiple social networks, including Twitter and (...)

// Want to Build Workplace 2.0? Embrace Smartphones.

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 15:00

As employees bring their personal devices to work, corporate information technology departments have an opportunity to embrace the benefits of consumer technology in the form of lightweight and transient enterprise apps aimed at employee smartphones. This will enhance collaboration and usher (...)

// Impressive New Feature Makes Gmail’s Inbox Smarter

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 31 August 2010 at 05:28

Google today is launching a new feature (in beta) for its popular Gmail service — Priority Inbox — which uses machine-learning technologies and marries them to Google’s search capabilities. Some of us might have a near-term solution to handling the backbreaking load of (...)

// Skype for SIP is Now Skype Connect

Tom Keating’s VoIP Blog - 30 August 2010 at 18:03

Today, Skype announced that Skype for SIP is changing its name to Skype Connect. Guess the techie name "SIP" isn’t exactly business-friendly, hence the name change. Today, they are also announcing that hat Skype Connect (formerly Skype for SIP) is officially out of beta. By using Skype Connect (...)

// Skype For SIP Becomes Skype Connect-Takes Aim At Business and Enterprise Markets

VoIP Watch - 30 August 2010 at 17:07

Google is going after consumers with last week’s news about Google Talk being able to make calls now, and binding to GoogleVoice accounts as well. Well Skype isn’t sitting still, so while Google chases the no money crowd, Skype is following Willie Sutton’s line when asked why he robbed (...)

// Idea Paint’s Approach to Social Media

Mark Evans Blog - 30 August 2010 at 13:30

There’s so much talk about social media and the tools that can be used, it’s refreshing to see how a company actually leverages social media to drive awareness and sales. Here’s a video that I discovered in which Marcus Wilson, Idea Paint’s head of marketing, talks about how the (...)

// Is the High-Tech IPO Really Back?

Mark Evans Blog - 29 August 2010 at 15:20

The high-tech IPO is a mysterious beast. It’s attractive, seductive and irresistible. But it’s also fickle, temperamental and not always well-behaved. Still, investors have a difficult time resisting the high-tech IPO even when the fundamentals aren’t solid or even exist. In the coming (...)

// Why Apple Should End Its Fight Against iPhone Jailbreaking

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 28 August 2010 at 19:18

Apple is stepping up its battle against iPhone jailbreakers with an updated version of its mobile operating system and the pursuit of a patent. But in all likelihood, the folks in Cupertino are pouring resources into a battle they shouldn’t be fighting at (...)

// Android This Week: Droid 2; EPIC 4G; Video Smackdown

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 28 August 2010 at 15:00

The parade of new Android smartphones continued this week with the appearance of the Motorola Droid 2 and the Samsung EPIC 4G. This week we reviewed both phones, plus we put them against the EVO 4G in a video smackdown showing the phones going (...)

// Privacy is Hard Because People Change Their Minds

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 28 August 2010 at 01:24

Why is privacy so hard? Sociologist Danah Boyd, who specializes in the way people use online social networks, says in the latest issue of MIT’s Technology Review it’s because "the way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real (...)

// Intel Warns, Wireless is Weak — Is Something Wrong in Techland?

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 28 August 2010 at 00:07

Intel warned that its revenues will be lower than expected in Q3 2010. Add to it tepid forecast from Cisco and slower than expected sales at wireless hardware companies, one has to wonder if the large technology companies are facing a different reality than (...)

// MetroPCS to Win U.S. Race to LTE

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 23:15

Verizon is hard at work to get its LTE high-speed network online late this year, but MetroPCS may be first according to information its LTE network will go live in September. The fifth-largest operator in the U.S. will light up Dallas and Las Vegas next (...)

// Clearwire to Launch Pre-Paid WiMAX Service

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 22:08

Clearwire is expected to announce a pay-as-you-go option for its Clear WiMAX service on Monday according to a form filed with the SEC yesterday. With competitors launching next-generation data networks, Clearwire’s "first to market" advantage is fast going away, so it’s gunning for more (...)

// Why Social Media is Still a Corporate No-Go

Mark Evans Blog - 27 August 2010 at 21:20

I wrote this post for the Sysomos blog earlier this week but wanted to share it with MET readers. For those of us in the social media, digital marketing or online service worlds, social media is pretty much a no-brainer. It’s a new and different way to connect with customers, employees, (...)

// Aydin Senkut on His New Fund & Cultural Changes at Google

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 21:00

Aydin Senkut, an early employee at Google, was the company’s first product manager, then its first head of international sales. He’s has now been an angel investor for four-and-a-half years and recently closed a fund of about $40 million at Felicis (...)

// Google Adds Rohit Khare to Social Team With Angstro Buy

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 20:41

Google has acquired the assets of Angstro and added co-founder Rohit Khare to its yet-to-be-launched Google Me social team, led by Vic Gundotra and Max Levchin. Angstro built tools for users to receive integrated and disambiguated feeds of news and up-to-date contact information from social (...)

// Video: On the Perils of Caring Too Much About Twitter

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 20:03

My favorite web video show, "Jake and Amir," takes on the topic of Twitter users’ ego and insecurity in its latest episode. Good for a giggle on this slow summer Friday (slightly NSFW).

// Fennec Shows Glimpse of Future Mobile Browsing

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 18:45

Mozilla released an updated version of Fennec, its mobile browser for Nokia’s N900 and Google Android devices. Along with improved JavaScript performance, the web client includes Firefox Sync so users can seamlessly have access to bookmarks, passwords and open tabs between the desktop and (...)

// Etsy Raises $20M Led by Index Ventures

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 17:36

Etsy, the "eBay for crafts," has raised a new $20-million round of financing — its fifth — according to several reports, as sales at the user-generated site continue to grow rapidly. The funding round is from a group of venture capital funds led by Index (...)

// Killer Feature of Windows Phone 7? Hint: Not the Phone

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 17:35

Microsoft is expected to spend $400 million or more to push it’s new Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform. Advertising dollars appear to be the last puzzle piece after the company has quietly built a compelling handset platform over the past year, one part at a (...)

// Why Apple’s iTV Needs FaceTime

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 16:00

While there’s excitement over the supposed 99-cent TV show rentals on the new iTV, my belief is that won’t be enough to make iTV a success. There are a few other important things Apple needs to do to make this device more than just its (...)

// GMAIL, GTALK and Google Voice-Not All in Sync

VoIP Watch - 27 August 2010 at 15:03

So this morning I took some time to play around with Google Talk/Mail/Voice and sadly, its not all Central. I’ll give it the credit it deserves. It does a lot but one thing it doesn’t do is SYNC between the mailbox and the voice mailbox. Well, in reality, neither does Google Voice. (...)

// Google Mail Calling - See You Soon

VoIP Watch - 27 August 2010 at 12:23

Google Mail now has calling. For years Google had click to call tied to phone numbers on Google Maps. They’ve had Google Voice and picked up Gizmo. The media world has lit up over the fact that now from inside GMAIL you can make a phone call by clicking a button and up pops a dialing window. (...)

// Facebook to Mentor Y Combinator Startups

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 02:57

Though every street corner in San Francisco seems to house a startup incubator these days, Y Combinator is at the top of the heap. Tonight, Silicon Valley prince Facebook bestowed its endorsement on YC, announcing a relationship with the program to mentor its (...)

// Apple Upgrades iWork, Gives ePub a Boost

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 01:17

Soon, folks who are interested in publishing their content in the ePub format — an open eBook standard — might just develop a taste for the iWork suite, which, using today’s update, makes it simple to export documents in the ePub (...)

// Digg Redesign Met with a Thumbs Down

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 00:41

The new version of Digg, which launched yesterday after more than a year of development, doesn’t seem to be winning many fans. The most popular comments on the site’s relaunch are overwhelmingly negative, and hard-core users have spoken out about their dislike of the new (...)

// Changes in Angel Investing, from a Founder’s Perspective

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 27 August 2010 at 00:16

There’s lots of motion in the ocean in the early-stage investing world. TechCrunch has a write-up on the companies that presented at Y Combinator’s demo day yesterday. I had several of my own thoughts as a startup founder.

// Join NewTeeVee For a Sneak Peek at Catfish!

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 23:35

Hey, San Francisco, let us treat you to a night at the movies! Thanks to Rogue and Universal Pictures, GigaOM and NewTeeVee will be hosting a free screening of the controversial "reality thriller" Catfish on Thursday, Sept. 9 at the AMC (...)

// The iPhone Economy Enables Intuit’s Mobile Payments

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 23:09

Intuit has partnered with mophie to provide a credit card processing solution that uses Apple’s iPhone. The hardware, created by mophie and available today, is aimed at small business owners — especially those who use QuickBooks and are looking for a simple transactional fee (...)

// Groupon Close to Half a Billion Dollars in Sales

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 21:59

Groupon says it expects to end the year with as many as 25 million subscribers and $400 million in sales. Chief operating officer Rob Solomon also says the company’s promotional campaign for The Gap was so successful it has been fielding calls from other national (...)

// MPEG LA: H.264 Streaming Will Be Free Forever

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 20:44

MPEG LA is announcing today that it will continue to offer a royalty-free license for the H.264 video codec for video sites that offer free video streams to consumers "during the entire life of this (l)icense." In other words: H.264 streaming will be free (...)

// Netflix App Arrives for iPhone and iPod Touch!

Tom Keating’s VoIP Blog - 26 August 2010 at 20:17

Netflix for the iPhone and iPod Touch has arrived! You can ditch the Netflix for iPhone & iPod Touch hack I wrote about. You can be legit. It is here my friends! Download it now here. Then sign-in, pick a video, and start watching over Wi-Fi or 3G. One cool feature is Resume. It’s a button at (...)

// Trailmeme and the Web of Intent

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 20:00

The quickened pace of content production and distribution has created a stream of information that we have trouble focusing our attention on, much less our intention. A Web of Intent will require a different interaction with the stream, insisting on active rather than passive (...)

// Sponsor post: Sponsor post: Four Recommendations for a Successful Mobile App Market

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 19:59

Consumers have an insatiable demand for bandwidth-hungry applications, and there are a multitude of challenges in trying to appease them. Researching behaviors through its application enablement program, Alcatel-Lucent has developed a series of four recommendations for network providers on how (...)

// Can RIM Win the Final Showdown With India?

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 18:49

Research In Motion is entering last-ditch meetings with Indian security officials in an effort to meet demands of government access to encrypted communications. But how can RIM provide what it claims to not have — access to security keys for business-run BlackBerry Enterprise (...)

// Trend Micro and Symantec Exhibiting at MSPWorld / ITEXPO

Tom Keating’s VoIP Blog - 26 August 2010 at 18:33

Both Trend Micro and Symantec have announced they are exhibiting at MSPWorld co-located with TMC’s ITEXPO in Los Angeles. I’m a huge fan of both Symantec and Trend Micro. They both make very good antivirus, anti-Spam and Internet security software. Symantec also makes backup software in (...)

// Netflix on iPhone: You’re Gonna Like It

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog - 26 August 2010 at 17:40

Netflix today released its iPhone/iPod touch app that allows subscribers of its video streaming service to get video on their iPhones and iPod touches. Netflix is on a path of diversification away from DVD by emails, as it is betting that streaming is the (...)