Archive for October, 2008

BidCal is an interesting new tool that has just been released by Calgoo Software, the company behind Calgoo, a very nice web calendaring solution that synchronizes all your calendars on all your devices, desktop and online and allows you to share calendars with your friends or family if they use a different calendaring solution. Now [...]

Contrasting to Apple’s impressive results of the 4th quarter announced today, Yahoo has also announced results of its 3rd quarter – and these results are far from impressive with net revenue dropping by 64%. In the 3rd quarter of 2008 Yahoo generated $54 million of net income which is definitely terrible compared to $151 million [...]

Today Apple has announced financial results of the 4th quarter and they are better than the Wall Street analytics predicted: with 6.9 million iPhones sold and Mac sales at all times high it could hardly be better. The revenue announced is $7.9 billion and net profit is $1.14 billion. The quarterly revenue announced today brings [...]

Yesterday evening we saw a number of publications discussing the fact that the number of applications in the Android Market was suddenly reduced from more than 50 to only 13 – with only two days left until the first Android powered device, T-Mobile G1, starts shipping on Wednesday. There were a few theories for why [...]

Last week we reported that T-Mobile had a nice surprise for the T-Mobile subscribers who preordered the G1 phone before it starts shipping officially this week by delivering the phones earlier than the customers hoped. It is understandable that many such customers anticipated the delivery in excitement. But now the blogosphere is abuzz something that [...]

Today we hear yet another piece of news that may seem to be depressing for all the tech-savvy people as Steve Rubel speaks about a new Forrester Research report on the state of RSS (available for download for $279). The main conclusion of the report is that RSS technology is still very far from going [...]

Last week I had a chance to speak with the team at Artiklz, a San Francisco based startup that is officially debuting in public alpha tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. The startup works in the blog commenting field and the first thing I thought was that the field was over-saturated already and [...]

YouBundle is a new startup that is launching publicly today at the i-stage – the contest where the prize for the best application or gadget is a booth at CES to showcase the technology to the general public. Like the name suggests, YouBundle is about collecting things – this time things from around the web, [...]

Do you ever think it is strange how eagerly we, bloggers, distribute rumors that have nothing to do with reality when we want to believe this or that particular prediction to be true? Whenever we get some new rumor initiated – be it a blogger seeking to get some extra popularity and hoping that the [...]