Archive for October, 2008

I often find it quite funny how technology bloggers manage to make absolutely any event or piee of news tech-related if we know that it will be popular among internet users on any given day. So even if we are supposed to write about web services only, for example, we can never refrain from an [...]

There is some piece of bad news in the online advertising revenue field today – and the news seems to be relevant both to traditional and new media outlets. The Newspaper Association of America has reported that online revenue generated by websites of newspapers has finally switched from continuous double-digit growth to devastating fall: financial [...]

LongJump has been very active developing and releasing new features and updates lately and I have had two briefings with the company’s CEO during the last few weeks only. LongJump is a company that offers its customers with a platform twhere they can use and modify the complete range of business productivity applications for basically [...]

On September 23 T-Mobile officially presented the first phone powered with Google’s Android mobile operating system. The phone is scheduled to start shipping on October 22 and T-Mobile has invited existing subscribers to preorder the phone right after the presentation to have it delivered when it is available. Now it looks like arranging for the [...]

Recently TechCrunch has initiated the rumors that eBay may be looking for a potential buyer for StumbleUpon (acquired for $75 million in May 2007) to sell this property for at least the amount it initially paid for it. Of course the blogosphere is actively engaged in various conversation of who could be the right buyer [...]

A week ago, last Friday, Russian carriers and retailers started to officially sell iPhone in Russia so Russian people have been able to officially and legally buy the much-hyped Apple’s device for a week now. But unfortunately Apple can hardly claim any significant success in Russia because of a few reasons with the most aggravating [...]

We have already grown quite accustomed to the fact that all the most interesting things in the web 2.0 industry invariably happen in the Silicon Valley while the rest of the world can only hope to come up with a good startup now and then that will gain traction thanks to a Bay Area investor. [...]

Today citizens of Kazakhstan and even the adjacent Kirgizia for some reason have not managed to access LiveJournal blogging platform entirely. Since both countries are still very much influenced by Russia and Russian culture, LiveJournal is also a very popular blogging platform there same as it is here in Russia so this is an important [...]

Today the hottest topic in the blogosphere is the fact that Apple has finally officially stated the date for its next major announcement where the new laptops by Apple will be shown to the invited reporters, journalists and bloggers. I have decided to summarize everything we already know about the announcement here and some of [...]