The first quarter of 2009 wasn’t just a dry one for venture-backed exits, very little money went into the coffers of VC funds as well. According to data released today by the National Venture Capital Association, only 40 funds raised new money during the quarter, down from 71 the year before (1Q08) and 47 [...]
Big business — the so-called enterprise market — overwhelmingly skipped Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Vista, with 71% of all big corporations still chugging along on the aging but functional Windows XP more than two years after Vista launched. Will they rush to Microsoft’s next OS, Windows 7?
That’s looking unlikely — or at least a slower process [...]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
Former TUAW blogger Erica Sadun has a cautionary post for developers regarding the pending push notifications coming to iPhone OS 3.0: better get yourself some reliable servers. The implication, delivered via headline, is that smaller developers won’t be able to afford push notification. Indeed, as Erica [...]
You know when you’re talking about a subject you’re really passionate about and you start to head down a dangerous path? In the back of your mind, you know it’s going to come back and bite you in the ass but you don’t care at that particular moment because you’re so intoxicated with said passion… [...]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced in January that he was taking a medical leave of absence until June of this year. At the time he promised to “remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out,” and the latest information from “people familiar with the matter” indicates Jobs is doing just that.
According to unnamed [...]
Once again, the gang at Brionvega prove that sometimes sexy is enough. The Italian company’s been doing its thing since the 1940s, and this radio is actually a refresh of a model that first debuted in 1965. The RR227 (as it’s affectionately known) is pretty starightforward — an AM / FM tuner that sports an [...]
So I was in Prague for the weekend together with CrunchGear’s John Biggs, in an effort to learn more about the Czech tech scene first hand. The organizer of the event, dubbed PragueCrunch, was Jack DeNeut from Nelso, an American who has been living there for the past 16 years and is extremely well connected [...]
We’ve always known mobile barcodes are big in Japan, but on a vacation in Paris, we saw some there, too.
Here’s how they work: Web-connected phone users take a picture of the barcodes, phone software reads the code and does something like send that user a coupon or directs them to a Web site.
They haven’t quite [...]
Every so often an interesting story surfaces that has regrettably been passed over. One such story is the case of the Palm Touchstone, the wireless charging dock for the upcoming Palm Pre. During CTIA, tnkgrl was getting briefed on the Pre by a Palm marketing manager when he let it slip that the Touchstone is [...]
This week’s hoopla over at the Federal Communications Commission focused on the launching of a Notice of Inquiry that is seeking comment on a National Broadband Plan, which the agency must produce for Congress by February of 2010. “If we do our job well,” interim FCC Chair Michael Copps told an Open Commission [...]
