In Pakistan, researchers have developed a new Vuze-based client named ‘BitMate’ so downloading a movie over a dial-up connection in a few hours is possible. In developing countries, wireless hotspot is a dream, Wi-Fi is expensive, broadband is a possibility and dial-up is available. To use download clients such as uTorrent or BitTorrent, the speed [...] (Continue reading)
Y-Combinator startup ‘TellFi’ was launched today hoping to provide companies with internet-based phone system, much like the ‘Google Voice’. Founded by Jason Corwin and Conor Lee, the phone system will provide firms with a calling system that features multi-phone forwarding, voicemail transcription, individual extensions, toll free numbers and a support system. All this sounds like [...] (Continue reading)
Motorola has sued TiVo Inc. over infringement of copyrights for DVR (Digital Video Recorders). The lawsuit was filed on Friday with Motorola Mobility stating that it had a right to protect the interest of Motorla’s technology or better Imedia’s which Motorola acquired back in 1995. A spokesman from Motorola said “TiVo is attempting to assert [...] (Continue reading)
LinkedIn in now unblocked in China and users are reporting it’s restoration, the company says they ‘will monitor the situation’. Two days back, on Thursday users in China reported that LinkedIn, the social/business networking site wouldn’t open. At that point it seemed very unclear what the cause was; whether it was censorship from the government [...] (Continue reading)
ews Corp is looking to sell MySpace, a source familiar with the situation said there were some 20 companies that have shown interest in the social media site that is quickly losing footing amongst the competition. Reuters, the news agency has reported earlier that Allen & Co were asked by News Corp to assist them [...] (Continue reading)
British Broadcasting Corporation and Agency France Press have reported that Libya’s government has started to block access to internet in their capitol of Tripoli as well as other regions in response to protests from the public. Scott Julian, CEO of Effective Measure gave a confirmation to TechCrunch that internet was indeed was limited in the [...] (Continue reading)
Nordstorm, a retail chain has bought HauteLook designer sales site for $270 mil in stocks and funds. Launched in 2007, HauteLook grew very fast; with 4 million users the site offered heavily discounted sales in men, women, kids clothing, travel, accessories, toys, home, beauty you name it. Designers such as Versace would place these sales [...] (Continue reading)
Sony was able to launch their music streaming service called ‘Music Unlimited Powered by Qriocity’ in the states on Thursday. The service can be used view Sony Bravia TVs, Blu-ray Home Theater Systems, Blu-ray players, Playstation 3 and of course via the website music.qriocity.com. The service is offered via a monthly subscription of Basic Plan [...] (Continue reading)
Chief Executive of Intel Corp. Paul Otellini has confirmed at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona that people will be seeing Intel based cell phones this year. Rumor mill began over year back that Intel was not going to stick to PC world only and that it was going to branch out, but up [...] (Continue reading)
The email usage of a quarter million corporate email users point out that 48.5 percent of small-scale corporation users who check emails from their Smartphone are now using an iPhone to do so. According to The Associated Press, these results were concluded by Intermedia, the world’s biggest provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange email accounts. Intermedia says its [...] (Continue reading)