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“The Daily Show” Writer Talks Strike on NTV
The Writers Guild of America is on strike, holding back new episodes of TV favorites like “The Daily Show” in protest of their lack of a cut of digital revenues. Yesterday, NewTeeVee spoke with Tim Carvell, one of that show’s writers, at a picket line in Manhattan. Being told their online work is “promotional” just doesn’t cut it anymore, he argued:
We understand that it’s a fairly new technology, but that doesn’t seem to prevent them from promising investors specific dollar amounts that they’re going to make off of it. It didn’t prevent them from valuing their Internet content at $1 billion when they sued YouTube.
Continue reading on NewTeeVee.
Jeff to Nolan: you are fired
One of my favorite people in Silicon Valley is changing course. Jeff Nolan, is leaving Teqlo, after a short stint. He left SAP Ventures to do something else at SAP and then joined Teqlo, a mash-up company. I wrote about the company and still think they are onto something big. Nolan, who is the CEO, however is firing himself.
as the single most expensive employee in the company it really doesn’t make much sense to be paying me when 2 additional engineers would do the company far more in the way of value creation.
Carphone Warehouse, now in the hood
Carphone Warehouse, UK-based mobile phone retail chain, which has made (and lost some of its) name as Talk Talk, a free broadband provider, in the UK is looking to cross the pond and come to the US, to open… a chain of cell phone stores. The company is currently working with Best Buy on a chain called BestBuy Mobiles. Carphone Warehouse, says it will spend about $25 million and open over 200 stores in the US over the next 18 months.
Yahoo Mail, the story behind the mail
You either love it or you hate it. The New Yahoo Mail that is. Check out this interesting story and interesting observations about what went wrong (and right) from a User Experience standpoint with the new Yahoo Mail.
Wanted, a few dozen Mac Geniuses
Apple is looking to hire a couple of dozen Mac Geniuses, for its expanding retail chain network, according to a search on SimplyHired and Indeed.com. The jobs are spread pretty widely, geographically speaking. However the listings are for new locations, like Louisville, Kentucky. The news of an Apple store in Louisville had been reported earlier, but looks like the opening could be a lot sooner.
Meanwhile check out our job board for non-Apple listings. Disclosure: Our job board is powered by SimplyHired.
What really happened at S60 Summit?
Richard Bloor of Symbian One on the recently concluded S60 Summit in Madrid:
Blogging, like reality TV and soap operas, is essentially about living vicariously. The closest an outside observer could get to that, for the S60 Summit, was on flickr where ohl@work and Benoit.darcy were busy. S60 Summit seems to be a PR opportunity lost.
DuggBack into the Digg Trail
Digg fans are getting their own Wayback Machine type mashup for locating lost Digg stories. DuggBack is a site that helps you find removed stories using a mix of mirrors and caches. The service uses the Digg API, and mirror services from DuggMirror, Coral CDN, Wayback Machine and DotCache, and web cache services from Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Ask.
The site has been running live for 4 days now. In the site’s About section creator Torsten Lyngaas writes that the service will be ad supported and that DuggBack was created with no outside funding. Digg recently announced an open API, and has spawned mashups like ‘Who Is Digging You?’. Another geeky tool for Digg’s 1.2 million users!
$100 Laptop, more like $175
Hundred dollar laptop backer Nicholas Negroponte says the laptops will actually cost $175 and will have an options for running Windows. The realities of manufacturing and designing mass market products has set in, but the result is still pretty good, don’t you think? I saw a prototype a few weeks ago, and they ditched the crank now too. Hopefully they keep the wireless mesh.
Google Finance gets tiny upgrades
Google has added ticker symbols on news in Google News. Users who have searched for public companies on Google News can now see the relevant ticker symbol(s) displayed at the end of the news cluster ( example). The ticker leads the user to the corresponding company page on Google Finance with the latest market data, news, blogs and other pertinent company information. Good and valuable addition to Google News.
In the world of DNS servers, US is king
Folks at Pingdom have put together a nice little map of the top 20 DNS servers in the world, and have one conclusion: US is king, with only two of the top 20 DNS servers outside of the US. Interestingly, they point out that DNS servers are pretty evenly distributed on the two coasts, though some other states make an appearance.
It’s common for non-US companies and individuals to host their websites in the US. They do this both for the often more reliable infrastructure and perhaps more importantly to take advantage of the lower price levels offered by US hosting companies.
Meeting, Meeting, when’s the FCC Meeting?
With the FCC set to issue the first set of rules for the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, there was plently of interest in today’s open meeting. However, the monthly FCC gathering, scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. East Coast time, has yet to begin. At 12:30 Calif. time, the live webcast shows a bunch of empty chairs and an FCC spokesperson didn’t offer any details other than they expect to still hold a meeting today. More as we hear more. UPDATE: The FCC just posted a notice saying the meeting will start at 6:45 p.m. From what we hear, negotiations over the 700 MHz rules are to blame for the delay.
Grand Central, now Mobile
It’s not officially announced yet but one-number provider Grand Central now has support for mobile devices, allowing Grand Central users to see their in-box, set preferences, etc., as long as your mobile device supports an Internet browser.
Knowing when to whack it
When do you know it is time to whack an idea that is not working? Entrepreneur’s Dilemma! My latest on Found+READ
For Mac users some backup options
Online storage options for Windows XP users are dime a dozen. Many of the popular ones don’t love the MAC as much. However, today Mozy launched the mac version of its product which according to Web Worker Daily is pretty good, and can compete nicely with existing options such as Carbonite and Titanize. Anne has put together a list of many different options to back-up your data. I personally use Bingo Disk offered by Joyent. It has never failed me, and it is better than carrying around a USB drive, which I lose more often than I light up a cigar - a lot. Last time I checked, it had about 40 gigs of my data, and works almost seamlessly with Mac. Joyent also has some Automator actions that make it easier to use. If you want to try out Bingo Disk, there is a special offer for GigaOM readers. You can get 100 GB of disk available via WebDAV for $199/year and if you do, use the code “gigaom” during the check-out process as Promo Code and you get $20 off the first year.
Terabyte a year for $1000?
PhotoShelter, an online archive and marketplace for professional photographers, is offering one terabyte of redundant storage at a cost of $1,000 per year. You can also get 500 gigabytes of storage space for $600 per year. (Press release.)
Does 3Com Have what Vonage Needs?
In more than one of the discussions we’ve had with folks about the Vonage-Verizon patent fight, there has been out-loud wonderment that some prior art hasn’t yet surfaced to invalidate Verizon’s claims. From VoIP Watch blogger Andy Abramson (and his radio cohort Ken Rutkowski) comes a report from “someone” who claims that a 3Com may be the owner of a patent could help Vonage contest Verizon’s claims. Good reading, and there will be more to follow we are sure!
Hitwise is acquired
Experian Group announced today it had bought online metrics provider Hitwise for $240 million in cash. Hitwise has done an exemplary job of packaging and marketing analytics by hooking them onto relevant happenings on the web.
Google phone rumor, end of 2007?
A report from Digitimes (via Engadget) says the Google phone is coming from HTC, as early as the end of 2007. If that’s really true, I’m not sure which I want more, iPhone or Google phone.
VoIP growing really fast in Argentina
According to Prince & Cooke, over 38% Argentinean companies are now using VoIP based phone services. In comparison, 31.1% were using VoIp three months earlier. The recent number is in sharp contrast to 2004, when only 4.8% were using VoIP
TeleCIS sells mobile WiMAX to Qualcomm
Qualcomm has bought the mobile WiMAX assets of TeleCIS Wireless for an undisclosed sum. Qualcomm tells Unstrung that it bought the company’s engineering resources for its “mobile broadband system knowledge and System On a Chip design experience.” Though, perhaps Qualcomm is also hedging its bet in the WiMAX arena.
AT&T Drops Telecom Italia Bid
OK, maybe Ma Bell will push back from scarfing down that tasty plate of telecom pasta: According to the NY Times, the telecom giant backed down from its previous continental expansion plans Monday, perhaps due to political pressures.
Vonage: There ain’t no Workaround
Vonage apparently confirms what some patent-watchers had guessed — that there is no technical workaround to the patent claims from Verizon that Vonage is alleged to be infringing. More on this one later!
Look, it’s a router in the sky
Cisco and Intelsat are working together to put routers in to orbit, as part of Internet Routing In Space (IRIS) project. The idea is that the U.S. military could use internet protocol for their voice, video and data needs. “IRIS is to the future of satellite-based communications what ARPANET was to the creation of the Internet in the 1960s,” Don Brown, vice president of Hosted Payload Programs for Intelsat General told VNUNet.
San Francisco, Partying Like 1999
Portfolio magazine says party is on … again in San Francisco.
Slide, an unmarked club near the Clift Hotel, is partially owned by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams. Mighty and Vessel are two other nightclubs where Web 2.0 companies’ finest, or at least most ambitious, can be found lounging about to thumping house music. Too old—or too proud—to subject yourself to the once-over by a bouncer? Coffee shops provide a more egalitarian mingling space. Ritual Coffee Roasters, in the Mission District, is practically a conference room for local dot-com employees, while venture capitalists mainline their caffeine at cozy Café Lo Cubano, in Laurel Heights.
Leopard that slipped on the iPhone
Mozilla and eBay building auction extension
Mozilla and eBay apparently have teamed up to build a new auction extension for the Firefox browser. In case you are interested, sign up for their Alpha test. From what I hear, Mozilla partner Glaxstar did the initial work on this extension.
BSNL, Indian incumbents plans a WiMAX network
Indian incumbent BSNL is planning to roll out a giant WiMAX network, once the spectrum policies around WiMAX become clear, reports say. The network could cover a 1000 cities, and the tender should open in July 2007, if Department of Telecommunications gets its act together. Network rollout is seriously aggressive! And as with most incumbent related stories, full of hype and false hope!
Qualcomm Disses Nokia’s $20M
Qualcomm says hell no to Nokia’s $20 million attempted payment in a press release today. Qualcomm says that payment is a fraction of what Nokia agreed to and a fraction of what Qualcomm patent portfolio is worth. Check out our timeline of how the companies reached this state.
Mobio Goes Live
Mobio Networks, a startup with a mobile application for web-based lifestyle content, is officially opening up its service on Wednesday. I’ve checked out the free app at DEMO, which has widgets for movie times, event listings and other info about what to do when you’re out and about. I haven’t been able to download it yet to test it out (they say they are currently stress testing it until the official launch). But soon we’ll check it out, and you can too, assuming you have one of the compatible phones.
Ericsson inks big spare-parts deal with Vodafone
In a deal the companies say is worth millions ( millions! ) of Euros, Ericsson announced Tuesday that it will supply and manage the spare parts needed for Vodafone’s mobile networks. The deal covers both 2G- and 3G-flavored networks, the companies said.
Argentina aims for 4 million broadband lines by 2010
Argentina will end 2007 with 2 million broadband connections and is on target to hit 4 million line target by end of 2010.
NextWave to Buy IPWireless, $100M
NextWave Wireless, the wireless rebirth of Allen Salmasi ’s controversial spectrum-hungry company, said it will spend $100 million in stock and cash on IPWireless, with a total of $135 million based on certain revenue milestones.
Last.fm pushes subscriptions
Updated: Last.fm is now offering pushing ad-free radio for $3 a month, in what is an obvious move to counter the royalty rate increase. Mashable says they have just started offering this premium service. The comments on the Mashable post say the subscriptions have been around for a long time. Okay, now I would like to apologize for the misunderstanding and mis-reporting.
KDDI Plans MVNO in the USA
South Korean SK Telecom has Helio. Now Japan’s KDDI is working on an MVNO for the U.S. market, running over Sprint’s network, and is targeting Japanese customers in the U.S. Hopefully they aren’t investing Helio-type dollars for that small of a target market.