Mar 16, 2009

ReadWriteWeb IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a news article in the Economic Times today.Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP), a protocol designed to seamlessly connect telephony voice applications (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

Submitted by Boston Dave: If you are into web design, 3D interactive, game development or just 3D modeling; this is one cool site for you to check out. Watch the whole thing. (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

ReadWriteWeb In a recession, budgets are tightened, jobs are cut, and those who remain are expected to do more with less. Given this type of economic reality, it's surprising to hear of an industry reporting an increase in spending on anything, much less on something as new as social media. Yet that's exactly what's occurring. According (Read More)

Mar 15, 2009

Submitted by Jazzjeppe from Twitter: Is the real-time stream on Facebook working for you?. (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

"Boston Tech" via BostonDave2005 in Google Reader Boston-Power Inc., a Westborough-based provider of Lithium-ion batteries, said its Sonata battery technology is available to notebook computer customers of Hewlett-Packard Co.New HP batteries based on Sonata technology are available as accessories for 18 existing notebook models representing about 70 percent of HP's con (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

"Boston Tech" via BostonDave2005 in Google Reader Quattro Wireless said it has raised an additional $10 million in Series C funding.The Waltham company, which operates a mobile advertising network, said the round was led by venture capital firms Highland Capital Partners and Globespan Capital Partners.Highland has an office in Lexington. Globespan has an office in Boston.T (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

"Boston Tech" via BostonDave2005 in Google Reader Mobile, Advertising, VC Wade Roush wrote: Quattro Wireless of Waltham, MA, announced today that it has raised $10 million in new venture funding to help expand its mobile content and advertising network. Despite the withering economy, Quattro hit a “hockey stick” in customer acquisition and revenue growth in late 2008 (Read More)

Mar 15, 2009

TwitLinks There are a few established players in the world of Twitter directories. We have covered several directories, including Twellow and Just Tweet It , as well as compared Twitter directories based on their usefulness. But after this weekend, they may find themselves struggling against a new competitor. (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

social|median Since being acquired by XING in December 2008, the socialmedian team has been busy working on a number of very important strategic product initiatives which will be launched over the course of this spring. In the coming months we'll be launching a series of new features both on socialmedian and on XING.We're rolling out th (Read More)

Jan 06, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider START HERE The venture capital industry is getting hammered by the stock market collapse. IPOs are choked off, and the M&A market is sick, too. Worse, advertising dollars are shrinking just as a whole generation of Web 2.0 companies expecting to live on "advertising" need to start generating revenue.So VCs were idiots to (Read More)

Dec 29, 2008

CBS George Francis, the nation's oldest man, who lived through both world wars, man's first walk on the moon and the election of the first black president, has died. He was 112. . (Read More)

Jan 07, 2009

ReadWriteWeb In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic structured information. Who is Bill Clinton's wife? What's the capital city of Oregon? What is Britney Spears' mother's na (Read More)

Jan 07, 2009

Submitted by Adityakelkar2000: Satyam chief Raju quits Satyam Computer Services chief Ramalinga Raju, in a letter to its board of directors, lists major financial wrong-doings over the years to inflate profits saying his last-ditch efforts to fill the "fictitious assets with real ones" through Maytas acquisition failed. (Read More)

Jan 05, 2009

TwitLinks By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Getting started with social media, whether for personal or professional use, requires learning the basic fundamentals. Social media is more than just creating a blog or Twitter account. The tools are great and give us big advantages, but they are simply extensions (Read More)

Jan 06, 2009

social|median We launched a new feature today on socialmedian, "News Flash" -- it will be fun to see where this one goes and how it develops based on user feedback.Disclosure: We're pretty darn excited about this one! The foundation for the News Flash feature came from user requests to make it more meaningful to be a Newsmaker on (Read More)

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