Mashable!:
The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. The 70,000+ nominees have been narrowed down to just 5 finalists per category, and you have from now until December 15th to pick the winners.By popular demand, here is the full list of (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
CAIRO — Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.Egyptian fans – and the country's media – have been thrown into a frenzy over reports that Algerians attacked and (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
China Mobile is pinning its hopes on new 3G services such as mobile television and mobile readers to drive growth as it faces increasing competition and falling voice revenue. (Read More)
Search Engine Land:
Yahoo has decided to discontinue its “Go” mobile app. Go was originally part of a larger “three screen” strategy that included TV and mobile delivery of Yahoo content. The Go app was intended as a way to have a richer, self-contained experience on mobile devices. But that strategy has given way to a “Yahoo for [...].... (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Bill Stone, president of FLO TV, talks about mobile TV handheld from Dean Takahashi on Vimeo.Bill Stone, president of Qualcomm’s FLO TV division, is making a huge bet that users won’t mind paying for mobile TV subscriptions for shows that they can view on tiny screens.Stone said that Qualcomm has collectively invested more (Read More)
Engadget:
Ready for yet another way to watch TV? Sezmi has just gone on the air in Los Angeles, offering its unique blend of premium OTA and internet delivered video to a few limited trial users. $5 a month brings whatever local networks you can pull in, basic IPTV (YouTube, OnNetworks, podcasts) and internet VOD (CinemaNow) access, (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Let’s kick off the week on a positive note: innovative startups in the U.S. continue to attract capital from investors, and in turn are doing their part to counter the trend of the rising unemployment rate in the country.Evernote, an information capturing service provider, recently closed a $10 million round while personal (Read More)
Mashable!:
How strong is the Zune brand? Outside of the US the Zune HD player simply isn’t available, which makes the Zune a very tiny blip on the radar. Xbox, on the other hand, is pretty big. So for most customers outside of the US, the fact that Xbox 360 is getting instant on-demand movie streaming – the service is now rebranded as (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
The Qualcomm FLO TV is a nifty little device. It plays TV content on a 3.5-inch screen, which could be great for some. But you have it’s $8.99 a month for the service and pay the $249.99 initial cost. And it results in yet another mobile device for you to carry even though your smartphone can playback videos.Six months of t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
OnLive showed today that its upcoming server-based gaming service works not only on computers, but also on cell phones.At a demo at the Wedbush financial conference in New York, OnLive chief executive Steve Perlman showed that OnLive could work simultaneously on two iPhones, a TV, and a computer. All four devices had access (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There's not much to make you storm the doors at 6am here, but saving $80 bucks or so on an Acer Aspire One (AOD250-1165) seems decent. A couple of HP laptop deals here, too. The Canon PowerShot SD780IS and TomTom Go 630GPS also caught my eye at first, but you can pretty pick them up at those prices already if you shop aroun (Read More)
Engadget:
Look, we fully understand that someone, somewhere put a lot of time and effort into designing a $250 handheld that does nothing but watch pixelated mobile TV for a lofty per-month price, but seriously, there has to be better uses of one's time. The 3.5-inch FLO TV Personal Television is on sale today at Amazon, Best Buy and (Read More)
Gizmodo:
There's not much to make you storm the doors at 6am here, but saving $80 bucks or so on an Acer Aspire One (AOD250-1165) seems decent. A couple of HP laptop deals here, too. The Canon PowerShot SD780IS and TomTom Go 630GPS also caught my eye at first, but you can pretty pick them up at those prices already if you shop aroun (Read More)