Archive for August, 2009
Twitter’s Massive Growth Spawns Second Web Hosting Facility
Global telecommunications giant NTT Communications Corporation released a rather dry press release earlier about its NTT America subsidiary adding a second data center in the Silicon Valley region of California. What the press release doesn’t explicitly mention is that the expansion has...
No Chinese Handsets on Indian Border – Is The Govt. Proposal Acceptable?
Posted under India on Monday, 31 August 2009 by Anand Srinivasan
The past few years have seen military tension frequently simmer between India and China over border violations, suspicions of military spying, etc. And considering the fact that China has a tight control over the home grown corporations, it comes as no surprise the the Indian Government is wary...
BREAKING: eBay to Announce Deal to Sell Skype
The fate of eBay-owned Skype has been in question for months now. Back in April, it looked as if eBay was going to spin-off the VoIP service as a publicly traded company. Now we’ve learned that Skype will be sold to private investors.
According to the New York Times, eBay will announce a...
First E-Passports, Now E-Birth Certificates?
Recently, in our track on e-governance and the UID, we covered e-passports and a brief article on database aggregation for the UID scheme.
Now, after e-passports comes the time of e-birth certificates. Along with UID in-charge Nandan Nilekani, the Health Ministry is proposing a scheme to give...
Gameyola: Monetization and Distribution for Casual Flash Games
If you’re like me, you can end up killing a lot of time on the web. This holds especially true when I visit Facebook, and it’s often that “killing time” means playing some sort of casual game. Fortunately for our business, I’m not alone.
The Social Gaming Revolution
Across the globe,...
Pretweeting: Twitter Gets a Prediction Market
Think you know what the next hot Twitter trend will be? Now you can put your money where your mouth is.
Prediction markets have been a growing trend in recent year. It is essentially a stock market for future events and decisions. For example, people can buy or sell against a specific occurrence...
In-Flight Wi-Fi: 76 Percent of People Will Change Airlines to Have It
Wi-Fi: probably every reader of Mashable has used it, most of us way too much. Most of the time you can grab it on-the-go or on your mobile phone. But for years there’s one place where you couldn’t access it: in the sky.
That is, until recently. A wave of airlines, including Virgin...
Mighty Healthy x adidas Preview
Posted under Uncategorized on Monday, 31 August 2009 by admin
New York based Mighty Healthy worked with adidas on two pairs of performance footwear styles. An army green/orange basketball sneaker and a white/maroon Lux were done up complete with Mighty Healthy’s “Bad Apple” logo on the tongue. Scheduled for a Spring 2010 release. Limited to...
How Meeting the Walrus Landed a YouTube Video an Emmy
Posted under Entertainment, Google, IPTV, Media, Streaming, VOD, Video, YouTube on Monday, 31 August 2009 by admin
How did an interview recorded 40 years ago win a 2009 Emmy? We have a long gestation time, YouTube, and peace to thank, reports the Observer.
In 1969, then 14-year-old Jerry Levitan made his way to John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto, elbowed a long line of press out of the way and somehow...
Did Kidnapper Tail a Google Street View Vehicle?
Last week the world was speechless when we learned that Phillip Garrido had allegedly kidnapped an 11-year old girl in 1991 and held her captive for 18 years. The details of the case are quite monstrous, but we were even more disturbed when we learned that Garrido maintained a bizarre blog titled...
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