DEMO: Voxofon Ambit to help parents protect kids using cell phonesMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Voxofon is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Despite the ever-increasing ubiquity of cell phones these days, many parents still have issues giving their children cellphones. Voxofon, a company most famous for its VoIP offerings, has another product called Voxofon Ambit — cell phone software that will give parents control over what services their kids use, and who they can talk to. [...] Read more |
Roxio CinemaNow scores next-day web publishing rights for new TV showsMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology The Roxio CinemaNow business of Sonic Solutions has scored a coup in the right to distribute TV show episodes on the web the day after they air. The deal with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution gives Roxio CinemaNow an expanded library of premium content that it will sell on its web-based video service for $1.99 per show. Technically speaking, Sonic has secured Electronic Sell Through rights for distributing standard definition and high definition versions of popular TV shows. Shows include in the deal include Fringe, Human Target, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, The Bachelor, The Closer, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Two and a Half Men, and Past Life. [...] Read more |
Proof that video games are a universal language: Iranian team creates a gameMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Video games are having an unquestionable influence on culture around the world. The Swiss have moved to ban violent video games altogether. But gamers are like the critters in a round of “whack a mole.” They just keep popping up in unexpected locations. A 20-member team in Tehran has created a game, Garshasp the Monster Slayer, which launches soon on the PC and has drawn international praise. It’s a fantasy game that draws upon Iranian myths, putting the player in a Persian world where he or she must solve puzzles and slay monsters called “deevs,” according to a story in the Washington Post. [...] Read more |
Proof that video games are a universal language: Iranian team creates a cool gameMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Video games are having an unquestionable influence on culture around the world. The Swiss have moved to ban violent video games altogether. But gamers are like the critters in a round of “whack a mole.” They just keep popping up in unexpected locations. A 20-member team in Tehran has created a game, Garshasp the Monster Slayer, which launches soon on the PC and has drawn international praise. It’s a fantasy game that draws upon Iranian myths, putting the player in a Persian world where he or she must solve puzzles and slay monsters called “deevs,” according to a story in the Washington Post. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Supercool School wants to be the Ning of online educationMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Supercool School is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Supercool School, which allows anyone to create an online learning environment for which they can charge students, says it has a $450 million dollar total addressable market opportunity in the U.S. alone, with over two million potential customers. Supercool founder Steli Efti told me what he’s trying to create is the Ning of Education, allowing anyone to build their own educational site. [...] Read more |
To Space and Beyond: The Rise of Research-driven Cloud ComputingMonday, March 22, 2010Source: GigaOM | Category: Media For many workloads, the cloud appears to be replacing the grid. Space agencies in particular are using the cloud to do work that likely would have had the word “grid” written all over it just a few short years ago. Read more |
The applications market lacks transparencyMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Apps will get special attention this week at the International CTIA Wireless 2010 show in Las Vegas. But aside from the lavish praise on this mobile channel, it is time to call for some critical scrutiny.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/o4kNACeubNg" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
VH1 to raise money for Operation Smile with mobile giving campaignMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile VH1 teamed up with Operation Smile to promote its new reality show and encourage consumers to raise money for the organization.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/H0ciTsP70Wg" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
What payment options do retailers have for mobile sites, apps? - Mobile Commerce DailyMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Mobile Commerce Daily today - What payment options do retailers have for mobile sites, apps? Arkansas.gov offers mobile payments for eGovernment servicesimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/Y6XlLh727YI" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Chicago court rules Telephone Consumer Protection Act applies to SMSMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile A federal district court in Chicago recently held that SMS messages that are sent to consumers without their consent could violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/8qSynicShTo" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
Targeting the urban, multicultural consumer via mobileMonday, March 22, 2010Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile Considering the urban and multicultural segment over-indexes in mobile media more than 150 percent above the general market, brands and marketers should target this demographic.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/atj3bcZSsfE" height="1" width="1"/ Read more |
DEMO: Restaurant 2.0 reservation system challenges OpenTableSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology BlueSkies is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. With OpenTable’s successful IPO last year, the restaurant reservation market has a clear leader. But a startup called BlueSkies Hospitality Management Systems says it’s launching something better with a service called Restaurant 2.0. Restaurant 2.0 will supposedly allow restaurants to take reservations from their own websites while collecting data for their customer marketing systems. [...] Read more |
DEMO: GlideTV launches What’s On channel for web videos on TVSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology GlideTV is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Last fall, GlideTV launched a cool wireless touchpad that serves as a remote control for people who want to hook their computers to their TV sets. Now it’s announcing a new software application that makes it easy to watch and find movies on the web. The new What’s On feature aggregates a lot of web videos in a single channel that users can browse to discover movies and video. [...] Read more |
Social Sites Lure Users Around the ClockSunday, March 21, 2010Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics Nearly one-half check statuses in bed Read more |
Top E-Mail Subject Lines Focus on ‘You’Sunday, March 21, 2010Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics Marketers try for personal connection with recipients Read more |
DEMO: MightyMeeting keeps your A-game close, your Powerpoint closerSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology MightyMeeting is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Where professionals once had overflowing filing cabinets and oversized atache cases for presentation graphics, we now have overflowing inboxes and cloud storage. One problem remains the same: How do you find what you need when you need it? The world is mobile and you may have to deliver in 10 minutes or less. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Gwabbit creates a universal contact list in the cloudSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Gwabbit is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Gwabbit has been steadily expanding its solutions for automating the tedious job of collecting and entering your contact information. It has just creaded Gwab-o-sphere, which the company calls the first automatic contact cloud. The service is akin to a universal remote control for all of your contacts, synchronizing the contacts you have across your phones and social networks. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Widgetbox’s ClickTurn Ad Builder marries rich ads and real-time webSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology WidgetBox is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Rich real-time media, from video ads to Twitter feeds, is pushing aside the old banner ad. But advertisers and publishers don’t have an easy way to create rich media ads quickly. That’s why San Francisco-based Widgetbox has created ClickTurn Ad Builder, which turns the creation of rich media ads into a self-serve automated process. [...] Read more |
DEMO: Airset brings cloud computers to groups and individualsSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology Airset is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Cloud computing is a hot topic these days, but it usually refers to individual cloud-based applications like Gmail. Airset aims to take the notion a step further by offering individuals and groups cloud computing environments which contain multiple cloud-based applications. By networking these cloud computing environments, the company believes it can help organize your life. [...] Read more |
DEMO: MagInify Call Center can detect customers’ moodsSunday, March 21, 2010Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology eXaudios is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective. Today there are over 150,000 call centers with an average of 80 employees each. Call centers are important not only for customer retention, but for product management. Callers carry the keys to future sales, whether they know it or not. eXaudios’ MagInify (that’s not a typo, that’s “MagInify”) call centers can supposedly detect these elements in a phone call: The customer’s underlying emotional state. [...] Read more |
