adap.tv, a unique online video advertising platform that allows publishers and advertisers to match relevant advertising with online video content, has closed a Series A round of $10 million from new investor Redpoint Ventures and existing investor Gemini Israel Funds, to enhance and expand the company’s product offerings, broaden recruitment efforts, and grow operations. The [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2007
Sprint beats Verizon and AT&T with Managed WWAN Access
Sprint announced a $99/month business service for Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) using a Cisco HWIC card, now available via its business sales channels. The Cisco HWIC card featuring a cdma2000 modem with EV-DO Rev. A fits into the HWIC slots of Cisco 1800, 2800, and 3800 series routers. These routers provide automatic failover between the [...]
Virgin Mobile Sugar Mama gives Free Airtime for Ads
Virgin Mobile‘s Sugar Mama program includes an advertising program that gives subscribers free call time for interacting with ads on their phones. Basically, you spend about a minute listening to an advertisement or filling out an online survey and get a free minute of talk time. There are two ways to earn free minutes with [...]
Tivo brings Amazon.com Internet movies to a TV near you
TiVo announces its customers can now rent or buy movies right from the TiVo box or from Amazon.com and view them on a TV, without requiring a computer. when this service was first announced in February, it required users to select the video on a PC. The “Amazon Unbox on TiVo” service is for customers [...]
Trion World Network raises $30 million in venture capital for Broadband games
Trion World Network, a developer and publisher of games and original entertainment for the Broadband world based in Redwood City, has raised $30 million in venture capital. The round was led by Rustic Canyon Partners, an LA-based VC firm with strong ties to the media and entertainment industry, and includes Time Warner, NBC-Universal, GE, and [...]
What is Ribbit up to?
Ribbit is yet-another startup in stealth mode. According to its web site, Ribbit offers a new way to communicate without the hassle of additional software or hardware, and without having to purchase a new device. Putting voice and choice back into communications…is what Ribbit does. So we now know its some kind of telecom or [...]
Is there a future for Current.tv?
Current.tv, the TV network founded by Al Gore, is the first 24-hour TV network to put user generated videos on TV Channels. These videos, which Current.tv calls VC2 (Viewer-Created Content), are short programs of 3 to 7 minutes called “pods”. About 30% of Current.tv are VC2 pods. Here’s how it works: users upload pods to [...]
iPhone battery replacement program is painful
You probably remember or heard about failing non-replaceable batteries in iPods. It was sorted out only after much bad press and a lawsuit, so this time Apple is being more proactive in announcing an out-of-warranty battery replacement program for the iPhone. This is sorely needed, because unlike an ipod, the iPhone is a communication device, [...]
Jingle’s 1-800-FREE-411 Service on Skype
Jingle Networks, the provider of the free 411 service 1-800-FREE411, is now easily accessible to Skype users in the United States. Skype is a leading Internet VoIP company that is looking to spread its wings and 1-800-FREE411 is a free Directory Assistance service in the U.S. – so this looks like a match made in [...]
