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World’s First Global Mobile Phone
The following is a story/review from the NY Times that I think is exceptionally note-worthy. This small company is about to revolutionize communications all over again, and we are able to bear witness and follow along as it happens. I will be keeping close tabs on Cubic in the future, so stay tuned. Hopefully […]
By Tom Foremski for Silicon Valley Watcher
FAST Search and Transfer, the leading European search firm, introduced a search based business platform for media companies and said that search traffic from its customers has surpassed Yahoo! and will overtake Google in 2 years.
The Norwegian based company said its FASTMedia software platform is the first to match […]Bloomberg.com: News
By Jonathan Thaw
Facebook, the second-most popular social networking Web site, will work with Comcast Corp. to encourage users to create video diaries for the Internet and for cable television.
Users will be able to contribute and share videos on Comcast’s Ziddio Web site starting in March, Facebook said today in a statement. Comcast, the biggest […]‘Hacker. Dropout. CEO.’ That is how one recent article described Mark Zuckerberg, the 22 year-old CEO and founder/creator of Facebook. They forgot Genius. Born and raised in a small town in New York state, he began programming computers in 6th grade. A pivotal point in his life came during high school, when he transferred […]
Reuters news service has a virtual island in the 2nd life game now, along with a virtual reporter, Adam Reuters, the “first full-time virtual reporter.” Celebrity and CEO interviews are held in the virtual world and news is, well, news… only about a different reality.
Video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSmZAqL6tQ[/youtube]Ashar Kazi
University of British Columbia
Only a few hours ago, I found my cousin (the name of whom shall not be disclosed) in a desperate quest to generate some money from a virtual game called “Second Life”. This virtual platform, allows you not only to invest your ‘real’ money - ie: convert your (earth) money to […]