mobile Microsoft to Acquire Mobicomp: Watch for These Cool Mobile Features Microsoft announced this morning that it plans to acquire Portugese mobile application company Mobicomp, makers of some very cool mobile tools that we're excited to get our hands on. Microsoft watchdogs Liveside saw the news first and have a good description of the Mobicomp offerings, which we'll discuss below. One thing's for sure, though… Mobile Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News ICANN Proposes Sweeping Changes to TLDs The Wall Street Journal reports that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is considering sweeping changes to the way top-level domains (TLDs) are assigned. Under this newly proposed plan, any organization could apply for any top-level domain (ICANN calls these new domain names generic TLDs). Google, for example, could get… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Features YouTube Continues to Destroy All Competitors in Declining Video Market YouTube's huge lead in market share over other online video sites continues to get bigger, even as the over all video viewing market continues a decline. According to traffic analysts Hitwise, YouTube now sees 75.43% of traffic to the online video category; that's up 26% from it's May 2007 marketshare of 59.95%. The nearest competitor is still… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Features Xobni, Xoopit, Gmail Labs: Inbox Addons Are Getting Hot Earlier this year, we covered the launch of Xobni, an inbox add-on for Microsoft Outlook. This application is designed to tap into the hidden social network everyone uses: their inbox. More recently, another inbox addon called Xoopit came onto the scene. This one is for your Gmail inbox and provides a way to find files, photos, videos...and… Sarah Perez View comments
Analysis Yet Another Unsolicited Yahoo Turnaround Strategy - YAUYTS Watching Yahoo's decline is rather sad. If you take any pleasure watching it, you must've enjoyed a weak kid getting beat up by a couple of bullies in the schoolyard. Yahoo's decline is the result of nothing more or less than creative destruction. Meeting that challenge head-on is incredibly tough. Very, very few companies make the transition. IBM… Bernard Lunn View comments