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VIDEO GAMES ON-DEMAND FROM ONLIVE ARRIVE IN JUNE
Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman revealed a U.S. launch date of June 17 and a monthly price of $14.95 for his subscription-based, on-demand video game-streaming service. We wrote about OnLive previously... (Continue reading)
SKYPE PULLED FROM NOKIA’S OVI STORE IN THE US, VERIZON WIRELESS TO BLAME?
Skype users that own a Symbian-powered Nokia handset will have to go the extra mile to install Skype on their handset. As noticed following Wednesday’s debut of Skype in the Ovi store, Skype is reportedly not available for Nokia... (Continue reading)
GOOGLE SECURES BROAD PATENT FOR LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING
Google, the world’s largest search engine and the owner of the world’s largest online advertising platform, has been granted a major U.S. patent for “determining and/or using location information in an ad system.” In other words, Google now owns... (Continue reading)
ET TU, NOKIA?
In the US we have a somewhat myopic view of cell phones. ... (Continue reading)
ONCE A YOUTUBE CHALLENGER, VEOH FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY [RUMOR]
Veoh, a video-sharing website that raised around $70 million funding and was at one point a quick growing rival to YouTube, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to a source familiar with the matter. CEO Dmitry Shapiro offered... (Continue reading)
GOOGLE NOW HAS A STREET VIEW SNOWMOBILE
First, there was the Google Street View Car, a special vehicle with a 360-degree camera mounted on top that brings us all that detailed Street View imagery. Then, Google engineers invented the Trike , a tricycle with a camera... (Continue reading)
DISPLAX MULTITOUCH FILM ACTUALLY DEVELOPED BY VISUAL PLANET, FROWNY FACES ALL AROUND
Ready for another dustup in multitouch land ? Turns out that cool Displax multitouch film we saw a few days ago is actually called ViP Interactive Foil, and was developed in 2004 by a company called Visual Planet --... (Continue reading)
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM CONSIDERS T-MOBILE USA IPO
It’s no big secret that Deutsche Telekom hasn’t been very pleased with the performance of its American wireless arm, T-Mobile USA. In September, we reported that the German telecom giant was considering a merger with Sprint — shortly after... (Continue reading)
TESLA TAKES US ON A WILD RIDE
Written on 5 Feb, 2010 at 12:14 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Tesla has been throwing a few curve balls at us lately. Between the almost half-billion dollar government loans, the IPO (which contains a “no Roadsters will be built after 2011″ announcement) and now a right hand drive Roadster being... (Continue reading)
MICROSOFT TO DISCONTINUE XBOX LIVE FOR ORIGINAL XBOX
Written on 5 Feb, 2010 at 12:14 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
It has had long run, but Microsoft announced today that it will discontinue the online game service Xbox Live for the original Xbox game console that it launched in 2001. Xbox Live for the original console debuted in November,... (Continue reading)