Monthly Archives: February 2009
Qualcomm Acquires Digital Fountain
Mobile company Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) has bought IPTV and mobile video company Digital Fountain (DF). Digital Fountain is located in Fremont, Calif. DF stated by providing technology to national defense companies and then moved to mobile devices. One of DF’s most popular products is the DF Raptor. The Raptor allows mobile devices to send digital media over CDNs.
DF’s customers include Cisco, Sirius XM, Sony, Nokia, Adobe, etc. Qualcomm will keep seven key engineers on board from the company to maintain support for DF’s customers. The team will be moved to Qualcom’s Santa Clara, Calif. officers. Mike Luby, a DF founder and the former CTO, will report to Qualcomm’s CTO Roberto Padovani.
[via paidContent]
Categories Digital Fountain, Mike Luby, Qualcomm, Roberto Padovani
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PowerBook Formerly Owned By Woz Sells For Only $800
An Apple PowerBook G4 17″ with 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard drive just sold on eBay for $800. However, this is no ordinary laptop. It used to be owned by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
“In January of 2006, Snaggy and I travelled to Macworld to appear on David Pogue’s keynote show. We arrived in California a few days early, and spent that time at our friend Steve Wozniak’s house. Steve had just bought a new Powerbook, and was selling his old one, so we jumped at the chance to buy it from him, knowing that one, it would be awesome machine in great shape, and two, that it would have that little bit of history tied to it, in that it was once owned by the inventor of the Apple computer!” wrote the seller of the computer.
The computer even put a dent in the thing himself. Nice job devaluing the product being sold by a company you cofounded, Woz!
[via TechE] [eBay Listing]
Categories Apple Inc., eBay, Steve Wozniak
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Vista FAIL! 46,368 Days To Copy 1.45GB?
Some humor pulled from Digg. 46,368 days translates into 127 years.
Categories Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Vista
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Ilshat Garipov Designs A Trendy-Looking Bluetooth Headset
Ilshat Garipov has put together this Bluetooth headset that looks more like an earring or an ornament. Ilshat took inspiration for this device from a water droplet. This Bluetooth device has one button for turning it on and off.
[via YD]
Categories Ilshat Garipov
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Meet The Robotic Floor Motion Detector
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba has designed a way to enhance the virtual reality experience by creating a robotic floor motion detector. Check out the video above.
[via Engadget]
Categories University of Tsukuba
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What A Red Nokia E55 Looks Like
Mobile@mail.ru has received an exclusive hands-on test for the Nokia E55. More pics can be viewed by clicking on the image.
Categories Nokia, Nokia E55
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Best Buy To Start Selling Brammo Entertia Electric Motorcycle
Yeah, that’s right. Best Buy will start selling a $12,000 electric motorcycle. Brammo HQ, the manufacturing company of the Enertia motorcycle received an investment from Best Buy last year. The $11,995 bike will be available at 5 Best Buy stores on the west coast in May.
[via Autoblog Green]
Categories Best Buy, Brammo Entertia, Brammo HQ
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Nokia 1600 Found Still Functional In A Fish’s Stomach
Andrew Cheatle was on a boat and his phone fell out into the sea. It turns out that a 25 lb. cod fish ate the phone. One week later, Cheatle’s girlfriend received a phone call from a fisherman saying that he found the phone in the fish. The phone was still functional even after that journey.
“I was messing about with my dog and my phone must have fallen out and been swept out in the swell. I kept calling it but I gave up hope after a couple of days,” stated Cheatle in an interview with The Sun UK.
Cheatle and his girlfriend were shopping for a new cellphone when the phone rang.
“I thought he was winding me up but he assured me he had caught a cod that morning and was gutting it for his fish stall and that my Nokia was inside it — a bit worse for wear,” stated Cheatle. “I didn’t believe him but went to meet him and found it was my phone — a bit smelly and battered — but incredibly it still worked after I let it dry out.”
Categories Nokia, Nokia 1600
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How To Make Meeting Speakers and Comedians Feel Awkward
For $6.99 you can make a speaker at a meeting feel awkward after telling a bad joke by using this cricket sound generator. This also works well for a comedian that isn’t doing to well on stage. Sure it is mean, but people in the audience will love it. Its available now on CoolStuffExpress.com.
[via NA]
Categories Coolstuffexpress.com
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Yahoo! Paid $79 Million To Financial Advisors Last Year
Last year Yahoo! paid about $79 million to outside financial advisors when they needed help with the Microsoft deal. The advisors were also paid for “other strategic alternatives, including the Google agreement.” As all of you know the Microsoft and Google deal both did not work in Yahoo!’s favor whatsoever.
Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers were the advisers at the time. Lehman’s investment arm is now a part of Barclays capital Plc. This was revealed in a report with the SEC. About 5 separate lawsuits were made against Yahoo! last year that were related to Microsoft’s bid offer.
[via Reuters]
Categories Microsoft Corporation, Yahoo!
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