Looks like the once famed technology magazine, Red Herring has at last found peace as the site has been down for some time. The rumors got out at Twitter from its former employee. Apparently the site shows a Network Timeout and additional sources say this is due to non-payment, we aren’t sure but if there’s anyone who has some news please share.
Archive for January, 2009
If Microsoft has plans of launching Windows Mobile 6.5 at the coming Mobile World Mobile and it’s anything similar to what the image above shows, they better keep it to themselves. There are a few features that are of interest, like the finger friendly navigation bar that makes things easier but then the screen captures speak volumes against the quality one expects from Microsoft. I don’t think any modern smartphone would like such an ugly operating system mutating its beauty. When I last said that Windows Mobile is not yet dead I really did mean it, but little did I realize that it will definitely fade out after this.
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Looks like T-Mobile isn’t worried about its low subscriber growth in the fourth quarter, given that the Android G1 didn’t actually score as had been anticipated. The carrier is focusing at bringing in more HTC G1s for the world as Neville Ray confirms. This was confirmed this at FierceWireless, stating further:
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Zazzle is set to reduce its workforce by 15% to cut short its expenses. The major cuts were made in its corporate office that numbered to as much as 30 out of its 110 employees. Zazzle is an online store where users can order decorated clothing and numerous other objects. Although the company has seen healthy growth but it costs had to be reduced in order to cope pressure in the current year that is predicted to be bad.
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Reports are coming in that the Wall Street Journal will be making more cuts to its workforce over next week. The numbers aren’t fixed but chances are they will be close to 50. The Journal had previously axed the same number of employees, although it has been least impacted compared to the rest of the print media. Anyone with more clues?
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Given Facebook’s global reach, the social networking giant is a heaven for advertisers but somehow it just lags. The reason these advertisers give is Facebook isn’t serious enough. Apart from that the other factor is that Facebook’s management is comprised of youngsters and it appears Facebook is concerned about the matter as it’s boosting is sales department by hiring for more than 34 positions. I hope that boosts its sales force enough to bring in advertising revenue.
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After being out of the smartphone sector for over a year, rumors are ringing of Dell’s smartphone. According to reports engineers at Dell are exercising their brains to put out the PC makers mobile device. Also their are indications that it will be working on two models, one without a keyboard and the other with a sliding one. What operating system will Dell’s devices run on?
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After continuing to be pretty slow at spreading out its IM Client, Meebo has finally pushed the accelerator. The client went live on Piczo, a social site that’s pretty hit with youngsters as well as announcing plans of partnering with a few more sites. Previously it had only been integrated at Wadja, Zorpia and Flixster scoring success with users. It remains to remains to be seen how much will these sites add to Meebo’s already massive userbase of over 45 million users.
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SocialMedia, a social network advertiser grabbed $6 million from IDG Ventures along with participation from existing investors, Charles River Ventures. Although it’s pretty less than what it had been eying previously ($20 million or so), not sure why it settled for a lesser amount. It has been running into profits owing to the launch of its new service called Word of Mouth. Let’s see how the current year turns out for the advertisers.
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