With Sonopia, you too can be a telecom mogul
Sonopia, two-year-old Menlo Park, Ca. company launches service tomorrow that lets anyone — even you — create their own mobile carrier.
You can create your own calling plan, within limits of course, and sending your customers alerts and other information based on your own interests. If you are a food lover, you can create a carrier for gourmands to subscribe to, and message them with the latest restaurant specials, menus and other events, for example. It… Continue Reading
BitGravity wants to shake up video delivery industry
Perry Wu, a former venture capitalist at Palo Alto venture firm ComVentures and Barrett Lyon, a denial of service attack specialist, have joined forces to launch another player in the content delivery network (CDN) industry.
The company, called BitGravity, is still secretive, and Wu isn’t providing any details on its technology or on number of employees, but it is self-funded, and has won several customers, he tells VentureBeat. He began work on BitGravity earlier this year…. Continue Reading
Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more
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The latest round-up from tech-land:
Second Life hype continues — Sun holds a conference in the virtual world, and pisses off a journalist, who has a point. Why make it so tough for people to get to your message? But that hasn’t deterred others from joining the trend. Dell did something similar. And now Second Life has launched a business plan competition for “resident” entrepreneurs. The prize is a little less than US$2k, but it does include… Continue Reading