Roundup: Intel ads, Apple-Twitter rumors, and more
Here’s the latest action:
Microsoft begins contest for applications that use its Azure services platform — More here.
Intel launches yet another branding campaign — More here.
There was some crazy rumor about Apple looking at buying Twitter — More details on Techmeme.
AT&T offers app for monitoring iPhone usage — Here.
Mobile ad growth slows, but expected to pick up again — This year, U.S. advertisers are expected to spend $229 million on mobile ads, up 26 percent from $169 million last year, according… Continue Reading
Telepresence takes off for Cisco — could there be a bigger trend in video?
High oil prices have resonated through the economy at every level, and business travel is no exception. Realizing as much, I recently checked in with Cisco to see how well their telepresence product is selling.
Telepresence, for those who haven’t encountered it, is “a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present … at a location other than their true location,” at least according to Wikipedia. For Cisco, which took… Continue Reading
When TokBox talks browser-based video chat, Bain Capital and Sequoia listen
In the first years of the 1990s, the attempt to push video chat to the masses got off to an ignoble start when AT&T released its VideoPhone 2500. For the low cost of $1500, you, too, could have choppy, grainy and essentially unwatchable video conversations with other similarly-equipped clueless people around the globe.
More than 15 years later, San Francisco’s TokBox has reduced the price of video chat to the cost of a webcam and a… Continue Reading