Mark MacLeod, describes himself as “a serial startup CFO” at his popular blog startupcfo.ca The blog chronicled Mobivox’s process of raising $11 million among other things. It was essentially perceived as a corporate blog. On April 18, Marc posted My…
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Skype’s future
The Financial Times has stirred up the blogs with their story regarding statements by Ebay CEO John Donahoe hinting that Skype may be sold off if they can’t find “synergies”. Gigaom suggests that a divestment is the right thing to…
Confused by all the Fring/iPhone hype
As Stuart Henshall said “What we have is a Fring beta on an unsupported platform that works and still needs work.” What is the big deal, really? Why is this getting so much attention? Fring may be able to afford…
N95 GPS Revisited
I previously have written about the N95 GPS in August 2007: My love/hate relationship with the N95 GPS . Since that time, Nokia has released new software that improves the utility of the GPS significantly. Opinions vary about the N95…
Mr Blog Upgraded to WP 2.5
I started this blog back in 2003. Back in those days, blogging tools were limited. I used Greymatter – Mr Blog has been running all that time on a hacked version of Greymatter believe it or not. There was no…
Pulvermedia rumors
Several sites have noted the rumor post by Marc Robins speaking of Pulvermedia layoffs and going so far as to say that Pulvermedia may be closing its doors. Jim Courtney cites a press release as verification that “Jeff had sold…
eComm 2008 note
Overall, a terrific conference, easily picking up where Etel left off. Unfortunately, live blogging was not practical as Internet access at the conference was too flakey. No matter, as many other bloggers are covering the conference and doing so much…
ecomm2008 this week
I’ll be trying something new (for me) this week, and trying to do some live blogging at ecomm2008. The big draw speakers and Skype and Google, but like Stuart I’m more interested in some of the smaller, real disruptors and…
Vodafone softphone in Germany
Infoworld reports that Vodafone Germany will let users make and receive calls abroad using a PC, “effectively rendering roaming charges a thing of the past.” Given that there are dozens of ways to make calls using a PC already, I’m…
Google Cell Tower location API reverse engineered
I was recently referred to this little project were it appears that the Google “MyLocation” API, the one that is used by Google’s Mobile Maps to pinpoint your location even without GPS, has been reverse engineered. The site has the…
