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A First Taste Of What The Google Tablet’

Overviews | Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Last week, the world saw Apple's long anticipated tablet device, the iPad, for the first time. In the aftermath since that announcement, a few things have beco...

Andreessen-Backed Makara Unveils Cloud A

Overviews | Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Stealth startup Makara is launching publicly tonight with its cloud-based application deployment and management platform. Formerly known as WebappVM, Makara ha...

HTC patent shows a new, spring-loaded cl

Overviews | Saturday, 6 February 2010

HTC's no stranger to stuffing ridiculous mechanisms into smartphones. I mean, have you seen the HTC Tilt -- or better yet, the HTC Universal? Looks like they'...

A Massive $75 Million Round Streams Into Ustream. And More Is On The Way.

Streaming video site Ustream has just pulled in a massive new round of funding: $75 million. This second round was led by SoftBank, a Japanese telecom giant. Previously, the site had raised just below $13 million in funding, which came from its Series A in 2008 and its angel round in late 2007. Perhaps even crazier is that the service is saying that additional funding commitments are pending from other investors in the U.S. and Asia, so the round may actually be larger than the $75 million, which is all from SoftBank. We're hearing reports that there was quite a bit of competition to be involved in the round, and apparently all the dust hasn't settled yet.

Don’t Think Chrome OS Will Compete With iPad? Watch This Video.

Late last week, I wrote a post about how netbooks running Chrome OS and the iPad were on a collision course. Some people took exception to that, noting the iPad was only a touchscreen device while Chrome OS was created to be used with more traditional computing form factors, like netbooks and laptops. But there's a new concept video that has surfaced on a Chromium Project page that very much shows how the two could and should compete head-on in the touch tablet space. Again, this is just a concept video at this point, but it clearly shows what the people building Chrome OS are thinking about for future products. Oh, and in case you're worried that since Chromium OS is an open source project, this is just some random person making these videos that Google is unlikely to use for Chrome OS, they were made by Glen Murphy, a Googler working on Chrome (with a sense of humor).