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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is rolling out the Square credit payment system. The gadget could revolutionize business and put a nail in the coffin of cash transactions.
Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is now part of spiffy Web site Kvittar—“does not matter” in Swedish, according to the Google. It’s a site that purports to do away with paper receipts. You need to sign up with a credit card. The concept is easy enough to understand: you create an account on the Web site, linking your account to one of your credit cards. You then use this credit to buy whatever it is you buy—food, clothes, video games, etc.—then, instead of taking the paper receipt, you get an electronic receipt sent to your Kvittar account. These electronic receipts are searchable, which should be handy when tax season rolls around. One thing I’d like to point out: the snazzy video that describes the service, which is embedded in this post for your convenience, suggests that people are tired of killing trees. That’s fine, and they may well be, but then why does the video show a receipt being printed out, which the woman refuses? The tree still died, even when the woman had a Kvittar. Yes, I’m being pedantic. It’s pedantic Wednesday. I think this story will go around as, “LOL, do you really want to give your credit card number to The Pirate Bay Guy~!” You’ll notice that’s not how I presented it.
Google co-founder says Chrome and Android could someday become a single OS. Chrome browser plus Android OS equals... Android.
The morning I was scheduled to talk to the co-founder of a collection of popular neighborhood news blogs in Seattle, he had to put me off for almost an hour...
TheNextWeb is reporting that Google may be set to announce Google Wave servers for federation later today. Currently Google has two Wave infrastructures available to those outside the company, the first is the developer preview sandbox which has been available since Google I/O earlier year and the second is the mass consumer preview which was opened up to 100,000 participants in September. Google is expected to allow companies and end users to build and host their own Wave servers. These servers will be able to talk to other Wave servers. TheNextWeb claims that Google Wave co-founder Lars Rasmussen has confirmed Google plans on opening up the sandbox infrastructure for federation later today. More details are expected to follow shortly.
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Wikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales.
Co-founder Sergey Brin says he's disappointed with how long its taken to develop a Mac version of its Chrome browser, but won't say why the delay has occurred.
The kit allows for multiple cameras to be connected to the Internet via wired Ethernet or WiFi. You simply set it up, plug it in, and start streaming. The system records video at 320×240 pixels at 15 frames/sec. The cameras weigh 3 ounces and are about an inch thick. The camera, unlike the Vue, must be plugged into a power outlet, a potentially limiting factor for some installations. However, that is the only cable it needs when you have it connected via Wi-Fi. The basic camera costs $239 which includes a six month subscription to DropCam’s service. After that service costs $9 per month.They are also running private betas for a Baby service for watching kids during the day and even at night in low light as well as a more DVR-oriented Pro service for business complete with activity sensing systems. The system has built-in notification systems and they’re working on upgrading the system to support notifications via email and text message. It has 100 hours of rolling DVR capability per camera, ensuring you don’t miss a thing. The company is seed funded primarily by Mitch Kapor, 15 Angels (Bessemer’s angel group), and Bay Partners. They are shipping the product right now. The founder, Greg Duffy, was the 2nd employee and Principal Software Engineer of Xobni. The company’s co-founder is Aamir Virani, also an ex-Xobni employee.
The e-book is on the rise. Last week everyone who cares about books went to the Frankfurt book fair. Three devices in particular seemed the most interesting. Here are some impressions, including snippets from two interviews. Lawrent Picard, co-founder of Bookeen, is confident that e-book technology will continue to gain momentum over the next few years. Long before Amazon launched the greatly successful Kindle, Bookeen brought out their first device in 2000. Seven years later, just three weeks before Amazon, they released another device, the Cybook Gen3. Now at the book fair they presented their latest model, the Cybook Opus. It's significantly smaller, sporting a shiny white housing with rounded edges. Mr.
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said his company isn't looking to be acquired.
In an interview with Gamasutra, John Gibson, President and Co-founder of Tripwire Interactive said that Valve is "absolutely not" exploiting independent developers, countering comments made by Gearbox's Randy Pitchford last week. "Is Valve exploiting independent developers? In short: absolutely not." "Without pulling any punches, I can say with certainty that if it weren't for Steam, there would be no Tripwire Interactive right now." Gibson explained that Steam gave Tripwire a route to market their games when disc-based publishers were offering unworkable deals. "In the early days, when we were shopping our first game Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 around to traditional brick-and-mortar publishers, we were shocked at how terrible their proposals were," he said.
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Britain's Telegraph newspaper broke the story that Twitter's founders were planning to allow users to upload video snippets. These snippets would complement the already existing 140 text characters currently available to twitter users. Reportedly, video snippets could be sent from mobile phones or any computer device with a webcam attached. This got people talking as to what the reaction of existing video tweet services Tweetube and Twideo might be, given that while heavily marketing their products online they continue to struggle in gaining a foothold in the Twitter market. Hot on the heels of this news, mashable.com got in contact with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to get the lay of the land.
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Twitter will not host adverts on its website this year, says co-founder Biz Stone.
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, stated in a 1965 research paper that the number of transistors on a CPU will double approximately every two years; this belief became very famous, and is now known as 'Moore's Law'. Intel is still very determined on keeping to that law, as Paul Otellini, President and CEO of Intel, has just demonstrated the world's first CPU constructed with a 22nm manufacturing process. This means that, according to Intel's press release, a massive 2.9 billion transistors are squeezed onto a wafer in about the same area as the average fingernail. Otellini stated, "At Intel, Moore's Law is alive and thriving.
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A group of private investors, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, takes ownership of the voice-over-IP service.
For example, I was watching Greg Grunberg AKA Matt Parkman from Heroes (and the co-founder of Yowza) and noticed he was being re-tweeted with a vengeance. The tweet was simply ‘RT @greggrunberg guys watch”Transformers 2″ Movie Free online here [snip] Wal-Mart’ and it was sent out, in this case, by CarriCarrie012. A few clicks and we discover that young Carri is not “Goofy, intelligent, and determined!!!” as she claims in her bio but is actually a spambot.
The bot essentially takes a celebrity’s @ name and pretends to Tweet that they are supporting the viewing of pirated versions of major motion pictures for free, something someone like Grunberg would never condone (although I wouldn’t put it past Oprah). When you visit the site you find it is essentially a phishing scam that eventually dumps out out into an opt-in survey scam that keeps you going through ridiculous surveys until your “5 minutes” are up. This brings up an interesting point about the implicit trust we put into Twitter and how it can easily be hijacked by those with nefarious intent. Also you really can’t watch any of those movies for free. I kept on filling out the survey until my clicking hand fell off and nothing happened. Don’t forget to Retweet this!
Analysis: Inspiration for the commercial came from ... "the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics," according to ad agency's co-founder.
Google was tight-lipped about co-founder Larry Page's meeting with EC's Viviane Reding Wednesday, but was very forthcoming about his holiday and lunch plans.
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