Posted in Qualcomm, BREW, Europe on Jun 22nd, 2007
Joel West wrote an interesting post today on
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At its annual BREW developers conference, Qualcomm this week announced that the Chinese firm Hutchison will be rolling out BREW with its operator 3, which has licenses in the U.K., Italy and elsewhere.
Thus far, BREW’s major operators have been Verizon (US), KDDI (Japan) and KTF (Korea), and China Unicom (China). In the US, Verizon Wireless rebrands the service as Get It Now®. BREW is also supported by two of the smaller US CDMA carriers, Alltel and US Cellular, but not the #2 US CDMA carrier (Sprint).
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Posted in YouTube, BREW, Web 2.0, movie industry on May 25th, 2007
Joel West wrote an interesting post today on
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This morning’s breakthrough company is Eyespot, a two-year-old North County firm that has a different take on the YouTube model.
Last summer’s interview of CEO/co-founder Jim Kaskade by UT telecom reporter Kathryn Balint shows a classic “scratch an itch” startup:
Balint: How did Eyespot get started?
Kaskade: David Dudas and I both have families, and we both shoot video with a digital video camcorder. But we were both asking what do you do with the digital video after you’ve captured it? I hadn’t done anything with it, to be honest. I didn’t have the time to learn complex editing tools. This is the typical situation of a lot of consumers. So David and I said, “This is a pain point that needs to be addressed. We need to take advantage of the fact that the Internet is becoming the operating system and instead of having an application run on your desktop, you can […]
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