Monthly Archives: August 2010

Team OneBeep brings CDN solution to the OLPC and third world

Five years ago the One Laptop per Child foundation was formed with the goal to “create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop.” The initiative began mass productions of … Continue reading

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TweetPhoto Renames Itself As It Grows Beyond Twitter

TweetPhoto, one of a number of picture-sharing services that piggyback on Twitter, says it has expanded its features beyond the microblogging social network to the point where it needs a new name. The company today announced it has changed its … Continue reading

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Chartbeat Raises $3M Round For Real-Time Analytics

Chartbeat, a five-person startup that offers real-time website analytics, has closed a $ 3-million Series A round of financing from a group of VCs led by Index Ventures and including Ron Conway’s SV Angel fund, Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital, Jeff … Continue reading

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Add-on Performance part 2: Helping consumers make informed decisions

The platform previews show the focus in IE9 on performance, interoperable HTML5 through same markup, and hardware acceleration. We’ve also posted here about the work we’ve done with add-on developers, and we shared some data about add-on performance and how … Continue reading

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Beat the Buzz With a Sneak Peek at Catfish

San Fran residents, are you busy on Thursday, Sept. 9? Because if you’re not, GigaOM and NewTeeVee would like to invite you out to the movies. As we announced last week, we’re working with Universal and Rogue Pictures to host … Continue reading

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