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Archive for December 26th, 2007

Update: Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Update: Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too  —  Earlier this year we wrote about Gaboogie, a web-based conference call service started by Erik Lagerway.  The service didn’t quite work out, and the company reconfigured its business focus to offering instant group calls from mobiles, and is now called Lypp.

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Om Malik
Link: […]

Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too  —  Earlier this year we wrote about Gaboogie, a web-based conference call service started by Erik Lagerway.  The service didn’t quite work out, and the company reconfigured its business focus to offering instant group calls from mobiles, and is now called Lypp.

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Om Malik
Link:   […]

Amazon.com Wraps Up Its 13th Holiday With Best Season Ever (Amazon.com)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Amazon.com Wraps Up Its 13th Holiday With Best Season Ever  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2007 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 10.  On that day, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second.

Source:   Amazon.com
Link:   http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p…

Russia launches final satellites for its own GPS (Reuters)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Russia launches final satellites for its own GPS  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America’s GPS.  —  The military-run GLONASS mapping system works over most of Russia and is expected …

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews…

IceRocket Relaunch? - I’m sure I’m very late in noticing this … (Matthew Hurst/Data Mining)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

IceRocket Relaunch?  —  I’m sure I’m very late in noticing this, but just after I saw Technorati’s relaunch as a memetracker, I noticed that IceRocket is starting to look different, with a new (to me) looking front page, ranked video, movies and news.  According to Compete …

Source:   Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social […]