Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Telecom Disruptor Pat Phelan posted an interesting message on Twitter, stating he’s going to unlock fifty iPhone 3G during the upcoming TechCrunch 50 conference taking place in San Francisco on September 8-10. The unlocking procedure will be free of charge for everyone and you can finally start using your iPhone 3G [...]

Image via Wikipedia According to Gartner, SaaS (Software as a Service) will be a key element for the ecommerce market by 2013. According to Gartner, at least 90% of eCommerce sites will leverage SaaS (Software as a Service) by 2013.  As Gene Alvarez, research vice president for Gartner, says, “The trend toward SaaS applications has affected [...]

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown It looks like Microsoft is playing hard to strengthen his position in the search and ecommerce sector. They just announced they bought Ciao.com for $486 million. Ciao.com is a popular price comparison site and a public company (Greenfield) in Europe where users write reviews of any kind of digital good and [...]

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown In the effort of pushing their mobile platform, Google announced yesterday the launch of Android Market, a place where people can easily download and buy content for their Android-powered device. Anyone familiar with Apple would compare this new marketplace to the mobile App Store, but I don’t think they have that [...]

I think that addiction to games like Tetris can be much worse than addiction to social networks… Is Scoble more addicted to Friendfeed than this guy to Tetris?!? Check this out and verify by yourself. My take? This guy wins the “addiction” game

She told me about this off the records a couple of days ago during our lunch, but since Arrington is officially telling the world about it, I presume it’s not a “secret” anymore. Well, she didn’t tell me it was, so I presume I could write about it already, but I’m not a journalist Natali [...]

Image via CrunchBase, source unknown The standard email client of any S60 device is (IMHO) the worst part of this operating system. I never used it and any time I tried, I gave up after a few hours. Now it seems they are getting serious about email clients, releasing a new mobile email client that brings [...]

SmugMug, the popular professional photo sharing website, introduced SmugVault , a new service which lets users store not only photos, but many other types of files, including RAW (yessssss!), PSD and even excel and word. The service is offered in collaboration with Amazon and costs are the following: Storage costs 22 cents per gigabyte per month. If [...]

One of the new features appeared in the new Facebook interface is the Live Feed. Through this functionality, you can get a realtime update of your friends’ activities, wathever they are doing within Facebook or in other services integrated with it (Twitter, Friendfeed, Applications etc.). How far is this new service from FriendFeed? I’d say really [...]

I just came across two interesting features provided as a value added service by a Korean 3G mobile operator thanks to the technology provided by the Canadian company TelcoBridges: “Lie Detector” and “Love Detector”. Thanks to a voice pattern recognition engine, users can get the level of lies/love they are getting from the other user, making [...]

Image via Wikipedia Jim Courtney at Skype Journal promptly posted three alternatives to the demised Skypecast service. I recommend to take a look at his post, Calliflower, HiDef Conferencing and Skype itself are all great alternatives. Check it out: Skype Journal: Alternatives to Skypecasts.