I just received a review unit of the myTouch 3G, the soon-to-be-released Android-powered phone made by HTC for T-Mobile. I’ve been posting my first impressions of it on Twitter. You can read them in the widget below.
I’ll write up a longer, more complete first take/review later today.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment today announced a plan to deliver iPhone and iPod touch-enabled features on its upcoming Blu-ray releases that can be accessed with applications from the App Store.
The new functions will be launched July 28 to coincide with the 2-Disc Special Edition Blu-ray release of the box-office hit Fast & Furious, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. For the first time, iPhone and iPod touch users will have the ability to control interactive content on their Internet and Wi-Fi connected Blu-ray players.
Later this year on select Universal releases, consumers will also be to access bonus content found on their Blu-ray disc and download it into their iPhone or iPod touch; use the devices as a remote to control their Blu-ray disc features; and access additional detailed information about the film, including its cast, while watching the movie.
These releases will also integrate with social network applications or sites such as Facebook and Twitter to allow users to update their friends about movie-related activities.
IPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to use the interactive technology tied to the Fast & Furious “Virtual Car Garage” bonus feature. They also can use their devices’ touch screens to control 360-degree views of the movie’s street-racers and get technical specs for the film’s high-tech cars.
Bloomberg News estimated today that New Enterprise Associates stands to make a 26-fold return on its initial investment in Data Domain, the maker of storage backup tools that agreed to be acquired for $2.1 billion by EMC after a bidding war with NetApp.
NEA should make Read the rest of this entry »
Hansen Medical extended for a second month the guaranteed monthly bonus of $16,667 it pays to its senior vice president of commercial operations, Christopher Sells, in addition to his $275,000 annual salary.
When Sells was first hired in June 2008, the company offered Read the rest of this entry »
Raise your hand if you recently quit your job and in the process got a severance package that was bigger than what you’d have gotten if you were let go by your employer?
Avistar Communications, the San Mateo company that was delisted from the Nasdaq stock market last month, reported today that Read the rest of this entry »
Pharmacyclics, the Sunnyvale biopharmaceutical whose chief executive, Robert Duggan loaned it $5 million in January to help it stay afloat, will receive at least $6.5 million more from the boss, who has agreed to take advantage of the company’s offer to all of its shareholders giving them the right to acquire about Read the rest of this entry »
Yikes!
That’s about all you can think after seeing the latest video game sales numbers from research firm NPD Group. NPD reported earlier today that U.S. retail sales of game merchandise fell 31 percent in June compared with the same month a year earlier.
The industry has posted year-over-year sales declines for every month since April. That fall-off has negated what started off as a fairly strong year, with sizeable growth through March.
When John Thompson stepped down as CEO of Symantec last year, there was serious speculation that he would be tapped by newly elected President Barack Obama for the job of commerce secretary or some tech-related government gig. Now it turns out he is going to work for the feds, but in a somewhat different field.
Thompson, a veteran tech executive who’s also been an active supporter of Democratic causes, was appointed this week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on a Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, created by Congress to investigate the causes of the nation’s economic mess. Pelosi, D-San Francisco, also named Phil Angelides, the former California state treasurer, and Brooksley Born, the former chairwoman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
All told, the panel has ten members, appointed by Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. It sounds like they have plenty of work ahead, with a full report due by the end of 2010. But it’s apparently not a full-time job; Thompson is still serving as chairman of Symantec’s board.
If history is any guide, investors who are interested in buying shares of Microsoft might want to do that before it actually releases its new Windows 7 operating system upgrade.
That’s the conclusion of a Bloomberg story published today by reporter Dina Bass, who looked at Read the rest of this entry »
The company formerly known as Macrovision that first changed its name to Macrovision Solutions last year following its acquisition of Gemstar-TV Guide, said today it is officially adopting an even newer name — and ticker symbol — thereby “highlighting the company’s evolution and growth and a digital entertainment technology leader.”
The Santa Clara company that used to describe itself as Read the rest of this entry »
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