Judging from the reaction on the web, people aren't having too hard of a time getting the new Palm Pre at Sprint stores across the country. But last night, one woman was apparently so concerned that she wouldn't be able to get one that she sped her car to a Sprint store — wait, let me rephrase that — she sped her car into a Sprint store. Check out the video embedded below from NBC Chicago. It's pretty incredible. Joking aside, I highly doubt the elderly woman behind the wheel actually wanted a Pre and more importantly, she was fine aside from a few bruises. But as you can see, the store didn't fare so well. Full story...
All naysaying aside, people are pretty excited about Windows Phone 7. Our readers are excited for it.
Startup Seesmic has perfected the art of developing compelling Twitter clients on a variety of platforms.
The list of people I interviewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this year is starting to look like more like a hit list than a VIP list.
Facing competition from recently acquired AdMob (Google) and Quattro Wireless (Apple), mobile ad network has been steadily working to strengthen their products and offerings.
Waiting in line for movie tickets is still the worst part of going to the movies (unless you are going to see The Bounty Hunter).
Between the geolocation wars of Facebook and Twitter and the flux of geolocation-based social networks and mobile apps that have been hitting the market recently, the competition is tough.
Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas.
Didn't I just write that the online video publishing market is heating up quickly? Here's another testament to that notion: KIT digital this morning announced that it has agreed to acquire privately-held competitor Multicast Media for net consideration of approximately $18 million.
The war between the enterprise-grade online video platform providers rages on, and Brightcove will announce later today at the SXSW conference that it was won another small battle by signing up EMI Music, one of the "big four" record companies.
Media and legal news pundit Dan Abrams is expanding his Mediaite, mini-empire today with the launch of fashion news site Styleite.