The BBC wonders if British mobile operator 3 has “discovered the holy grail of the mobile phone industry”, simply by bundling some mobile web services together and making it flat rate pricing. Mobile Web expert Ajit Jaokar is very bullish on this news. 3’s new package is called X-Series and here’s what’s in it: Skype … Read more

Today Silicon Valley company Fabrik launched its myfabrik online storage and file-sharing service, after a 4 month beta period. It’s also releasing a new service called myfabrik lite, that lets users share large multimedia files (up to 1GB at a time). The aim with the Lite product is twofold: as a solution to sending huge … Read more

While I was in San Francisco I sat down to talk to Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic Inc – the company set up to leverage the popular open source blogging tool WordPress. One of their main projects is WordPress.com, described as “a more limited version of WordPress that is hosted and completely maintained.” It’s pretty … Read more

In the latest in Read/WriteWeb’s coverage of international Web markets, we explore Hungary – a central European country of 10 million people. The information in this post was supplied by Hírbehozó, a professional journalist for online media company Index.hu. Hírbehozó told me there are not too many startups in Hungary. The big companies like Sanoma … Read more

The big news over the weekend is the publication of an internal memo by Yahoo senior VP Brad Garlinghouse, dubbed the ‘Peanut Butter Manifesto’. The crux of it is that Garlinghouse says Yahoo as a company is unfocused and has too many product lines that cross over. Here is how he described it: “I’ve heard … Read more

Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and it appears as if he’s aiming just as big with Demand Media. According to MarketWatch: “Rosenblatt has raised more than $200 million in the past few … Read more

Bill Gates spoke yesterday at the TechNet event at Stanford University. Here are his thoughts on what changes IT will make in society over the next 10 years: “Changes are now coming faster than ever. We’ll be seeing more and more students using tablets instead of stacks of books in schools and in online learning. … Read more

While I was in San Francisco, I met up with uGenie co-founder and President Harish Abbott. uGenie is a comparison shopping service that not only finds the best price on a single product, but on groups of products which it calls a ‘bundle’. uGenie computes the bottom-line price (including shipping, taxes, and discounts) and claims … Read more

While at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I caught up with About.com CEO Scott Meyer. About.com is the long-standing network of how-to websites, purchased in March 2005 by the New York Times Company for $410 Million. Since that time About.com has continued to flourish – it has 31 Million people visiting it each month … Read more

During the Web 2.0 Summit, I got a chance to sit down with the team at Ask.com and find out more about their search engine. This was straight after a Summit session entitled ‘Disruption Opportunity: Beating Google at Their Own Game’ – in which Ask CEO Jim Lanzone and Senior VP of the Online Services … Read more

I’ve just arrived back from another great trip out to Silicon Valley, for the Web 2.0 Summit last week. Now I have about a million emails to process and things to do. Plus I feel like I’m totally out of whack with the blogosphere right now – amazing how a couple of days travel, together … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! It’s the end of a hectic week of conference-going for your R/WW correspondent – and so time for a wrap-up of my thoughts on the Web 2.0 Summit. Firstly, my overriding feeling is that this year’s conference was a lot different from last year’s. It was still … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! This is the final session at the Web 2.0 Summit this year, a conversation with Yahoo co-founder David Filo and Bradley Horowitz (Yahoo’s head of innovation). John says there’s a vibe that Y! has slowed down somewhat in public perception, as opposed to Google. Bradley says that … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! At last year’s Web 2.0 Conference, a much discussed panel was one featuring a group of teenagers telling everyone what Web products they use. This year the concept has been take an extra level, by inviting the parents of the teenagers as well. The panel was moderated … Read more

Read/WriteWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit coverage sponsored by Yahoo! Marissa Mayer from Google only has 10 minutes to speak at Web 2.0 Summit, so she gives a high level look at Google’s use of Ajax in applications. She notes that the key reason they created Gmail in Ajax was speed. This is a theme in Google … Read more