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Yammer, the Twitter-like short messaging service for business users, has been experiencing a prolonged period of downtime today due to DNS issues. The service first went down over 12 hours ago, was alive for a short period tonight, and then became unresponsive again a few hours ago. The issue is also affecting sister company Geni, who share the same DNS servers.
When Google Wave was announced, I got all jittery-happy about the possibilities it presented for news. Now, from a Belgian site, via a German site, I find a video interview with Wave’s project manager, Stephanie Hannon, speculating about its use in news:
Google Wave, une opportunité pour les journalistes ? from Labs RTBF on Vimeo.
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NTT DoCoMo (DCM) has decided to focus strongly on mobile content offerings, a new avenue to increase revenue. In order to become a powerful mobile content delivery player internationally, the company has decided to acquire German wireless value-added services specialist Net Mobile AG for a consideration of approximately $60.8 million. The deal is expected to [...]
Looks like somebody was trying to juice the shares of NextWave Wireless (Nasdaq:WAVE). Yesterday shares leapt $1.02, adding over $100 million in market cap. to the owner of wireless spectrum and packet video software technology. Today it gave back about 60% of the move. There’s no news on EDGAR or Yahoo!, except for a tout [...]
Google will release to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, wikis, multimedia management, and document sharing.
Called Wave, the Web application is the equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife for consumer online services and possibly one of the riskiest and most ambitious endeavors Google has embarked upon in years.