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...Drag songs you want to hear to the icon, then slip the card in the phone. In the Get It Now menu, you'll find a misleading header reading Get Tunes & Tones, under which you'll see the clearer My MP3s. It's not a one-touch start-up like the ROKR, but you can do it with just three taps. Once in, you get nothing fancy, just a long list of songs, plus shuffle and repeat...
Technorati and budding tech entrepreneurs trucked through Saturday’s rain to be schooled on start-ups and be told that the economy is on the verge of another dot-com frenzy at Startup School, a one-day symposium designed to promote start-up companies. Y Combinator, a tech company incubator, teamed up with Harvard Computing Society (HCS) to host the event. The organizers brought cognoscenti including Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, to lecture to the 500-person audience in the Science Center. Mandel summarized the dot-com boom of the late 1990s in four words...
...Northwest Airlines, the country's fourth biggest carrier, could drive it over the financial edge too. That would put a total of 5 out of 12 major airlines in bankruptcy (United, US Airways and ATA are already there). The same fate may await Independence Air, a small Virginia-based start-up that has been instrumental in driving fares down over the past year...
...ending process of not paying their bills." But even if the government steps back and Delta and Northwest become significantly weaker, at least one serious rival is already moving in to pick up some slack. New York--based JetBlue, just five years old and the most successful low-fare start-up in history, will begin in November flying the Embraer 190--smaller planes that will allow the company to connect cities mainly up and down the East Coast. AirTran execs aren't too worried. "When the dust settles, we'll all be stronger," says Fornaro. The airlines that are still...
...stake is a slice of the $550 billion in voice revenue that London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says mobile operators will generate in 2010. The revelation in August that Google will begin providing free voice transmissions over computers, and Microsoft's announced acquisition last week of the VoIP start-up Teleo, show that the biggest tech players are not going to sit this game out. For some companies, that will be liberating. "Making calls from a mobile handset is no longer the preserve of just the mobile operator," says Ryan Jarvis, head of convergence products for British mobile...