Webaroo Technology has confirmed a $10 million round of funding for their product SMSGupShup , an SMS-based community site in India. The round, the third for the company, was co-led by Helion Venture Partners and Charles River Ventures.
SMSGupShup is a community site that enables users to join groups according to their interests and receive updates through their mobile phones via SMS. Very similar to Twitter, in that you can send and receive mobile updates to your friends, family and other group members ( without the downtime ). SMSGupShup has over 7 million subscribers and 300,000 publishers. They see a much lower proportion of web visitors as there mobile phones outnumber computers almost 7 to 1.
While Twitter is mostly used for casual communications and notifications, SMSGupShup is used for services that are critical to a lot people. For example, fishermen can receive tide and weather information, and people can pass along emergency information to locals wh...
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Beaverton, Oregon-based Ambric, a developer of semiconductors for parallel processing, said Tuesday that it has been unable to secure additional financing, and is suspending all operations. According to the firm, the only operations left at the firm are those associated with the sale of the company or fulfillment of existing customer production requests. Ambric was developing semiconductors for massively parallel processing, which the firm says were several times faster than what is available on... more
While it’s not official, SanDisk is getting ready to launch a new mid-market PMP called the Fuze. Aimed at the 3rd generation iPod Nano, the Fuze will be an SSD-based tiny-screen having PMP that appears to have almost all the same features as the iPod Nano, plus an FM radio, but with more storage, possibly up to 16GB.
So far, SanDisks PMPs have been pretty decent, I’ve had a Sansa for awhile and it’s a great alternative to the iPod. You contrarians should have love in you... more
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The Rock Band drum kit continues to attract modders of all stripes, and we’re loving the crazy directions people are taking it -- like this beatboxing kick drum mod from Kevin Child. It’s a simple hack -- Kevin simply used a Thumper vocal-percussion mike to activate the pedal trigger -- but it’s pretty sweet in action, responding to nearly any noise he makes. We’d love to see this thing filtered through a computer with the different pads as... more
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Man, Qtrax just can’t stop lying about those label deals , can it? The company issued a press release over the weekend saying it has (finally) signed up with Sony / BMG, Universal, EMI and Warner, but Wired did a little bit of digging and found out that Qtrax isn’t being exactly honest -- spokespeople from all four labels flatly denied that any deals were in place. Apparently there have been some experimental licenses and older deals m... more
As if it wasn’t enough that your Nano was counting your every step through the chip in your Nike+ shoes, now it can track every mile you pretend to bike at the the gym. Ellipticals and such, too. They’re teaming up with 24 Hour Fitness and some Virgin thing to provide machines that track your use, assuming you have the time and inclination to plug your gear into the the thing’s port. You can then take it home and plug it in at home, at which point it will upload its data to... more
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