Flip camera

Cisco Kills the Flip Video Camera Business

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 12, 2011 at 6:39 am PT

Cisco is shaking up its consumer business. First on the list of things to go? The Flip video camera.

Will New York Times Vet Saul Hansell Run AOL’s New Robot Factory, or Something Less Ominous? Let’s Ask Him.

Peter Kafka in Media on December 11, 2009 at 9:19 am PT

After 17 years at the New York Times, journalist Saul Hansell is heading to AOL to do…what exactly? It’s not entirely clear, even to Hansell himself. But he has some interesting ideas.

Voices

EBay CEO Steps Behind the Camera

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 11, 2009 at 4:03 pm PT

Tech CEOs spend a lot of time taking questions in front of the camera. Lately, eBay’s top boss John Donahoe has been spending some time behind one. Amid a turnaround effort at eBay’s online marketplace, he has been meeting with the company’s merchants and taping the conversations with a Flip camcorder.

How to Add Color to a Kindle: Pixel Qi’s Cheap Screens

Peter Kafka in Media on June 23, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Amazon’s Kindle gets many plaudits, but it also gets one consistent criticism: Why can’t it come with a color screen? It can, say the folks at Pixel Qi, a start-up based in Silicon Valley and Taiwan: It could use the cheap, lightweight color screens that we’re going to make.

The iPhone From 1983, a Nintendo Bong and a Really Big TV

Peter Kafka in Media on December 5, 2008 at 12:20 pm PT

What if Apple had made the first iPhone in 1983? What if you could turn a Nintendo controller into a bong? What would a 103-inch TV look like? Theoretical questions no longer. At least for people who visit New York’s Lower East Side for the next few days. That’s where Gizmodo, Gawker Media’s crazily successful gadget blog, has set up a gallery of odd, cool, and awesome stuff.