Wednesday, June 8, 2005Jazz Targets Digital TV TunersNewport Beach-based Jazz Semiconductor has rolled out a specialized foundry process for digital TV tuners. The semiconductor foundry said that it is now offering a customized process for SiGe, BiCMOS, and RFCMOS focused on multi-standard silicon TV tuners in 0.18 micro and 0.35 micron. The process specifically focuses on providing low noise and high dynamic range transistors required for the TV tuner industry. The company said that it is rolling out the process to address digital TV and set-top (More info...)
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Continuous Computing Acquires Chinese Development FirmSan Diego-based Continuous Computing, a provider of high availability platforms for telecom manufacturers, said yesterday that it has acquired UPTech (United Platform Technologies), a product development firm in China. The company said that the acquisition would add global product development and regional support resources. The acquisition brings 80 additional staff to Continuous in Shenzen China. Continuous said that the offshore team would help it accelerate development of additional VoIP prod (More info...)
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Webmetrics Upgrades Application Monitoring ToolsSan Diego-based Webmetrics announced that it has upgraded its AppMonitor-DA application monitoring tools to support simulation of web applications, including ActiveX, Java Applets, and Windows executibles. The service monitors transactions on the web to allow companies to monitor uptime and performance of those services. The AppMonitor service allows non-browser based web applications to be monitored and tracked. The hosted service tests application availability and performance up to every five (More info...)
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UCLA Anderson Venture Competition Announces WinnersThe Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA Anderson School of Management announced the winners of its annual Knapp Venture Competition this week, awarding top prize to a company tracking media placements on TV and radio. The top team, Team Auditude, received a grand prize of $10,000 for their venture. Second place wen to Team Mujisan, developing advanced drug delivery. The annual competition is open to teams that include at least one current UCLA Anderson student. The competitio (More info...)
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Fandango, IMAX Launch Ticketing SiteLos Angeles-based Fandango launched a new co-branded online portal this morning with IMAX. The new Fandango portal features movie information, showtimes, and advanced ticket sales exclusively for IMAX theaters. The portal is an outgrowth of a marketing partnership Fandango and IMAX entered in December of last year. The two companies said the launch comes as the firms gear up for the release of Batman Begins, which will be available in IMAX theaters in addition to standard 35mm film. IMAX is also (More info...)
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AOL, YellowPages.com In Strategic AgreementPasadena-based YellowPages.com and America Online said this morning that the two companies have reached a strategic agreement to feature YellowPages.com properties across the AOL network. AOL will feature advertisers from YellowPages.com, SBC SMARTpages.com, and BellSouth RealPages.com on the AOL Yellow Pages, extending the exposure for those advertisers. The two companies are targeting the local search market, which has been seeing heated competition from both established web players as well a (More info...)
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Interview with Jorn Teutloff, Koders.comSanta Monica-based Koders.com (www.koders.com) recently announced the launch of its search engine for open source code. I talked with Jorn Teutloff, one of the company's co-founders on the purpose of Koders.com. BK: What's Koders.com all about, and why a search engine for code? JT: Koders.com is the web's largest search engine for identifying and accessing open source that developers can leverage in their own applications. We currently index over 190 million lines of code from more than 28 (More info...)
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