As one of the companies presenting at Wednesday’s Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA, Bambuser is trying to convince investors and future partners to propel their business forward. Like Qik, Bambuser broadcasts the contents of your view finder from your mobile phone, which viewers can watch live online. Also like Qik, Bambuser viewers can chat with the filmmaker when the video is live. However, Bambuser throws in recording and geotagging from the Webcam in addition to t

But more than the economy, these companies will be battling stiff competition. AT&T added 2.1 million subscribers during the fourth quarter. Stephenson said during the conference call that he expects AT&T to have taken market share from its competitors, since it managed to port more numbers to its service from other carriers than it ported to competitors.

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Meanwhile, consumers are actually increasing how much they spend per month on their cell ph

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Lenovo will continue to struggle while it figures out what kind of company it wants to be. It’s still in the middle of navigating major management changes, and has had difficulty in kick-starting its consumer business. But the crown jewel, the ThinkPad business, can only be helped when companies begin to spend money on computers again. The company is well-established in China, a c

Dropio was quick to point out that the app it created for Yahoo was based on its open application-programming interface. It hopes that the Yahoo Mail feature will be used as a proof of concept for other developers to find unique ways to use its API.

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Social-storage service Dropio on Thursday announced a partnership with Yahoo Mail to deliver a default application for the e-mail program’s users. Dubbed Attach Large Files, D

• The second churn rate was 2.8 percent, up from 2.6 percent a year ago. Clearwire expects churn to continue to trend higher.

Clearwire executives said the company will be aggressively hiring workers as it rolls out services. Capital spending will also increase in the second half of 2009. The company has big suppliers such as Cisco, Huawei, Motorola, Samsung, and Ciena that can enable Clearwire to cut equipment costs.

On a conference call with analysts, Clearwire

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Touted as "an historical event of epic proportions", hundreds of observers watched the skies as 100 skydivers descended into the city amidst a plaza filled with balloons and confetti.

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Against the backdrop of downtown San Francisco, balloons, streamers, a

Google’s Chrome operating system isn’t the only thing threatening Windows these days. In a recent New York Times story, VMware CEO Paul Maritz highlighted how dynamic Web frameworks and languages are fundamentally shifting our understanding of the operating system. He said, “If you are in Ruby on Rails, you have to work really hard to tell what the operating system is, it is so far removed.”

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Importantly, the language and

Here’s a favorite: “it’s me and if you know we’re just sitting here you can read your terry regular straight to answering your properly back at this number and leave the phone is gonna be cutting a bagel so hopefully how the transcript about.” Would you have ever guessed that this message actually pertains to the quality of this summer’s crop of Rainier cherries? (At least Google Voice picked up the bagel.)

It’s likely that Google and 3jam will offer premium upgra

Jeff McGaha, an electrical engineer in Indianapolis wrote that his wife has a Sidekick, was without access to the data network for four to five days, and has now lost all of her contacts:

She’s dropping the Sidekick now, something she was on the fence about for a long time. T-Mobile is lucky we’re staying with them. They can thank Google and Motorola for that. The Cliq is going to see bigger sales because of this sidekick outage. Long live Android.

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Granted, these business models still have their pratfalls: namely, the fact that they actually have to find individuals or companies who are willing to pay, something that often requires the formation of a solid marketing or sales department before profits can start to roll in. That was why many of them said they were looking to close early-stage funding rounds soon.

But those solicitations for funding were not lofty. Almost all of the TechStars presentations pro