MobileBeat2009 — The investors: Accel, Lightspeed, Intel, Vodafone, Kleiner Perkins, T-Mobile, Blackberry Fund, Redpoint, NVP…

MobileBeat2009, our event next Thursday, is less than a week away (tickets here).
We’ve got speakers coming from every corner of the ecosystem, including the major carriers, device makers, start-ups, and more — to guarantee we have a rich debate about how applications are driving the entire sector. Yesterday, I posted on the marketing/advertising expert speakers. [...]

Gnip Launches Push API To Create Real-Time Stream Of Business Data

The Web is speeding up and Gnip wants to help push it along. Today, the API aggregation platform is releasing its own Push API which lets any site patch together its own version of Friendfeed or Twitter-like data stream. Gnip will be speaking at TechCrunch’s Real-Time Stream CrunchUp tomorrow on the Real-Time Business panel.
Gnip lets [...]

Chrome OS Partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments

Google is starting to respond to questions about the just announced Chrome operating system. In a short FAQ today they talked about cost and initial partners.
First of all, the software will be free, which was an easy assumption to make since it will be open source. Like Android, Google will not charge users or [...]