The outfit that has already revolutionised the way we watch television is about to do the same thing again. TiVo, the US company that invented the personal video recorder (PVR), has unveiled a service that for the first time marries the live broadcast of a TV show with the potentially huge amount of extras found for it on the internet. The technology will be available in Britain within months. Read on

Johns reaction: Broadband and broadcast are integrated,

There has been a lot of talk about Apple's aggressive stance towards Adobe lately. For years now the two companies have been on less than friendly terms with each other over several issues. Lately they've bickered about the alleged bugginess of Flash. According to Steve Jobs, Flash is responsible for most crashes on the Mac and uses abnormal amounts of processing power which would drain the battery of any mobile device. Before that Apple and Adobe fought over licensing issues regarding PDF files and the slow pace with which Adobe updates is applications. Read on

Brads reaction: Of all the acquisition rumours around Apple, this one would make the most sense to me.

San Francisco based Posterous, a fast growing publishing platform, has taken a $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures. Partner Satish Dharmaraj, who is also an individual investor in Posterous, led the round and joins the company's board of directors (and he maintains his personal blog at Posterous here). Read on

Brads reaction: The simplicity of Posterous makes it easy to get into. There is a lot of work that goes into making things work so seamlessly. Posterous is a testament to usability focussed apps.

As mobile marketing continues to garner the most attention, digital marketers need to realize the immense benefits of a multi-channel approach. While companies are beginning to understand and implement SMS marketing strategies, the fact remains that email still produces incredible ROI, and should be called upon to compliment an SMS strategy, not be passed up in lieu of. Read on

Brads reaction: There are several companies starting to come out with combined SMS and email solutions. We are working on an email integration module for BurstSMS. Keep an eye on our Blog for updates http://blog.burstsms.com

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In 2009, McGarryBowen demonstrated an understanding of what many of its peers are fast forgetting: for all the ways the ad business is forever changing, certain fundamentals -- like sound account management -- never change. Read on

Johns reaction: AKQA Is No. 6 on Ad Age's Agency A-List for 2009, interesting

Ten Classic Valley Cliches, by Ivan Gaviria As a partner in a startup law firm I have spent countless hours in board meetings over the years. This front row seat has led me to conclude that one of the Valley's underappreciated contributions to society is the wealth of catchphrases, cliches and buzzwords that permeate the culture. Ignoring the industry specific hacker and technical slang and the trendier offerings, there are a number of phrases that seem particularly unique to world of venture backed startups and have stood the test of time. The following are a couple of my favorites: Read on

Arguably the most popular Firefox extension for web developers, Firebug lets you look at and edit the HTML, CSS and JavaScript of any page on the fly without leaving your browser. Firebug Lite is a scaled-down version of Firebug made for Chrome. You can inspect a page for errors then quickly edit to fix them. Read on

First, let's get the elephant out of the way so we can talk about more important things. What is the elephant No, it's not Larry Page, co-founder of Google, seen above waving to the audience at TED after he gave them all a free Nexus One. Read on

"Bunny," a 15-year-old cellphone novelist, tapped out a three-volume bestseller. The teen, shown at a Tokyo train station, does not want even friends to know of her publishing success, with 110,000 paperback copies of her novel sold since it was published in May. (Yuriko Nagano / For The Times) Read on

Johns reaction: interesting trend to watch

Honda has unveiled a crowd sourced journey to celebrate the launch of the CR-Z, the first ever sporty hybrid car Read on

Johns reaction: Users log on and submit their own ideas for journeys across Europe. This can be accompanied by a story and video as justification to why they want to do this particular trip; maybe to visit friends, follow a band around the country, track down relatives or as one keen entrant has already suggested, to track down every single one of his 186 Facebook friends take pictures of them and compile a real life 'face' book.