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This summer saw the launch of Eons, an Internet destination site targeted at seniors with the byline “50 plus everything”. Eons is based in the historic Charlestown Navy Yard and headed up by Jeff Taylor, former CEO of Monster. By all appearances, Jeff brought along quite a collection of former colleagues from Monster.
In […]

Things are heating up once again for MIT Media Lab spinoff E Ink Corporation. This month Sony introduced a new e-book device, the Sony Reader, which features a six inch E Ink display. Although the device has debuted to decidedly mixed reviews, the dawn of the electronic ink age appears to be drawing […]

Hailing back to the days of Digital, cluster computing startup SiCortex has set its sights on dense cluster computing. Calling themselves the “first company to engineer a cluster computer from the silicon up”, SiCortex has already managed to engineer a cluster of venture financing.
Last week the Maynard firm announced a $21M round led by […]

Online photo startup Tabblo turned the lens on themselves last week when their Cambridge office was flooded by a damaged fire sprinkler.
Launched in beta form in May and declared 1.0 in June, Tabblo offers a different take on photo sharing. Instead of focusing on generic photo sharing, the Tabblo service helps you create collages […]

Reva Systems, an RFID outfit out of Chelmsford, has announced a $13.5M second round of financing. Cisco Systems and SAP Ventures join North Bridge Venture Partners and Charles River Ventures in backing the company.
Reva’s main product is the TAP — Tag Aquisition Processor — an appliance device that coordinates and controls RFID tag readers. […]

As wireless phone rates continue their race to the bottom, Cambridge-based iSkoot aims to pour gasoline on the fire with iSkootDuo, a mashup of VoIP and cell phones.
The iSkoot application is a 100KB Java application that runs on your phone. To try it out, you’ll need a dual-mode phone that supports both GSM/CDMA […]

Boston.com is running a feature today on the 13 Massachusetts residents who appear on the 2006 Forbes 400 Richest list. In adition to the usual suspects (the Fidelity Johnsons), sneaker barons, and — um — more sneaker barons, the list includes a handful of local techies including Amos Barr Hostetter Jr. of Comcast fame […]

The Facebook saga may have started at Harvard, but they’ve long since decamped for the west coast. But that doesn’t mean that Boston is without its share of social networking sites.
HeyLetsGo is the latest to break away from the pack. Reported funded by Highland Capital Partners, HeyLetsGo is starting out with a […]

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