CBS to launch online TV network (Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:06:28 GMT)
Late Night With David Letterman is one show CBS will put online US TV network CBS is to launch a video sharing internet channel after agreeing deals with 10 online distributors.

Companies developing protection for high-def signals (Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:23:05 GMT)
Two companies are introducing technology to thwart people who make illegal copies of video-on-demand and cable television pay-per-view content.

Video Quality can be a Crucial Differentiating Factor for IPTV... (Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:17:32 GMT)
IPTV operators confront increased competition from cable and satellite. They are discovering that video quality can be a crucial differentiating factor that attracts and keeps customers.

MPEG-4: DSL's HDTV Dilemma (Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:15:12 GMT)
The latest video compression standard to come out of the Motion Picture Experts Group has pretty much swept aside other rivals...

Push Comes to Shove for Control of Web Video (Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:11:24 GMT)
FOR now, the biggest news in the exploding realm of online video is not much more than a news release. Still, the recent announcement from the News Corporation and NBC Universal of a new...

The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007: (Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:10:04 GMT)
Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line. Also, Snapster lives!

IPTV 2007: MPEG-4 And HDTV To Boost IPTV? (Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:08:34 GMT)
Many operators and vendors attending the IPTV World Forum typically describe HDTV as a ‘must have’ and a key differentiator from cable operators – particularly for North American markets and...

HD-DVD heavyweights target Europe (Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:02:08 GMT)
A handful of industry heavyweights have established a group to promote the uptake of HD-DVD technology in Europe.

First Look: Adobe Flash Media Encoder (Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:36:50 GMT)
FME is an easy to use encoding tool which does what it says on the box, so to speak: it enables even non-technical users to capture and broadcast live Flash Video streams in VP6 quality.

A deep dive into HD for video-system design (Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:30:06 GMT)
The digital-video revolution is now well under way. Is the time right for you to support high-definition resolutions?

Wi-fi VoIP to threaten telco business models (Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:52:29 GMT)
Traditional phone operators will be forced to change their approach as wireless VoIP technology surges over the next few years, say analysts. Sales for wireless VoIP tech for both dual and...

Best Practices for Windows Media Encoding (Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:16:07 GMT)
A comprehensive look at how you can get the most out of the various flavors of Windows Media Audio and Video.

A deep dive into HD for video-system design (Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:07:16 GMT)
The digital-video revolution is now well under way. Is the time right for you to support high-definition resolutions?

The DVD Writer: The Truth about Total Hi Def Disc (Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:46:42 GMT)
By way of background, there's a popular misconception that THD (or any variety of double-sided or combo BD disc for that matter) somehow contravenes BD and HD DVD specifications.

Video may break the Interweb (Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:08:45 GMT)
VIDEO DOWNLOAD services such as YouTube are pushing Interweb capacity to breaking point, a Google executive warned.

In-Stat Study Shows Increasing Demand for IP Set Top Boxes (Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:18:13 GMT)
Now that Congress has mandated the complete phase out of analog television signals by 2009 – thus marking the beginning of the end of the era of “free� television programming – pretty much...

How Facebook is Adding an Identity Layer to the Internet | Social Hacking (Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:03:03 -0400)
How Facebook is Adding an Identity Layer to the Internet | Social Hacking:

“What users may not realize is how much data they’re already sharing. This new style of Facebook Connect actually mirrors the behavior of Facebook itself. When you visit a Facebook application for the first time, it automatically knows who you are and can access your public data. When you then click “Allow� to authorize the app, you give it access to all of your private data. Currently, an external web site knows nothing about you until you click “Connect.� If you do click, it has the same access to your private data as an authorized application. Now, Facebook is letting sites initially act like new applications by giving them access to your public data prior to full authorization.

via dj

andrearosen: What is this supposed to MEAN? That the Times... (Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:53:07 -0400)

andrearosen:

What is this supposed to MEAN? That the Times could buy Gothamist if it really wanted to? That the Times has surrendered to the fact that they can’t fix their Metro or hyperlocal reporting?

I had the pleasure of talking to Dave Winer this afternoon about the hyperlocal space and the work the Times is doing with his students at NYU to produce a niche blog for the East Village. On his own blog, he questions where the money will come from to support these efforts. Big institutions seem to think there’s some mysterious code to crack with the production and business model of hyperlocal, when in fact there is an institution that had been doing it well for decades and only recently started to stumble when they couldn’t keep up with online: the alternative weekly (I cut my teeth at one such publication, The L Magazine).

What can the Times et. al. learn from the alt weekly model as they dive into hyperlocal blogging?

1. Organize: Most alt weeklies would not have survived as long as they did without the aid of networks like the AWN (Alternative Weekly network) and AAN (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies), who sell national ads on behalf of each market. The Times should assume this position themselves and become the mothership for a network of independent local blogs—they already have the sales staff in place to support this. The blogs themselves would, as alt weeklies do, supplement this with sales to local businesses. This sales model probably isn’t sustainable forever, but innovators like Foursquare are proving that national brands indeed want to be a part of the local market.

2. Never use New York City as a model for the rest of the country: New York is an abnormal market simply because there is more going on here per square mile. An early project of mine at The L was to work on a site that would aggregate listings from alt weeklies across the country and uniformly organize them. We built the site with our listings for NYC in mind, with super-specific ways of breaking down the city’s geography and the categories of events and venues. Of course, we never took into account that in smaller markets, organization would be far broader. And so, we had a site that looked effectively empty because nobody else had as many listings as we did per insanely narrow category (“Psychedelic Jazz,� anyone?).

If we apply this to blogs, we can definitively say that “hyperlocal� just doesn’t mean the same thing in New York as it does in another market. It’s why three high-circulation alt weeklies (The L, The Village Voice and The NY Press) are able to coexist in one city—because they speak to different segments of it. Here, “hyperlocal� means neighborhoods, sometimes even fractions of neighborhoods. But most single neighborhoods in Boston will never provide the same amount of blog fodder as the East Village because they don’t have the same volume & variety of activity within them. For such a market, it’s likely that a collection of neighborhoods will have more value to the audience. And in an even smaller market (say, my hometown of Northampton, MA) blogs would have more value if we expanded the definition of “hyperlocal� to include neighboring towns as well. In fact, the alt weekly currently serving Northampton does just that: the Valley Advocate reports on the entire Pioneer Valley.

On a related note, I’m really excited to see the new Foursquare statistics when they come out, because I think it will shed a lot of light on how much narrower, geographically speaking, a New Yorker’s view of their own city is in comparison to residents of other cities.

3. Don’t create something that already exists: Why are so few alt weeklies real contenders in the hyperlocal blog space? Because they just don’t have the resources to do print and online well, simultaneously, and most decide to keep the labor and money they do have in print because it’s what they’re comfortable with. So, New York Times, see those free papers shutting down and going bankrupt all around you? They’ve left behind a trail of top-notch hyperlocal reporters who never got to prove their worth on the interwebs. Do one of two things: buy the weeklies (they’re cheap) and force them to go online-only OR wait for them to die off (they will) and recruit their casualties to start their own blogs, which they would run independently under the ad sales model proposed in point #1.

mdfsmash: nextnewblog: More Americans watching TV and Internet... (Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:01:13 -0400)

mdfsmash:

nextnewblog:

More Americans watching TV and Internet together: according to Nielsen, nearly 60% of American viewers now report using the Internet at least once a month while also watching TV. As Late Night co-producer Gavin Purcell notes, and per my post last week, this should read as a big opportunity for producers to create some pretty innovative new media. — Tim

"For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly..." (Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:50:17 -0400)
“For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up� the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko’s to upload clips from computers that couldn’t be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt “very strongly� that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.�

- YouTube Blog: Broadcast Yourself

PSA: If you're going to attempt insurance fraud, you might want to avoid posting on YouTube [w/video] — Autoblog (Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:53:43 -0400)
PSA: If you're going to attempt insurance fraud, you might want to avoid posting on YouTube [w/video] — Autoblog:

Unfortunately for Chen, during the paperwork processing following that ‘second’ accident, the body shop informed Chen’s insurance company that it had been holding on to the mangled GT-R since March. Investigators then searched YouTube for any evidence of the incident, and apparently they believe that they’ve found it – the insurer alleges that the footage shown after the jump incident shows damage consistent with that of Chen’s GT-R after a mountain run with a Mitsubishi Evolution IX MR goes awry. The actual crash doesn’t look all that bad, but the apparent $76,000 repair bill shows that near-supercars can cost a boatload of money to fix. Regardless of the severity of the accident, as a result of the investigation, Chen has officially been charged with six felony counts of insurance fraud, and his sister has been charged with one count.

"One of the strangest challenges porn faces is competition from online games like World of Warcraft,..." (Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:07:51 -0500)
“One of the strangest challenges porn faces is competition from online games like World of Warcraft, though the connection may at first seem random. “It is all entertainment that you are getting involved in the same way as porn is entertainment,� said Aiden. “The games are competition for porn. Fans jerk off to porn and are done, but you can keep playing a game.��

- Top 5 Reasons Porn-for-Profit Is Dying - The Daily Beast

Kindle Fans Punish Publisher For Delaying Ebook Releases By Giving Books One-Star Reviews | Techdirt (Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:17:58 -0500)
Kindle Fans Punish Publisher For Delaying Ebook Releases By Giving Books One-Star Reviews | Techdirt:

Last month we pointed out what a bad idea it was for book publishers to go against the market’s wishes and to delay the release of certain ebooks, hoping to drive more people to the (higher margin) hardcover versions of the book. This is incredibly anti-consumer thinking and assumes, incorrectly, that people will happily accept the format the publisher gives them. Not surprisingly, consumers are starting to rebel. Apparently some of the books are getting hit with one-star reviews on Amazon as punishment. For example, HarperCollins — one of the leading supporters of these silly “windowed� releases — is discovering that its well-hyped book Game Change is filling up with one-star reviews. Going against what your consumers want is almost never a good idea.

Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to... (Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:53:12 -0500)

Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software

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Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail (Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:35:33 -0500)
Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail :

Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail. Identify some words that show up in profitable searches — from appliances, to mesothelioma suits, to kayak lessons — churn out content cheaply and regularly, and you’re done. On the web, no-one knows you’re a content-grinder.

"This will be the year when it becomes apparent that the future of news and media is entrepreneurial,..." (Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:22:33 -0500)
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This will be the year when it becomes apparent that the future of news and media is entrepreneurial, not institutional. The year will see the rise of the new overtake the fall of the old. Even so, while we suffer moguls’ death rattles, we will hear continued debate over government intervention to protect them through proposed changes in copyright, tax favours and direct subsidy. If the government steps in, it will be to bail them out as it did for bad banks and General Motors. And we know how well that worked. A concurrent debate in Washington will reach its climax this year over net neutrality and the means to bring broadband ubiquity to the nation. That is the intervention the entrepreneurs seek.

If, instead of the same tired debates over old media, you seek something new, go mobile. In 2010, we will see Google battle Apple for the right to connect us, not just with each other but with information about any place, any thing and anyone. As we also say in America, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

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- Jeff Jarvis (via soupsoup)

Mimi Ito on Participation Literacy, Part One Mizuko Ito, trained... (Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:15:20 -0500)

Mimi Ito on Participation Literacy, Part One

Mizuko Ito, trained as an anthropologist, has spent more than a decade hanging out with, interacting with, and observing young people who are engaging new media in their own ways - from her early observations of the ways young girls in Tokyo were appropriating pagers and mobile short-messaging for their own social purposes, to her most recent ethnographic study of youth media practices.

The Tsunami of 2004, Online Video's First Major Event (Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:48:47 -0500)

dembot:

Today marks the five year anniversary of the great Asian Tsunami of December 26th, 2004. This was a turning point for online video as it was the first time people from all around the world went online to watch. For all who now take online video for granted, this was even before Google Video. Here is a story I wrote about my own experience which happened just two months after I had launched Rocketboom:

“On a Sunday when I was writing the script and looking for news stories for the following Monday, I witnessed the tsunami go down online via the main stream media like cnn.com particular. So I knew the issue was so intense that there would be nothing else to say on Monday and so I spent all day looking for images and video and personal accounts - anything that I could find to “show�. This was something I had never done to this degree because I had never really had an impetus. But looking around for footage and pictures was what I would do for any event, big or small on a daily basis for Rocketboom so it started as just another day.

Anyway, I couldn’t find any videos on the day of, but I found two sites in Singapore that had about three people total who had posted a whole load of photos. So I believe I created perhaps the first tsunami video online that was a montage of the images with intense background music. While we did not have as much of a reach with our content at the time, we gained very high search return results for “tsunami video� apparently.

There was another major factor that led to the endurance of tsunami traffic: When Waxy and others like myself had accumulated the videos the next day, the same that also became really popular, I decided to turn them all into quicktime videos because there were none. As a result I was the only one serving the Quicktime files for several days and so probably all of those original batch videos that are out there that are quicktime, are generations from me (not to say that makes me special or anything, just pointing it out because i think its interesting), coincidentally. A few sites took these files and re-seeded them in bittorrent sites and then they quickly surpassed our search authority as it stacked against the time, I reckon. I assume Robin Good has an interesting tale to tell because we received a huge amount of traffic from his massive roundup as just one example.

[**aside: Of course I could not pay for the bandwidth and had the videos on the Parsons.edu server space. I brought the graduate multimedia sever down to a grinding halt (the same server that everyone uses to experiment with all kinds of wacky and powerful stuff). We couldn’t even get the server to deliver a 5k gif file until I renamed the videos and brought them back on slowly over days.

[**to the other aside: I watched as iFilm, the massively obnoxious and ad invasive leech site, learned a thing or two during this time as well about search return results. Of course with their link authority, they became the mainstream site to watch the tsunami videos as the only known option to a lot of people to start with. I remember later, on the day before the Superbowl this year, iFilm had posted all of the superbowl commercials, including all of the text and even video and image placeholders for ALL of the commercials in order to get them up first and to receive the best search results. So if you went to iFilm that night before the game, you could click on a bunch of superbowl commercials, which of course never loaded. But all of the advertisements surrounding the commercials were there and they were already making big bucks before they even copied the broadcasts and then posted the videos. Thats crummy of them and you can predict their behavior to be like this in the future too I suppose. I have noticed that over the last few months the obnoxiousness had gone way down, but its still pretty out-of-control for my tastes]�

Here are a couple of note now on YouTube:

For one of the best historical accounts of the various tsunami videos now, see:

http://www.asiantsunamivideos.com/

"As adults, by and large, we think of the home as a very private space – it’s private because we have..." (Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:47:28 -0500)
“As adults, by and large, we think of the home as a very private space – it’s private because we have control over it. The thing is, for young people it’s not a private space – they have no control. They have no control over who comes in and out of their room, or who comes in and out of their house. As a result the online world feels more private because it feels like it has more control.�

-

danah boyd, Guardian Interview

Another gem quote: “As a technologist, we all like ‘techno-utopia’, this is the great democratiser… Sure, we’ve made creation and distribution more available to anyone, but at the same time we’ve made those things irrelevant. Now the commodity isn’t distribution, it’s attention – and guess what? Who gets attention is still sitting on a power law curve … we’re not actually democratising the whole system – we’re just shifting the way in which we discriminate.

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Everything old is new again: Facebook and AOL - aiaio - the Alexander Interactive blog (Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:04:56 -0500)
Everything old is new again: Facebook and AOL - aiaio - the Alexander Interactive blog:

What makes Facebook interesting these days? Basically the same things that made AOL a star a decade earlier.

• private messaging without an external email client: just like AOL!
• live chat: just like AOL!
• integrated games and shopping: just like AOL!
• every company feels a need to be there: just like AOL!

And here we are again, with consumers converging on a single site and companies clamoring to capture their attention.

AOL was eventually done in by a lack of openness and charging for options that were free elsewhere. So far, Facebook has avoided those mistakes. It will be interesting to see what social and economic forces drive its future—and whether it ultimately becomes something other than The Next AOL.

"The core of the issue is this: the TV buyers have 50+ years of econometric modeling history that..." (Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:33:20 -0500)
“

The core of the issue is this: the TV buyers have 50+ years of econometric modeling history that tells them if they buy X amount of GRPs or TRPs (Target Rating Points), it will generate Y in return. Everyone acknowledges that there are major flaws with this methodology, but are, for the most part, resigned to it; accepting it as the best we’ve got.

As video expands to other platforms, including online, digital out-of-home, and mobile, there’s a natural desire to take that same metric and apply. But doing so fails to account for the unique attributes of these new digital delivery channels — things like interactivity, ratio of ad clutter to content, dynamic ad serving, and so forth.

�

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Are All Screens Created Equal? - ClickZ

I’ve already talked about how online GRPs are not the answer. Not only are all screens not created equal, but there is a big difference between seeing an ad inserted into Lost on Hulu and an ad on a monkey video on YouTube.

(via everythingismedia)

Or the powerful custom integration and white label content executions that sites like blip.tv can produce.  We’re seeing record interaction rates as we get better and better at figuring out how to make awesome digital video ads that WORK.

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Losing Net Neutrality, Worst Case Scenario :... (Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:56:41 -0400)

Losing Net Neutrality, Worst Case Scenario : Gizmodo

This is John McCain’s wet dream.

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FCC Backs Net Neutrality — And Then Some. (Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:41:24 -0400)
FCC Backs Net Neutrality — And Then Some.:

Ryan Singel at Wired News

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski delivered Monday on President Obama’s promise to back “net neutrality.� But he went much further than merely seeking to expand rules that prohibit ISPs from filtering or blocking net traffic — he proposed that they cover all broadband connections, including data connections for smartphones.

Genachowski, Obama’s law school classmate, announced in a speech Monday at the Brookings Institution his intent to codify and expand the four current broadband principles (.pdf) known as the Four Freedoms and extend them to all broadband connections. He said that an open internet is necessary for economic growth and democratic participation. The rules were originally applied only to wireline broadband services, and the FCC kept postponing any ruling on whether they also applied to wireless services.

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"The NFL said Monday it will allow players to use social media networks this season, but not during..." (Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:34:27 -0400)
“The NFL said Monday it will allow players to use social media networks this season, but not during games. Players, coaches and football operations personnel can use Twitter, Facebook and other social media up to 90 minutes before kickoff, and after the game following traditional media interviews.

During games, no updates will be permitted by the individual himself or anyone representing him on his personal Twitter, Facebook or any other social media account, the league said.

The use of social media by NFL game officials and officiating department personnel will be prohibited at all times. The league, which has always barred play-by-play descriptions of games in progress, also extended that ban to social media platforms.

Earlier this summer, Chargers cornerback Antonio Cromartie was fined $2,500 by the team for criticizing the food service at training camp on Twitter.�

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Tweet delete: NFL bans social media in games - ESPN

via Deadspin

I don’t think refs would benefit from being on the internet much.

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Publishers Are Killing Web Advertising’s Potential With Misguided Pricing | paidContent (Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:53:36 -0400)
Publishers Are Killing Web Advertising’s Potential With Misguided Pricing | paidContent:

rafer sez:
Nice, all online ad pricing is wrong. This concrete measurement crap is misleading. The “truth� is contained in offline ad pricing. We should apply that methodology to the Internet.

Who, really, is The Associated Press accusing of copyright infringement? » Nieman Journalism Lab (Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:04:20 -0400)
Who, really, is The Associated Press accusing of copyright infringement? » Nieman Journalism Lab:

If, say, Newser were to balk at a pricier contract and begin treating AP content the way it deals with other news organizations — headlines, excerpts, links — I get the impression that the AP would take action. “There’s no question that we see value in headlines,� Kasi told me, “and that value in the headlines is that we’d rather that it point to our publishers’ sites than some other site, for example, if all the other site is doing is simply cutting and pasting our content.�

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CourseNotes for IPad Gains Sharing, Premium Content (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:20:12 -0700)
Taking class notes is going digital in a big way with the iPad, and a major CourseNotes upgrade aims to make the process more social and flexible.



Education - CourseNotes - United States - Content Management - Apple

Manga on the Kindle? Mangle's Got you Covered (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:01:00 -0700)
An open-source application can help convert your manga collection to a Kindle-friendly format.



Open source - Manga - Arts - Comics - Programming

Happy 2nd Birthday, Google Chrome (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:55:00 -0700)
As Google's browser celebrates its second birthday, let's look at the way it's reshaped the browser market.



Google Chrome - Google - Clients - WWW - Browsers

Google and AOL Renew Long-term Partnership (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:50:12 -0700)
Google and Aol renew a long-standing search and advertising partnership.



Google - AOL - YouTube - Search - Tim Armstrong

iOS 4.1 to Finally Fix iPhone 4 Proximity Sensor (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:49:00 -0700)
Apple is set to release iOS 4.1 next week and finally resolve the proximity sensor issue plaguing many iPhone 4 users.



IPhone - Apple - Smartphones - IOS - Handhelds

Onapsis to Release ERP Vulnerability Testing Suite (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:10:12 -0700)
An Argentinan company will soon release a tool that will allow companies to test their ERP software for security problems.



Enterprise resource planning - Company - ERP - Security - Business

Huawei Debuts Android 2.2 IDEOS Smartphone (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:10:10 -0700)
Huawei has launched the IDEOS, or U8150, smartphone, which will cost between US$100 and $200.



Android - Smartphone - Huawei - Handhelds - Wi-Fi

Five Reasons I Won't Be Using Ping (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:09:00 -0700)
I've taken a brief test drive of Apple's new social network to see what it's about. But even before updating iTunes, I knew Ping was not for me.



Apple - iTunes - Facebook - Ping - Social network

Meet the Galaxy Tab (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:04:00 -0700)
The new tablet is loaded with features and Samsung says the Tab is only the beginning of its foray into touch-based tablet devices.



Samsung Group - GalaxyTab - tablet - Android - Samsung

Dell Loses 3PAR Bidding War to HP (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:30:14 -0700)
Dell ends bidding war for 3Par, paving the way for HP to acquire the company.



Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Business - Mergers & Acquisitions - HP 3000

Presented By: (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:30:14 -0700)

Huawei Receives Equipment Clearances in India (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:10:09 -0700)
Chinese equipment vendor Huawei Technologies starts getting clearances in India



India - Huawei - Asia - Government - ZTE

Amiga Is Back--In Name, Anyway (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:00 -0700)
What's old is new again! Commodore announces plans to bring back the old Amiga name for a new line of PCs.



Amiga - Personal computer - Commodore - Operating Systems - AmigaOS

Apple Posts Video From Special Event (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:50:22 -0700)
Apple bucked tradition and streamed Wednesday’s special event live, so that iPod and Apple TV enthusiasts (with well-equipped Macs, iPhones, or iPads) could...



Apple - IPhone - iPod - IPod Classic - Apple iPod

Sony Pitches a 3D Laptop, But You'll Still Need Glasses (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:50:00 -0700)
Sony says it plans to launch a 3D Vaio laptop in 2011 designed to support 3D video games and high-definition movie playback.



Sony - Laptop - Video game - VAIO - Hardware

Twitter for IPad Is Finally Here (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:40:23 -0700)
It’s official: after months in the dark, dank caves of rumor and speculation, the official Twitter app for the iPad has now emerged into bright, friendly light...



Twitter - IPad - social networks - Online Communities - Trending and Popularity

Apple TV: What You Need to Know (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:40:19 -0700)
Apple executives have frequently called the Apple TV a “hobby”—as much an acknowledgment of customers’ lackluster reaction to the set-top box as it is the amount...



Apple - appletv - Set-top box - Macintosh - Apple II

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is Official (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:37:00 -0700)
The Tab has potential to compete with the iPad but it will be a winner or a dud based largely on how well the software works.



Samsung Group - Android - Samsung - Apple - tablet

Discover Preview's Hidden Image Editing Powers (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:20:25 -0700)
Sometime you just want to tweak an image and move on... fast. At that moment, you don't want commitment (iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom), or a bizillion editing...



Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - IPhoto - Aperture - Lightroom - Adobe Systems

What HDR Means for IPhone Photos (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:20:14 -0700)
One hotly anticipated feature rolling out in next week's iOS 4.1 update is the new HDR (high dynamic range) option in the iPhone's built-in Camera app. The...



iPhone - High dynamic range imaging - Photography - Smartphones - Handhelds

HP Raises 3PAR Bid to $33 per Share (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:10:12 -0700)
HP has raised its offer for 3PAR to $33 per share, topping Dell's latest offer of $32.



Hewlett-Packard - Dell - Business - HP 3000 - HP

Ping on iTunes - Not So Hot (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:59:00 -0700)
Apple's big new addition to iTunes 10 is a social networking component called Ping. First impressions? Not music to my ears.



Apple - iTunes - Social network service - Facebook - Steve Jobs

Ten Random Questions About the Apple Music Event (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:56:00 -0700)
Just about all of the news turned out to be less than dramatic, but, as usual, I'm left asking questions about the upshot of the announcements about the iPod and Ping.



Apple - iPod - Peripherals - Hardware - Audio

Mix Up Your iPhone’s Style With a Cassette Tape Case (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:45:00 -0700)
The Tuned Up case disguises your iPhone as an audio cassette--perfect for you time travels to 1985.



IPhone - iPhone 3G - Handhelds - Smartphones - Wallpapers and Themes

FCC Takes Net Neutrality to Court of Public Opinion (Again) (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:18:00 -0700)
The FCC continues the fight for net neutrality with a new inquiry for public input, but advocates are becoming frustrated at the ongoing debate and lack of action.



Network neutrality - Federal Communications Commission - FCC - Google - Programming

The iPod Classic Lives! (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:27:00 -0700)
Apple confirmed that the boxy and big iPod classic line digital music players will live on.



Apple - iPod - Apple iPod - Shopping - Digital Portable Players

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Apple iOS 4.2 Readies the iPad for Work (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 -0700)
With multitasking, shared files, and wireless printing, Apple's 4.2 iOS upgrades iPad for business use.



Apple - IPad - IPhone - IOS - Steve Jobs

Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:40:09 -0700)
Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for spam.



Botnet - Spam - E-mail - Pushdo botnet - Pushdo

Samsung Launches Galaxy Tab (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:50:09 -0700)
Samsung has finally revealed the Galaxy Tab, which will start shipping in October.



Samsung Group - Android - Galaxy Tab - Verizon - Samsung Galaxy Tab

Samsung Galaxy Tab Makes Its Intriguing Debut (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:00 -0700)
Based on the specs and features revealed today at IFA in Berlin, the Tab is shaping up to be a worthy challenger to the iPad.



Berlin - IPad - Samsung Group - Germany - Android

Baidu Launches New Entertainment Features for Search Engine (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:50:09 -0700)
Baidu, China's largest search engine, officially launched a series of new entertainment features on Thursday



Baidu - Web search engine - China - Google - Search Engines

Living Room is Tech Battleground - Again (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:20:00 -0700)
Tech companies have tried--and failed--to conquer the living room for years. And while some recent efforts have gained traction, the set-top box market is still wide open.



AppleTV - Apple - Set-top box - Business - Companies

iTunes Celebrates Centenary With Social Features Bonanza (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:56:00 -0700)
Take a closer look at iTunes 10's updated interface and new social features.



iTunes - Apple - Steve Jobs - Peripherals - Hardware

The Web's Most Annoying Apps (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:54:00 -0700)
They install icons, they get up in your face with trivial alerts, they demand that you update and then restart--three times a week. We’ve all used these apps, and they’re always a pain.



Icons - Desktop Customization - Macintosh - United States - Graphics

The Most Dangerous Jobs in Technology (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:00:00 -0700)
For most desk-bound IT workers, the workplace is relatively tame. Others who earn a living in the technology realm, however, confront danger on a regular basis.



Technology - Business - Energy - Mobile phone - Entertainment

Remains of the Day: Did I Miss Anything? (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:20:10 -0700)
You ever get that nagging feeling at the back of your mind that you've missed something important? Huh. Well, it was probably nothing. I mean, after all, what...



Remains of the Day - Health - Emma Thompson - United States - Howards End

Fujitsu Says Green IT Services Can Cut Bills by 20 Percent (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:10:14 -0700)
Fujitsu is offering new services in the U.S. and the U.K. aimed at helping reduce IT energy bills.



Fujitsu - Business - United States - Energy - Green computing

3Par Faces Lawsuit as Bidding War Continues (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:10:11 -0700)
Crossroads Systems has sued 3Par and six other companies for patent infringement.



Patent infringement - Intellectual property - Law - Services - Patent

Hands on With Apple's New iPods, Apple TV (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:47:00 -0700)
After a brief chance to play with Apple's new toys, here are some first impressions.



Apple - IPod - AppleTV - IPod Touch - iTunes

New iPods vs. Old: Specs, Design Reveal Big Improvements (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:41:00 -0700)
Comparing technical specification of the most recent generation of iPods with their most recent predecessors show big improvements - not to mention better design aesthetics.



IPod - Apple - IPod Touch - IPhone - Specification

3D Content Is King at Giant Tech Show (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:30:17 -0700)
More content is needed for 3D to take off in the living room. An important part will be self-generated, Panasonic said on Wednesday at IFA.



Panasonic Corporation - Panasonic - Blu-ray Disc - Arts - Movies

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ActiveState Prepares Python for Databases (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:30:15 -0700)
The new ActiveState Python distribution includes modules for GUI design and interacting with databases.



Python - ActiveState - Programming - Languages - Graphical user interface

6 Super Wi-Fi Tools for Windows (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:59:00 -0700)
Free or cheap apps can help troubleshoot your wireless network, turn your laptop into a hot spot and more.



Hotspot - Wireless - Data Communications - Wireless network - 802.11

Blackberry Loses More Ground To Apple and Android (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:56:00 -0700)
In an international study, 83 percent of U.S. businesses say more employees are choosing iPhones or Android phones.



Apple - IPhone - Android - Handhelds - Smartphones

Zulu Plugin for FileMaker Merges Databases With ICal (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:51:19 -0700)
SeedCode has announced the Zulu iCal Server plugin for FileMaker Pro Server databases. FileMaker offers internal date-handling, but before now, databases that...



FileMaker - Database - filemakerpro - ICal - Consultants and Developers

Hands on With Apple's New IPods, Apple TV (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:51:17 -0700)
After Wednesday's Apple media event, we got to spend a little while in a hands-on area adjacent to the Yerba Buena theater with a few dozen members of the media...



Apple - AppleTV - Yerba Buena - Macintosh - Steve Jobs

Firefox 3.6 Becomes Number Two Browser as IE6 Declines (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:49:00 -0700)
Firefox 3.6 slips into the number two browser position thanks to falling market share for IE6, but IE8 continues to lead all browsers in both market share and growth.



Firefox - Internet Explorer 8 - Browser - marketshare - Internet Explorer 6

How to Fake Out Facebook Places (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:23:00 -0700)
Three easy ways to hack your location using Facebook Places through your mobile phone or a geo-aware Web browser.



Facebook - Mobile phone - Social network - Online Communities - Facebook Places

Free Demo of Epic Games's Project Sword Now Available (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:20:15 -0700)
Curious about Project Sword, the new Epic Games RPG for iOS demonstrated at Apple's event on Wednesday? Lucky for you, the company has released a free app that...



Apple - EpicGames - Role-playing game - IPhone - Games

Summary: Apple Kicks off Fall With IPod, Apple TV Overhauls (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:10:20 -0700)
As expected, Apple refreshed its iPod lineup Wednesday, unveiling redesigned versions of its iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle music players. But the...



iPod - Apple - IpodShuffle - AppleTV - IPod Nano

Scorecard: Apple Music Event (Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:10:14 -0700)
Last week, when pondering today's Apple music event, I gazed into my hazy crystal ball and suggested a few avenues Apple might take. I ended the piece with...



Apple - Macintosh - Apple II - iPod - Steve Jobs