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So here is a one we didn’t see coming from a mile ;-)
A tipster tells me that Yahoo has started offering Meedio DVR software as a free download to one-and-all, without much fanfare. Isn’t it dandy - that it took just eight days to brand Meedio as Yahoo Go (TV.) (Yahoo had acquired the Meedio [...]

Auntie Beeb, to the ex-Colonial types is going in for a nip-and-tuck. Forgetting that reason people love BBC for its content, and not gimmicky tricks, the company is hoping to build a public service version of MySpace.com, reports Media Guardian. Its betting the farm on user generated content - blogs, videos and what not. Something [...]

Scott McNealy is no longer the chief executive of Sun Microsystems. Wow… it truly is an end of an era. (Okay he is still the chairman, but that’s not like he is The Chairman.)
Damn, I am going to miss his one liners and swings at Microsoft. How can you forget the infamous (and very funny) [...]

Brightcove, the television-on-web company that is also one of the Business 2.0 Next Net 25 start-ups, is going to open its service to all comers later this week. Jeremy Allaire, founder and chief executive of Brightcove, made this announcement in his keynote speech at the NAB show. For past six months, Bright Cove has been [...]

Viacom is buying X-Fire for $102 million, according to company sources. Think of it as the consolation prize for Viacom, which was rumored to be in talks with Facebook!
XFire is a tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily. The two-and-a-half [...]

Net activists have launched a Save the Internet campaign, hoping to build a grass roots groundswell in order to maintain the status quo over network neutrality.
You can read about the reasons in great detail here or simply watch a two minute video here to get a sense of why network neutrality effects everyone.
I admire the [...]