Archive for February 2008
Despite the availability of many excellent, free word processors many of us still spend most of our writing time in Microsoft Word. It tends to be the most compatible tool you can choose to exchange documents with others, and lots of people are even forced … Read More »
With so much controversy surrounding the environmental efficacy of food crop-based biofuels, what can a cellulosic biofuel producer do to distinguish itself? Branding, of course! Coskata, the biofuel maker that uses such sundry feedstocks as switchgrass, municipal waste and old tires, has … Read More »
Bowing to what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the changing landscape of the IT industry and others call pressure from EU anti-trust actions, Microsoft announced today the release of some of its technical crown jewels: the heretofore secret APIs Microsoft products used to talk with each … Read More »
Anyone who has been using mobile devices for very long knows too well the hit and miss scenario caused by multi-tasking. You have too much running in the background and the CPU grinds up to 100% and it’s hard to do much of anything. Today’s Freeware … Read More »
See, this is why I read articles to the end! If I had stopped halfway through this CNet article discussing the Palm Foleo and inexpensive sub-notebooks, I … Read More »
Support can be a tricky thing for web workers who sell software. On the one extreme, you can try to handle all of your support activities through your regular email and telephone calls, and not treat them any different from other customer contacts. On the other … Read More »
More Must Reads
Kevin was quick to point out that WiFi provider Boingo can get you wireless coverage in McD’s. It seems everyone is thinking WiFi with the Starbucks announcement they are switching to AT&T in their stores. I just heard from Boingo who informed me that … Read More »
We were a bit ahead of the Google AdSense for video story when we published last night, and some more important details have emerged this morning.
Publishers who want to participate must serve at least 1 million video streams per month, be based in … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 21, 2008, 10:00am PT
KLA-Tencor, the No. 4 player in the semiconductor equipment market, on Thursday offered to buy ICOS Vision Systems Corp., a supplier of solar photovoltaic manufacturing equipment. ICOS has a lead in selling equipment that inspects solar cells and LED lights, and has recently … Read More »
By Alistair Croll
Feb. 21, 2008, 9:22am PT
Police in Quebec staged a series of raids this morning on young hackers located in Montreal and elsewhere throughout the province, arresting 17 computer users and confiscating numerous machines. RCMP allege the gang controlled a bot network of nearly a million computers in 100 … Read More »
Everyone’s attention has been focused on the rumored HP 2133 mini-notebook but they are not the only ones bringing out new low-cost mini-notebooks. Korean OEM Kojinsha has announced a $600 mini-notebook the E8 … Read More »
By Om Malik
Feb. 21, 2008, 8:44am PT
Microsoft is changing the way it does business and is opening up, according to a long elaborate press release the company issued this morning. I am reading through it and will try and make sense of it all. At first blush looks like the leopard … Read More »
FOX to NBC: We Already Do Year-Round Programming; FOX’s chief scheduler chides Zucker’s “new” plan for a 52-week programming schedule. (TV Decoder)
WGA Deal Explained; entertainment lawyer breaks down the writers’ deal point by point. (The Huffington Post)
Newsclipper Aggregates News Video; side project by Norwegian … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Feb. 21, 2008, 8:23am PT
Anyone who travels a lot is constantly hitting the situation when there’s a trip coming up to an unfamiliar city. Wikitravel has been a great site for getting information … Read More »
Good buddy Dwight Silverman has penned a second book and it’s available for those who need it. His book is Running Windows on your Mac which covers everything you could possibly need to know to maximize your experience running any flavor of Vista on your … Read More »
By Bob Walsh
Feb. 21, 2008, 6:32am PT
Backpack, 37signals lightweight online information organizer has just morphed into a very handy intranet for web worker online businesses with the addition of multiuser page, calendar, messaging and reminder functions.
“The concept of an intranet has been perverted over the years to be a bunch of … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 21, 2008, 6:00am PT
IBM is using DNA to ferry carbon nanotubes to make chips. Meanwhile, bug protein may soon be used to provide us with terabytes of data on a DVD. It all sounds so futuristic and creepy, but despite the fanfare, using biology as a storage … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 21, 2008, 5:02am PT
Online video is perfectly suited for investigative journalism pieces. It’s just as easy to go out into the field with camera in hand as it is with a tape recorder, and now the final product is no longer limited to the written word but can hit … Read More »
By Carleen Hawn
Feb. 21, 2008, 1:03am PT
While traveling from Mumbai to New Delhi last week, I met an executive from one of India’s big conglomerates, Mahindra & Mahindra. In case you’ve not heard of it, Mahindra is structured much like the well-known Tata Group. Mahindra has operations in auto-manufacturing … Read More »
By Larry Chiang
Feb. 21, 2008, 12:03am PT
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in Larry Chiang’s series on “What They Don’t Teach You At Stanford Business School.” (He’s turning it into a book.) What could founders do with “Man-Charm,” you ask? Answers Larry: “Founders can use man-to-man … Read More »
By Stacey Higginbotham
Feb. 21, 2008, 12:00am PT
Brand and comparison advertising done through ad-focused widgets is emerging as a viable way of using the ubiquitous applications. Widgets’ interactive features, their ability to be virally distributed and potentially be placed on a target’s own page makes the creations appealing to advertisers.
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Hey New York NewTeeVee Readers!
Don’t forget there’s a meetup in your fair city tonight for like-minded, fun-lovin’ people just like you. Here are the details:
NEWTEEVEE’S NEW YORK MEETUP
When? Thursday, February 21
Where? Burp Castle, 41 East 7th St. (Jackson says this is a good spot.)
Time? After … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Feb. 21, 2008, 12:00am PT
Even though a carbon tax could offer more benefits than a carbon cap and trade system, taxes are just plain politically unpalatable. But that hasn’t stopped some leaders from trying — now there are two policy makers heading for political martyrdom via carbon taxation.
To the north, … Read More »
Remember back in the day when you gasped “$1.6 billion for YouTube!?!” “Where’s the AdSense of audio and video?” was what I wanted to know in October 2006, the week after Google bought YouTube. A year and a half later Google is taking the … Read More »
BBC’s iPlayer is seeing about one-tenth of the broadcast audience, with half a million viewers tuning in on the busiest days, according to a piece reported by Chris Williams at The Register that cites Anthony Rose, the Beeb’s head of media technology and Ashley Highfield, … Read More »
By Craig Rubens
Feb. 20, 2008, 6:39pm PT
Oil Prices Set New High: So it’s official, oil has crossed the $100 mark and Reuters reports that gasoline has jumped to over $3 a gallon – CNBC.
Nanotubes Yield Blackest Material, But Potential for Solar?: Researchers at RPI and Rice have developed … Read More »
By Wagner James Au
Feb. 20, 2008, 5:00pm PT
I’ve been covering the Game Developers Convention for nearly 10 years, and if I’ve learned anything, it’s that most of the news that emerges from there typically doesn’t pan out. Announced games get delayed, partnerships fizzle. Worse, most coverage inevitably skews to hardcore products … Read More »
By Samuel Dean
Feb. 20, 2008, 4:00pm PT
This week, Mozilla’s cross-platform e-mail client Thunderbird has been getting a lot of attention because Mozilla has announced a new subsidiary focused on it. Thunderbird is a good e-mail client, but I actually like to use several e-mail clients for various purposes–in addition to my … Read More »
The one thing that’s certain about advertisement engagement is that…nothing is certain. That’s the big takeaway from today’s VideoEgg Engagement Debate ’08, where marketing folk gathered to discuss the topic. There were four panels, the members of which tried to define engagement, determine effective environments … Read More »
Like that kinetic scrolling on the iPhone so much that you want it on your Mac? You’ll definitely want to check out Smart Scroll X, a third-party application I read about on MacUser. The app is $19, but there’s a free trial, which I … Read More »
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Feb. 20, 2008, 3:31pm PT
I have to admit that as much as I love using my HTC Advantage I rarely see them out in the real world very often. Today is one such day as … Read More »
