Earth Day is starting to feel like just another holiday created to sell a lot of stuff. Our email inboxes have been bombarded over the past month with announcements from traditional tech companies touting their eco moves. As the coordinator of the first Earth Day, Denis … Read More »
Archive for April 2008
Nielsen today released its March VideoCensus numbers, saying it saw a slight decrease in U.S. unique video viewers — to 115.4 million, down from 115.8 million in February and 116.7 million in January. Total video streams, on the other hand, got a healthy boost, rising … Read More »
I haven’t touched a Microsoft emulator since 2006 when I was playing with the UMPC simulation, so I’m about due for more fun and games. Up on the … Read More »
In researching consumer broadband habits, Om picked up some interesting tidbits from Arbor Networks, which manages traffic flow for ISPs around the planet. While Om had expected to find that peer-to-peer guzzles bandwidth, according to Arbor’s data, P2P applications are responsible for just 20 percent … Read More »
Information security is a very important consideration when using computer networks (including the Internet). Security is one of many reasons corporate IS departments exist. However for your own personal and work-related communications, how do you ensure your emails and instant message conversations don’t fall victim to prying … Read More »
Need to send a lengthy URL from a Windows Mobile device? With web addresses getting so long and cumbersome to work with, that simple act can be quite a challenge. From … Read More »
How we do it. Wow, it seems they visited Gear Diary too! Read More »
MySpace and NBC Join Forces for Campaign Coverage; Decision ’08 to provide daily videos from NBC and MSNBC, as well as user-generated content. (Reuters) MediaScrape Raises $3.16 Million; Montreal-based news video aggregator, syndicator and translator gets money from undisclosed investors. (paidContent) BayTSP and NTT Partner for … Read More »
California’s Mojave desert sure is getting crowded as more and more companies are raising money in an effort to build large solar power plants to harness the sun’s heat. Yesterday, eSolar said it had raised a massive $130 million from the likes of Google and … Read More »
It’s Earth Day again, and as a result plenty of people are thinking about lowering their environmental impact. Web workers are no exception – and depending on just how you work on the web, you may already be helping out. … Read More »
In honor of Earth Day, we’re borrowing from our friends over at Earth2Tech in order to celebrate the infrastructure, gadgets and web sites that can help GigaOMers go green. Whether it’s chips that make your servers run cooler or web sites that will help … Read More »
And after last week’s analysis of political rhetoric, we’re back to network comedy. But this time, something fresher in concept than an SNL sketch… Will It Spread? How I Met Your Mother: “Sandcastles in the Sand” What’s It About: If you’re not a fan of the … Read More »
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