UPDATED: As expected, Cisco today said it would buy Pure Digital, the maker of the Flip handheld video camera, for $590 million in stock. The deal will move Cisco deeper in the consumer market and give it control of a device that produces… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
This may not be important to those of you outside the U.S., but March Madness is upon us here in the states and it’s a big deal. Check that, it’s a MAJOR deal. The road to the Final Four in college basketball is a fun one… Read More »
There were a few additional resources that did not fit in our rundown on font management applications. So continuing our Font School series, here are a few additional apps and articles on fonts.
Some Reading
Report: It Costs Netflix Roughly a Nickel to Stream a Movie; Day Rayburn crunches some numbers and estimates that it costs the company .06 cents to stream a full SD movie and .09 cents to stream an HD one. (The Business of Online Video) Hulu Getting… Read More »
This is just so cool. Sony has cut a deal with Google to add 500,000 public domain titles produced through Google’s e-book scanning project into the Sony Reader library. The e-books will be available to Sony Reader owners and are in the ePub format, a popular… Read More »
Silver Spring Networks is one company that doesn’t have to rebrand itself as a smart grid maker to benefit from the billions of dollars in stimulus funds likely to usher in a smart grid boom. Investors are still handing out funds to the… Read More »
Microsoft launches IE8 to the public this morning; you can now download it from the Microsoft web site. But do most web workers even care? Despite using a Windows machine, I haven’t touched IE for weeks. I downloaded the release candidate to check it out… Read More »
Somebody somewhere in the Adobe offices must be getting pretty nervous. Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, an also-ran competitor to Flash, suddenly got a YouTube boost. Liz reports that YouTube will carry live video of March Madness, thanks to its partnership with CBS — and it’s… Read More »
UPDATE: To find out where to watch the 2010 NCAA tournament, go here. So live video has finally, finally come to YouTube this morning. CBS has embedded its Silverlight March Madness bracket and live game coverage directly onto a YouTube channel. Go to http://www.youtube.com/marchmadness… Read More »
Owners of Apple’s iPod Touch have grumbled about paying for software updates in the past. I certainly understand their point when they see iPhone owners get free firmware upgrades. I’m no accountant, nor do I play one on the Internet, but the discrepancy between free… Read More »
If you asked me what I missed the most about my iPhone, I would have said Truphone, because it was the cheapest and easiest way to call my mom in India. Well, today you can add Nimbuzz to that list. The company just announced a… Read More »
A session called Bootstrap Your Startup at South by Southwest 2009 provided valuable insight for the many web workers who are either embarking on their own online business venture or considering doing so. Led by Bijoy Goswami, CEO of Aviri, and Marcy Hoen, founder of… Read More »
More Must Reads
