RapidShare Fined $34M; German court orders file-hosting service to filter content in ruling on lawsuit by music publishing group. (TorrentFreak) Rich Media Ads with Video “Overwhelmingly” Outperform Other Formats; Google’s DoubleClick conducted study that found purchase intent dramatically increased by video. (MediaPost) Qualcomm Flo to… Read More »
Archive for June 2009
UMPC Portal notes something that I’ve been watching for months. The trend for searches using the term UMPC is in vast decline. As a mobile technology community, this can’t be surprising to any regular readers. As much I as enjoyed the three UMPCs… Read More »
LATV Fest brings together creative TV and digital content producers, including development execs, agents, advertising executives and technology solution providers, July 8-9, 2009, for more than 35 sessions on topics such as “Producing a Hit Web Series,” “Digital Opportunities for Media Buyers,” “Increasing your Audience… Read More »
The financially troubled New York Times is reportedly considering charging for access to the paper on mobile platforms. Martin Nisenholtz, head of the Times digital operations, said the Times is considering charging subscription fees for access to the paper from mobile devices such as the… Read More »
Here’s what we learned on joint Time Warner/Comcast press call this morning: “Authenication is great and it will be easy to implement. Hooray!” OK, I’m being a little sarcastic, but the call was more about introducing broad principles for the “TV Everywhere” model, and… Read More »
Dear Friends, On behalf of web workers everywhere, I’d like to thank you for the wonderfully creative ideas you’ve come up with. But since it’s becoming such a crowded field, you need to do a better job telling us why we should spend the time to evaluate… Read More »
It may have come a little late, and it may not have come via a first-party solution, but the iPhone is now able to emulate one of the Palm Pre’s neatest tricks: wireless charging. I assume I’m not the only one who enviously ogled the Pre… Read More »
While on the conference call to announce the TV Everywhere initiative being promoted by Time Warner and Comcast, I asked Comcast CEO Brian Roberts if the content being streamed as part of this new effort would be free from the 250GB-a-month bandwidth quota his… Read More »
As Earth2Tech pointed out earlier this week, everyone and their mother is building home energy management tools these days, including Google. Today, Microsoft unveiled its new home energy management software: Hohm (not to be confused with Sprint’s WiMAX network,… Read More »
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is rethinking his earlier disdain for software as a service and all things cloud, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal. Maybe a dismal economy and a drop in Oracle sales are forcing him to change his… Read More »
HTC, maker of many of the most popular phones in the Android and Windows Mobile markets, today unveiled the HTC Hero. While the hardware on this Android-based smartphone is as good as anything out there, of particular interest is the new user interface, dubbed HTC… Read More »
HTC is the largest maker of smartphones in the world after Nokia, and the company behind many of the most popular phones in the Android and Windows Mobile markets. HTC has today unveiled the HTC Hero smartphone with the new HTC Sense interface. The HTC… Read More »
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