YouTube is striking closer and closer to having a live-streaming offering of its own, experimenting tonight with a live stream of a U2 concert. The stream started at 8:30 PT with crowd shots and a skit where The Edge says the concert is going out… Read More »
Archive for October 2009
Vuguru, the digital studio run by Michael Eisner’s The Tornante Co., will become a standalone entity with investment and a distribution agreement with Canada’s Rogers Media, the broadcasting and publishing arm of Rogers Communications. The deal is significant for Vuguru, which was out front of the… Read More »
Anant Agarwal, co-founder and CTO of Tilera, is tackling the Mount Everest of chips. His goal for decades has been to figure out how to build a general-purpose chip that offers better performance and power efficiency. Those are goals that many startups have shot… Read More »
If I was Nikki Finke, I would have proclaimed “TOLDJA!” in that headline. Because I did read Netflix’s earnings call tea leaves correctly and guessed that the movie rental’s streaming service would come to another game console. Netflix and Sony just announced that Netflix’s TV… Read More »
On Friday, I was waxing eloquent about Netflix and its streaming video service, which has become part of my media consumption. And like me, many Netflix fans were accessing the new but fast-growing video streaming service via their DVD players, televisions, Rokus and Xboxes.… Read More »
One of the chief ways that startups are helping make data centers greener is by developing wireless technology that can fill in the energy blind spots. As analyst Katherine Austin put it in our recent GigaOM Pro report (subscription required), in which she… Read More »
While when it comes to cloud computing, no one has entirely sorted out what’s hype and what isn’t, nor exactly how it will be used by the enterprise, what is becoming increasingly clear is that Big Data is the future of IT. To that… Read More »
Our platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. Barnes & Noble lit a fire under Amazon with the introduction of its own e-book reader, the Nook. The Nook matches Amazon’s Kindle… Read More »
There’s more to Google Calendar (GCal) than meets the eye. At first glance, it seems no different from the printed desktop calendars that used to dominate employee desks. You input your tasks, appointments, and other commitments on their designated dates and refer to the calendar every… Read More »
Can a cell phone take the place of your pocket camcorder? More and more phones are trying to serve as compact camcorders like the Flip models, as are MP3 players like the iPod nano. But few — if any — offer the same video quality… Read More »
Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Copyblogger: “Why Content is No Longer King (And Who’s Taking His Place)” zeldman.com: “Dirty Little Secret of Success” Advertising Age: “Why Charging for Online Content (Mostly) Won’t Work” Small Business… Read More »
How Windows 7 Will Cut Computer Energy Consumption: Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, Windows 7, has some nifty new power management functions that will help cut down on the energy consumption of your PC or laptop. It’s about time. 8 iPhone Apps for Car 2.0: New… Read More »
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