Just when you think it is time to say goodbye to the old copper infrastructure, someone comes up with new technology to give it a new lease on life. Now Bell Labs, using software and new gear, is pushing DSL speeds to 300 Mbps. Read More »
Archive for April 2010
In a question related to revenue for next quarter, the response included four factors: a stronger U.S. dollar, a Mac portable transition, the educational buying season, and a “future product transition.” Read More »
This morning it was observed that a number of videos using footage from the film Downfall to mock pop culture issues had been taken off YouTube for copyright reasons. But how do the creators of those videos go about challenging that decision, given… Read More »
Open vs. Closed. It’s a story that has been at the heart of the technology industry for most of its modern history, and it exposes issues that are crucial to the industry’s evolution, with giant companies on either side of the equation jockeying for position. Read More »
Only Apple could make success seem banal, reporting the best-ever earnings for a second fiscal quarter today. Sales of Macs were solid and iPods flat, while iPhone sales bucked the cyclical decline. Read More »
Google has purchased a stealthy startup called Agnilux. Agnilux was founded by engineers who formerly worked at chip startup PA Semi, and it is supposedly making some type of server. This might prove for webscale there’s nothing like tweaking your infrastructure– from the silicon up. Read More »
A single, well-placed TV spot can rapidly direct millions of visitors to a site, creating traffic spikes most advertisers and broadcasters would struggle to cope with — and a potential headache for those tasked with keeping those sites online and responsive. But that’s a near-perfect use… Read More »
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus invited social game developers to band together to create an “app economy” at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco. Maintaining the structure of applications built on top of platforms will be key to Zynga and its competitors’ success, he said. Read More »
It has been all quiet on the BlackBerry front for a while, with RIM hard at work on the next big version of the OS. Some mighty tasty screen shots of BlackBerry 6.0 have leaked, and it seems the OS is built for touch control. Read More »
Facebook’s third f8 developer conference kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco and online, with the social networking company likely to announce what is essentially a game plan to not only socialize the web, but to marginalize the pre-social web. But while such a plan… Read More »
The consumption of on-demand media continues to increase, according to new research from KPMG. According to the consulting firm’s Media and Entertainment Barometer, consumers (at least in the U.K.) are spending more time consuming digital and non-traditional media, with growth in streaming video and strong… Read More »
Getting a design right is tricky, and sometimes just discussing it with your co-workers or friends and family won’t give you the impartial input that you need. That’s where Concept Feedback comes in. Read More »
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