Today on the Net: Credit Suisse downgrades cable programmers on competitive threats from Netflix and over-the-top video, Apple’s Airplay can play back any H.264 video on user TVs through the Apple TV set-top box and YouTube adds new content execs. Read More »
Archive for September 2010
In a Q&A conducted with users today from his personal Twitter account, CEO Evan Williams shared his company’s product roadmap details in the wake of the relaunch of Twitter.com. Perhaps most interestingly, he said that Twitter does not plan to release official desktop clients. Read More »
In most states utilities raise electricity rates in order to pay for the installation of new gear like smart meters — so consumers basically cover the cost of the upgrade. But some consumers and PUCs aren’t so happy about those terms. Read More »
The average, tragically unhip American knows of Jenny Slate from her work on Saturday Night Live. However, if you are not tragically unhip, then you perhaps knew that SNL barely scraped the surface of her talents, which especially shine when she works with her friends. Read More »
How do you know when phone companies are in panic mode? You see them hastily organize summits and build consortiums to compete with a hot technology and ride a popular trend. They’re doing it again: this time with plans to build an operating system. Read More »
There are plenty of companies and services devoted to helping people manage the ocean of information that flows through the web, but there aren’t that many focusing on trying to help businesses manage the information flow in their specific industries. That’s the market Eqentia is pursuing. Read More »
Over time, an install of Internet Explorer can develop problems, which is when having the SF IE Restorator tool from Seven Forums may come in handy. It’s a troubleshooting utility that you can use to try to automatically fix some of the most common IE issues. Read More »
This week, we learned that the HDCP copy protection scheme is now essentially broken. HDCP’s failure is just one of many examples of copy protection technology not living up to its promises of security. Read on for five of the most glorious examples of DRM FAIL. Read More »
Xeround, a Bellevue, WA-based start-up has come out of stealth and has launched the beta version of MySQL in the cloud and is offering relational database as an on-demand service. Xeround is available either as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) or as a virtual appliance. Read More »
Amid talk surrounding the Apple-Google app store battle, many have overlooked Apple’s main advantage: the direct billing relationship with consumers thanks to iTunes. But Google now sees a new entry point to your wallet which hits right at the core strengths of Apple: music and books. Read More »
It seems that LogMeIn’s super-simple web conferencing product LogMeIn Express, which I first wrote about back in November last year, has been rebranded as join.me. It’s basically still the same product with a few tweaks that make it easier to use and a little more useful. Read More »
Samsung has officially announced that its iPad competitor, the Galaxy Tab, will be coming soon to all four major carriers in the U.S. Hitting all four carriers is a continuation of the strategy that Samsung employed with the Galaxy S handsets, but lacking 4G. Read More »
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