A few thousand consumers are pledging to never ever download any unlicensed movie via BitTorrent again, as long as Hollywood offers them a legal alternative that comes without DRM, local restrictions, release windows and premium pricing. Illusionary demands, or a necessary attempt to aim high? Read More »
Archive for February 2011
Rajiv Dutta, former President of Skype and more recently a partner at private equity firm, Elevation Partners succumbed to colon cancer on January 31, 2011. He joined the private equity firm, after spending nearly 10 years at eBay. He also served as President of PayPal. Read More »
Today on the Net: NBC explains why it fired the leaker of an old Today Show clip, TiVo wants to help brands measure the effectiveness of their ads for free, and execs are all huffy over Viacom’s deal this week with Hulu. Read More »
It was a big week for big data, with two key trends adding fuel to claims that data management and analysis will never be the same. Even laggards will be tempted to give big data tools a try to see what all the hype is about. Read More »
When WikiLeaks first appeared on the scene, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller made it clear that he did not consider leader Julian Assange a journalist, or WikiLeaks a journalistic entity. Based on some recent comments, however, Keller’s view may be changing — slowly. Read More »
The next Billy Graham or Joel Osteen may use Roku and other Internet set-top boxes to reach worshippers in the privacy of their living room. More and more churches have been embracing Roku in particular to compete with big mega-churches and their huge cable TV outlets. Read More »
Music CDs take up space, break easily, get lost and aren’t nearly as easy to organize and manage as a hard drive-based iTunes collection. But backing up your discs isn’t as easy as you might think. Luckily, we’ve got three great ways to do it. Read More »
Energy Secretary Steve Chu on Friday said his agency has offered $27.3 million to nine companies through a new initiative — called SunShot — that he said will help cut down solar electricity pricing dramatically, down to $1 per watt, by the end of the decade. Read More »
ShareYourOffice is a new website that wants to act as matchmaker for office space, hooking up people looking for desk space and companies that have spare space available. The idea behind ShareYourOffice is to create mini-coworking centers everywhere there are firms with spare desk space. Read More »
Former Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, best remembered for his failed AOL merger, has made a quiet return to the online world as an investor of health-information start-up OrganizedWisdom and now sees the power of channeling social media to help better the lives of people. Read More »
Dropping H.264 may be beneficial for Google in several ways, but the move will have little effect on the broader online video market. Ubiquitous Flash usage and lack of hardware support means WebM has a long way to go before it’s a viable alternative to H.264. Read More »
There is a tablet boom coming — if the vast displays of tablets at CES were not enough and Google’s Honeycomb didn’t impress you, well a key maker of tablet components is now forecasting a massive boom – 180 million tablets by 2014 versus 20 million… Read More »
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