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Dot-com boom and bust: the movie: CNET.com's Kara Tsuboi met with August director Austin Chick and one of the movie's stars, Adam Scott. The new film, in theaters now, retells the story of the dot-com implosion in the summer of 2001.; Tags: Movie, Dot-com, News, kara tsuboi, austin chick, adam scott, josh harnett, august, 2001, dot com, jared kohler, theaters, movies; Videos 2008-07-21
Silverlight 2.0 release date looking like August: While it hasn't been announced yet as far as I know, most people are expecting a Silverlight 2.0 beta at MIX and the beta should have a whole bunch of new features. However the big question has been when Silverlight 2.0 is actually going to ship. According to a source...; Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, August, Linux, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Investment, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marketing, Management, Finance, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-01-14

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MacBooks: World's greenest family of notebooks: Apple's latest Get A Mac television commercial proclaims the new MacBooks to be the "world's greenest family of notebooks." The ad touts the MacBook as completely recyclable and says that it uses a quarter of the amount of power of a single light bulb and has no mercury. ...; Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-11-25
Top blog platforms in UK in August 2008: Property Audience, 000 Pages per Visitor Visits per Visitor Total UK Internet Audience 35,608 2,580 53.3 Blogs 14,456 13 3.7 Blogger 9,019 6 2.6 WordPress 4,807 4 1.8 Six Apart Sites 2,651 7 1.9 HUBPAGES.COM 576 2 1.2...; Tags: Blog, Visitor, Blogging, Internet, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-23
Traffic to presidential candidate Web sites in September 2008: Site August 2008 September 2008 MTM Growth BarackObama.com 6,070 7,934 31% JohnMcCain.com 2,686 4,202 56% Source: Nielsen by NB; Tags: Web, Presidential Candidate, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-21

Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks Customer: I recently had the opportunity to speak with Nick Portolese, Senior Manager of Data Center Operations for Nielsen Mobile, an Altor Networks customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Nick's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what...; Tags: Network, Environment, Network Security, Server, Virtual Machine, Tool, VMWare ESX, Nielsen Mobile, Altor Networks, Nielsen, Productivity, Data Centers, Ip storage, Networking, Security, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-11-21
Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising.: updated: At a time when companies are issuing warnings about missing earnings targets and scaling back expectations, enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com seems to be bucking the trend. After the bell, Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of $276.5 million...; Tags: Revenue, Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Enterprise Software, Quarter, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Sam Diaz; Blog posts 2008-11-20
Total video streams at JohnMcCain.com: John McCain August 2008 September 2008 Percent Change Video Streams (000) 1,176 3,235 175% Unique Viewers (000) 475 1,305 175% Source: Nielsen by NB; Tags: Video, Video Stream, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-20
Total video streams at BarackObama.com in September 2008: Barack Obama August 2008 September 2008 Percent Change Video Streams (000) 1,278 2,044 60% Unique Viewers (000) 824 1,111 35% Source: Nielsen by NB; Tags: Video, Video Stream, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-19
On-Demand Video Consumption, three-Month Average Ending August 2008: Type of Video Subscribers, 000 Share of audience Amateur Video Clips 1,346 37.9% Music Videos 1,224 34.5% Comedy Videos 1,179 33.2% Movie Trailers 1,074 30.2% Full TV/film 727 20.5% Local/National/World News 645 18.1% Entertainment/Celebrity News 629...; Tags: On-demand, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-19
Adobe lands MLB.com deal: updated: Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft's Silverlight. Andy Plesser at Beet.tv reports: Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with Major League Baseball to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers. Games...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., MLB, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-11-17
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 unleashed: The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB, which is said to be 10 times faster than USB 2.0, has been published by the USB Implementers Forum. Version 3.0 of the universal serial bus specification has been released. Unveiled on Monday by the USB Implementers Forum,...; Tags: Specification, USB, SuperSpeed USB, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, USB 3.0, data transfer; News items 2008-11-17
Top US business Web sites in September 2008: August 2008 September 2008 % Change Total Audience 188,937 189,468 0 Business/Finance - News/Research 58,766 64,277 9 RBC.RU 466 1,190 155 FOXBUSINESS.COM 531 1,205 127 Google Finance 822 1,372 67 CNN Money 4,458 6,952 56 ...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-15
Sports site traffic by demographics: Gender August 2007 audience Aug 2008 audience Percent Growth Male 21,401 25,863 21% Female 12,004 16,389 37% Source: Nielsen by NB; Tags: Audience, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-14
Top sports Web sites for August 2008: Site Aug 2007 audience Aug 2008 audience Growth, % Sports Category 33,405 42,252 26% Yahoo! Sports 8,820 18,727 112% ESPN 10,314 11,936 16% FOX Sports on MSN 6,824 7,714 13% SI Digital Sites 3,913 6,490 66% CBS Sports...; Tags: Web, Audience, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-13
Free Software Foundation does the right thing for free culture: The Free Software Foundation's latest version of the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL surprised me a little -- but in a very good way. The FSF has ceded some control and allowed for GFDL content to be re-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. This is a major win...; Tags: Free Software Foundation, Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License, BY-SA, Wiki, Online Communications, Joe Brockmeier; Blog posts 2008-11-13
IT spending to grow 2.6% in 2009: Worldwide spending on IT will slow significantly in 2009 as a direct result of the global financial crisis that began in September 2008. IT spending will grow 2.6% YTY in 2009. In the United States, IT spending is expected to decline to 0.9% in 2009, much lower than the 4.2%...; Tags: IT-spending, AM; Blog posts 2008-11-13
Consumer sentiment towards a la carte price plans by airlines: Question: Are you in favor of “a la carte” pricing? Date: August 2008 Response Total Respondents American Continental Delta Southwest United Yes 48.5 56.5 48.6 48.6 50.1 53.8 No 37.3 31.6 37.8 40.1 35.3 29.7 Not sure 14.2 11.9 13.5 11.3...; Tags: Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-12
Online gaming site visits in Asia-Pacific in August 2008: % Reach Total Unique Visitors (000) Average Minutes per Visitor Average Visits per Visitor Asia Pacific 51.1 199,081 86.8 11.5 China 54.9 90,292 69.8 13.0 Singapore 49.6 1,172 140.0 13.0 Australia 44.7 5,032 125.2 11.3 Taiwan 42.4 4,465 151.0...; Tags: Online Game, Visitor, Games, Personal Technology, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-12
Top Web companies in August 2008: Parent Audience, 000 Time Per Person 1. Google 131,186 2:03:08 2. Microsoft 124,271 2:27:31 3. Yahoo! 118,580 3:22:41 4. Time Warner (Division*) 100,221 3:24:30 5. News Corp. Online 79,871 1:51:40 6. InterActiveCorp 67,805 0:21:13 7. eBay...; Tags: Internet, NB; Blog posts 2008-11-12