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Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian unplugged

Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian unpluggedSling media CEO Blake....http://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-DSL.htmlhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-Internet.htmlRE: Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian unpluggedhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-DSL.htmlhttp://www.1-satellite-tv-facts.com/Satellite-Internet.html

Tags: Blake, Sling Media, Blake Krikorian

Discussion threads 2008-05-25

What technology education needs to do

The IT industry will create one million new jobs by 2014, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Given that scenario, are we doing enough to make a computer science degree relevant to future IT professionals, asks M. Brian Blake in today's CNET News perspective. The...

Tags: computer science, computer, Blake

Blog posts 2006-10-26

All Along the Watchtower

All Along the WatchtowerHendrix-bio?What's the title?With Age Comes Wisdom...Steve,As the money starts to appear for [v/b]logging, the issues of failed partnerships seem to emerge: Adam C./Dave W., Amanda C./Andrew B.Partnerships start with the best of intentions but they are tested overtime and divorces are more common than life long pairings.Amanda...

Tags: Business structures, Blake, Andrew, Watchtower

Discussion threads 2006-07-10

Gnomedex: Blake Ross on open source marketing of Firefox

Gnomedex: Blake Ross on open source marketing of FirefoxDidn't I already make that point?Richard,Thanks for the writeup. But I have a question about how you capped your article. You wrote:"The crowd was very much in support of Blake and Firefox, but even so Dave's point that Firefox has to appeal...

Tags: Web browsers, open source, Mozilla Firefox, Blake, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web browser

Discussion threads 2006-07-01

Gnomedex: Blake Ross on open source marketing of Firefox

Firefox co-founder Blake Ross spoke at Gnomedex today. He started off by talking about the misconceptions of how Firefox started. He said it wasn't about annihilating Microsoft or liberating the world from proprietary software. Firefox was started to create an easy-to-use browser for mainstream people. He said they didn't want...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Blake

Blog posts 2006-07-01

Blake Ross on Firefox vs. IE and other topics

Blake Ross is one of the co-creators of Firefox and is on a mission to make software for mere mortals. That's one of Steve Jobs' favorite phrases. Like Jobs, Blake is starting out young. The 20-year-old is on leave from Stanford, still working on Firefox, and has also started a...

Tags: Web browsers, Podcasts, Mozilla Firefox, Blake, Microsoft Internet Explorer, podcast

Blog posts 2005-09-26

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Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft

The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

A new must-read for math/science teachers

A new must-read for math/science teacherssorry, sorta uselessquarts gallonpints quartinches footEver hear of metric?This week's book for my 6-year oldBesides my 8-year old's passion for being a member in the WordMasters group before school starts in the AM, my 6-year old brought home last week a booked entitled "Jump...

Tags: new must-read, math/science, must-read

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

Yang takes $1 salary in 2007; Former Yahoo execs made the most

Yahoo said in an amendment to its annual report that CEO Jerry Yang was paid $1 for 2007. The company added the amendment since it won't be able to file its proxy statement 120 days after its fiscal year. Yang's $1 salary is in keeping with other...

Tags: Compensation, Yahoo! Inc., Salary, Yang, Rosensweig, Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Yahoo's first quarter good; Not good enough for a higher Microsoft bid; Yang wants more

Updated: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was "open to all and any alternatives including a sale to Microsoft" following the company's first quarter results. The brief comments indicate Yahoo hasn't ruled out a Microsoft purchase, but wants something better than the software giant's $31 a share offer. ...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Taking ownership (pwnership) of content: Cross-site Scripting Google

My good friend Billy Rios pictured to the right published another interesting exploit recently.  It's a cross-site scripting exposure in spreadsheets.google.com, which is interesting because it's exploited by using the content-type returned by spreadsheets.google.com and a caching flaw on the part of Google.  Here's some details from Billy's blog: I was...

Tags: Security, Google Inc., HTML, XSS, Domain, Billy Rios, Rios, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-16

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chips

IBM experimenting with DNA to build chipsDNA computingThe NY Times ran a piece in 1995 on DNA computing using DNA pairs as stand-ins for the 0's and 1's of binary code. The NSA is into this big time.http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEFD91338F932A25757C0A963958260RE: IBM experimenting with DNA to build chipsThis sounds like the basis for...

Tags: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Microsoft Corp., NSA, DNA, nanotube, IBM Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees 'headwinds'; Restructuring in Feb.

Yahoo's fourth quarter results Tuesday were better than expected, but the company's outlook for 2008 disappointed. Meanwhile, Yahoo didn't deliver layoffs as many prognosticators were expecting, but CEO Jerry Yang said a workforce review and a targeted "jobs realignment" will begin in February. First the good news...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Agreement, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-29

Another Microsoft manager jumps from the Live Search ship

In 2007, there was rampant turnover in the Microsoft Live Search unit. It looks like 2008 is off to a similar start. Mike Nichols, Group Program Manager for Live Search, has resigned and is moving to work for Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships....

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mike Nichols, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Venture Capital, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-17

Another Microsoft Search reorg: Shum now leads engineering

In the latest reorg of its Search unit, which Microsoft announced internally to its troops on November 9, Microsoft has appointed Harry Shum to take over management of the Core Search engineering team. Shum will replace General Manager of Microsoft Search Ken Moss. Moss has held the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Search, Moss, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Yahoo notches Wall Street win; Aims to be Internet 'starting point'

Updated throughout: Yahoo's third quarter results are showing signs of life as the company notched a rare win with Wall Street. For the third quarter ended Sept. 30, Yahoo reported earnings of $151 million, or 11 cents a share, on revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs of $1.28 billion. Earnings...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Wall, Internet, Construction, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Watch out, RIAA's set a precedent

Watch out, RIAA's set a precedentDownloading?You're doing the same thing the RIAA is doing when you say that "the downloading and sharing of copyrighted material is illegal." Actually, the sharing of copyrighted material is illegal, the downloading is not. Obviously the RIAA would like to blur this distinction...

Tags: Digital media, court case, RIAA, copyrighted data, Copyright-Infringement

Discussion threads 2007-10-09

EDS, Sabre extend IT services deal

EDS and Sabre Holdings extended and renegotiated a long running information technology services deal to 2014. Under the extension, EDS said Wednesday that it will garner new revenue of about $630 million. The new agreement requires that EDS support "Sabre's continued business transformation, including its move to open systems."...

Tags: IT Services, Information Technology, Agreement, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Sabre Holdings, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-03

Liquid crystal burning bright, saves poor Leo from his plight

Don't you hate it when that happens? Right in the middle of an emergency appendix operation, BAM!, all the power goes out. According to an article in Reuters, Leonardo Molina was on the operating table on July 21st when everything went dark.TIGER, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the...

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Surgeon, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Facebook's OS ambitions

Facebook's OS ambitionsRoss and ZuckerbergYou can find more info on Blake Ross and Parakey at IEEE Spectrum in the article "The Firefox Kid" (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696) from last November. Interestingly, Mark Zuckerberg of FaceBook is a good friend of Ross's. Now, that's social networking.Facebook is a JokeFacebook's site can easily be replicated...

Tags: Channel management, operating system, Facebook

Discussion threads 2007-07-20