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- Intel, Yahoo team up on interactive TV platform
- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Eric Kim and Yahoo's Patrick Barry demo a new TV platform designed to bring rich Internet applications featuring sports, weather, and financial information to the living room. Consumer electronics that use Intel's architecture will offer the Yahoo Widget Engine, an applications...
- Tags: Interactive TV, Team, Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Financial Accounting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Widget, Intel, Yahoo
- Videos 2008-08-20
- Yahoo: TV widgets and pondering a Disney takeover
- If Yahoo's battle with Google has taught us anything it's that the company isn't run by engineers. Sure, Yahoo is tech savvy. Sure it has an open platform. And sure it'll do things like plan a Widget Channel with Intel and tout it at a developers conference. But Yahoo is...
- Tags: Disney Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Widget Channel, Minyanville, Harrison, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- eBay has Amazon envy: Cuts fees to get more fixed pricing
- Can eBay still be eBay as it moves toward a fixed pricing model? Possibly, but it's going to be really difficult to change its auctioneer image. On Wednesday, eBay announced new fee changes (Techmeme, eBay blog). It is lowering its listing fees for sellers that use the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, eBay Inc., Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks
- HP on Tuesday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, HP reported earnings of 86 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of Wall Street estimates. Revenue also...
- Tags: Revenue, Notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Operating Profit, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Android security team appeals to hackers
- Already burned by the discovery of serious security vulnerabilities in its SDK, the Android Security Team emerged from the shadows this week with an appeal to the security community for help fixing flaws in the Linux-based mobile platform. In a note posted to several public mailing lists,...
- Tags: Team, Google Android, Mobile, Hacker, Android Platform Team, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
- Last week I wrote about how bloggers could better work with public relations folks. While I won't to get into the habit of writing about PR I think we'd all agree that, like it or not, there's a direct correlation between it and social media, especially when we're talking...
- Tags: Brand, Public Beta, Media, Social Media, PitchEngine, SMR, PitchEngine SMR, Newsroom, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- 62.7% of US employees choose PPO plan for their medical insurance
- Consumer Driven Health Plans, or CDHPs, increased by 43% from 2007, and now comprise nearly 13% of all plans offered by employers. The%age of employees enrolled in these plans nearly doubled, from six% in 2007 to 11.2% 2008. While preferred provider organizations PPOs continue to dominate the market, representing 54%...
- Tags: Employee, Insurance, Plan, HMO, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, AM
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Zoho's future in Google's hands?
- Earlier today, Zoho sent over an intriguing email with a whole bunch of numbers and spreadsheet demonstrating why Google in particular is not likely to be a threat to the company. It makes interesting reading. The argument goes something like this: Google's revenue and profit per...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Google Inc., Zoho, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- With FCC testing due soon, Google pushes white spaces
- Google launched Free the Airwaves, a public advocacy site dedicated to pushing for what product manager Minnie Ingersoll calls "Wi-Fi on Steroids," meaning TV white spaces. Google and numerous other high-tech companies are pushing for the FCC to allow unlicensed use of the white spaces, much as...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- More info on USB 3.0 emerges
- More info on USB 3.0 emerges4.8Gbps Huh?Not too shabby, now only if I can think of a consumer computer peripheral that can utilize that speed. With the other bottle necks in data storage devices such as hard drives I think there is a need to improve those data...
- Tags: NOW IT, USB, USB 3.0, More Info
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?
- Is the "killer app" argument dead?Great blog.It is about the browser nowadays. The age of convoluted proprietary lock-ins is going going but not quite gone .....An awful lot of devs are now building web based sharing tools, and any IE only dev, if it still goes on, is by the...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, knowledge economy, killer application, Web browser, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Don't downgrade me to XP!
- Don't downgrade me to XP!except thatVista won't with our printers, or our scanners, or our cameras, or much of our vital s/w.It isn't logical to buy all new and then have vista be slower than tar on a winters day on the machines it's put on.Don't downgrade me to XP:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
- Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?So now removing your own product is anti-competitive???[i]limiting consumer choice by restricting the availability of Windows XP on new PCs[/i]What? Seriously... what? Was Chevrolet being anti-competitive when they stopped making the Camaro?Besides, if you believe all the anti-Vista FUD, I...
- Tags: Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., antitrust, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorlyWhat if..they need to install diagnostic software?You are kidding, right?So you change your password when you get it back. Or change it before you send it in.It's the same in the Windows world - you pretty much need and Admin password to do anything.This...
- Tags: Apple Inc., password, security, admin password
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Security vs. convenience: Apple chooses poorly
- Guest post by Oliver Day My PowerBook is in the third year of its life and has begun falling apart on a regular basis. I've had the laptop in for repair at least five times this year alone. Every time I bring my laptop...
- Tags: Password, Apple Inc., Oliver, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Toshiba soups up traditional DVDs
- Toshiba soups up traditional DVDsactually, you are wrong...HD dvd has the higher capacity, and better technology, like BetaMax in the past was superior to VHS but still lost the war. I would love to be able to use HD DVD rather than blue ray for data backupsThis is a first...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, toshiba, wat, Broadcast TV, Toshiba Corp., DVD, HD-DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
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