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Discovery buys HowStuffWorks.com: It's official. Discovery Communications said Monday that it has acquired HowStuffWorks, a how-to site. Discovery will add HowStuffWorks.com to its portfolio of properties, which includes Animal Planet and the Discovery channel. Discovery will also launch a new show based on the site. According to a statement, HowStuffWorks...; Tags: Discovery, Discovery Communications Inc., Asset Management, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-15
Discovery offers Web-based study aid: Discovery Communications - the cable content provider of the Discovery Channel - is announcing a $9.95 Web-based study service for the K-12 market, the Washington Post reports. Cosmeo, a $9.95-a-month service that will be announced today, is aimed at students in kindergarten through 12th grade. With...; Tags: Discovery Communications Inc., Discovery Channel; Blog posts 2006-03-13
StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 Digital Broadcast Content Archive Platform Bolsters Discovery Communications' New Origination Facility: Discovery Communications, Inc. is a leading global real-world media and entertainment company, with 1.3 billion cumulative subscribers across more than 160 countries and territories. The company needed a high-availability data archive with tons of storage that could provide good media utilization, high efficiency, and best-of-class scalability. After a stringent review...; Tags: Streamline, Discovery Communications Inc., StorageTek, Digital Broadcast, Advertising & Promotion, Asset Management, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Personal Technology; Case studies

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Feedburner is down: Update 5/13/08 9:00pm EDT: Feedburner works again. Yay! Gawd, I hate when that happens. Maybe it's me, not them... Note to Feedburner: Check out 7 tips for handling post-failure communications for some post-recovery advice. By the look of this error page, you could use...; Tags: Feedburner, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-13
A U.S military botnet in the works: Make botnets, not war? In April, last year, I asked the question "Why establish an offensive cyber warfare doctrine when you can simple install a type of Lycos Spam Fighting screensaver on every military and government computer and have it periodically update its hit lists?" A year...; Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Military, Attack, U.S, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-13

Live Webcast: Unified Communications Beyond IP Telephony: No one can doubt the value of Unified Communications. From small and medium businesses to even the largest commercial enterprises, organizations of all sizes are now migrating to IP telephony solutions in record numbers. Some might even call it a communications revolution. But beyond simple voice and...; Tags: Telephony, Webcast, Unified Communications, IP Telephony, IP, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking; Webcasts 2008-05-13
Is it RIP for my aged Apple laptop?: OK. I may just have found a very relevant reason to go out and buy a new computer: I think I have officially killed my four-year-old Apple notebook. And, yes, I will lose data if I can't recover the hard drive. And, yes, I am traveling as this discovery is...; Tags: Thin Client, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, IGEL, Thin Clients, Hardware, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Microsoft Biz Unit Chief Jeff Raikes to head Gates Foundation: For all those wondering what Microsoft Business Division President Jeff Raikes would do once he retires from Microsoft in September, the uncertainty is over. Raikes is going to become the new CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Raikes is replacing another former...; Tags: Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Blackberry users to get Windows Live services: Research in Motion (RIM) and Microsoft have struck a deal via which Blackberry users will be able to run Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger on their devices. The two companies announced the deal on May 12; actual availability is slated for some time this summer...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows Live, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-12
RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund: There have been rumors of a new BlackBerry design, often labeled the BlackBerry 9000 series, and today RIM posted the official announcement of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone that will be coming this Summer to a carrier near you. RIM also announced a US$150 million mobile applications and services development fund...; Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, Display, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em off: Pine trees to frogs, global warming is killing 'em offuh huhDon't know about Canada. Here in Montana, two years ago it was -50 so they are dead...all of them. What wasn't mentioned here is that they are a constant thing, but if it gets below -40 they die. The more...; Tags: global warming, winter; Discussion threads 2008-05-10
Is Microsoft the answer to Africa's health woes?: In my story earlier today I pointed out how African researchers see mobile data networks as the key to improving health outcomes on the world's poorest continent. The French group formerly known as Fone+, now combined under Craig Mundie into Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group, is pushing precisely...; Tags: Mobile, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Smart Phones, Healthcare, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-09
A brief summary: A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also (essentially) the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology; Discussion threads 2008-05-09
ReplayDSM (1): Replay DSM is an affordable and easy-to-use software package for recovering, searching, exporting, and analyzing e-mail and mailbox content directly from any un-mounted Microsoft Exchange Data Store (EDB). Replay DSM includes the following main features: 1. Recover items (messages, calendar items, etc.) from any offline Exchange EDB; 2. Restore lost...; Tags: Message, Item, AppAssure Software, Replay DSM, E-mail Servers, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-05-09
Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues: The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Free software great and small: They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...; Tags: Samba, Conference, Jeremy, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jeremy Allison, free software, open source; News items 2008-05-07
Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun: At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others. Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hydrazine, Productivity, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Microsoft releases Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center: Following last week's delay, Microsoft finally releases Windows XP SP3 to Windows Update and Microsoft Download Center. As to the issues last week relating to Microsoft Dynamics RMS, here's what a Microsoft spokesperson had to say: Following last week's discovery of a compatibility issue between both...; Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Operating Systems, Software, Security, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-06
XP SP3: Now on Windows Update: A week after deciding not to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download site as planned, Microsoft has begun pushing the collection of updates and fixes through those channels again. On May 6, Microsoft both released officially SP3 and resumed...; Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Windows Update, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Microsoft Windows, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Zune desktop 2.5 released with TV shows and social improvements: My last post on the Microsoft Zune was made back in October of 2007 when the new Zune models were announced. I actually picked up a Zune 30GB classic at Woot for less than US$100, but have to admit after getting my iPhone it has seen very little use. I...; Tags: Microsoft Zune, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Desktops, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-06