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News to know: Verizon FiOS install; Jerry Yang; Microsoft code protection

Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: The Verizon FiOS installation: The key points. Stupid FioS broadband tricks. Gallery right.George Ou: Intel's technically legitimate but shady benchmarks. According to AMD, Intel Core 2 Duo doesn't exist.Larry Dignan: Jerry Yang makes Yahoo earnings debut amid low expectations.Read/WriteWeb: 4 Years Ago Today - Netscape Corporation Killed,...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Podcast: News to know midday: Vista SP1; Google buys Postini; VMware and Intel

On today's podcast: Vista SP1: The beta. The strategy. Google buys Postini. Intel Capital buys into VMware.

Tags: VMware, Vista, News to know, Microsoft, Intel, Google

Blog posts 2007-07-09

News to know: Tim Berners-Lee; mobile Ubuntu; Kitchen Windows; Latest MacBook Pro review

Notable headlines:Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux.David Berlind: Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged right: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access. Out of the box experience with Lenovo's Thinkpads is simply unacceptable.Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy. Dan Farber: iPhonomics and the post-PC era. Russell Shaw: Several iPhone presale...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-07

News to know: Google Gears; Intel V8; Firefox patch; Bill and Steve

Notable headlines:David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps....

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Additional Resources

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a 61-inch rear-projection HDTV, D-Link's dual-band wireless router, and the simple but effective Nokia 6205. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Home Networking, TVs, Routers & Switches, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-26

Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins

The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...

Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-26

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users

Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...

Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Images: NASA uncovers secret of the Northern Lights

NASA's fleet of THEMIS satellites reveal that explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon causes the aurora borealis. by CNET News.com

Tags: NASA, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-25

Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts

A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...

Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

IDA Disassembler on the iPhone? Yep.

Ilfak Guilfanov has reported that IDA has been ported to the iPhone. Unbelievable? Yes. Is it useful? Who cares! IDA on the iPhone is hot! Don't act like you don't want IDA for your iPhone, you know you do. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, IDA, Blogging, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gateway stops selling PCs direct

Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...

Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop

Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud

Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloudniceveryniceMicrosoft's elastic cloudGee, we had elastic Wow!Now we are going to get the elastic cloud.Metaphor watch anyone?Get ready for a whole new blob of Bloat from the people who invented Bloat.Rule of thumb: If Microsoft promises something, the promise is, with near certainty, false.The credibility...

Tags: elastic cloud, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Ozzie

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up

Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...

Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24