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- Net neutrality about the future of TV?
- According to Jonathan Taplin, Net neutrality is about the future of TV--who ends up controlling the pipes. " Today its a battle of the most interesting content wins, but if Comcast decides who gets in the fast lane to the TV, they will once again be in control," Taplin said....
- Tags: Jonathan Taplin
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The OnHollywood lunch panel kicked into low gear when Jonathan Taplin raised the spectre of network neutrality. Hollywood wants carrier lock so bad it can taste it. Why are we supposed to fear the carriers? Taplin continues with the notion that 5 companies controlling the world is insane. Why did...
- Tags: carrier, Jonathan Taplin
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
Additional Resources
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
- Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?
- Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?The perception is ...... Apple can't be great without Steve Jobs. I personally don't feel this is necessarily the case even though when Jobs was ousted proved to be a disastrous decision for Apple.Apple is in a strong growth period and...
- Tags: Quality, Desktops, Digital media, Steve J, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, Satellite Radio, Advertising & Promotion, Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Music, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Sun: Business isn't so bad; It's actually decent
- Worries about Sun Microsystems fourth quarter may have been misplaced. The company said it expected to report net income between 5 cents a share and 15 cents a share. Excluding charges, Sun will report earnings of 25 cents a share to 35 cents a share. Wall Street...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Financial Accounting, Workforce Management, Finance, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Linux 2.6.26 kernel update released
-  Linus Torvalds quietly released another update to the Linux kernel over the weekend that offers better support for kernel-based virtual machines, a kernel debugger, improved webcam support and new support for the One Laptop Per Child architecture. Version 2.6.26 was released on Sunday, July 13. What's most...
- Tags: Kernel, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Amanda Chapel, aka "Strumpette," needs some tough love
- I had a strange Twitter back-and-forth with "Amanda Chapel," the pseudonymous authors of a PR blog called "Strumpette," about the nature of the hacker ethic. I personally don't think the hacker ethic is very effective as a counterpoint to the system of intellectual property it decries, because hackers seem intent...
- Tags: Hacker, Twitter, Amanda Chapel, Hacking, Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok
- A trio of professors working with the national Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan finds that offshore outsourcing hurts customer service ratings, but farming out back office operations has a limited impact. The working paper, conducted by the University of Michigan as well as Nasscom,...
- Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Offshore Outsourcing, Customer Satisfaction, Back-office, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Operational Accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Facebook's Heiliger on buying servers, data management
- Facebook is building out its infrastructure so it can keep up with the 250,000 new users it adds each day. In an interview Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks about server purchasing strategy. In a CIO Sessions interview with Dan Farber (see...
- Tags: Facebook, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore
- WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...
- Tags: Robots, Noah, Wall-E, Stanton, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- News to know: Phishing; Gates gone; Google; Hyper-V
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks TechRepublic: Most report their IT career has been better than they expected Mary Jo Foley: J Allard gets a new job Mystery explained: Why...
- Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Leadership, Strategy, Open Source, Security, Spam And Phishing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Developing an open-source platform
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook discusses the company's open source strategy and its plan to improve the application environment for its more than 100,000 developers. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Open Source, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Balancing act: innovation vs. reliability
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook explains the challenges facing the company, including the trade off between site stability and innovating quickly. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Managing data in the social graph
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook describes how the company manages data within its social network, and how its archiving and indexing structure differs from Google. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Data, Social Graph, Social Networking, Business Intelligence, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Facebook VP of technical operations: Jonathan Heiliger
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook speaks to CNET News.com's Dan Farber about the balancing act between innovating quickly and building a stable infrastructure at a company moving at breakneck-speed. Heiliger also discusses what he's doing to scale data center operations and support the addition of more...
- Tags: Facebook, Operation, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Facebook: Developing an open-source platform
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook discusses the company’s open source strategy and its plan to improve the application environment for its more than 100,000 developers.
- Tags: Facebook, Open Source
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Bill Gates bids farewell
- Bill Gates bids farewellHe brought a lot to the computer world!Yeah, vicious predation, greed, and arrogance.iMiss BilliWill miss Bill. He brought a lot to the computer world!Bill Gates bids farewellA fine speech from a magnificent man! He had visions, he had missions, he had it all! The IT...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Windows NT, Bill Gates, Abramoff, Preston Gates, vision, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Scaling fast-growing Facebook
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network's hypergrowth.
- Tags: Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, dan farber, facebook, social network, Mark Zuckerberg
- Videos 2008-06-23
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world
- Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs worldPost Jobs Apple..'Apple' the brand should survive Jobs or any other visionary - as long as they Innovate and think ahead of their times. That's what you expect out of the brand Apple.RE: Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs worldIts a question i ponder often, as...
- Tags: Apple Inc., post-Jobs, Steve Jobs, post-Jobs world, Pondering
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
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