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Mark Cuban on user generated content: Bad for ads, great for (my) free biz dev

Mark Cuban said a lot more than beware YouTube “morons” at his Advertising Week keynote last week in New York City, I know because I was there.I asked Cuban if his inflammatory anti YouTube commentary was designed to enhance the value of his own content businesses, as I recount in...

Tags: HDNet, Landmark, Landmark Theatres, Mark Cuban

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Landmark eBay patent case heads to high court

Landmark eBay patent case heads to high courtYou know what, fine..."while drug makers oppose any weakening of patent rights, which they say would chill their investment in new medicines."So be it. I've had just about enough of these greedy bastaads.If they need money, then let them stop all the...

Tags: patent, eBay Inc., Landmark

Discussion threads 2006-03-28

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Citrix's "Kensho" Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V

Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on XenServer and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Oh, and yes, add VMWare ESX to that list ...

Tags: Interoperability, Hypervisor, Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, OVF, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Productivity, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-15

VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper

It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the...

Tags: Software, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-09

2008 Suzuki XL7 Limited

The 2008 Suzuki XL7 Limited is about as much crossover SUV as you can get for the money. Its ride quality and cabin materials might not be on a par with those of other models in the segment, but the XL7 Limited does pack an impressive payload of features--including one...

Tags: Suzuki XL7, pylon, display, camera, Suzuki XL7 Ltd., XL7 Ltd.

Product reviews 2008-05-23

PC Industry Episode II: Attack of the Mac Clones

As I am sure like many of you, I watched the entire Psystar imbroglio unfold last week, snickering under my breath with unabated amusement while I imagined the collective blood pressures of Apple executives boil to a protective fever, with armies of attorneys ready to stream out in phalanx attack...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Attack, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction pool

Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction poolLost cause by then[i]- XP SP3 will keep it alive until then while MS franticly tries to push Vista harder and bring it up to snuff.[/i]Vista will be a lost cause by then. Too tainted except by the most...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Release Date Prediction Pool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Windows7, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Vista SP1 collateral damage not as bad as I had expected

On Tuesday Microsoft opened the door on Windows Vista SP1.  This is a landmark occasion because it marks a transition from where only a select few have had access to the software to where "everyone" can get access to this major system update.  After watching the public release of more service packs...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-03-20

The diabetes trial failure

The diabetes trial failureThe voice of reasonThank you for not saying aiming for tight control is a bad thing. Most of us long-termers shoot for sub-6 regardless of the risks. The risks of not doing so are too high. I know first hand.I agree that the medical researchers need to...

Tags: Scientific Research, trial failure

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Has iPhone met its match with nuvifone? (updated 10x)

  Garmin made a surprise announcement last night of a new iPhone competitor. nuvifone (rhymes with "MovieFone"... coincidence?) has an impressive feature set, including: Quad-band GSM mobile phone 3G HSDPA 3.5-inch touchscreen interface HTML Web browser WiFi Multi-network instant messaging ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Garmin Ltd., Photograph, Nuvifone, Business Structures, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Landmark Selection and Greedy Landmark-Descent Routing for Sensor Networks

This paper study the problem of landmark selection for landmark-based routing in a network of fixed wireless communication nodes. It present a distributed landmark selection algorithm that does not rely on global clock synchronization, and a companion local greedy landmark-based routing scheme. The paper assumes no node location information, and...

Tags: Network, Stanford University, Sensor, Node, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2008-01-01

2007 year in review: 10 most popular posts

Due to the lack of news during this time of year and a gentle prod from my ZDNet editors I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most popular posts here on The Social Web in 2007. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these posts were also...

Tags: Second Life, Facebook, Site, MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2007-12-28

Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?

Klausner Technologies, a company founded by Judah Klausner who invented the PDA, is suing Apple, AT&T over iPhone's visual voicemail patents. For good measure Klausner is suing Comcast, Cablevision and eBay's Skype. Sound familiar? It should Klausner almost sounds like NTP, which sued Research...

Tags: Apple iPhone, PDA, Cablevision Systems Corp., Patent, Comcast Corp., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., eBay Inc., NTP, Klausner Technologies, PDAs, Intellectual Property, Handhelds, Hardware, Research & Development, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine

Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company did a 180-degree turn to make it more palatable for users rather than advertisers. It still fell short of the total opt-in approach that...

Tags: Facebook, Network, MySpace, Google OpenSocial API, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-01

Denon AVR-3808CI

This has been a landmark year for AV receivers. Traditionally receivers have just been the muscle of a home theater, but now there's no denying that they're the brain, as well, as they contain more functionality than nearly any other piece of home-theater equipment. The Denon AVR-3808CI is the epitome...

Tags: Consumer electronics, Denon AVR-3808CI, receiver, Denon, LED DISPLAY

Product reviews 2007-11-29

SyGImap ActiveX control (zip)

Is a viewer for fixed and mobile objects over user maps. Properties of this objects (aspect, status, type and position) are defined and actualized from one or more data providers by interchanging menssages using different communication protocols (UDP, TCP/IP, RS-232). The fixed objects can be also user placed onto the...

Tags: Map, P2P, SyGImap, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Management, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Internet

Software downloads 2007-11-16

Photos: Chicago's super-sized green buildings

The Windy City is greening its architecture one landmark at a time, from the Merchandise Mart to America's tallest building. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Chicago, Windy City, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-11-13

Oracle goes for the CRM jugular

Oracle tomorrow will unveil a new generation of CRM OnDemand applications designed both to propel Oracle to the forefront of CRM innovation and at the same time bring a halt to Salesforce.com's expansion into the enterprise market. Attendees at SIIA's OnDemand Summit on Friday were given a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Application, Oracle Corp., CRM, Web 2.0, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Internet, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Software, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-11

ADP sees incentive for SaaS

Payroll and employee services giant ADP announced an interesting new partnership today, teaming up with on-demand vendor Centive to offer its sales incentive management application to customers of ADP's national accounts division — those with 1000 employees or more. It's interesting for three reasons: the move reinforces...

Tags: Incentive, Software-as-a-service, Partnership, On-demand, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Finance, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Recreating cities using online photos

The billion of images available from a site like Flickr has stimulated the imagination of many researchers. After designing tools using Flickr to edit your photos, another team at the University of Washington UW is using our vacation photos to create 3D models of world landmarks. But recreating original scenes...

Tags: 3D, Researcher, Online Photo, Flickr, Photograph, Computer, UW, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-04