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Comedy Central MotherLoad (msi)

Comedy Central's MotherLoad for MCE is a streaming video service designed and optimized to take advantage of broadband speed and the home entertainment experience of Microsoft MCE PCs. MotherLoad features exclusive and dedicated content including video clips from current and classic Comedy Central shows, sneak previews, behind-the-scenes exclusives, highlights from...

Tags: Streaming Video, Video, MTV Networks, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Home Entertainment, Internet, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-07-20

mtvU for Media Center (msi)

mtvU for Media Center is the only 24-hour network dedicated to emerging music and everything you love about college. The channel, which is broadcast to 7 million students at over 730 campuses, features music videos from emerging artists you can't see anywhere else and short-form series including Stand In, where...

Tags: Media Center PC, MTV Networks, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment

Software downloads 2006-06-23

Urge (exe)

Note: Installing Urge will also install Windows Media Player 11 beta and Flash Player 8.MTV Urge offers all the music you've ever heard of and lots you haven't. Urge gives you complete access to over 18 genres, countless styles, and everything in between--from rock, country, and hip-hop to classical, jazz,...

Tags: Music, MTV Networks

Software downloads 2006-05-17

Case Study: MTV Networks Europe (MTVNE)

Based in London, the European IT Services Department of MTV Music Television is responsible for providing IT support services to numerous offices throughout Europe. I.S. Service Support Manager at MTVNE recognised that in order to expand the services it was providing, the Service Desk was in need of a transformation....

Tags: Axios Systems, MTV Networks, ITIL, It Services, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

Case studies

Additional Resources

DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic

Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O\'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-05

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?

What went wrong with Joost's desktop client?That explains it....The client was invisible to the user as a cost-saver, rather the cost savings were apparent to the video distributor. So, how does the client app make itself valuable? Joost had several interesting features besides this P2P media capability, but it also...

Tags: Joost, desktop client, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea

Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...

Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Demo Facebook app creates DoS botnet

Do you know what that innocent-looking Facebook app is really doing? Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science ICS have created a proof-of-concept Facebook application capable of covertly herding users of the popular social network into a powerful -- and malicious -- botnet. The...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Facebook, Application, Network, DOS, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

VMworld is bringing out the vendors

Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...

Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Electronic Retention Policy

The use and importance of e-mail and electronic documents in day-to-day communications between organizations continues to grow. While businesses used to be concerned solely with the retention and disposal of paper records, the management of e-mail and other electronic communication is quickly supplanting those paper documents. While...

Tags: Electronic Document, E-mail, Online Communications

Download resources 2008-09-05

The power of standard protocols

The power of standard protocolsWhile I'm not an expert in IM protocols......I do agree with the basic philosophy (but you'd be surprised if I didn't). On the whole, compatibility is a good thing, even in the computer industry (where incompatibility has been seen as a competitive advantage for as...

Tags: Instant messaging, IM, standard protocol, software

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

The power of standard protocols

I've spent the past few months as the primary developer at a very small company. An important technology to this company is Instant Messaging, as it plays an essential part in our approach to unified messaging. This has meant that I have had to build, in-house, our...

Tags: IM, Jabber, Protocol, XMPP, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Ten leading platforms for creating online communities

Ten leading platforms for creating online communitiesTen leading platforms for creating online communitiesJust an editing note: You have Drupal listed as #3, so you have two #3's on the list. Feel free to delete this after correcting.RE: Ten leading platforms for creating online communitiesWhy did you choose not...

Tags: Social networking, Ning.com, leading platform, online community, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Wireless networking finally hits the ceiling

With the advent of multiple input multiple output MIMO technology that's used in Draft N (and some later 802.11g) products, wireless range isn't as big an issue for new networks as it has been in the past. But if you're running an older 802.11g network as I am in a...

Tags: Network, IEEE 802.11g, Ceiling, Wireless Networking, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Public Relations, Networking, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Red Hat acquires Qumranet

I just received a press release telling me that one of my clients, Qumranet, has been acquired by Red Hat.This was not entirely unexpected. Here's what the release said Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Qumranet Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-04

ThinMan Pro Performance Monitor (zip)

ThinMan Pro Performance Monitor is a program, that lets you monitor your servers, networks, and desktops - quickly, accurately, and affordable. Benefits: measure to improve system performance, faster problem resolution, reduce the risk of outage, identify problems before your users, install and deploy in less than 5 minutes, locate underutilized...

Tags: Performance, Performance Monitoring, Xa Systems, ThinMan Pro Performance Monitor, Modems, Performance Management, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2008-09-04

4D v11 SQL (exe)

The cornerstone of 4D has always been a comprehensive programming language that is both high level and easy to learn. With over 900 different commands, you can use 4D to go beyond simple data management to build custom applications that look great, are easy to maintain, and can scale up...

Tags: SQL, Databases, Storage, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-09-04

Logitech tries to take network music player mainstream with Squeezebox Boom

In the press release announcing the new Squeezebox Boom, Robin Selden, vice president and general manager of Logitech's Streaming Media business unit, says that "[t]he network music player will be the CD player of the 21st century." That may be true—eventually—but at $299.99, the Boom probably...

Tags: Audio, Streaming Audio, Network, Logitech, Music Player, Network Music Player, Media Players, Web Technology, Digital Music, Digital Media, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-09-03

Class action bait on iPhone problems

Class action bait on iPhone problemsoverload the network?How is that an APPLE problem. This is an AT&T issue where their networks are not up to snuff. Try suing thw correct party, dummiesRE: Class action bait on iPhone problemsIt overloads the network because of a flaw in the iphone software. ...

Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., iPhone problem, Apple iPhone, class action, network

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?God help your state’s taxpayers.God help your state’s taxpayers. Anyone who would take your view of client side protection in a school is incompetent.Since I use Linux for servers and clients...I only use ClamAV to scan inbound email.RE: Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?Do...

Tags: Flash memory, client side

Discussion threads 2008-09-03