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- Kids NetLinks PBS Kids Browser (zip)
- Kids NetLinks PBS Kids Browser provides direct access to the top learning games and activities on PBS Kids Web site. With a click of a button, kids can choose from coloring, to games to math, and more. Straight forward easy to use browser for kids of all ages.This version is...
- Tags: PBS, Web Browser, Kids NetLinks, Web Browsers, Games, Internet, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-03
- PBS Kids Play (exe)
- PBS Kids Play is a new online software program for children ages 3 to 6. By playing playing interactive games and activities with PBS Kids characters, your child can explore essential preschool and kindergarten skill areas. These include math, science, early reading, and creativity. PBS Kids Play adapts to your...
- Tags: PBS, PBS Kids Play, Quality, Games, Productivity, TVs, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2008-09-02
- Outsourcing The News
- Outsourcing The NewsJournalistsDon't make me laugh. For at least ten years now, journalism has been reduced to cut-and-paste editing of the newswire reports.Yeah, but...This is a worthwhile subject to consider. The money-driven media that we have now dances to the tune of their advertisers, and even PBS with...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PBS, media, Professional Journalist, advertiser, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2007-05-23
- Nanocosmetics are used since the Pharaohs
- French researchers have found that Egyptians, Greek and Romans were using nanotechnology to dye their hair several thousands years ago. In "Nanotechnology in Cosmetics - 2000 Years Ago...," Nanowerk Spotlight reports they were using lead compounds which generated lead sulfide PbS nanocrystals with a diameter of only 5 nanometers. At...
- Tags: PBS, nanotechnology, Nanowerk
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- PBS considers putting shows online
- PBS considers putting shows onlineDo it now!Sheesh, stop 'considering it'- just do it.The internet is a great venue for PBS to get their excellent content viewed and will likely result in more funding options for them. This year is really turning into a pivotal period for the internet to host...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Handhelds, Processors, Internet, PBS
- Discussion threads 2006-04-18
- Nature's Ireland Screensaver (zip)
- Put nature scenes of Ireland on your Desktop. Although green is its emblematic color, Ireland's verdant fields are not the nation's only extraordinary natural features. Sculpted millions of years ago by the advance and retreat of vast shields of ice, the Emerald Isle harbors a wealth of wildlife among its...
- Tags: Ireland, Nature, PBS, Desktops, Networking, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-03-14
- Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'
- Wikipedia alternative aims to be 'PBS of the Web'Another Mis-titled piece of trash by ZDnetThanks for wasting my time yet again.This article barely mentions Wikipedia, but rather goes into a spiel about how Digital Universe is supposed to be better. And ofcourse PhDs go on to talk about how they...
- Tags: Wiki, Now IT, Web, PBS, Wikipedia, Digital Universe, PhDs
- Discussion threads 2005-12-19
- PBS chief named to Sun board
- PBS chief named to Sun boardPBS chief named to Sun boardJust out of curiousity, how does having someone from a TV channel help with a hardware/software company on the board of directors?
- Tags: Corporate governance, Sun board, PBS, board, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-09-13
- PBS offers Web-only 'NerdTV'
- PBS offers Web-only 'NerdTV'And what company is missing?You guessed it. Microsoft no longer has geek appeal.True computer nerds know where real computer 'innovation' comes from.this will make for a great dvd collection.of course, they saved the best for last. ;-)gnu/linux..giving choice to the neX(11)t generation.FantasticThis looks so promising!...
- Tags: Web site development, PRODUCTIVITY, Web technology, Channel management, Web browsers, NerdTV, PBS, Web
- Discussion threads 2005-09-07
- PBS' NerdTV steers clear of Microsoft's media juggernaut
- PBS' NerdTV steers clear of Microsoft's media juggernautOgg and not wmv.Yes, that's a political statement.Reminds me of the observation by Mr. Kristof of the Times when he was touring Africa with Bill Gates that Gates should retire to devote himself to philanthropy and no longer be associated with mean old...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Digital video, Digital media, Hobson, Microsoft Corp., PBS
- Discussion threads 2005-07-14
- PBS' NerdTV steers clear of Microsoft's media juggernaut
- Yesterday's e-mail included an announcement from the folks at Creative Commons who were bragging about PBS's assignment of a Creative Commons deed to its NerdTV downloadable series of videos. NerdTV will feature interviews of industry luminaries by Robert X. Cringley. Said Cringley in the announcement, ...
- Tags: PBS, video, NerdTV
- Blog posts 2005-07-14
- Public Broadcaster Uses IT Technologies to Reduce Operational Costs Up to $100 Million
- In these days' competitive media markets, the Public Broadcasting Service PBS faces rising competition and substantial capital requirements. In a bold move to reduce capital and operational costs and position itself for the move to digital TV, PBS recently launched the ACE project, an overhaul of its operations and distribution...
- Tags: Information Technology, PBS, Operational Cost, Programming, Development Tools, Processors, Servers, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality ruling
- Comcast sues FCC over net neutrality rulingIs this Government megalomania?Or is Comcast grasping at straws in a sinking ship on a road to no return!The cable companies poor planningshouldn't hurt the users. There have been many suggestions of how they could improve the way their network runs with out...
- Tags: Federal government, Cable, TVs, Broadband Internet, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Comcast Corp., FCC, Net Neutrality, Mbits/S, cable-tv service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- I think I like Sid the Science Kid
- PBS has a new show, Sid the Science Kid, handled in large part by Jim Henson's daughter. This digital puppetry was given a fairly luke-warm review by the New York Times: His show, done in that hyperactive style that adults have determined is what the very...
- Tags: SID, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Akamai: Broadband consumption clouds outlook
- Akamai: Broadband consumption clouds outlookBroadband consumption is a short term problemIn the long run I believe Robert X. Cringley prediction.http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080718_005261.htmlRE: Akamai: Broadband consumption clouds outlookThat's too not to. As an Editor you should use the correct words."Needless to say those comments didn't go over to well as Akamai shares...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Akamai Technologies Inc., Broadband consumption, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
- DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?
- Well, I was going to write my post-mortem of the iPhone launch and go into an entire diatribe on crappy customer service and the perils of early adoption, but then I found myself with a much better target than AT&T Wireless and Apple -- the idiots...
- Tags: Customer Service, DirecTV, HR-20, HR-21, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Top online video destinations for US users ages 2-11
- Brand/Channel Unique Viewer % Audience, 000 Disney Records 49.6 179 EverythingGirl.com 48.0 161 MyePets 47.6 161 JETIX 46.9 159 Playhouse Disney 43.9 340 PBS Kids 43.1 281 LEGO 40.9 137 NickJr 39.6 718 ...
- Tags: Online Video, Video, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-12
- Thoughts on Bill Gates
- Thoughts on Bill GatesGood lawyeringOne thing that is often forgotten is the fact that, when Gates purchased and licensed dos to IBM, the contract was the "killer app".It required IBM to pay for DOS on every machine whether they used it or not, while allowing MS to license DOS...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?
- It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...
- Tags: Job, Turbine, Pollution, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Bubble, Second,it, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Conference for media reform
- Free Press hosts the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. From the press release: We're at an important point in the history of the media -- a point where the decentralized Internet and the centralized media are finally meeting head on," said...
- Tags: Media, Conference, Free Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
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