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- How the world watched the Olympics online
- How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...
- Tags: Taxes, Web site development, Free trade, Web technology, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, CBC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Web archiving enterprises: keep trying
- Web archiving enterprises: keep tryingMSN VistaDrive is Coming!VistaDrive and the MS Cloud will radically change all computing! Steve talks about it:http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comNot nice to dis your mom in public...[i]Normally when saving a page like this, it’ll come out as an array of absolute mess and formatting turns out looking like my...
- Tags: Business intelligence, Web archiving enterprise, archiving enterprise, archiving, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-08-24
- Apple's MobileMe: Why don't we just call it a beta
- Apple's MobileMe: Why don't we just call it a betaIt's the google modelHype it and treat it like a final release, but call it a beta, so that when your customers complain about your crappy service, you have an "out."It's all part of the "don't be evil" vision.People generally don't...
- Tags: Apple MobileMe, Apple Inc., beta
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension
- MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extensionTotally Out of Line This TimeOkay, Jason I think you have forgotten, er, uh, ooooh. Thanks for sharing!Samfree trial too?is this for people on the free trial, too?RE: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extensionApple tried to push too many products out at...
- Tags: MobileMe, MobileMe subscriber
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Russia, Georgia and NASA
- So now that relations with Russia are taking a decided turn south, NASA's plan to depend on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to get to the space station isn't looking too sharp, warns one congressman, according to Daily Tech. "The new challenge we have is...
- Tags: NASA, Russia, Transportation, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Dark clouds may hurt growth efforts
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz isn't ready to give up on cloud computing just yet, even after Google's e-mail service recently went down. But Diaz believes the infrastructure that supports the cloud needs some beefing up before it can go prime time.
- Tags: Cloud, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, gmail, google
- Videos 2008-08-18
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet
- Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the InternetWe agree about content providers...But in my fantasy world you would not necessarily need a DVR you could pay extra for a download and you could get a stream anywhere with net access.It didn't melt but I think it got hot. ntntRE:...
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, Corporate communications, digital video recorder, Olympic Games, Limelight Networks, video, Internet
- Discussion threads 2008-08-17
- L0pht hacker stars in Discovery Channel TV show
- L0pht hacker Kingpin is getting ready for prime time. Joe Grand, who used the Kingpin handle in his time as a member of the Boston hacker crew, will co-host Prototype This!, a new Discovery Channel television show centered around the conceptualizing, designing and...
- Tags: TV, Hacker, Hacking, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Linux, user interfaces and copying Apple
- Linux, user interfaces and copying AppleIt makes sense[i]He also stated that they have to clone less the look and feel of desktop Windows, even going so far as to state they would do better to clone the look and feel of Mac applications if they are writing applications for the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Linux Interface, Linux, Apple Inc., Linux User, KDE, Microsoft Windows, desktop, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...
- Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Blogger, Georgian, extremist, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- The Science Fiction Bonk List
- The Science Fiction Bonk ListAnd what relevancy does this have....This story has zero relevance to ZDNet as a whole or even quasi-appropriate. I understand this is a blog, however its crap like this that this "blogger" turns out - which is why he should be removed. He offers very little...
- Tags: Blogging, Science Fiction Bonk List, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- The Science Fiction Bonk List
- We've all thought about it. The question is, if you had permission from your spouse, who would it be? Who is on your "all time" Sci-Fi bonk list? Frankly, I thought Cylon model Number Six was robbed and should have topped the TV...
- Tags: Science Fiction, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Will the Olympics melt the Internet?
- Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We're about to find out whether the Internet can – or will – break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least that's the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO...
- Tags: nbc, network, video, stream, internet, corporate communications, web site development, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Total mortgage loan applications submitted online in Q1 2008
- Applicant Type Q1 2007 Q1 2008 Growth Total 9,890 10,672 8% Subprime 5,174 6,716 30% Prime 4,716 3,956 -16% Source: comScore by NB
- Tags: applicant, comscore networks inc., mortgages, finance, capital structures, nb
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failure
- Jobs acknowledges MobileMe failureMobilMe... maybe notBack in 2005, I gave up all of my other sources of email, etc. in favor of .Mac. Without warning or notification, they switched to this "less than" lovely system. It wasn't broke, so why fix it... especially in the way that they did. It's...
- Tags: E-mail, cloud computing, job, MobileMe, MobileMe failure, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Video: Picking a Linux distribution
- Video: Picking a Linux distributionSuSE 11 not ready for prime time.Check the forums. Lots of problems with multi-boot, hard drives, especially raid, others - check their forum.I tried it on brand new machine. Had trouble with Seagate Cheetah drive and adaptec raid. Tried 10.3, went smooth as silk.If you have...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, video, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- The Semantic Web is about bringing information to life
- So says Vincent Maher, in a recent post that suggests he's sat in one too many of those meetings; "There is nothing more frustrating than a gaggle of geeks sitting in your boardroom talking about simple concepts in an unnecessarily obfuscatory manner because their revenues...
- Tags: Object-oriented, Semantic Web, Ooa/Ood/Oop, RDF, XML, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncing
- MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncingMobileMe InconsistenciesSo Far, MobileMe is not delivering on its Grand Promise. As such, it can't yet be considered as even a 1.0 offering, but rather a Beta that costs its users $99/year or less for those who have obtained discounts. Until Apple can figure...
- Tags: Desktops, MobileMe, Apple Inc., MobileMe drop
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Mulling the impact of new Reg FD guidance
- While most commenters on the new Reg FD guidance are understandably cautious, I'm going to stick my neck out. Trying to parse the opaque language used in the guidance is not easy, couched as it is in unhelpfully vague terms. That doesn't stop the social media mavens...
- Tags: SEC, Social Media, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- VistA will survive
- VistA will survive.....Right on! ]:)RE: VistA will surviveWhat the DoD has done regarding VistA is a scandal. In any other Administration it might be a major one. Here it is practically ignored........Just a prime example of the corporate / government corruption of one paying the other to do ones will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-07-31
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