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- Apple pitching media companies on tablet?
- If you read between the lines in yesterday's post, one could conclude that Apple is talking to the New York Times about it's upcoming tablet product in an effort to get buy in from the media giant on what's presumed to be a completely new form-factor...
- Tags: Media Company, Apple Inc., Fairfax Media, Tablets, Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- Fake 'Conficker.B Infection Alert' spam campaign drops scareware
- Not much they can do.Not much they can do.Email was never designed for security, and it's HARD getting everybody on the same page with a solution that works, because basically every solution we know of pretty much requires everybody to use it. But, unfortunately, it's difficult convincing people running email...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, Spam, Microsoft Corp., Conficker.B Infection Alert, spam campaign, sample message, Internet Service Provider, e-mail, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- News to know: IDF; Skype; New neutrality; HP; Palm; Madoff
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. John Morris: Intel: 32nm is just the beginning Sam Diaz: Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills Mary Jo...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over
- Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...
- Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, media cartel, U.S. Congress, start-over, performance, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- News to know: VMWare; White House; Google Books; Skype; Apple vs Android
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware to step up data center automation game Sam Diaz: White House not equipped to hold keys...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, White House, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Smart Phones, Digital Cameras, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Blu-ray's Blo-tards bite back
- Blu-ray's Blo-tards bite backI own a BR player and have 3 BR movies ....Only movies worth the extra bucks and that is a very small number will make me think about purchasing a BR movie. For all other, upconverted DVD is good enough.If the BR movies were about the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, HD DVD, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Twitter, Engineering, Wireless And Mobility
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- As Blu-ray sales surge, Best Buy holds on as format's top seller
- As Blu-ray sales surge, Best Buy holds on as format's top sellerCan't possibly be trueZDNet has been writing of zero prospects for Blu-ray's since MS lost with it's HD-DVD format. Come to think of it the failure of HD-DVD was also a surprise given the number of articles ZDNet pushed...
- Tags: HD DVD, Sales strategy, Consumer electronics, Sales force management, Special Effects, Blu-ray sales surge, Blu-Ray sale, Best Buy Co. Inc., top seller, sales, HD-DVD, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- News to know: Neeris, Sun-IBM, Storm 2, Sprint ad
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Conficker worm's copycat Neeris spreading over IM Sam Diaz: Report: Sun and IBM clashed over executive...
- Tags: Apple Xserve, Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sprint Communications, IBM Corp., 3G, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Top-selling products on Black Friday 2008
- PriceGrabber.com published the list of top products sold on Black Friday 2008. Nintendo Wii Console Ugg Australia ‘Classic Short’ Boot Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player Samsung LN52A650 52″ LCD TV Nintendo Wii Fit Panasonic TH-42PX80U 42″ Plasma TV Sennheiser HD 555 Headphones Canon EOS Rebel XSi Black SLR...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Canon Inc., Nintendo Wii, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Notebooks & Tablets, AM
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- I'm a PC and, yes, I love Vista
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Todd Hooper It's true - I'm a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on...
- Tags: Security, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, NAP Agent, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- My other phone is on Verizon
- My other phone is on VerizonRe:I like near Boston and coverage is pretty good up here. I used to have Verizon, traveled the entire country never found a single deadzone even in the northern parts of the country like Montana. the only thing I have against Verizon is they aren't...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, His-Name, ATT, Verizon Communications Inc., phone, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook
- Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...
- Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Judge+on+privacy%3A+Computer+code+trumps+the+law
- Judge+on+privacy%3A+Computer+code+trumps+the+lawWhat does Google and Yahoo have to do with the issue?So according to another IDIOT judge, the messenger is at fault for the illegal dealings of a crook. Not to mention that neither Yahoo or Google have anything to do with the mod of PS3 chips in Australia.Since when...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Insurance, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- National Security and the PC
- National Security and the PCAnd not Sun?Are you saying that Sun doesn't buy any of their chips from foreign suppliers? Doesn't do any significant development work in non-allied countries?This is an issue with pretty much all software and electronics, not just PCs and Windows.Well, let's just go back to...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Network technology, Semiconductors, Sun Microsystems Inc., PC, software, chip
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- Malware found on new hard drives
- Malware found on new hard drivesThe moral isDon't outsource components that run business and other important things to countries such as China that do this type of thing. Once it is found out their contract should be pulled and no business should deal with these companies. There should...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, malware, new Hard Drive, hard drive, USB flash drive
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1)
- Last month, I wrote about the FUD surrounding Windows Vista and DRM. The FUDmaster is Peter Gutmann, a New Zealand researcher who wrote a paper last December that made a series of outrageous and inflammatory claims about Windows Vista. Since then, Gutmann has expanded the paper to more than four...
- Tags: Monitor, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., FUDmaster, Peter Gutmann, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-16
- Wave your hands to control your TV
- Two engineers from the University of Wollongong, Australia UOW, have developed a box that will replace your TV remote control. You'll just have to wave your hands to control your electronic gadgets. Their box contains a camera that recognizes your hand signals and translates them into electronic commands for your...
- Tags: Wireless &, Telecom, Leisure, Engineering &, Innovation
- Blog posts 2007-07-22
- Is EMI the chink in the RIAA armor?
- Is EMI the chink in the RIAA armor?They already haveThe RIAA has gone after the P2P providers. They shut down Napster by running them out of money to the point where they had to sell. They got ruling in Australia nailing Kazza to the wall. The problem is that P2P...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital media, EMI Group Plc., RIAA CLAIMS, drug user, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2007-06-05
- Is it too late for managed Blu-ray and HD-DVD copying?
- Is it too late for managed Blu-ray and HD-DVD copying?Exactly...Quit with the premium crap. I shouldn't have to pay more for anti-cripple technology to begin with. That's stupid since it wasn't there until this whole DRM thing came about.They still don't get it. I want the same functionality I have...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Digital media, cartel, HD-DVD, IS IT
- Discussion threads 2007-05-24
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