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Comcast plus NBC Universal creates a Web juggernaut

If Comcast did manage to gain control of NBC Universal it would be have an aggregation of Web sites that would make it a top 10 player in comScore's top 50 rankings. According to CNBC, General Electric is talking to Comcast about a deal that would spin...

Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Web, Comcast Corp., Talks, Channel Management, Asset Management, Networking, Marketing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

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Apple seeks injunction to end Psystar Mac clones ... oh, and $2.1m

Let's cheer the death of competition!!!Competition is good... as long as it doesn't hurt Apple. Cue the double standards...Apple, congrats for winning in the legal court. Maybe you can take that $2.1M (that you won't get) and add it to your PR budget to repair the damage you've done in...

Tags: Apple Inc., Psystar, gizmo

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

East Anglia hacking: is this the ultimate litmus test on environmental politics?

Taxes upon TaxesI love it, how are you like the 'hope' & 'Change' now...Taxes on this, taxes on that, taxes on everything, just wait there is more a tax on people making xxxxx amount.Nothing more than a Socialist & 2010 Independents like myself will vote them out and the leader...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Carbon Dioxide emission, Somalia, tax, government, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

U.S. will propose emissions reduction before Copehagen talks

Total controlWhat a bunch of lies, nothing more than socialist control over the world.You cannot eat meat, you cannot drive, you cannot use A/C, you cannot use a dryer.Next thing will be a limit on children like in China.I guess our new leader will let us know if we can...

Tags: E-mail, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

U.S. will propose emissions reduction before Copehagen talks

U.S. government to make public emissions standards announcement before Copenhagen talks. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Chrome OS: More questions than answers?

And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, talks about the App Store approval process. But is the process too cumbersome, tedious and does Apple take too much responsibility for the content of apps? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Apple Inc., Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Cool Radio Recorder 3.2 (Windows)

Cool Radio Recorder will capture radio broadcasts and store them onto your hard drive. You can then upload to your mobile cellphone, MP3 player, or iPod. Record rare music and talks from underground or alternative stations or just tune into your favorite Internet radio and listen. Thousands of radio and...

Tags: Radio, Microsoft Windows, StudioZ, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-21

Chatter: Amplified

Last evening, fellow ZDNet'ers Mike Krigsman, Dion Hinchcliffe, Tom Foremski, Brian Sommer along with fellow Enterprise Advocate Vinnie Mirchandani and I sat down with Parker Harris, co-founder Salesforce.com to get a deep dive into the rationale behind Chatter, what it's really about and where it's going. ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Forget touch screen, just breathe into it

I just hope people switch back to touch after lunch...Sometimes you want people to keep their mouths shut as much as possible.RE: Forget touch screen, just breathe into itSounds really sanitary... What happens when you sneeze into it? That activates the "shuffle mode" on your iPodor the iFart app,...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch screen, Ocarina

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Adobe CTO: Flash in the future

At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the company’s Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CTO, Games, Game Players, Smart Phones, TVs, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Adobe CTO: Flash in the future

At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the company?s Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. Lynch says Adobe is working with chip vendors and TV manufacturers on a variety of different television platforms...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., CTO, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Flash

Videos 2009-11-17

Report: Asus in talks with Toshiba to depose Acer as No. 3 laptop maker

Toshiba's USA Share"Toshiba is a trusted name, despite lacking popularity in the U.S."According to IDC, Toshiba has a 8.1% USA market share, compared to 9.4% for Apple. Not bad, for a company that gets almost no USA media attention.Perhaps, but......it all depends on how you look at the numbers. Apple's...

Tags: Notebooks, Toshiba Corp., ASUS, Acer Inc., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Report: Asus in talks with Toshiba to depose Acer as No. 3 laptop maker

Asus is reportedly considering plans to acquire Toshiba's notebook business in a major move to become the third-largest notebook vendor in 2011. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: ASUS, Acer Inc., Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Eric Schmidt on whether Google is getting evil

Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about whether the company ever regrets its "do no evil" policy, and how the definition of "evil" changes as Google grows. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-12

No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Counting vulnerabilities is pointless

Suddenly it doesn't matter any more? Vulnerability count is an indication of software qualityIt goes directly to the process the vendor went through to root out vulnerabilities before shipping. At least if you compare products with the same general purpose and which receives the same amount of scrutiny.Time to fix...

Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Mozilla Firefox, vulnerability, Microsoft Internet Explorer, malware, risk period

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device

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.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06