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The Web video showdown: Content providers, cable companies and the users stuck in the middle

There's a looming showdown over Web video as content providers wrestle with the future as the television business model that has paid the bills for years becomes strained.  In the last day or so, Hulu has been on a tear as it rips down its content from...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Cable Company, Internet Video, Video, Television Business Model, Hulu, Boxee, Cable, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-19

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Android opens doors for Google's next-gen search, ads and tools

Current problem with Android devicesI am Android fan, but nevertheless my next mobile phone will be HTC HD2 - i.e. Windows device. And the reason: all Andorid devices currently available have relatively small screen size and resolution. I am wandernig why Google doesn't urge on phone makers to offer...

Tags: INTERNET, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Cellular phones, Smart phones, advertisement, tool, Android Devices, phone, smart phone, Linux, operating system, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Time Warner, YouTube ink distribution pact

Time Warner and YouTube said Wednesday that they have signed an online video distribution deal. Under the pact, YouTube will distribute Time Warner short-form video content, including movie clips, television shows and news. Time Warner properties---Warner Bros. and Turner Broadcasting System---will program YouTube videos via an embeddable...

Tags: Time Warner Inc., YouTube Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Wired's Editor Chris Anderson bans words "journalism" and "media"

Wired's Editor Chris Anderson bans words "journalism" and "media"They sound like the answerssomeone give to questions they doesn't know the answer to.Free can be a marketplace....by creating vendor lock-in. Microsoft is the most obvious example of this in the 'old' economy. To succeed in the 'new' economy, in...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blogging, Chris Anderson, Microsoft Corp., Wired Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a deal

ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a dealYou say words are importantFrom the article you linked to [i]In return, Virgin Media, the British cable television and broadband provider, agreed to take steps to reduce piracy on its network, something that other broadband providers have resisted.The measures could...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Virgin, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 Years

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 YearsNews Flash: It has ALWAYS been a PAID systemSaying it will become a paid system in 5 years is basically living in a delusional bubble. It has been a paid system from the start.Everyone pays for...

Tags: Internet, pay model

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer Experience

$99 iPhones Will Not Improve the Wireless Customer ExperiencePhone as a uniform data device NOT mobile providers' preferenceMobile phone companies prefer NOT to be treated as just a data ISP. Instead they have traditionally maintained false fragmentations, such as separate voice, SMS and lately data streams, when all can be...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, Wireless Customer Experience, phone, wireless, carrier, AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

The case for a Global Digital Public Library Network policy

By Bill Kallman This guest blog is penned by Bill Kallman, CEO of Scayl, a direct, unlimited secure email solution, a longtime VC and real estate investor. He was a founding director of Streamcast, one of the defendant's in the landmark MGM v Grokster ruling. He holds...

Tags: Google Inc., Network, Radio, Library, Digital Library, Library Network, GDPLN, Content Industry, Copyright War, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Microsoft finally shows why the Zune stands out against the iPod

Microsoft finally shows why the Zune stands out against the iPodZunekillerNow, that's funny! :DI do like the sound of their subscription model with the 10 songs you get to keep a month. I always thought that sounded cool, but it would depend on their catalog, though. I have a feeling...

Tags: Podcasts, Digital music, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, music

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Pano Logic brings us closer to "The Screen"

Pano Logic brings us closer to "The Screen"I'm sorry but it still contains an operating systemA few years back at VMWorld I had a 'healthy' discussion with one of the stand techies since no matter what Pano Logic say if the device can boot and connect there is at least...

Tags: Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, Operating systems, NComputing, Mini-ITX, Pano Logic

Discussion threads 2009-05-11

Dads & Grads: Top 10 laptops for college students, class of '09

Got a kid who is about to graduate high school and pestering you for a laptop to accompany him or her on the great adventure that is higher education? As if the last 18 years and the next four years of tuition bills isn't enough. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Student, Battery, HP Pavilion, Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Satellite Pro U400, Battery Life, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-01

Samsung UN55B7000

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB7000 seriesAs HDTVs become more common--some would say commoditized--TV makers go to greater lengths to justify higher price tags. Nobody is going as far as Samsung this year. The company is the only one thus far to announce a full lineup of edge-lit LED-based LCDs,...

Tags: Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung UNB7000, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., UNB7000 series

Product reviews 2009-04-10

Samsung UN40B7000

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB7000 seriesAs HDTVs become more common--some would say commoditized--TV makers go to greater lengths to justify higher price tags. Nobody is going as far as Samsung this year. The company is the only one thus far to announce a full lineup of edge-lit LED-based LCDs,...

Tags: Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung UNB7000, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., UNB7000 series

Product reviews 2009-04-10

Samsung UN46B7000

Photo gallery: Samsung UNB7000 seriesAs HDTVs become more common--some would say commoditized--TV makers go to greater lengths to justify higher price tags. Nobody is going as far as Samsung this year. The company is the only one thus far to announce a full lineup of edge-lit LED-based LCDs,...

Tags: Engineering, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung UNB7000, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., UNB7000 series

Product reviews 2009-04-10

Is Warner juicing DMCA with automated infringement detectors?

Is Warner juicing DMCA with automated infringement detectors?Greedy IdiotsWhen will this stop?RE: Is Warner juicing DMCA with automated infringement detectors?It won't stop.It is the result of greedy corpulent American business using the standard practice where litigation is always easier than innovation, but coupled with hugely excessive individual greed where many...

Tags: Digital media, automated infringement detector, Warner, DMCA

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft 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. Larry Dignan: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel's Nehalem Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-30

VOD chief: Comcast will survive in face of TV.com, Hulu

This week, Comcast announced its OnDemand Online service, promising anywhere online access to Comcast programming (broadcast, basic and premium channels, etc.) for its customers. I sat down with Doug Sylvester, President and COO of TVN Entertainment, to talk about how Comcast's entry into the broadband video on-demand...

Tags: VoD, Comcast Corp., Cable Company, TV, Cable, Programming, Hulu, TVN Entertainment, ZD, DS, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Will telcos ever embrace open source?

Will telcos ever embrace open source?You're not really discussing open source here.You're talking about the business model for the delivery of information.So when you write:The Internet itself grew up in defiance of the telcos. Its business model is anathema to them. Thus telcos and cable operators do all they can...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, open source, telecommunications company, Internet, cable, business model

Discussion threads 2009-02-23