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Viacom sues GooTube for $1Billion

In what could be described as throwing its toys out of the pram, Viacom has slapped Google with a $1Billion law suit, accusing Google-owned YouTube of "massive intentional copyright infringement". In addition to compensation, Viacom has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for an...

Tags: Google, Video Sharing, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Viacom to partner with Joost

Despite its well publicized spat with YouTube, Viacom is moving ahead with more plans to offer its content online, by partnering with the yet-to-be launched peer-to-peer (P2P) television service, Joost. The content made available will include television shows from MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon, as as feature films...

Tags: Joost, Video Sharing, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-02-20

Viacom to YouTube: show us the money (and those filtering tools you promised)

Viacom has finally run out of patience with Google-owned YouTube and demanded that the video-sharing site remove more than 100,000 video clips from properties including MTV Networks and BET after the two companies failed to reach a distribution agreement. Viacom claim that material they own which has been illegally...

Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, Google, Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-02-02

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Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?

I have to get a new MacBook Pro. I need to find a way to convince my wife that one of my kids needs my MacBook and I must therefore have one of the latest MBPs introduced today. Because seriously, folks, if you haven't checked out coverage of...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-14

LiveBlog: Apple's notebook event

update: (Editor's note: The updates of this entry appear in reverse order.) 11:03 a.m. - The event is over. Steve thanks us for coming and we're done. 10:54 a.m. Answers questions about relationship with Nvidia, as well as integration of Blu-Ray. Jobs said...

Tags: Job, Apple Macintosh, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Graphics, Apple MacBook Pro, Tim Cook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?

Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...

Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars

The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...

Tags: Larry Lessig, Copyright Law, Regulation, Lenz, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Brightcove overhauls UI with Brightcove 3

Today Brightcove is rolling out a new application as part of their web platform for content creators (Update: here's a post by one of the Flex developers who worked on it). The new user interface and features are some of the coolest things that I've seen in the ever popular...

Tags: Brightcove, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Nikon D90 Reviewed: Great image quality and performance. Video mode? Not so hot

DPReview and PhotographyBlog both posted full, hands-on reviews of the Nikon D90 yesterday. The general consensus among the reviewers (including our sister site CNET's Lori Grunin who posted her review earlier in the month) is that the D90 is an excellent and highly recommended enthusiast's dSLR. by Janice Chen

Tags: Nikon Corp., Performance, CNET Networks Inc., Lens, Video, Camera, DPReview, PhotographyBlog, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2008-10-14

News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Digging into the Silverlight 2 announcement

(Update: It also looks like you can grab the final bits as of 12:01 this morning: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/install.aspx?v=2.0) After listening to the Q&A from the press conference today recording here, digging into some of the details, and reading some of the commentary on various blogs, there are a...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Eclipse, Numbers Game, Linux, Java Development Tools, Microsoft Development Tools, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Egnyte: using and sustaining Enterprise 2.0

Egnyte, in a nutshell, is a software as a service, cloud storage application. But it's a lot more than just that. It feels like your online home of files, storage and where you put your valuables. Egnyte started out because the small business, which is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, On-demand, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Egnyte, Backup Facility, Storage, Backups, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang to kick off Semantic Universe webcasts

Semantic Universe, the people behind the Semantic Technology Conference, have just announced a new series of free webcasts featuring Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang. These begin on 16 October with a 'Semantic Web Overview,' and initially continue through November with investigations of RDF and OWL. I have...

Tags: Webcast, Semantic Web, RDF, Podcasts, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?

Love it or hate it, that new look to Facebook - the one that everyone has been up in arms over - stems from our increasingly comfortable attitude about sharing tidbits of information about our personal lives. Admit it. The old site was getting cluttered with all of those shared...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow

Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Linux, Open Source, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Open source protectionism?

I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...

Tags: Open Source, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Mobile software Monday: Handy Tools Pack for S60 devices

I am working on getting Mobile software Monday reviews up and running here again on my ZDNet blog, but there are so many devices coming in that it is tough to find the time to write about all the great software titles. The Nokia E71 see my full review is...

Tags: Software, Application, Device, Mobile, Utility, Tool, Handy TaskMan, Handy Profiles, Handy Keylock, Handy Converter, S60 Operating System, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords

When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-10-13

News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Image Gallery: Handy Tools Pack for S60 3rd Edition devices

There are several excellent applications for Nokia S60 devices and some of the best utilities are included in the Handy Tools Pack from Paragon Software. There are 11 utilities in the suite and I took a quick look at 7 of them that I found very useful. Take a look...

Tags: Utility, Tool, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing, Matthew Miller, screenshots, s60, nokia, handy, smartphone, eseries

Image galleries 2008-10-13