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Everyday Health and the selling of trust

Whenever some ink-stained wretch goes on the TV to tell me how journalism is dead, I laugh. Journalism -- the organizing and advocating of a place, industry or lifestyle -- is healthier than ever. This is no more true than on the health beat, where in a...

Tags: Business Model, Health Care, Waterfront Media, Wavefront, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-02-20

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AT&T customers speak out over poor service

RE: AT&T customers speak out over poor serviceAll that is AT&T is EVIL & bad! Did anyone really expect different with the pretty looking iPhone? - Sierra Night TideAT&T/iPhone in AtlantaI have been out to northern California and my iPhone and the other AT&T phones in my family are just...

Tags: Smart phones, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, ATT, AT&T Corp., poor service, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Microsoft's Zune bizdev head counter-challenges my offer to shave my head

Yesterday, via e-mail, Zunecorps blogger Charlie Curran sent me an e-mail saying that Microsoft's head of business development for Zune Bill Wittress had a counter-offer to my open challenge to Microsoft president Robbie Bach to shave my head if Microsoft is ranked #2 in personal digital media player PDMP units...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., Problem, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Bloomberg L.P., Bill Wittress, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Blogging, Sales Force Management, Sales, Online Communications, Internet, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-10-12

News to know: Microsoft vs. DOJ, Google; Ubuntu media support; Zoho; Motorola CTO

Notable headlines:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to address Google search complaint in Vista SP1. Microsoft agrees to change Vista desktop search.Microsoft bails on Vista virtualization licensing changes. The virtualization flip flop.Gallery right: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The key to getting more Windows users to switch to Linux....

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-20

One year anniversary of Digital Markets blog

Today marks Donna Bogatins first anniversary blogging for ZDNet. With more than 1300 posts on her Digital Markets blog, she has covered the waterfront on emerging trends and the people at the heart of the business Internet, and has become the thorn in Googles side with her continuous exploration...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-07

Hotel's communications-services portal produces beneficial unintended consequences

I took a briefing today with BlueNote Networks on a new customer win that sheds some interesting light on the beneficial unintended consequences of integrating communications, PBXs, Web applications and back-end applications using web services and SOA.The Seaport Hotel in Boston is using the BlueNote Networks SessionSuite product to provide...

Tags: Web Technology, Mobile, SOA, Web Services, Virtualization, Internet, convergence, VOIP

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Advertisers using badware: who are they?

The CDT (Center for Democracy & Technology) followed the money trail and they, along with Ben Edelman, are telling names. From the CDT:Large well-respected companies are helping to fund the virulent spread of unwanted and potentially harmful "adware" by paying for advertisements generated by those programs, a new report...

Tags: advertisement, Center for Democracy and Technology

Blog posts 2006-03-20

Shining examples of how mainstream media doesn't 'get it'

Shining examples of how mainstream media doesn't 'get it'There's nothing to 'get'"But the credibility of the blogosphere was poo-poo'd and no one knew or had the guts to say that newspapers as we know them are dead because of how technologies like RSS make it possible for us to build...

Tags: Blogging, Advertising & Promotion, ThinkSecret, RSS, Sony Betamax, media, blog, blogger

Discussion threads 2006-01-06

Top advertisers on health sites: Weight Watchers, eDiets and Sepracor

Nielsen//NetRatings published the list of top advertisers on health, fitness, and nutritional sites in August 2005. Weight Watchers, eDiets and Sepracor are top ad buyers on health sites.Top 20 Advertisers on health sites in August 2005Company Impressions, 000ShareWeight Watchers International 116,058 20.5% eDiets.com 61,731 10.9% Sepracor 46,010 8.1% Novartis AG...

Tags: health, eDiets, Sepracor Inc., Weight Watchers

Blog posts 2005-12-04

Who owns the air?

Unlicensed frequencies are supposed to be open to anyone who puts in a device that conforms to regulations.But what if your landlord says you can't, because they want to sell access to the unlicensed frequency?A court may have to decide this one. As Declan McCullagh reports, Logan Airport is trying...

Tags: Massport

Blog posts 2005-08-05

Open source content is theme of J.D. Lasica's Darknet

Over the weekend I read J.D. Lasica's right book about the Copyright Wars, Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, and was surprised to find open source as an underlying theme.In breaking down the boundaries between consuming and producing media, people really want an open source model for it, he...

Tags: open source, Darknet, J.D. Lasica

Blog posts 2005-07-07

Can open source compete with Microsoft?

Q&A RealNetworks' Rob Glaser doesn't think his company will follow Netscape's road into oblivion after releasing source code in an attempt to battle Microsoft. If the parallels between RealNetworks and Netscape Communications were once suggestive, they became flagrant Tuesday as the struggling streaming-media company followed the defanged browser pioneer...

Tags: Netscape Communications Corp., RealNetworks Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Helix DNA, Open Source, Paul Festa, Software

News items 2002-10-30

Can open source compete with Microsoft?

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser insists his streaming-media company will not suffer the same fate as Netscape as he tries a radically different tactic. If the parallels between RealNetworks and Netscape Communications were once suggestive, they became flagrant Tuesday as the struggling streaming-media company followed the defanged browser pioneer in...

Tags: Netscape Communications Corp., RealNetworks Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Helix DNA, Open Source, Paul Festa, Software

News items 2002-10-30

Q&A: Pipe dreams? Fast, stable Internet2

Q&A: Douglas E. Van Houweling, the man behind Internet2, says they can already transmit HDTV programs--and that's just the beginning. See why he's excited. The future of the Internet is rigorously being worked out through a private-public sector partnership called Internet2. Internet2 began in 1996...

Tags: Internet2, Douglas E. Van Houweling, Internet, Sam Ames

News items 2001-10-26