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- It's official - Microsoft has closed the door to modded Xbox consoles
- I've not received any official word from Microsoft on the banning of modded Xbox consoles from Xbox Live yesterday but this on Major Nelson blog makes it clear that the ban was deliberate:As you can imagine, we have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to modded consoles connecting to LIVE....
- Tags: Microsoft, Gaming
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- On the road with Windows Vista
- I’m away on vacation this week, nearly 7,000 miles from home. But I’m not out of touch. Judy and I have been coming to Italy for the past five years, and it’s instructive to see with each visit just how much the experience of leisure travel has changed for use...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Can Web 2.0 really save the planet?
- Chad Hurley, the worldwide Web 2.0 video king, hailed before the U.S. Congress last week that his YouTube “community” is helping “children in Africa.” BUT, can the entire Web 2.0 community save the WHOLE planet?Business Objects, a self-described “pioneer in business intelligence since the dawn of the category,” believes...
- Tags: Enterprise, Social Capital, Social Software, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Notes from Apple's shareholder meeting
- Apple held its annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Thursday. Steve Jobs and other company executives addressed pointed questions about the lingering stock options scandal, the Leopard delay, Apples green policies and iPhone. Macworld and CNBC have posted notes from the meeting. Some highlights:"Backdating stock options is unfair to shareholders...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Steve Jobs, shareholder, Apple iPhone, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- MySpace brings online town halls to campuses, but is this just another online debate?
- MySpace announced today that it will host a series of "Town Hall" candidates meetings on college campuses, Reuters reports. The meetings will feature all of the major candidates, including Clinton, Obama, McCain, Edwards, Guiliani, Romney and Thompson. The meetings will be broadcast on MySpace video and MySpace users will...
- Tags: Instant messaging, MySpace, online debate, Micah Sifry
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- MySpace buys Photobucket
- First reported by Valleywag, and then confirmed by TechCrunch, MySpace has acquired the popular photosharing site, Photobucket. Readers of this blog will know that the two companies have had an on/off relationship, with Photobucket owing much of its success to News Corp.s social networking site, before they were blocked for...
- Tags: Widgets, Social Networks, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Pentagon, VCs get together to search for startups
- The Defense Department and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs may not seem like natural partners. The perception of the military is command and control; that of venture capitalists, driven self-starters with a penchant for gambling on the Next Big Thing. But, The New York Times reports, the two groups are getting...
- Tags: Government technology, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Six years after 9/11, state emergency systems still a hodgepodge
- In 2009, the nations broadcasters are required to switch over to digital signals. That frees up a huge swath of analog frequency, which the agency will auction off shortly. Under the current plan, thd FCC will set aside $1 billion of the take for states to fund communications systems for...
- Tags: Homeland security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- YouTube starts paying 'top' users
- After it was announced that YouTube had plans to share revenue with its indie content producers, over three months later, its finally happening. Only the ad-revenue sharing scheme wont be open to everybody who creates YouTube content. Instead YouTube have handpicked only the most successful indie content producers to be...
- Tags: YouTube, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Google's YouTube divides community: Advertising rules, not users
- Google’s YouTube blog post headline says it all: “YouTube elevates most popular users to partners.”There goes Chad’s pet “community”?While Google YouTube will undoubtedly be lauded for “finally recognizing” the hard work of dedicated YouTuber legitimate uploaders, the video sharing picture is not as pretty as it is painted.YouTube on its...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Greenpeace on Apple: It's not everything we asked for
- Yesterday Apple made a commitment to be greener. Greenpeace says "we are cheering!" but goes on to say that the statement is "not everything we asked for."In the statement released yesterday by Steve Jobs, Apple is doing something that it doesnt do that often - that is, talk about...
- Tags: Eco-friendly, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Symantec: SaaS efforts revving
- Symantec said its software as a service SaaS product will go live later this year. Symantec CEO John Thompson said on the companys fiscal fourth quarter earnings conference call that its Symantec Protection Network, its first SaaS offering, is on...
- Tags: Symantec, Storage, Software Infrastructure, Security, SaaS, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Digg: What does it really stand for?
- Is Digg’s Kevin Rose really defiantly standing up to the man, the other man, that is, in his now infamous rallying cry to his million strong band of Diggers of other people’s content: “If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.”Are Rose and partner Jay...
- Tags: Digg, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Google data centers 'manufacture Internet services'
- "We’re like a large manufacturing facility, but what we manufacture is Internet services," Lloyd Taylor, director of operations for Google, said today, in publicly announcing the creation of a $600 million data center at Mid-America Industrial Park MAIIP in Pryor, Oklahoma, about 40 miles northeast of Tulsa.Google pressures power companies...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Apple's Jobs throws HP and Dell under the Prius
- Apple has taken its share of environmental hits and CEO Steve Jobs has had enough. And hes willing to throw HP and Dell under the Prius while hes at it. In a blog post dubbed "A Greener Apple" Jobs outlines...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, Green Tech, General, Dell, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Q&A: Flock CEO Shawn Hardin
- Flock -- the social web browser -- was launched in late 2005 amid a snowball of publicity and much promise see this early TechCrunch review. Although built on top of Mozillas code base, Flock was pitched as a new kind of browser that fully embraced the emerging social web by...
- Tags: Browsers
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Digg this: AACS takedown notice backfires
- In response to legal threats from the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator AACS LA, Digg administrators started removing references to a cracked HD-DVD encryption key on Tuesday. The key could be used to defeat copy protection on HD-DVD and Blu-ray content, and allow playback on unauthorized systems like Linux....
- Tags: Linux, General, Community
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- ALM 2.0 era ushers application development into a managed business process
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software.Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. Thats why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the Application Lifecycle Management ALM process. They see what goes in as...
- Tags: Web Services, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA, Podcasts, Open Source, management, Java, IT Management, Enterprise Java, Eclipse, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- How Google loses in Microsoft Office battle, big time
- Why does Google CEO Eric Schmidt take panes to publicly downplay Google Apps versus Microsoft, while encouraging Googlers to take to the field for Google vs. Microsoft Office, big time?After all, neither Schmidt or the company he leads are known for their modesty: Google is determined to “organize” ALL the...
- Tags: Google, Google Apps, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- MIX076: The remix from day one
- In the aftermath of MIX07 day one, with the announcements around Silverlight (see yesterdays ZDNet coverage from Mary Jo Foley, Ryan Stewart and myself), the blogosphere is weighing in with more coverage and analysis. Steve Gillmor has emerged from his cave to comment on the calculus of Microsofts latest moves...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
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