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- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soon
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soonMedia Center may be best MS appMedia Center is by far the app I use most on my PC. When you're in MC, you don't even realize you're using a computer. Yes, there are some missing features, but it a joy to...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), TVs, Digital media, TV Pack, Fiji, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TV, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Center TV Pack
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
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- RealNetworks: Rip those DVDs (with a dash of DRM)
- RealNetworks on Monday launched RealDVD, an application that allows you to rip DVDs to your hard drive with limits set by digital rights management software. The company announced the software along with the opening of DemoFall in San Diego. RealDVD (Techmeme, statement, site) is supposed to make...
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, RealNetworks Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), DVD, Consumer Electronics, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Commercial development strategies
- For large scale, commercial, software development the right recipe starts with a Unix development and testing environment - even if you plan to sell mainly on Windows. The reason for that is simple: business success is more about how you build your sales than it is about how you build...
- Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Sun Solaris, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0
- As I'm clearing my desk to prepare for Citrix's event this week, I thought it would be good to post about Fortisphere's recent move. Fortisphere, a Kusnetzky Group Client, recently launched version 2 of its Virtual Essentials. Virtual Essentials is a tool that provides agentless, policy-based mangement of virtual machines....
- Tags: Virtual Machine, Fortisphere, Virtual Essentials, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Samsung, Sony in Wi-Fi Photo Frame Shootout
- One of the big holiday gifts over the last couple of years, digital photo frames are a convenient way to show off photos that might otherwise languish on your hard drive. But a lot of them are sold by no-name companies at budget prices with limited feature sets. Other manufacturers...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Frame, Photograph, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- 102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age
- This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed America". If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and have access to their On Demand service, you can actually download the...
- Tags: Event, Camera, Amateur, Documentary, Corporate Communications, 3G, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- What do you want me to cover at TechCrunch50?
- I'll be on the floor of the San Francisco Design Center this week, trying to liveblog the events of TechCrunch50. The list of companies for Day 1 will be released at 6:30 a.m. PST on each day of the conference. Send me an email or post in...
- Tags: Floor, E-mail, Online Communications, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Apple workers setting up for Tuesday's iPod announcement
- Workers have spent over a day tying down a new banner on Yebra Buena Center for the Arts right next to Moscone. I saw some big trucks with Apple security unloading on 3rd St., right next to the venue. ...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Worker, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Media bias and vaccine compliance
- Reporters have been hyping a 1998 study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, claiming a link between vaccines and autism. Pediatrics found a direct link between the hype and non-compliance. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Vaccine, Media, Compliance, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions
- Google is now officially 10 years old, an impressive notion considering their rapid dominance over any and all things that get in their way. Even Microsoft is shaking in their boots, 10 years ago people would have laughed that off as mpossible. The fact that Google has risen...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Browser Landscape Google, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging
- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With DiggingThere are better ways to monetize and support great news writersThe problem, as I see it, is that News hasn't really found its "business voice" in the internet. Sure, news is powerful and one of the main things people do online. And,...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, public relations, media
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Video: Office 2.0: Creating successful online communities
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, panelists discuss how to keep interest in an online community and how to use game theory--rewarding and recognizing exceptional users in the community. Speakers include: Ross Mayfield of Socialtext, Chris Andrasick of Tacit Knowledge, and moderator Robin Carey of Social Media Today....
- Tags: Community, Theory, Video, Office 2.0, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-06
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?Wow....What keen insight. What a great article.Oh. Not.Perdue, Ioccoca, Seinfeld 4?If Lee Iococca can do ads for Chrysler and have a positive effective on the brand, then maybe BG is launching a new career in advertising and media and selling the MS...
- Tags: MS Window, Seinfeld, advertisement, Seinfeld ad, real agenda, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week
- Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including the TiVo HD XL, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H50, and the Dish Network's newest digital TV converter box. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-09-06
- Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome
- Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeGoogle Chrome - resource hog .....I know some one who has trialed "Chrome", and was taken initially by the speed, but in less than one day was back to using FireFox as Chrome became a resource hog! Once you have more than a few browser...
- Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Dell Inspiron Mini 9
- We've known for some time that Dell was working on a Netbook-style laptop--the same kind of small, low-power, inexpensive system made popular by Asus and the Eee PC line. And even though there are not many surprises in the new Inspiron Mini 9, it's still an excellent example of the...
- Tags: Notebooks, Netbooks, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., hard drive, Intel Corp., Mini 9
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
- The Linux laptop goes to school
- The Linux laptop goes to schoolOn the Mouse Buttons ...[i]Robin’s biggest complaint was the slow response of the mouse buttons. But it’s something you can get used to, she said.[/i]Don't use the mouse buttons they're too slow, instead use the tap, double tap and side scroll features on the touchpad....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Mice, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, mouse, Linux laptop, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Numark iDJ2 Mixing Console for iPod
- Photo gallery:Numark iDJ2When Numark unveiled the first iDJ iPod mixer in 2005, the half-baked product required two iPods, and lacked many essential features. After three years back at the drawing board, Numark's iDJ2 ($599 retail, $499 street) finally makes good on the promise of a professional iPod DJ mixer....
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, console, Numark iDJ2, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-09-05
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