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- News to know: Pawned browsers; IE 8; Sun and IBM, Oracle
- 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. Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own trifecta: Hacker exploits IE8, Firefox, Safari CanSecWest: Caution, community at play Pwn2Own 2009: Safari/MacBook falls in...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Safari, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Sam Diaz, Netbook, IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Web Browsers, Notebooks, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Notebooks & Tablets, Security
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Zucker vs. Stewart: "Completely out of line" on Cramer and CNBC
- NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker kicked off the 2009 Business Week Media Summit this morning by criticizing Comedy Central satirist and commentator Jon Stewart as being "incredibly unfair to CNBC and business media in general" in his critical interview of CNBC financial show host Jim Cramer last week. ...
- Tags: CNBC, Jon Stewart, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Human Resources, Benefits, Marketing, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Zucker on NBC: First and foremost, we're a cable network company
- Putting aside the question of whether he will ever want to take on Jon Stewart on Comedy Central on behalf of NBC, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker also had these comments to make on the state of its broadcasting, cable and online businesses at the 2009 Business Week Media Summit...
- Tags: Cable, Cable Network, NBC Universal Inc., Network, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Tv & Home Theater
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut'
- All five investment banks that existed a year ago are gone. These are firms which put their own capital and the capital of big institutional and individual investors at risk, to merge or acquire companies. And were supposed to be experts at...
- Tags: Capital Structures, Finance, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Mortgages, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act
- So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...
- Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- News to know: Meebo; IBM; Gmail 2.0; PS3 supercomputer
- Notable headlines: Robin Harris: Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer. IBM aims to salvage silicon for solar industry. Gallery right. Michael Krigsman: What's the value in enterprise software? Dan Farber: Meebo joins the season of platforms. Tom Foremski: Battle...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., E-mail Providers, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Spam, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- NBC, Apple play game of brinkmanship
- NBC, Apple play game of brinkmanshipNBC has more to loseApple will lose a few TV shows from their selection. NBC, meanwhile, will lose their whole online revenue stream. Their alternate way of selling their shows their own custom web service is hopeless in the short or medium-term.Even long-term,...
- Tags: Apple Inc., game, NBC Universal Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-31
- News to know: Oracle vs. SAP; YouTube battle; Crowdsourcing
- Notable headlines:Motion-sensing comes to mobile phones. Gallery right.Larry Dignan: Oracle sues SAP; alleges ‘corporate theft on a grand scale." Full complaint. Joshua Greenbaum: The Lawsuit As Barometer: SAP Finally Scores Big with TomorrowNow.NBC, News Corp. push new Web rival to YouTube. NewTube: Will video content really be king? MSN Soapbox:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), YouTube Inc., crowdsourcing, SAP AG, Microsoft Windows Vista, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Zucker & Chernin vs. YouTube: Sink or swim?
- Is the soon to be launched “largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled,” doomed before it even sets video sail?After all, the who needs YouTube strategic alliance engenders coopetition risks between News Corporation and NBC Universal, the venture’s founding partners. What’s more, not only are the deal’s principals direct competitors,...
- Tags: YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Google CEO trumped by power video play
- Google’s greatest cheerleader, CEO Eric Schmidt, is being trumped at his own online video game, big time!Schmidt confidently boasted just weeks ago that the Google one-two YouTube and Google Video punch renders Google invincible on the Internet video front, saying to Wall Street that other sites may host their own...
- Tags: Donna Bogatin, Google Inc., NBC Universal, NBC Universal Inc., News Corp., online video, video
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Confirmed: TV networks launch "YouTube killer"
- News has come in via TechCrunch that the rumored joint venture between the major television networks to create a video sharing site of their own has finally become a reality.According to Mike Arrington, Peter Chernin (COO News Corp.) and Jeff Zucker CEO NBC Universal will later today announce the launch...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, TV, network, video, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- YouTube: NOT future of media?
- Does the future of YouTube portend the future of media? YouTube was not present at the 2007 Media Summit in New York City this week, but it was on everyone’s mind. YouTube may be following in corporate parent Google’s industry conference strategy: Minimal (non-guaranteed) presence. Rare is the...
- Tags: Business Models, Media, Google, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Movies, Social Networking, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- News to know: Securing the $100 laptop; Yahoo Pipes; Adobe's big move;
- Notable headlines: Inside the $100 laptop’s security spec. More RSA news. RSA blogs.New Energy Star ratings for PCs on the way.Yahoo Launches Pipes, an RSS Remixer. Techmeme discussion.YouTube founders split $650M payout. YouTube: Will TV networks call Google’s bluff? Google to cable operators: Lets collaborate. Zucker slaps YouTube. Talent...
- Tags: General, OOXML, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- YouTube: Will TV networks call Google's bluff?
- NBC, Viacom, Fox…will they ever put their money where their mouths are? Jeff Zucker officially took over the reigns of NBC Universal. His first order of business? A public but cordial wrist slap of Google’s YouTube. Zucker’s verbal “rebuff” of YouTube follows in the video footsteps of Viacom’s...
- Tags: Business Models, Content, Copyright, Donna Bogatin, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, NBC Universal Inc., network, Television, TV, Video, YouTube, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'
- Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'It's a poor legacy that it leavessad Sony had such a hand in it, but politicians do not make such grand artists but better businessmen. Oh well, time to travel to a foreign country so you can perform Happy Birthday in a restaurant...
- Tags: Big Business, useful Art, copyright law, U.S. Senate, Constitution
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- Media tipping point? NBC slashes jobs, costs; says "it's not our fault" (it's no joke)
- The Mercs Charlie McCollum writes: How bad are things at NBC?....Well, Jay Leno said on "The Tonight Show late last week that things are so bad, ``our interns are calling Mark Foley, looking for work. He also asked guest Howie Mandel, host of "Deal or No Deal, whether as...
- Tags: David Berlind, job, NBC Universal, NBC Universal Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-23
- NYC: Interactive advertising capital of the world?
- As a proud New Yorker, I enjoy touting the myriad NYC claims to leadership: cultural capital of the world, restaurant capital of the world, financial capital of the world, media capital of the world…Returning to the Big Apple from a Silicon Valley and San Francisco sojourn— see From Search Engine...
- Tags: advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- From a 386 PC to a Dell Dimension XPS
- The ever-changing, evolving PCCNET News.com's Tom Krazit talks with Dell's Brian Zucker about the evolution of the personal computer in the last 25 years and how consumer demands will further the growth and direction of the PC.
- Tags: PC
- Videos 2006-08-03
- Intel's Otellini intros new Duo and Viiv systems and hobnobs with Hollywood
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini started his CES keynote with a walk through computing history, from the green screen, 28-pound laptop to the handheld entertainment device and how Moore's Law continues to drive change. "All things digital are dancing on an exponential curve...yielding profound changes and revolutionary advances...now we expect Wi-Fi...
- Tags: Intel Viiv, Paul Otellini
- Blog posts 2006-01-05
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