Wal-Mart and Studios in Film Deal
Wal-Mart Stores may have lost the online DVD rental battle, but it has no plans to lose the higher-stakes video downloading war. — Today the company will introduce a partnership with all of the six ...
Gorbachev to Gates: Show software 'pirate' mercy
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on behalf of a Russian teacher accused of using pirated software in his classroom.
Kodak plans to sell inkjet printers with cheaper ink
Struggling photo giant Eastman Kodak is launching a new line of inkjet printers aimed at luring digital shutterbugs back to Kodak paper. The pitch: cheap ink. — Kodak's ink will sell for about $25 ...
IAC Reports Q4 Results
IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) released fourth quarter 2006 results today, reporting $1.8 billion in revenue, an 8% rate of growth over the prior year, and $268 million in Operating Income Before Amortization, re...
Andy Hagans' Ultimate Guide to Linkbaiting and Social Media Marketing
Is anyone else sick of link baiting yet? I sure am. It's dominating talk on all the SEO forums and conferences; it's gumming up the works of all of my favorite social bookmarking sites; and it's for...
Destroying The MPAA's Claims On The Canadian Camcording Epidemic
from the let's-try-that-again dept — Over the last few weeks, we've noted that the MPAA is on a new publicity campaign to make Canadian laws stricter when it comes to people caught videotaping movie...
Comcast, Facebook to launch video series
Comcast Corp. and Facebook.com are joining forces to create a television series from user-generated videos that will appear online and through video on demand. — Called "Facebook Diaries," the serie...
New AMD Opterons, Price Cuts Tomorrow
More high end server components on the way — Tomorrow AMD is expected to release its new x220-series and x218 HE-series Opteron processors. Both series are 90nm revision "F3" stepping dual-core pro...
Brilliant New Startup: Useless Account
The trick to any good humor or hoax site is an attention to detail and a seriousness about your work. Useless Account is the best recent example I've seen. It's clear, for example, that more work ha...
Microsoft Revisited: Vista, Apple and the Sony/Nintendo Phenomenon
Overview — Microsoft on stage. Bill on The Daily Show. It's Vista time, baby. Survey says - thud. It is a hard thing to watch. A cranky, defensive and inarticulate Bill. Trends in the data …
Will Vista Run Your Games: The Final Word
It seems as though we have been writing about Windows Vista in the future tense forever. Nobody will deny that Microsoft has taken an unusually long time to build its latest OS and that some features...
Greenplum, and the Web 2.0 server
Greenplum, a San Mateo company offering businesses an affordable way to sort though hundreds of terabytes of data to become more intelligent about their customers' habits, has raised $19 million in fi...