Time Warner Cable to Expand Video-on-Demand This Year
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable company, plans to expand a service that lets viewers watch shows when they want as long as they sit through the commercials...
They've Just Got to Get a Message to You
As a teenage rock fan, all Dennis Vorreyer really expected of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago two weekends ago was the chance to see his favorite bands perform live. — But he and his fath...
Presenting Movable Type 4.0
Welcome to the all-new movabletype.com, redesigned to proudly present our all-new platform: Movable Type 4.0. — This is the biggest release of MT ever, a complete redesign of both the front end info...
Across the pond, Bebo leaps ahead of MySpace?
Some interesting ComScore numbers have just been documented by CNET's sister site ZDNet: social-networking site Bebo, always more of a presence in the U.K. than stateside, has soared ahead of global l...
Facebook + iPhone = UltraCool
A pairing of the two most hyped tech products of the year: Facebook released what is arguably the single best iPhone-customized website to date at iphone.facebook.com. Like the Netvibes iPhone site w...
Online Video Site Bolt.com Shuts Down
We just received a tipoff that Bolt.com, the online video site that settled a lawsuit with Universal in March, has ceased operations and closed its website. More on this as it develops, but for now t...
Channel grumbles over further AMD Barcelona delays
Another glitch hits flagship microprocessor — SYSTEM INTEGRATORS who were told to expect supplies of AMD Barcelona processors during mid-August said there's a hitch which is preventing AMD from deli...
Report: Cable companies facing big bandwidth crunch
If you're starting to become frustrated with the download speed of your cable ISP or the relatively low number of HD channels available, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Your local cable provider will soo...
Citrix Acquiring XenSource for $500 Million
Updated: The Citrix-XenSource deal comes during an important week for virtualization technology as VMware announced its long-anticipated IPO. — Citrix Systems is acquiring XenSource, whose founders ...
Community Wi-Fi comes to San Francisco
While EarthLink and Google are still hammering out details of their citywide Wi-Fi contract with San Francisco officials, a company called Meraki plans on blanketing the city with free Wi-Fi using vol...
Yahoo Local Gets A Sophisticated Makeover
Yahoo is arguably the leader in local search, but others including Google, Microsoft and Yelp have been rapidly gaining. The search engine's venerable Local site was in need of a refresh, which it ha...
Sun and IBM promise operating system surprise
Sun Microsystems and IBM look set to hold a whopper of a press conference tomorrow with CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM's systems chief Bill Zeitler all geared up to talk. — What exactly will be the t...
Sprint's mobile WiMAX service called XOHM?
We have information from an anonymous tipster claiming that Sprint is set to take the wraps of their new WiMAX brand dubbed XOHM. It's anybody's guess at this point how you'd pronounce that ("x-ohm" ...
Why Wi-Fi Networks Are Floundering
Faced with weak user demand, AT&T and other telecoms are vowing to tear up their muni Wi-Fi contracts if cities don't foot more of the bill — The static crackling around municipal wireless networks ...
DIRECTV plugs into broadband over power line
One of the biggest competitive problems for satellite TV providers is that they cannot directly compete with the triple-play bundles of voice, video, and data that cable companies and telecoms offer t...
HARPERCOLLINS OFFERING EXCERPTS FOR IPHONE
Publisher Harper Collins released digital excerpts from 14 books on Wednesday that can be read from an Apple iPhone. — The digital excerpts are accessible from a special HarperCollins mobile Web sit...
Introducing Publish2: Networked News
It's time to pull the curtain up on our new venture, Publish2, Inc. — Publish2 is a social media company, on the eve of launching in Beta — the purpose of this announcement is to explain our vision,...
How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It)
A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days. Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers. In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a ...
How many trees did your iPhone bill kill?
LOS ANGELES — Early adopters of Apple's iPhone are getting their first service bills from AT&T (ATT) — and some customers say they are so detailed they belong in libraries. — Justine Ezarik, a Pitts...
Movable Type's Version 4.0 Final Release
Movable Type is releasing the final version of their 4.0 platform tonight. We covered the beta, their turn towards open source, and new feature set previously. The new release, no doubt, comes under...
Intel and Symantec team up on 'bare metal' security
Virtualisation tech pushes security functions onto chips — Symantec and Intel have teamed up to develop security technologies that operate underneath an operating system. — Project Hood uses virtu...
Yahoo Banks on SmartAds To Lift Display Business
In the middle of Yahoo Inc.'s plan to reinvigorate its big, sluggish display-advertising business lies a new breed of diminutive, chameleon-like advertisements. — The ads, which the Internet giant b...
Hearst's UK Jellyfish Goes Belly Up
Well, you can't blame them for trying...Hearst's UK division Natmags has axed its digital-only magazine Jellyfish after a five-month trial, citing distribution challenges. The celebrity/fashion title...
Bebo overtakes MySpace in the UK
Comscore data for July reveals that Bebo is now the number one visited social networking site in the UK, overtaking MySpace. Sitting in third place is Facebook. According to the statistics, Bebo reg...
Tiny wind engines cool computers
Minuscule wind engines could help to take computing power to the next level, scientists believe. — US researchers have developed a prototype device that creates a "breeze" made up of charged particl...