Time Warner: Download Too Much and You Might Pay $30 a Movie
Let's say you buy a new Apple TV because you want to rent high-definition movies. And say you are about to move to Beaumont, Tex. If so, you might wind up paying Time Warner Cable as much as $30 when...
IBM: A Separate Reality?
We knew the bottom-line numbers, after I.B.M. jumped the gun by three days and announced its surprisingly strong profits and sales figures on Monday. But what was striking in the company's conference...
Keynote Roundup
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations from yesterday's Macworld Expo keynote: — OFFICE 2008 — I was interested to see whether Microsoft would get some demo time during the keynote to show Office...
Salesforce.com To Offer DaaS Service, New Pricing Model, Competition
CRM and SaaS provider Salesforce.com have announced that there Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture (our review here) is to now offer Development-as-a-Service (DaaS), a new pricing structure and a d...
Microsoft Hires Tony Scott as Chief Information Officer
Respected industry veteran to join executive leadership team, run global IT operations. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the appointment of Tony Scott to the role of chief information officer (CIO)...
How Do You Say “Fix Your Service” In Japanese?
Twitter is to launch a dedicated version of their growingly popular messaging service for Japan. — The new site is will be developed in partnership with Digital Garage, who as part of the deal has a...
The MacBook Air CPU Mystery: More Details Revealed
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi MacBook Air Products — Earlier this week Apple announced its MacBook Air, and within hours we had the mystery of its “60% smaller” CPU uncovered. Or at least we thought. —...
Blogger Suffers Major Outage. Bloggers Not Happy
Google's Blogger hosted blogging service has suffered a major outage this afternoon (PST) with [Spammers] bloggers flooding forums to complain. — Users affected by the outage were presented with a B...
More thoughts on Sun & MySQL
First off, kudos to Sun for valuing MySQL at this price. The deal represents ~36% of Sun's Cash & Cash Equivalents (of $2.7B) on hand at the end of their last quarter (Sept. 2007). But considering h...
Digging Deeper:: Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online — with Moderation
with Moderation — Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online — with Moderation — Major media sites have started to get the religion of audience participation, but there's been one b...
Configuring Visual Studio to Debug .NET Framework Source Code
It's finally here - the launch of the .NET Reference Source project. This post (hopefully!) contains everything you need to know. Over the past few weeks, we ran a pilot of this feature and collecte...
Broadband Enterprises raises $10M to help with video shift online
Movie, television and radio writers have been on strike since last fall — and when they come back they may find all their viewers gone. — You'd think American Idol's viewer ratings would be immune t...
Social software Twitter, Facebook called on for higher purpose
Google.org's technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or public health threats is expected to launch Thursday. — The project, called Innovative Support to Emergencies,...
Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project
The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughl...
Has AT&T Lost Its Mind?
A BAFFLING PROPOSAL TO FILTER THE INTERNET. — Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is serious...
Time Warner links web prices with usage
Time Warner links web prices with usage — NEW YORK - Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how mu...
The Digg Reel Courts Viacom Anger
New video best-of show includes copyrighted works — Former TechLive lead anchor and co-founder of TheFempire.com, Jessica Corbin, opened The Digg Reel with a video of a cute bunny opening an envelop...
TiVo Makes You Look Cultured By Bringing Jaman's Obscure Foreign and Indie Movies To Your DVR
TiVo today announced it would soon add Jaman Internet Movie Service to all Series2 and Series3 broadband-connected DVRs, giving users access to Sundance and international award winning movies …
Mapping documents in the binary format (.doc; .xls; .ppt) to the Open XML format
I wanted to call everyone's attention to a few interesting developments in Ecma's proposed disposition document related to the Office binary formats. There were a few comments from national bodies th...
Is It Time To Redefine Fair Use?
from the outdated-concepts-that-need- refreshing dept — We've covered the first and second parts of the NY Times “debate” over copyright issues between Rick Cotton and Tim Wu. In both of those, we ...
Exonerated RIAA defendant scores double victory in court
A US District Court judge in Oregon has reaffirmed a magistrate's award of attorneys' fees and the dismissal of exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's counterclaims against the RIAA without prejud...
Will iTunes rentals play on a 5G iPod? Nope.
The long-rumored iTunes rental service is finally up and running. For many users, the most attractive part of the service (and certainly the only part that really sets it apart from any of the other ...