31 Jul 2010
So if Time and other publishers are looking to thwart Mygazines and its more than 16,000 users, it may have to go after VeriSign, which maintains the master .com database.
Dawn Bridges, a spokeswoman for Time Warner’s Time division, told the AP that the publisher is looking into ways to have the site shut down.
Mygazines, [...]
29 Jul 2010
Processors in the Xeon 5500 series range in price from $1,600 for the 130-watt W5580 (3.2GHz) to $423 for the 60-watt L5506 (2.13GHz). Intel, for the first time, is also listing each new Xeon chip’s giga-transfers-per-second rating (GT/sec). For example, the W5580 is rated at 6.40 GT/sec, while the L5506 is rated at 4.80 GT/sec. [...]
29 Jul 2010
Haff notes that “Mosso takes care of patching and updating the operating system and other software stack components…it’s a bit different than what’s generally discussed in the context of cloud computing.”
CloudFS gives developers access to almost unlimited amounts of storage for 15 cents per gigabyte, including replicated copies of backed-up data.
Developers and businesses can sign [...]
29 Jul 2010
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“Although privacy policies are not a guarantee of perfect privacy practices, they are still an important tool for consumers,” she said Saturday in an e-mail. Dixon added that such links are “something consumers have come to expect, and rightly so given that it is a standard practice.”
Updated at 12:35 p.m. and 3:50 p.m.: [...]
29 Jul 2010
Another change replaces the “minimum bid” price with an estimate for how much a particular advertiser would have to bid for ads to show on the first search page.
Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
“Queries with a high level of advertiser competition may have significantly higher first page bid estimates, because you’ll likely need to bid [...]
29 Jul 2010
Also key? It’ll be free. “Free is the name of the game,” he said, adding that Sling.com is “playing with some ad networks.” As for its hardware business, Sling’s SlingCatcher device will soon have “clip-and-sling” capability to take clips from their televisions and send it to their friends.
Above all, he reiterated that media companies [...]
29 Jul 2010
I hate audio plagiarism lawsuits–there are only 12 notes, and only so many ways to combine them–but the law has come down time and time again on the side of the plaintiffs. George Harrison was forced to pay damages for “unintentionally” ripping off “He’s So Fine” by The Chiffons. Ironically, Harrison’s manager at that time, [...]
29 Jul 2010
Via’s most illustrious customer is Hewlett-Packard, which currently uses the older Via C7 processor in its 2133 Mini-Note PC.
“We just started shipping to customers last week and this week–literally right now,” Henry said.
He said products using the Nano processor will not appear immediately. “No product that actually uses this is for sale to [...]
27 Jul 2010
After an extensive investigation that was facilitated by the companies’ cooperation and agreement to provide the department time to investigate prior to implementation, the department concluded that Google and Yahoo would have become collaborators rather than competitors for a significant portion of their search advertising businesses, materially reducing important competitive rivalry between the two companies.
“Yahoo [...]
23 Jul 2010
“Over the course of the past year, we have seen use of mobile Internet evolve from an occasional activity to being a daily part of their lives,” Mark Donovan, comScore’s senior vice president of mobile, said in a statement. “This underscores the growing importance of the mobile medium as consumers become more reliant on their [...]