Why I Stopped Using Twitter  —  There’s a lot of Twitter hype in the blogosphere today, and I’ve contributed plenty of my own Twitter hype in the past.  So I thought it would be a good opportunity to offer some anti-hype, derived from my own experience using Twitter — an explanation of why I STOPPED […]

SanDisk Gives NBCU What Apple Wouldn’t: Pricing Flexibility  —  Now that the rift between NBC U and Apple’s iTunes looks irreparable (for now), NBC U is busy putting its shows everywhere else.  Today NBC U announced a deal with SanDisk, which has a unique, if inelegant solution to bridge the TV-Internet divide.

Source:   Silicon Alley […]

‘Here Comes Another Bubble’ Takedown!  —  So, it turns out YouTube actually can protect copyright!  —  In this case, that’s too bad, since the video-sharing service just took down the very popular music video parody called “Here Comes Another Bubble,” by San Francisco’s Richter Scales …

Source:   BoomTown
Author:   Kara Swisher
Link:   http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071211/here-comes…

Sprint to soft-launch WiMAX before Christmas  —  Within the week, Sprint will turn live its WiMAX networks in Chicago and Baltimore-Washington, D.C., Sprint officials said today.  The soft launch will extend only to Sprint employees and is intended to prepare the networks for a broader customer trial in the first quarter.

Source:   TELEPHONY Magazine - […]

The Internet.  The TV.  —  Here’s how to finally bring them together.  —  Millions of people love watching Internet video on their PCs.  So why can’t the technology industry figure out how to get them to watch Internet video on their television sets?  —  It isn’t for lack of trying.

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Author:   […]

Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 Arrives Early  —  Micosoft cuts testing short, a sign to some that there aren’t enough users to do the testing.  —  The Office team beat its own deadline of early 2008 and will release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Dec. 11.  —  In an unusual move …

Source:   eWEEK.com
Author:   Peter […]

Microsoft Offers Free Copy of Windows Vista Ultimate if you Surrender Privacy *UPDATE*  —  Need a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate?  Are you incredibly trusting of big corporations?  Well I have the deal for you, with a new program through Microsoft called the Windows Feedback Program.

Source:   NotebookReview.com - The Webs Best Source For […]

Why is Twitter Exploding?  Because it’s A Conversation Ecosystem.  —  Lot’s of chatter happening round the blogosphere regarding Twitter, between Forrester’s Peter Kim and Jeremiah (also of Forrester).  I’ve described Twitter as a “conversation ecosystem” in places like BusinessWeek …

Source:   Logic+Emotion
Author:   Darmano
Link:   http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2007/12/why…

Microsoft Offers Free Copy of Windows Vista Ultimate if you Surrender Privacy  —  Need a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate?  Are you incredibly trusting of big corporations?  Well I have the deal for you, with a new program through Microsoft called the Windows Feedback Program.

Source:   NotebookReview.com - The Webs Best Source For Laptop […]

SPECpower_ssj2008  —  SPECpower_ssj2008 is the first industry-standard SPEC benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers.  With SPECpower_ssj2008, SPEC is defining server power measurement standards in the same way we have done for performance.

Source:   SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
Link:   http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/