John Paczkowski / D6 Highlights:
Tom Rogers, President and CEO, TiVo — Tom Rogers, a well-rounded media executive, has had his work cut out for him at TiVo, the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video-recorder market. Before coming to TiVo, Mr. Rogers was chairman and CEO of Primedia …
Archive for May 29th, 2008
Tom Rogers, President and CEO, TiVo (John Paczkowski/D6 Highlights)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 (Jim Louderback/Revision3 » blog)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Jim Louderback / Revision3 » blog:
Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 — As many of you know, Revision3’s servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. It’s an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasn’t your normal cybercrime - there’s a chilling twist at […]
Mozilla “Download Day” - Are you in or out? (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/Hardware 2.0)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Mozilla “Download Day” - Are you in or out? — Mozilla are organizing a “Download Day” to promote Firefox 3.0 and set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Are you in or out? — Maybe it’s me and I’m feeling a little cranky today […]
Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback? (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback? — When you’re as large as Comcast, you can’t please all of the people, all of the time. Although it has done so in other ways too, Comcast managed to annoy a large portion of its customer base with its throttling activities …
Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report (Allen Stern/CenterNetworks)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report — Akamai is out today with their first “State of the Internet” report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration. Some of the interesting stats include:
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google (Kate Kaye/ClickZ)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google — Barack Obama’s campaign spent at least $3.47 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April. The biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential hopeful’s online ad dollars was Google.
Apple to make major studios’ films available for download (Dan Sabbagh/Times of London)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Apple to make major studios’ films available for download — Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet service at prices on a par with DVDs. — The company intends to […]
Is This The Acer Aspire One MiniNote? (Chippy/UMPCPortal)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Is This The Acer Aspire One MiniNote? — Update. Some details are emerging…see below. — Hot on the heals of the Dell Mininote leak are these images which just dropped into our forum. This posts are titled ‘Aspire One.’ — It’s got the same touchpad as seen on the HP 2133 and […]
Something from Dell at D6 (Anne B. Camden/Your Blog)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Anne B. Camden / Your Blog:
Something from Dell at D6 — There’s a pretty cool event going on as you read this out in Carlsbad, Calif - the D: All Things Digital conference. Conversations from it have been lighting up the front page of Techmeme since last night. For those who aren’t familiar with […]
VIA Nano Processor Preview - Isaiah Gets Official (Ryan Shrout/PC Perspective)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Ryan Shrout / PC Perspective:
VIA Nano Processor Preview - Isaiah Gets Official … Isaiah Turns to Nano — Today marks one of the most pivotal days in the history of VIA Technologies; after essentially bowing out of the chipset market for AMD and Intel processors the combined CPU/platform division that was much maligned … […]