Study: iTunes' Pay TV Model Headed for Extinction
The future of Internet television will be dominated by ad-supported models, according to a report from Forrester Research that raises new questions for the future of Apple's iTunes-focused and Apple TV video download service. Even as the report predicts that the market for paid downloads will nearly triple in 2007 to $279 million, it claims that the paid download market is ultimately a dead end.
Sonos Home Music Player Picks Up Where iPod Leaves Off
I really do enjoy my iPods. I have three: a 30 GB black iPod Video, a 4 GB first-gen nano and a second-gen shuffle. They each have a place in my life as I listen to music almost every chance I get. There is one place where listening to my music collection should be the easiest, yet it is the toughest for me: in my home.
FTC Report Cautions Against Network Neutrality Laws
Agency concludes existing laws and market conditions suggest new network discrimination rules are unnecessary.
PPA Trial Scheduled For July 2008
TAMPA, Fla. - According to a case management order issued June 4, trial in a recently remanded PPA case is scheduled for July 2008 and is expected to last 12 days (Frank Moment, Jr., et al. v. Bayer Corp., No. 8:04-CIV-2659-T-24MSS, M.D. Fla.). Full story on lexis.com
Lewis Green: How Many Plumbers Does It Take to Fix a Leak?
Too many. If you have ever needed a plumber you know what I mean. This past week, I needed one. And many calls and voice mails later, one of them finally returned my plea for help. But, of course, after he came to fix my problem, I had to reschedule. Why? Because I needed a shower valve, about a $200 part, and my plumber just happened to have ... (Read on Source)
FTC Tightens Up CAN-SPAM Rules
After three years of mulling public comments, the federal agency revises its antispam regulations.
Web Developer Seneca Virtualises Hosting via LeaseWeb
Seneca, a leading Dutch web developer with 125 employees, is virtualising its hosting environment at hosting provider LeaseWeb with VMware. Seneca hopes to complete the full hosting migration of all its customers within a year. ‘By that time, the current 50 physical servers will have made way for a maximum of 10 physical servers.’
ISO is Being Challenged
Arnaud's Open Blog: "Essentially, the ISO and IEC courts of appeal are made of a jury composed of a subset of the very same parties that judged OOXML in the first place. Now, I’m not a law expert by any means but it doesn’t take much expertise to figure out that such a set up is bogus."
BBC, C4, ITV, Kangaroo delayed until 2009
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Website Promotions Are Silently Getting Killed!
Websites worldwide are failing due to killer bugs, simple in nature but with catastrophic results. They totally destroy any chances of a web promotion to make money from a website. The fixes are really simple, helping everyone get significant website promotion success. Dr. Fab of SuperFastProfit.com has started a campaign of awareness and guidance to help website owners. (PRWeb Aug 12, 2008)
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Q&A: US Political Conventions 2008
The BBC News website takes a look at what happens at the convention, why they are held at all, and what political observers will be looking out for this year. (Read on Source)
Google Joins IE, Firefox Browser War With Chrome
Word of Google's Chrome browser leaked on Sunday. The browser takes the technology of an OS and brings it to the web, integrating Gears and other technologies. Google's entry into the browser space is an affront to IE, Firefox and Opera who were already pitted against each other in an emerging browser war.
Weekly Green Business Wrap-Up
One More Reason to Take Confcalls in Your Underwear Cisco unveils its new ???Virtual Office,??? a wireless internet router and phone system employees can take home with them. This innovation will keep employees from having to commute, which saves them time and keeps their carbon footprinting asses off the road. Fred Kost, Cisco's Director of ... (Read on Source)
Windows XP Tips for Computer Security
Here are a couple of tips to speed up your Windows XP computer and help keep you protected and secure online. First you need to control which programs load on startup: Many of the programs you install on your computer automatically configure themselves to launch at startup, usually invisibly. The truly essential ones, such as anti-virus and firewall products, generally run as services and run fine in the background. Other less important software like media players don't need to be running continually. These extra programs slow the boot process and then severely suck up resources like memory and CPU cycles. It is pretty easy to control which applications launch on startup...
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Sells 1.5M in 5 Days; Named Fastest Selling LucasArts Game Ever
A near-simultaneous launch on six platforms across four regions helped LucasArts sell 1.5 million copies of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and set some new records during the game's first five days at retailers, the publisher announced today.
According to the company, that makes The Force Unleashed both the fastest-selling Star Wars game and LucasArts title yet. A total of 4.3 million copies were shipped to stores worldwide, with the publisher preparing more due to "unprecedented demand."
Developed by LucasArts on the PS3 and Xbox 360, the physics-intensive action game hit North America on September 16, followed by a Australian and Southeast Asia relea...
Japanese firm unveils wearable airbag for elderly
A Japanese company on Wednesday unveiled a wearable airbag for the elderly that pops out when they fall. (Read on Source)
Der akustische Fingerabdruck der Stradivari
Lange schon suchen Forscher nach einem Unterscheidungsmerkmal von Spitzengeigen und mediokren Produkten. Ein US-Physiker wurde nun fündig: bei der sogenannten Radiativität des Schalls. (Read on Source)
Zoho Mail: Mobile, offline, and out of beta
Zoho's browser-based Mail application is now publicly accessible, even when offline or using Apple's iPhone.
Video: Explosive Eruption on Kilauea
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano put on a show over the weekend with rare explosive eruptions that threw fist-sized rocks.
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Edwards wins; Johnson pads lead - Atlanta Journal Constitution
 Los Angeles Times | Edwards wins; Johnson pads lead Atlanta Journal Constitution - By Rick Minter It isn?t often that the second-place driver steals the spotlight from the race winner. That was the case after NASCAR?s Pep Boys Auto 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday. Johnson rises from mat to maintain Chase edge Johnson giving NASCAR reasons to rethink Chase |
Linux Distros and Apple beat Microsoft's Homepage Uptime
Royal Pingdom blog has posted with a comparison of home page load times and uptimes and concludes that various Linux distributions and Apple, both beat Microsoft's record. 13/16 Linux distributions (and Apple) had less downtime than Microsoft's homepage. 5/16 Linux distributions had less downtime than Apple's homepage. Four homepages had NO downtime: Red Hat, Mepis, Knoppix and Fedora. Five homepages had more than an hour of downtime: Gentoo, Mandriva, Mint, Arch and Microsoft.
MAC Nightcap: No Excuses But…
In fact, I quit watching this game because the refereeing was so blatantly one-sided, and so disruptive, as to destroy any semblance of flow and rhythm this game might have otherwise had, that is was unwatchable. Sadly, this is the case more often than not during the non-league part of the season. When a mid-major visits a BCS league squad, the ... (Read on Source)
More yellow cards than red in John Terry's decade with the Blues
John Terry has been widely credited for transforming himself from a petulant loose cannon into a combative talisman - a change recognised in his inheritance of the full-time England captaincy under Fabio Capello - but his disciplinary record with Chelsea this season has been chequered. (Read on Source)
Web Search
Make your Web searches more efficient, more enjoyable, and more convenient with my picks for the top ten Christmas presents for Web searchers. These are items that will enhance your... http://websearch.about.com/b/2008/12/22/the-top-ten-christmas-presents-for-web-searchers.htm 2008-12-22T02:44:45Z (Read on Source)
Peering Inside Skull Of A Mouse To Solve Meningitis Mystery: Immune Cells Implicated In Fatal Seizur
Scientists have discovered an unexpected cause for the fatal seizures seen in mice with viral meningitis, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The finding may lead to a new way of thinking about how the human immune system responds to viral diseases.
The 10,000 Year Explosion website
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution , has a website up, http://the10000yearexplosion.com . If there is an accelerating wave of media coverage that would probably be the place to track it.... Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
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