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• Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 passes; Pandora to continue royalty negotiations

  On Friday night Tim Westergren and his dedicated Pandora team worked overnight to rev up listeners once again to get on the phone with their local Congressional representatives and fight ...

  Tags: Management, Jennifer Leggio, Pandora, Finance, Team Management, Free Trade, Negotiation, Settlement, Webcaster

  Sep 30, 2008 4:44 PM PDT

• Improved insights and analysis from IT systems logs helps reduce complexity risks from virtualization

  We seem to be at a tipping point in terms of everyone doing virtualization, or wanting to do it, or wanting to do even more. IT managers experimenting with virtualization ...

  Tags: Logs, Utility Computing, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Information Technology, Hardware, Virtualization, Dana Gardner, Server, LogLogic

  Sep 30, 2008 4:15 PM PDT

• Nintendo and the Windows Mindset

  Games intended for the Nintendo Wii shouldn't show any Windows programming influences at all - but many do. The Tiger Woods PGA golf game, for example, takes five steps to ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, Nintendo Wii, Operating Systems, Games, Paul Murphy, Software, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Microsoft Windows

  Sep 30, 2008 2:58 PM PDT

• Sony VAIO TT Blu-ray ultraportable reviewed

  Turns out you can build a pretty good laptop for more than four grand. LaptopMag.com has the first full review of the new Sony TT series ultraportable, and it doesn't ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, LaptopMag.com, Sony Vaio, Home Entertainment, Blu-Ray, DVD, Hardware, Sony Corp., Blu-ray Disc, John Morris

  Sep 30, 2008 1:45 PM PDT

• Andreessen joins eBay board

  eBay said that Marc Andreessen will join the online auctioneer's board of directors. The move, which is effectively immediately, brings some additional brainpower to eBay, which is trying to fend ...

  Tags: Ning, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan, Online Communications, Marc Andreessen, Marketing, eBay Inc., Social Networking

  Sep 30, 2008 1:30 PM PDT

• RealDVD: A walk through the complaint

  Here's my read of the MPAA complaint in Universal v Real PDF. The MPAA's complaint against Real over its RealDVD rip-and-view product has only two causes of action. One is ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, MPAA, Scripting Languages, Home Entertainment, RealDVD, CSS, Web Development, DVD, Richard Koman, Software/Web Development

  Sep 30, 2008 1:20 PM PDT

• New report places Semantic Web 'On the Cusp' of something big

  Today sees the publication of a new report by Boston-based David Provost. On the cusp: a global review of the Semantic Web industry PDF features David's analysis of the space, ...

  Tags: Podcasts, Internet, David Provost, Semantic Web, Paul Miller

  Sep 30, 2008 1:05 PM PDT

• Agendus integrated PIM application available for BlackBerry devices

  Personal information management PIM is a key component of mobile devices and for years I used iambic Agendus on my Palm OS devices since it offered a consolidated way to ...

  Tags: Personal Information Management, Agendus, Handhelds, Matthew Miller, Hardware, Data Storage Location, RIM BlackBerry

  Sep 30, 2008 12:53 PM PDT

• Studio, Real trade lawsuits over RealDVD

  U.S. movie studios sued Real Networks in federal court today, alleging that Real's RealDVD product violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and breaches Real's contract with the DVD Copy Control ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, MPAA, DVD, Lawsuit, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Movie, Consumer Electronics, Scripting Languages, Home Entertainment

  Sep 30, 2008 12:36 PM PDT

• Ballmer says MSFT not immune to financial crisis

  Steve Ballmer was asked about the financial crisis and its effect on the IT industry last week and he didn't seem too concerned. But today, speaking at a press conference ...

  Tags: Financial, Management, Financial Accounting, Finance, Strategy, MSFT, Tom Foremski, Steve Ballmer

  Sep 30, 2008 12:30 PM PDT

• Microsoft says crisis will impact tech

  The way economists see it, there's the financial economy and the "real" economy. While Wall Street is in a genuine crisis and there's clearly been a tightening of credit, it's ...

  Tags: Richard Koman

  Sep 30, 2008 11:59 AM PDT

• Google to go back in time?

  Warning, this post is speculative, but I think all signs point to what I am about to describe. Google may be about to launch a search tool that uses the ...

  Tags: Garett Rogers, Entry, Emerging Technologies, Search Engine, Search, Google Inc., Robots

  Sep 30, 2008 11:55 AM PDT

• How SocialText is breaking the collaboration mold

  Last evening, Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText held a conference call with some of the Irregulars to run through the latest incarnation of the company's flagship product. The surprise he ...

  Tags: Dennis Howlett, Twitter, Collaboration, Processes, Socialtext, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Operational Planning, Online Communications

  Sep 30, 2008 11:34 AM PDT

• First reviews of Toshiba Qosmio with SpursEngine

  More than three months after Toshiba launched its first desktop replacement that makes use of the Cell processor in Japan, the Toshiba Qosmio G55-Q802 has reached U.S. shores and received ...

  Tags: Components, Processors, Qosmio G55 Series, Desktop, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Desktop Replacement, Corporate Communications, Quad-Core HD Processor

  Sep 30, 2008 11:01 AM PDT

• Do we need a LinuxCon?

  The foundation's Executive Director, Jim Zemlin, said this is being done in response to demand, and that the event will include a trade show along with conference and workshops. by ...

  Tags: Portland, Linux, Operating Systems, Conference, Dana Blankenhorn, Linux Foundation, Open Source, Software, UNIX

  Sep 30, 2008 10:32 AM PDT

• RealDVD officially launches, so do lawsuits; Is it 'StealDVD'?

  Update: RealNetworks announced Tuesday that its RealDVD software, which allows you to rip and burn DVDs easily, officially launched. And the lawsuits weren't far behind. In a statement Techmeme, RealNetworks ...

  Tags: Personal Technology, RealNetworks Inc., Home Entertainment, RealDVD, Larry Dignan, Lawsuit, DVD, Movie, Consumer Electronics, RealDVD Software

  Sep 30, 2008 10:25 AM PDT

• First Intel MID now available for $699

  There was a lot of Intel MID Mobile Internet Device news and demos at CES back in January, but we are just now starting to see them become available. Jenn ...

  Tags: Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows XP, Hardware, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Intel Corp., Device, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux

  Sep 30, 2008 10:20 AM PDT

• Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakes

  Socialtext, a company looking to take social networking to the enterprise, has launched its Socialtext 3.0, a suite of social networking applications complete with a wiki and dashboard to manage ...

  Tags: Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan, Online Communications, Marketing, Socialtext, Social Networking

  Sep 30, 2008 9:54 AM PDT

• Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?

  Mac Pro owners, listen up.  A french newspaper Liberation.fr has published a report English translation stating that Mac Pro owners run the risk of getting diseases as dangerous as leukemia ...

  Tags: Benzene, Apple Inc., Libération, Hardware, Desktops, Jason D. O\'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Mac Pro

  Sep 30, 2008 9:25 AM PDT

• Liquid camera lenses controlled by sound

  Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute RPI have created an adaptive liquid lens that captures 250 pictures per second. Because these lenses are simply powered by water and sound, they need ...

  Tags: Roland Piquepaille, Droplet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Camera, Lens

  Sep 30, 2008 9:23 AM PDT

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