Insert Bad ‘Hulu Hoopla’ Pun Here [Digital Daily] (1)
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As the lines between television and the Internet grow increasingly blurry, online video services are seeing quite a bit of audience growth. Predictably, YouTube has been top among them. The company served up 5 billion video streams to some 77 million unique users in July, according to Nielsen Online, which ranked it as the top Web brand for that period. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 295,646 streams and 20,142 uniques. Not much of a ...
MobileMea Culpa, Redux [Digital Daily] (1)
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If, as Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs recently said, the launch of MobileMe was not Apple’s finest hour, then what can be said of the more than 800 hours that followed? Because they haven’t exactly been Apple’s finest hours either. How about “here’s another free extension to your MobileMe subscription — now let’s forget this ever happened.” In yet another attempt to make amends with dismayed MobileMe subscribers, Apple is granting them a free 60 ...
Google Pushes White Space, Says Free the AirWaves [Voices] (1)
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By Om Malik, Founder and Senior Writer, GigaOM On Monday Google launched a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwaves, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that reside in the 700 MHz band spectrum vacated by analog television’s switch to digital transmissions. Google has been lobbying hard to get this spectrum unlicensed and make it open to all unlicensed devices. While I am all for ...
Status Update: Mark Zuckerberg Is Reading a Class-Action Suit [Digital Daily] (1)
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It’s taken nearly a year, but the inevitable class-action fallout from Facebook’s ill-starred Beacon advertising system has finally begun. Filed in California, the suit claims Facebook and its ad partners violated online privacy and computer fraud laws by collecting and publicly disclosing information about users’ online activities without proper consent. Facebook’s “Beacon” advertisements, as you may recall, transformed member transactions on third-party partner sites into product/service endorsements and inserted them into their friends’ “news feeds.” ...
Sony and Roku Try To Join TV to Web, But No Merger Yet [Personal Technology] (1)
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Perhaps the biggest disconnect in the digital landscape today is between the Internet and the TV set. Consumers have been buying big, new high-definition TVs in large numbers and, separately, are watching more and more video from online sources like YouTube, Hulu and iTunes. But the two trends have yet to merge. Despite the efforts of big names like Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL) and TiVo (TIVO), relatively few people are watching Internet video on their ...
MySpace Apparently Lost in Translation [Digital Daily] (1)
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Social-networking sites may be nearing a plateau in North America, but they’re hiking diligently upward abroad. Worldwide usage of social- networking sites has grown by 25 percent in the last year, according to a new study from comScore. That’s more than double the 9 percent growth seen in North America. This rising social-networking tide overseas is, of course, lifting all boats, but none higher than Facebook. With 132 million unique visitors in June–up 153 percent ...
Extreme Networks Jumps on $100 Million Self-Tender [Voices] (1)
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By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily Extreme Networks (EXTR) shares are on the rise this morning after the company announced plans to buy back $100 million of its common stock at a price between $3.30 to $3.70 a share in a “modified Dutch auction” tender offer that will start today and expire Sept. 12. At the low end of the price range, the company would buy back 26 percent of its ...
New Report Says Tiered Broadband Bad, Unlikely [Voices] (1)
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By Stacey Higginbotham, Writer, GigaOm The Free Press issued a report this afternoon casting doubt on the theory of network congestion that has been cited by ISPs as the reason behind P2P blocking or broadband caps, and offering more rational solutions for dealing with sporadic congestion. It also claims that tiered broadband and limitation pricing–in which a carrier charges per gigabyte fee after users exceed a certain cap–is unlikely to become reality. Prior to the ...
That’s Hot: Paris Hilton Strikes Back at the “White-Haired Dude” (2)
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In a tempest-in-a-teapot political scandalette, Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain used images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in a television ad attacking his Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama as a celebrity. It was tasteless and also offensive to Hilton and Spears, which seems an almost impossible task–way to go! Now, wasting no time in taking advantage of the brouhaha and drawing attention just where it should be–to herself, of course–Hilton did this clever ...
Flock Web Browser Eases Multitasking But Has Drawbacks | Walt Mossberg | Personal Technology | AllThingsD (2)
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Even with the advent of tabbed browsing, which allows you to keep multiple Web pages open in the same window, Web multitasking can be a pain. You have to constantly click back and forth among tabs if they contain fast-changing material you check often, like the status of your friends in social-networking services, or updates to news feeds. Trying to share information with people on your Web-based networks can introduce another layer of digital jujitsu. ...
Sprint-Nextel: Another Rough Quarter as Customers Flee [Voices] (1)
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By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily Not a very encouraging quarter for Sprint-Nextel (S). The telecom giant posted Q3 revenue of $9.1 billion, with a loss of 12 cents a share; the Street had expected $9.2 million and a profit of 3 cents. The company did say that adjusted EPS, which excludes special items and non-cash amortization, was a positive 6 cents. The company lost a net 901,000 wireless customers in ...
Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac? [Voices] (2)
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By Joe Wilcox, Blogger, Apple Watch I recently got to wondering about Mac versus Windows PC pricing after seeing two HP notebooks on sale at the local Target. One of them, a 14-inch model, the HP DV2946NR, sold for $699.99 and packed 4GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. Capacity for both features is twice that of the $1,299 MacBook—and shared graphics is 356MB compared with a meager 144MB for the MacBook. I wondered: ...
Scratch Jerry Yang for Post-CEO “Dancing With the Stars” Gig [BoomTown] (1)
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“Is that all there is, is that all there is. If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing. Let’s break out the booze and have a ball, If that’s all there is.” Peggy Lee sang it best about troubled times in the classic song “Is That All There Is?” But, dancing and making a video about dancing is obviously something that elevates Yahoo, which is no small thing in this tough period ...
Microsoft (Inevitably) Weighs in on the Yahoo Shareholder Vote Miscount [BoomTown] (2)
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Yesterday–in a patented playbook move–some top Microsoft execs didn’t miss a chance to slap around Yahoo over its shareholder vote debacle, letting it be known to industry insiders (on the very loud QT, of course) that the Internet company knew full well that its biggest investor, Capital Research & Management, was going to vote a large number of shares against it. Thus, it was just a hop, skip and a leak before their sentiments got ...
The First $1000 iPhone Application [Voices] (1)
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By Harry McCracken, Blogger, Technologizer iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone’s screen. 2) It sells on Apple’s App Store for $999.99, thereby explaining its name: I Am Rich. Read the rest of this post
