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- Sony Reader Daily Edition available for pre-order now; unclear when you'll get it
- In case you were hoping for one, don't count on getting a Sony Reader Daily Edition by Christmas. Pre-orders are one thing; shipping seems to be on a different page. The newest Sony Reader model (Daily Edition, following in...
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Microsoft puts more Azure cloud plumbing in place
- Microsoft is continuing to lay the groundwork for the commercial version of its Azure cloud environement, rolling out a new content delivery network CDN capability, as well as the November update to its Azure developer services. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- AT&T encourages employees to speak out against net neutrality
- AT&T's top policy exec - aka lobbyist - has turned to AT&T employees for a last-chance campaign to flood the FCC with anti-net neutrality messages. In a memo that's starting to circulate around the Internet, Senior Executive VP Jim Cicconi tells encourages the employees, their friends and family to "join...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Web powerhouses to FCC: We support open Internet
- The Internet's big guns have signed their names to a letter of support for a continued open Internet, sending it to the FCC this morning, just days before the agency is slated to vote on network neutrality rules. The letter is actually from the Open Internet Coalition,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- AT&T to FCC: Close loopholes and write rules that apply to Google, too
- AT&T has taken off the boxing gloves in its fight with Google over the Google Voice service and proposed Net Neutrality rules. In a letter to the FCC PDF this week, AT&T went on the attack to portray Google as a big powerful company that's trying to fool the FCC...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Skype's New Revenue Model
- www.skypeishype.comWWW.SKYPEISHYPE.COMWe are the team of inventors behind US Patent 7,089,319 issued in 2006 titled "Method and system for instantaneous on-demand delivery of multimedia content over a communication network with aid of content capturing component, delivery-on-demand client and dynamically mapped resource locator server". We introduce "Skype-killer" application, with new innovative "Internet...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"
- 6 of onehalf dozen of another. Like all extremists you paint a nice picture from one perspective. All these internet companies are so innocent and all they want is a fair shake . . . yeah right. In order to maximize profits, they purposely underbuilt their networks. They advertize high...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-03
- Easier access to Twitter thumbnails with Tweetimag.es
- Joe Stump, former Digg PHP god, has yet another side project that makes using the Twitter API one step simpler. It's called Tweetimag.es. Instead of using the Twitter API to get a user's thumbnail (which requires an HTTP request from Amazon's S3 service,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Tripwire Helps Put This Student Loan Servicing Company at the Head of Its Class
- EdFinancial Services strives to be best in class by streamlining the student loan delivery process across the life of a loan in a completely digital environment. The challenge was to ensure successful deployment of web content changes, to leverage automated controls to minimize audit overhead and increase change management discipline...
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- The ultimate guide to scareware protection
- Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...
- Blog posts 2009-09-13
- Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- Distance learning -Â providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance -Â has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...
- Blog posts 2009-09-06
- Tenon iTools 9.0.5 (Mac)
- iTools is a family of tools essential for serious commercial content delivery and eCommerce. iTools for Mac OS X extends and enhances OS X's built-in networking with ease-of-use and increased functionality. This suite of Internet tools is derived from Tenon's award-winning WebTen software and is based on standard open-source protocol...
- Software downloads 2009-08-31
- Asus to launch Eee e-book reader in 2009; MSI mulling move over
- Asustek plans to launch an e-book reader under its popular Eee brand by the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company president Jerry Shen. In a brief DigiTimes report, Micro-Star International -- known as MSI to the rest of us --...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Trafficking in Michael Jackson
- The news of Michael Jackson's death and subsequent coverage of his memorial service brought the Internet to a crawl and saturated even the most robust of content delivery networks. When the King of Pop died last week, I swore that I was going...
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Optimum Ultra: So how fast is it?
- Optimum Online's $99 per month Ultra DOCSIS 3.0 service is one of fastest residential broadband offerings available today. But is it really "Up to" 101Mbps as advertised? As I mentioned in a post last week about broadband service outages, Last Friday, I was...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- PhoneBAK GPS 9.0 (Mobile)
- Symbian OSAn integrated solution (''Anti-theft'', ''GPS Tracking'' and ''Emergency'') that lets users locate their friends, classmates, vehicles or family members to know their whereabouts.PhoneBAK GPS lets the parents see the location of their children mobile phones, employers to track their vehicles and also the whereabout of employees (journalists, agents etc)...
- Software downloads 2009-06-29
- Collaborative Networks vs Social Networks
- During a telephone conversation between us last week Aaron Fulkerson of MindTouch said he was going to pick up on my Collaboration Networks meme, and he has now produced a solid post on this topic. Aaron takes on the number one issue plaguing...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Revisiting the ROI of the Kindle DX: Why is Amazon blind to Wi-Fi?
- Revisiting the ROI of the Kindle DX: Why is Amazon blind to Wi-Fi?Theft on college campusesThat's an excellent point. I went to a large public university. I have never in my life had as many things stolen as I had during my time there. It's not even...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- Top 10 lessons for iPhone adoption in the enterprise
- Is your company ready for the iPhone? Or better, is the iPhone ready for your company? New Forrester research suggests that Apple's iPhone is a worthy platform for delivering content and collaboration applications to an increasingly mobile workforce -- and that there's a case to be made...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Is Cisco ready to pounce on the CDN market?
- Cisco may be pondering a move into the content delivery network market. According to a report in the Business of Online Video, it appears that Cisco has been acquiring colocation space at third party data centers for a content delivery network CDN. Cisco has its own CDN,...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
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