Silverlight Battling Flash AND JavaScript For Long-Term Legitimacy
So a whole lot of people thought Microsoft’s Silverlight technology warranted an install to watch the summer games in Beijing at NBCOlympics.com. And another big crowd felt different, thinking, among...
View ArticleGoogle Goes into Orbit: Timeshare Satellite GeoEye-1 Launched
As we noted late last month, Google affixed its name to the GeoEye Inc’s GeoEye-1 satellite, in order that the Web giant get dibs on some high-resolution imagery produced of our little planet in orbit....
View ArticleFacebookers Rally for Choice
If a post on Facebook’s developer blog is accurate, you have less than a week to make your call for no change. That’s right, no change. a group of members have coalesced behind a petition, massing...
View ArticleHow to Catch 2008 Paralympic Moments Online from Beijing
As we noted earlier, the 2008 Paralympic Summer Games in Beijing held their official opener on Saturday. The next week and a half will bring roughly 4,000 athletes from 150 countries into one athletic...
View ArticleGerman Security Office Smells Stink on Google Chrome
Germany’s Office for Information Security, also known as the BSI, has apparently looked at Google’s Chrome browser and felt a pinch of uneasy déjà vu (a la Microsoft), only this time sensing that the...
View ArticleA Data Cap Might be Technically Bearable, But it’s Consciously Limiting
An interesting statement emerged on NewTeeVee today. Post author Chris Albrecht quotes Roku VP of consumer products “It’s unfortunate that the limitless possibilities are being capped by an ISP...
View ArticleGoToMyCamera Takes Surveillance to the Cloud on the Cheap
UPDATED: It’s no cheap exercise to implement a surveillance system to record what goes on at home or at one’s place of business. And as for the hardware, it can still be a pricey endeavor. As with most...
View Article400 Advertisers Tell U.S. Justice Dept They Feel Bad About Google-Yahoo Play
Lots and lots of advertising companies are taking the opportunity given by the recent Google-Yahoo search advertising trial and the subsequent autumn revelation made by the Google CEO last month to let...
View ArticleSocial Networking My Way through the Entourage Season 5 Premiere Party
As Entourage fans most likely know, Season 5 of the hit HBO show debuts this evening. Last Thursday, I attended the first ever “in-flight” television premiere, a co-promotion between HBO and Virgin...
View ArticleRSSMixer makes Mashups Easier
Recently launched RSS Mixer wants to make mixing and mashing up all of your RSS feeds as easy as possible. They’ve spent the last year devloping a service that they hope will allow even the least...
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