Of course, just because a channel has a big “HD” stamped next to it in the on-screen programming guide doesn’t mean you’ll be glorying in full-fledged high-def every time you turn it on. In fact, most of the new channels Dish added, and indeed most so-called HD channels on any provider, deliver a steady diet [...]
Doubling revenue and earnings per share wasn’t good enough for Research in Motion’s investors, who punished the company Wednesday after its outlook fell short of expectations.
The real ire, however, came as the result of RIM’s outlook for the next quarter. The company said it expects revenue between $2.55 billion and $2.66 billion as well [...]
The legal issues are unclear. Putting aside any discrepancies over whether there were links to pirated content on Revision3’s tracker and for how long, there are questions about whether by transmitting so many packets at once, MediaDefender knowingly caused a denial-of-service outage. In addition, anti-competition questions could be raised since ArtistDirect promotes videos and [...]
Set Internet Explorer 7's Internet zone security level to High.
The second of my three-part update of the 10-Step Security story I wrote three years ago shows that some tech advice stands the test of time. (A post earlier this week freshened up tips one, two, and three from that story, which focus on Windows updates [...]
Twittervision for the iPhone lets you translate foreign tweets on the fly. Just double-tap something you don't understand, and it will do its best.
The translation takes about 10 seconds to work its magic, and you’ve got to be quick to touch, considering that the application hovers on a tweet only for half that amount [...]
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By any fair measure, the large premium we offered in January is even more significant today. We believe that the majority of your shareholders share this assessment, even after reviewing your public disclosures relating to your future prospects.
What Ballmer means: Jerry, I am really serious. If you don’t cave in within [...]
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The front page of Yahoo, mail and other properties will be transformed–for example, the mail welcome page will surface messages more relevant to users and the experience will be contextualized.
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“Tremendous creativity will released…It’s all about the consumer. We want to enable developers to do all kinds of things with the assets. We need [...]
In launching the new app, Amazon is taking on Google, which last month launched a mobile version of its Google Book Search, giving iPhone and Android users instant access to more than 1.5 million public domain books.
Updated 5:25 a.m. PST Wednesday to note the official release of the Kindle application.
The program will be available for [...]
If you want to accomplish a similar feat, there’s also a bookmarklet called Embiggen, which will do the same thing without you having to install anything. The key difference between the two is that shortText packs in a bundle of other features like letting you write Twitter tweets that are well over the 140 character [...]
EmTech08 gave me lots to mull–and I’ll roll that mulling into more in-depth pieces down the road. For today, though, I’m just going to expand a bit on a few statements and thoughts I ran across in the course of the two days that particularly caught my attention.
Finally, a sizable chunk of the conference was [...]
