AT&T and Verizon execs expect file-sharing applications will become widely-used tools, mostly because they're efficient and inexpensive distribution platforms.
"I'm very interested in [P2P]," said Doug Pask, a senior technologist at Verizon, while speaking at a panel at Streaming Media West. "It's not a silver bullet, but it works well in high-volume environments and it has [...]
Will the Google Phone be a blockbuster — or just a
bust? My answer: neither. The new phone — manufactured by Taiwanese
cell-phone maker HTC — won't make major inroads in the cell phone
market, and it certainly won't pose an imminent threat to Apple's
iPhone or Research in Motion's BlackBerry.
But that's not
Google's point, at least in the [...]
Today I received an amusing email:
Dear Mr.Howe,How are you today? I hope you are doing great! I just saw a copy of your book at Barnes & Noble. I read the inside cover and thought you’re really onto something and would like to buy it, however I’m getting laid off at the end of the [...]
Yahoo has announced the creation of a Digital Advisory Council. It seems to have something to do with their impending tie-up with Google on advertising, and involves feedback of some sort. But you'd be hard pressed to actually know what it's all about by listening to Yahoo.
The company has given From the press release:
Active [...]
Today's operating
system has a lot of people very excited — but not because it's
Google or it's a new cell phone operating system. I mean, most people
don't care or don't even want to know what OS runs their phone.
Actually,
Android and Apple's iPhone are early signs of a revolution.
Until now,
most people have chosen their cell [...]
Dean Kamen has teamed up with Forum Nokia to encourage young mobile developers to create the next big application to benefit society. The contest "Calling All Innovators," which they announced today at Web Expo 2.0 in New York, will award up to 0,000 dollars to the winner, and Nokia will help him or her to [...]
Intellectual Ventures, the investment firm started by Microsoft billionaire Nathan Myhrvold, has amassed a collection of more than 20,000 patents, some of which Myhrvold may use to extort ridiculous amounts of money out of you.
And if he hasn't sued you yet, he will. Or he says he will, because he doesn't want people to [...]
The FCC learned a couple valuable lessons from the digital television switch in Wilmington, N.C. a couple weeks ago. First: Public awareness was not a problem. Second: Access to local affiliate stations’ transmission was.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (right), testifying in front of Congress yesterday, reported on an unexpected technical hiccup which caused a [...]
The downturn in the economy may be reeking havoc on the stock market, but online auction site eBay is using the lull as to buy up established online classified sites at reduced rates in its continuing pursuit of market share.
Jacob Aqraou, general manager of eBay’s global classified business,: "You have a lot of ad [...]
A U.K. regulator has ruled that Phorm’s ISP targeting practices are "are capable
of being operated in a lawful, appropriate and transparent fashion," giving a boost to the web monitoring company’s business of tracking consumers online.
today, the U.K.’s Department for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) also stressed that any profiling Phorm conducts must be [...]