AOL Radio Stream radio from over 200 stations spanning 25 music genres. It can even round up local stations. Who needs an FM tuner now?
eReader As a longtime fan of reading e-books on my PDA, I’m overjoyed I can now do the same on my touch. This app lets you download books purchased at the [...]
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OpenX, one the industry’s largest ad networks and the dominant open-source ad server company, just got a little bigger. OpenX announced that Jonathan Miller, former CEO of AOL, has joined the company as its chairman. Writes Scott Switzer of the announcement:
Jon has much experience working with major advertisers, as well as large and small publishers. [...]
A Chinese agency promised to shut or punish video sharing websites for hosting prohibited material, but this was going on before the incidents in Tibet made a different agency’s occasional blocking of YouTube famous.
At the time, rumors emerged of a “blacklist” that was circulating as a precursor to some sort of punishment in compliance with [...]
A week into a new trial with Ubuntu Linux, however, it’s clear that desktop Linux has come a long way. I found it extremely easy to use, including when I had to install a program (Skype) that wasn’t included in the supported applications list. This is an operating system that my grandma could (and, in [...]
One company that continues to baffle me with their non-presence in SaaS is SAP. Nearly two years ago Matt Asay and I sat shocked on a CSFB panel just after Shai Agassi proclaimed that SAP had spent over $1 billion on BBD before it even got out the door.
The main issue regarding the delay [...]
Arthas, the Lich King, enacts his plan for the domination of the world…of Warcraft.
The cinematic focuses on one character only, so just be prepared for that. While I was initially disappointed that we didn’t get our montage, I have to say that the intro is growing on me having watched it five times at [...]
As Web companies get decimated by the economy, developers who have the cloud-scale experience will end up with “real jobs” and connect with more formally trained software developers. The enterprise will become empowered as developers become better trained.
Ryan told me that “SaaS is the business version of cloud computing,” meaning that cloud services such as [...]
Strength in its wireless operations helped propel AT&T to healthy earnings growth for the first quarter.
For the period that ended March 31, the telecommunications giant reported net income of $3.5 billion, or 57 cents per share, on revenue of $30.7 billion. Net income was up 22 percent from the year-ago quarter, while revenue rose 6 [...]
Xtranormal makes a fun tool for making animated shows with cartoon characters. It could also be a tool for making machinima, if the company manages to license characters from game companies.
This will be a really fun product to play with when it comes out in the second-quarter. A private beta is scheduled for [...]
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But even with the generous feature sets, the high prices of these systems will make them a hard sell with consumers. For $2,000, we think most home theater enthusiasts would be better off with an [...]
