Podcast: Larry talks about the Mac with co-anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell on CBS station KCBS in San Francisco
The value of a standard user interface can’t be overstated. I run dozens of programs on my computer, and each software company has its own idea of how to move the cursor, erase data and [...]
By the way, both Larry and Fabrizio missed one of the biggest differences between open-source adoption in Europe and the United States: legal wrangling. In the States, intellectual-property indemnification is the biggest issue that a software company (proprietary or open-source) will negotiate with prospects. In Europe? They mostly want to make sure that the code [...]
Comcast, the largest cable provider in the U.S., has been under fire for months after it was discovered the company had been slowing down peer-to-peer traffic on its network. The company claimed it had singled out peer-to-peer, file-sharing traffic, because it was eating up an inordinate amount of bandwidth, which caused degradation across the rest [...]
“(Businesses) will rush to the community and try to connect, but essentially they won’t have a mutual purpose, and they’ll fail,” Sarner said. By a “mutual purpose,” he means a way to serve both the company putting out the campaign and the audience interacting with it: finding that balance is not easy. The quirkiest and [...]
Connecticut is one of the lead states in a coordinated effort that includes approximately a dozen states investigating the Yahoo-Google partnership, Blumenthal said, declining to list the other states. But the states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Florida confirmed their participation to CNET News.
And a Yahoo spokeswoman said: “We have been and will continue to work [...]
“Let’s get down to the raw facts. It’s about search engine optimization,” he said. “They want to keep you within their network as long as possible. A lot of that works into it.”
Later, I put the same question to Om Malik, the impresario behind GigaOm. He said there are no rules at his [...]
Tuesday’s Macworld should still be an interesting event even without CEO Steve Jobs making his usual address to the Macworld crowd. A new MacBook Pro, new Mac Minis, and a thorough discussion of the upcoming release of
Mac OS X Snow Leopard are expected.
If you’re interested in live updates from tomorrow’s Macworld keynote, we’ve got [...]
Apple and digital music will go on, but CDs and Virgin Megastores are on their way out.
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Greg Sandoval/CNET News)
One can hardly find a better symbol of the music industry’s crossover from physical CDs to digital downloads than the intersection of San Francisco’s Stockton and Market streets.
Truth be told, Virgin ceased being a [...]
The home screen on the new Adobe Media Player 1.1 presents more shows to watch with a new interface.
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Adobe)
Shows can be encoded in the Flash video format, called FLV, or in H.264. The Adobe Media Player uses Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), a programming foundation that lets software run on Windows,
Mac OS X, and Linux [...]
Fusion-io, the company that boasts Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist, says it has achieved extremely high data transfer speeds on servers from Hewlett-Packard.
These drives are especially valuable for database and data mining, virtual machine deployments, and financial transactions, according to Flynn.
HP offers solid-state drive arrays as part of HP’s BladeSystem. [...]