Archive for June, 2010

Posted on June 30th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Bojam Market for music mixing

The Bojam mixer.
The demo was loud and entertaining, and the technology is cool. If you’re a musician looking for a jamming product, also check out eJamming, which I covered from the at the January 2007 Demo conference.
Prepare. To. Demo.
New completed songs can then be sold on the site.

Most rousing demo award at [...]

Posted on June 28th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Critics Homeland Security unprepared for cyberthr

“We’re not prepared” to handle cyberthreats, Powner said.

The witnesses at the hearing concurred the DHS has been too secretive.

The GAO’s new reports include descriptions of the department’s failure to fully address 15 key cyberanalysis and warning attributes related to activities such as monitoring government networks for unusual activity. For instance, warnings sent to federal [...]

Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

CNET News Daily Podcast When businesses strike ba

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LG pushes ahead while consumers hold back
Yelp user faces lawsuit over negative review
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One Yelper gets sued for a negative review he wrote about a business. Reporter Elinor Mills stops by the podcast studio [...]

Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by admin  |  1 Comment »

Homeland Security We can seize laptops for an ind

At a Senate hearing in June, Larry Cunningham, a New York prosecutor who is now a law professor, defended laptop searches–but not necessarily seizures–as perfectly permissible. Preventing customs agents from searching laptops “would open a vulnerability in our border by providing criminals and terrorists with a means to smuggle child pornography or other dangerous and [...]

Posted on June 18th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

TV has license to kill movies at iTunes, Netflix

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Metro-Goldwyn Mayer)

The situation comes down to basic dollars and cents. At this point, the revenue from TV deals dwarfs the money Netflix and iTunes generate.

The answer, of course, is because broadcasters say they are.

You have to go back decades to understand how entrenched these release windows are in the film industry. The [...]

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Sony Ericsson ready to challenge Nokia’s ‘Comes wi

Currently, users can only access the Nokia Music Store in 11 countries: Finland, the U.K., Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, France, Sweden, and Spain. The company has said it plans to roll out more markets, but it hasn’t said when. Considering that the North America is one of Nokia’s most underrepresented markets, it’s unlikely [...]

Posted on June 14th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Adobe strategy Mobile app meets Photoshop Element

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Adobe)
Syncing with the new Photoshop.com
Based on the Flash Lite Player, Photoshop.com Mobile beta will let you upload all the photos on your mobile phone to Photoshop.com, which will then automatically sync to either Element 7 app, if you have one. The preview build we saw is divided into three rudimentary actions. The first is [...]

Posted on June 4th, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Kleiner Perkins backs smart-grid firm Silver Sprin

The creaking electricity grid got a shot in the arm on Tuesday from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which is leading a $75 million investment in smart-grid start-up Silver Spring Networks.

The “smart grid” is a catchall term to describe a number of products for adding automation to the electricity distribution system. [...]