Posts Tagged with ‘ars-technica’

Yesterday the blogosphere was abuzz over yet another acquisition in the blogging world with one-man blog Bankaholic purchased by BankRate financial information website and service provider for reported $15 million (with $2.5 million to be paid over the next 12 months if certain conditions are met).
The irony of the announcement is that the overall financial climate in the country does not seem to be favorable for any acquisitions at all - especially those that don’t seem to be backed by [...]

On Friday Robert Scoble published a list of 160+ people worth subscribing to on FriendFeed for everyone interested in technology news. Quite understandably, this list have become one of the most discussed things over the weekend with people either criticizing Robert for this list or thanking him for compiling it.
I think that I have the most obvious reason to be happy about making the list as according to Robert’s comments there are only two great tech blogs - Ars Technica [...]

It appears that cloud computing is the latest Web 2.0 technology under fire in the blogosphere, but of all the tech that's come out of this whole new way of doing things, I'd place my bets on cloud computing being around past anything else that falls.
Steven Hodson at WinExtra had a great breakdown of the major players in the space, but I disagreed with his concerns about security. He referenced the amount of data that can be stolen during a [...]

Just little more than a month ago I reported on how Apple's iTunes music service has passed up Best Buy to become the number two music retailer just under Wal-Mart.
Not surprisingly, Ars Technica has reported today that the latest NPD MusicWatch Survey for the month of January has shown Apple making a significant stride in passing Wal-Mart to now become the top music retailer in the nation.
The stats from the NPD Group show that the iTunes music [...]

Everyone is all excited about the new Yahoo offering called Yahoo Buzz. ReadWriteWeb has talked about how they love it not once, but twice. TechCrunch seems pretty happy as well, and Duncan Riley spent most of the weekend Tweeting about the number of comments he was receiving on his article that made the site.
ReadWriteWeb had statistics from Yahoo on the wonders they've done in feeding pageviews to the featured sites, with success stories listed as Salon.com, The Smoking Gun, [...]

Was it only last night that I was questioning the ability of governments to legislate online activity? It seems too recent to comment on yet another stunning display of the cluelessness of governing bodies with regard to how them thar tubes work, but the United States House of Representatives presented such a classic example that it has to be noted.
On Wednesday, the House approved, with an overwhelming 409-2 vote, HR 3791, otherwise known as the SAFE Act, a piece of [...]

First, let me point out that there is in fact a difference – a big difference - between censoring the Web and shutting it down completely (or at least a portion of it), as has been done in Myanmar, or Burma, as it is more familiarly known. Yet I think you’ll agree that both measures can be very impactful.
That said, this is pretty big news. I mean, the people working China’s “Great Firewall” have essentially blocked all RSS feeds. Nationwide. [...]

In the hours following Apple and EMI’s debut of DRM-free music on the iTunes Store, the blogosphere was abuzz with good cheer, but soon thereafter grew a body of dissenters to an unofficially announced measure apparently taken by Apple and EMI to ensure that media purchased within the iTunes Plus milieu are “traceable.” Upon quick inspection of the issue, one could see clear reason for the response to the Big-Brother-esque strategy Apple and EMI have employed.
The [...]