Posts Tagged with ‘news’

In the news yesterday YouTube announced they plan to test new fingerprinting technology that will address the copyright issues that are causing them huge legal woes. This new software will identify unique attributes in video clips that may allow for the prevention of uploading copyrighted clips without permission. YouTube executive Chris Macy told Reuters that [...]

On Monday Apple made its Safari Web browser available for Windows based PC's. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple made the announcement at the company's World Wide Developers Conference opening up yet another venue for competition with rival Microsoft. Wall Street was not overly impressed at the news and Apple shares dropped by $4.30 after the [...]

Me.dium has just announced receiving $15 million in series B funding from various venture partners. According to our communique with Me.dium this round of investing was led by Commonwealth Venture Partners. Me.dium's existing investors Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Brad Feld also took part in what is to be the driving push to open the doors to [...]

The latest news from Athens is that young professionals in Greece have turned to the blogosphere to help improve their salaries. Evidently many Greek professionals are under a salary ceiling that has virtually impoverished them, so they have turned to blogging to vent their frustration and seek public attention to their issues. Generation 700, as [...]

Sometimes I feel like the official reporter of Internet TV leader Joost because their news always seems to gravitate in my direction. Today Joost announced former Cisco Systems executive and expert deal maker Mike Volpi as their CEO. Volpi was the senior VP and General Manager of Cisco's routing and service provider group, and he helped acquire more [...]

Ask.com. There’s a lot of love for the fourth-most-popular search engine on the Net. It’s an industry player that’s okay with not having to fight for the top spot. (Though it certainly would take it if the crown were offered.) It caters to loyalists and is content in knowing it offers more bang for the [...]

Next New Networks, a micro television network we reported on previously, has just partnered up with everyone's favorite broadcast quality Internet television service Joost. We received the news today that Next New Networks will air Pulp Secret, Threadbanger and Channel Frederator on the world's first Internet TV service and NNN expects to follow up with other [...]

News today from the Indy 500 is that our buddies at Joost are going faster than ever before, now that the JoostTM logo screamed around the Brickyard at over 222 mph and placed 7th. The #2 Vision Racing/Honda/Firestone car driven by Tomas Scheckter finished just over 11 seconds behind Dario Franchitti, the winner of the 91st [...]

One of my favorite Web 2.0 initiatives has been the "One Laptop per Child" project. News today that Intel has developed its own version of an inexpensive laptop galvanized my opinion that big business would kill "Flipper" for a tuna sandwich. Professor Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the OLPC initiative accused Intel of selling its own version in [...]