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The service requires a small system plug-in that currently runs only on PCs. I was told no
Mac version is planned, but may come into the picture if there’s enough of a demand. Once the plug-in is installed, you [...]
Continuing to stake out a different approach to torrents, the latest version of Vuze integrates an auto-conversion feature for both portable screens and your television. Available for Windows and Mac, Vuze 4.2 offers a device drag-and-drop feature that automatically converts a video torrent from its native format to an appropriate one for iTunes,
PlayStation 3, and
Xbox [...]
Six days have passed since Microsoft’s “deadline” for Yahoo to come to the negotiating table. Despite the promise that Microsoft would take action, very little of substance has happened this week.
Search metrics
Number of searches performed on Google: 1.21 billion
Number of searches performed on Yahoo: 441 million
Number of searches performed on MSN/Live Search: 197 million
Revenue
Revenue taken [...]
Taken together, we believe that our proposal would have created total value for Yahoo’s shareholders in excess of $33 per share.
• Microsoft and Yahoo would have entered into a long-term search partnership, where Microsoft would have provided favorable economics to Yahoo search, including a three-year guarantee of higher monetization than Yahoo’s Panama paid search [...]
LAS VEGAS–This year marks my ninth year of attending Black Hat in Las Vegas. From a small gathering of security professionals in 2000 to an uberconference in 2008, Black Hat has scaled well. And the transition from private company to corporate-owned also appears smooth. But hardly anyone’s here yet.
Lunch, served in a tent located in [...]
Cloud computing is confusing–and profitable. I must have heard 50 questions about the definition of cloud computing which should tell every marketing manager in the tech industry to tighten up their messaging. In spite of this confusion however, IBM seems to be doing quite well in areas like managed backup, desktop, and security services.
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But even though it’s considered the leader in the corporate smartphone market, the company is facing stiff competition from companies, such as Microsoft and Apple. Apple’s
iPhone was originally targeted at consumers, but it’s been gaining traction among business users. In March, Apple announced it was licensing software to work with Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers in [...]
You know Jerry Yang is out of there the day the change of title gets signed. Sue Decker? She’s currently Yahoo’s No. 2 and merits the opportunity. She’s smart and capable and sits on Berkshire Hathaway’s board with Bill Gates. Then again, maybe someone at Microsoft may (wrongly) associate her with Yahoo’s ancient regime. Too [...]
…Canonical is [increasingly] in a position to drive real change in the software that is part of Ubuntu. If we just showed up with pictures and prototypes and asked people to shape their projects differently, I can’t imagine that being well received! So we are also hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, [...]
Haute Secure counters that its offering is better because it relies upon a community of dedicated users to inform the product when to block and when not. In testing at CNET, the latest version of Haute Secure still misses some recently published phishing sites,wholesale jewelry, while Firefox 3 RC2 blocked them immediately.
Haute Secure was [...]
