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Logitech + Google TV – The Trojan Horse PC In Your Living Room
Logitech has built a very large business making everything for the computer except the computer itself: keyboards, mice, desktop speakers, etc. Today Logitech launched its Revue, a set-top box containing its version of Google TV plus a remote control that looks like a regular Qwerty keyboard with a few extra buttons. Using a search interface, ...
TRUSTe: The Complexity Of Privacy Protection On The Web
I recently met with Chris Babel, the CEO of TRUSTe, which certifies web sites for creating and maintaining adequate privacy policies. It’s a tougher job than you might imagine because on today’s web there are so many ways companies can collect private data on any visitor. TRUSTe started life as a non-profit but about ten ...
Jason Calacanis Plans Revenge With A Techcrunch Disruptor
Jason Calacanis used to be a good friend and a business partner with Mike Arrington. Together they launched a conference series but fell out and took different paths. Jemima Kiss at Guardian.co.uk reports: Jason Calacanis: Revenge is a new editorial project to rival TechCrunch Calacanis claims Arrington froze him out of his chunk of the ...
Google v Facebook Is About . . . Fast versus Sticky – Which Strategy Will Win?
Google’s most important launch this year was its recent debut of Google Instant search which cuts user search time by as much as 40%. Google users are collectively saving 11 hours per second. That means 11 hours per second being spent away from Google search. Google is betting it that if its users spend less ...
Slowing Demand For PCs Could Affect HP, Dell, Intel Revenues
Market research firm iSuppli has cut its global chip revenue forecast by 9 per cent because of slowing demand from the consumer sector and a rise in chip inventories. The forecast has been cut to 32 per cent growth this year from 35.1 per cent. Chip sales are expected to reach $302 billion this year ...
ScribbleLive – Live Media Technologies For Real-Time Newsrooms
I recently met with Michael de Monte, CEO of Scribble Technologies, based in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a very interesting media technology called ScribbleLive, which is a real-time newsroom allowing publishers to rapidly organize and publish text, audio, and video content as it happens. Several large media companies are using it, such as Thomson ...
BitTorrent Close To Launching Live Streaming Technology
Tuesday evening I attended a media roundtable at Boulevard in San Francisco with top executives from BitTorrent, which invented the popular file sharing technology that has about 80 million monthly users. Here are some notes from my evening: – BitTorrent has been working on a live streaming technology for two years and now it is ...
AOL Acquisition: Will TechCrunch $hare M&A Bounty With Its Writers? Will Yahoo! Look At Competitors?
Congratulations to Michael Arrington and team on the TechCrunch acquisition by AOL. The terms of the deal have not been made public, however AOL will be required to make an SEC filing in the next few days if the amount is "material." Building a media company is hard work and Mr. Arrington has certainly put ...
Cisco Plans Relaunch Of News@Cisco
Yesterday I met with Autumn Truong, Senior Social Media Strategies for Cisco Corporate Communications, and she told me about plans to relaunch the pioneering News@Cisco site. I’m a big fan of what Cisco has done with its communications. Cisco was the inspiration for my "Every company is a media company" mantra. More than five years ...
Salesforce Will Extend Chatter Beyond The Enterprise
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, said that there are plans to extend the Chatter social collaboration tool beyond the enterprise and include business partners and others. He did not say when this capability would be ready but more details are expected at the company’s Dreamforce conference in early December. "Right now you can add people ...