Archive for June, 2010

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

Smarter bookmarking with Add to Any

The same goes for a lot of sites, which is where Add to Any has created a really smart sharing tool that will read your browser’s mind instead. Well, actually it will just give your history a once over to do the heavy lifting. Based on where you’ve been the most, relevant sites for sharing [...]

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

EIC Squared D6, Dell’s future, and Comcast hacks

On this week’s EIC Squared podcast, ZDNet’s Larry Dignan and I discuss the celebrity interviews at the D6 conference, hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Unfortunately, I called in from the San Diego airport United Airlines gate area, so you’ll hear crying children and the ticker taker coaxing me to get on the plane. [...]

Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by admin  |  2 Comments »

Upstart JumpTap takes on Google

The cash infusion will help the company continue to develop its technology and expand its sales force to take on the bigger players.
Johar argues that JumpTap’s white label approach allows operators to retain control of their customer information while still being able to use advanced search and advertising technology to tap into targeted advertising.
At this [...]

Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by admin  |  No Comments »

Amazon flicks on its streaming-video service

The broader release of the Amazon Video on Demand service comes two months after the online-retailing giant began offering the service to a limited number of its users.

“The ability to watch content instantly without downloading first was among the most requested features of our customers, and now it’s live,” Roy Price, Amazon Video on Demand [...]

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

TweetValue estimates your Twitter profile’s worth

I was pointed toward a new Twitter ranking tool by Louis Gray. The tool of the day is TweetValue.

It's a little discouraging to hear that the Twitter account you worked so hard to build is worth $125.

Following the controversy surrounding Twitterank, TweetValue assigns a dollar value to your Twitter profile. While the site does [...]

Posted on June 16th, 2010 by admin  |  1 Comment »

What does Woz see in solid-state drives

“We are not replacing a 15K-rpm disk drive,” Flynn said. (Hard-disk drives spinning at 15,000 revolutions per minute are the highest-performance disk drives used in enterprise servers.) “We are miniaturizing an entire (storage area network) of multiple drives by making it out of silicon. While a 15K-rpm drive may cost $2 to $3 per gigabyte, [...]

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

Microhoo Where’s the outrage

It’s easy to understand why advertisers aren’t squawking about Microsoft acquiring Yahoo: they’re a lot more concerned about Yahoo hooking up with Google–or Google just getting more powerful, which could drive up ad rates.
A company with a reputation for cutthroat behavior and squashing the little guy tries to buy a pioneer of the Internet, once [...]

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

‘Clickjacking’ attack hides behind the mouse

In brief, the attack involves embedded objects on a maliciously crafted Web page. Using framed content or that from Flash, Silverlight, or Java, the attacker places a transparent or invisible click button beneath the mouse so that whenever the user clicks on something they see on the page (to see more search results on Google, [...]