Wednesday - May 7, 2008
It was Monday morning, and Haiyong Xie was running late. His flight to Los Angeles had been delayed, and then he had to face LA's beastly morning traffic. Xie, of Yale University, was on his way to the P2P Media Summit at the Hollywood Renaissance Hotel to take part in a panel discussion about the P4P Working Group. The group's sponsor, the Digital Computing Industry Association, was the host of the event. The panel's other participants, Doug Pasko of Verizon and Laird Popkin of Pando Networks, held their own until Xie arrived about halfway through the talk.
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Tuesday - April 29, 2008
The online delivery of movies and TV content is encumbered by a tangle of digital rights management, copyright and technological issues. The cell phone's proper place in the whole landscape is one of many difficult questions the industry's trying to sort out. With its new offering, CinemaNow proposes that the cell phone work as a sort of portable box office.
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Friday - April 25, 2008
Costco and Sam's Club are rationing rice. Friday's reported incident in the Persian Gulf probably has more than a few paranoid individuals stocking up on gasoline. And to top it all off, Microsoft's cutoff date for Windows XP is coming in two months, a decision that's left over 165,000 fans of the OS so upset that they were willing to devote a full three seconds of their lives to sign an online petition to save XP.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
When the former vice president of the United States gives a speech at a major technology conference in San Francisco, you'd expect to see a story about it the next day, or -- since it was a technology conference -- later on that same day. You'd see a run-of-the-mill story in the Chronicle, marvel that Gore's still going on about that global warming stuff, then move on to the sports section.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Here's why I can't have nice things: Sometimes I like to tinker, and when I do, I can't stop swimming out of my depth. Nothing in my home is safe from a screwdriver, or worse. Not my car, not the thermostat, not the guitar amp, nothing. My "nice" PC has seen its fair share of registry edits to the operating system -- don't even ask about the test mule.
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Tuesday - April 8, 2008
Here I am tempting fate. Risking my life. Writing a blog post. Bloggers are living on the edge, suggests Matt Richtel. It's harrowing having to come up with all those ideas and translate them into words. The hunger for cyber scoops robs them of sleep. The endless hunt for eyeballs is a merciless slog.
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Monday - April 7, 2008
It's quiet on the streets of San Francisco today, the first day of the RSA Security Conference, being held at the Moscone Convention Center south of Market Street. Traffic on the streets is light, so either the cops are doing a good job redirecting the crazy San Francisco traffic, which in this area can almost rival that of New York, or the gloomy economic news has trickled down to the streets.
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Tuesday - April 1, 2008
Last year, when Viacom visited YouTube and spotted shows from MTV, Comedy Central and other content producers it owns, it decided to act quickly -- and the only quick reaction a company of Viacom's size is capable of in that sort of situation is to sue. Only after many months did other giant TV networks put the finishing touches on Hulu, a site that does basically the same thing that YouTube had been doing.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
Tucked away down a dim hallway in the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel is a ballroom where participants in day two of the Tech Policy Summit are airing their pressing concerns about technology innovation and adoption. The recently concluded Federal Communications Commission 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction is generating considerable buzz.
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Wednesday - March 26, 2008
There's an "elephant on the stage," commented BusinessWeek columnist Steve Wildstrom as he kicked off the Tech Policy Summit here in Hollywood, Calif. Although several telecommunication companies have representatives in attendance, and although the FCC's 700 MHz spectrum auction concluded recently, the companies involved aren't yet permitted to divulge certain details of their plans.
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Monday - March 24, 2008
The news that all three of the front-running candidates for president of the U.S. have been victims of privacy breaches at the passport office may have a silver lining. Sure, Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain have good reason to be irate, and their campaigns are right to bring pressure to bear on the State Department.
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