This hasn’t been the best of times for the DRAM market. For months, the market’s been unable to digest a surplus of DRAMs and NAND flash and prices have predictably trended down. But Handy doesn’t expect any major impact.
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Jim Handy, Objective Analysis)
Oddly enough, prices for NAND and DRAM haven’t moved in lockstep [...]
Getting brands onto social networks is one of the hottest topics of the marketing world these days, from partnerships with MySpace and Facebook to “appvertising” on their developer platforms.
“You’re not a marketer anymore, you’re not a public relationships professional anymore, you’re just a person who knows what you’re talking about, so you’re just able to [...]
In other words, for competitors looking to kick the Google search habit, you can’t take the Cuil route and compete on search. It just won’t matter if you’re better. You need to create a different, compelling habit.
Cuil, the new and “improved” search engine created by Google veterans, has failed abysmally to make a dent against [...]
My friend Om Malik is becoming a video impresario. This week he launched NewTeeVee Station, a companion site to NewTeeVee that includes editorial reviews of Web videos by Liz Shannon Miller, formerly of Variety and the Daily Reel. Readers are also encouraged to add their reviews and ratings, and NTV Station is also building up [...]
GridPoint makes a device that lets utilities dial down usage remotely in people’s homes. It just completed a “smart charging” test with Duke Energy that let people charge plug-in hybrid electric
cars at night, after demand on the grid peaks.
Pacific Gas & Electric
PG&E is at the forefront of technology adoption in renewable energy and plug-in [...]
Joining CNET News’ Robert Vamosi this week is Billy Hoffman, manager of HP’s Web security group. Hoffman, along with Bryan Sullivan, also co-authored AJAX Security.
Google has entered the browser space. Chrome, its browser still in beta, is based on the open source Webkit project. Some will recognize Webkit as the foundation for another browser, [...]
News.com’s Declan McCullagh contributed to this story.
That’s the argument Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates made to Congress last month when he asked that the H-1B visa cap be increased. “It makes no sense to educate people in our universities, often subsidized by U.S. taxpayers, and then insist they return home,” he told the House of [...]
That history could make Rockefeller less than enthusiastic about investigating what truly happened, as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald has not so delicately suggested.
The NSA whistleblowers tell a different story — including that phone sex conversations were intercepted, recorded, and passed around the office for laughs. “These were just really everyday, average, ordinary Americans who happened to [...]
TiVo’s efforts come as Blockbuster is reportedly looking at set-top boxes for consumers to stream movies directly to their TV. DirecTV is reportedly cooking something up, as well.
Under an agreement with Disney-ABC and CinemaNow, TiVo subscribers can download the movies for 24-hour rental. TiVo expects to offer the Disney rentals later this year to [...]
Mash didn’t really offer anything new, other than the fact that instead of inviting friends you created profiles for them and then invited them to customize and change them. You could also add “modules,” a sort of rudimentary version of social-network apps. It was designed as a quirky, cute step up from Yahoo 360, the [...]
