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CONTINUING TO RAMP UP ITS video hosting and syndication business, Google has poached Michael Steib, NBC Universal’s general manager of strategic ventures. Led by Steib’s strategic ventures unit, NBC Universal in September created the National Broadband Company, or NBBC, to distribute video programming to various Internet sites in direct competition with Google. “We are pleased …
Google Inc. has bought a stake in a Chinese software provider as part of the company’s bid to extend its dominance beyond Internet searches to other online services. A Google spokesman said the Internet company has made an unspecified investment in Xunlei Network Technology Co., which provides video and game downloads. The two companies plan …
Do you have a ton of DVDs? Want to watch them on your iPod/iPhone/Apple TV? For years, the best DVD ripping program, Handbrake, was only available for Mac. But the unthinkable has happened. Handbrake was ported for Windows. You can download a PC version of Handbrake now.
Wish you could double the speed of your wireless router? Although it’s technically considered a router, the Linksys WRT54GX4 is much more than that. The Linksys WRT54GX4 Wireless-G Broadband Router with SRX400 is really three devices in one small box. First, there’s the Wireless Access Point, which lets you connect to the network, as the …
Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, was born in Moscow in 1973, and the first words out of his mouth were Russian. Yet neither Russian nor the Russian market has come easily to Google. Created in Silicon Valley by Mr. Brin and Larry Page, Google has adapted its search engine to dozens of …
Want some positive blogger buzz about your new product or service? Maybe you should just buy it as Bill Gates did for Microsoft's Zune media player.
This video clip from a local TV cable show has a rare demonstration of the Apple Lisa computer.
Four major media companies, including News Corp.’s Fox, Viacom Inc., CBS Corp. and General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, are in talks about creating a video Web site to compete with Google Inc.’s YouTube, according to people close to the situation. The companies, owners of most of the major TV networks, envision a jointly owned site …
Yahoo media group chief, Lloyd Braun, a former ABC executive, left the Web company after a broad restructuring that reduced his power. The executive shuffle is part of Yahoo’s efforts to clean house following financial struggles this year. The management changes followed a board meeting Tuesday in which it gave the boot to Dan Rosensweig, …
Inside information from Kevin Rose and iPhone patent application photos provide clues on what features will be in the iPhone.
NBC Universal yesterday named Michael Pilot, a General Electric executive since 2002, as president of its advertising sales division. Mr. Pilot will succeed NBC’s longtime head of sales, Keith Turner, whose departure was announced last week. Mr. Pilot had been president of the Equipment Finance Group for G.E., which controls NBC Universal. In his new …
Where most speakers seem to be designed to be hidden, the JBL Encounter defies you to ignore them. Space Monkeys, prepare for blast off.
If you want a glimpse of the future of advertising, you can hire a consultant – or you can travel to Britain. Online advertising is racing ahead in Britain, growing at a roughly 40 percent annual rate, and is expected to account for as much as 14 percent of overall ad spending this year, according …
Need a reason to switch from PC to Mac? Last week there was an article in the Washington Post that highlighted some of the advantages of the Macintosh over the PC.
NBC is not trying to be a portal. That was the word the company’s digital chief, Beth Comstock, gave advertisers yesterday afternoon at Advertising Age’s Media Mavens award luncheon, where Ad Age Associate Publisher Scott Donaton grilled her on NBC’s online ambitions, whether the network was infringing on agency territory with a new plan to …
The demand for everything iPod is so high that even an iPod accessory was outselling Microsoft's new MP3 media player on Amazon.com. Microsoft's new Zune media player, despite heavy marketing, came in only at No. 75 on Amazon's list of 100 best-selling electronics this week. The Zune was trailing many iPod accessories such as Apple's $29.99 iPod USB power adapter, at No. 65.
