Having made the transition from cable TV to YouTube, 28-year-old Sarah Penna is shaking up the Web video landscape with fresh ideas and digital attitude. Penna cut her teeth as a producer of reality television for cable channels like Discovery, HBO, Oxygen and Bravo. Rather than continue in her comfort zone, though,...
When you finally turn a profit and investors simultaneously dump your stock to an all-time low, you have a problem. Groupon is the king of local couponing, but is its deal already as sweet as it can get?The BasicsGroupon wasn’t the first local deal site, but it took the model...
Vevo founder and Sony Music Entertainment executive Doug Morris has given Google an ultimatum: Lower your fees, or we're taking our business to one of your competitors. Morris told the Los Angeles Times on July 11 that if Google doesn't reduce the cost of posting on YouTube, "there are at least...
In an effort to remind its partners of what Microsoft has done for them lately, the software giant has announced when Windows 8 will be released to manufacturers.Windows 8 for the HolidaysAccording to the company, Windows 8 will be available to computer and equipment makers during the first week of...
Every Major League Baseball season has a whopping 2,430 regular-season games that are played from April through October - not counting spring training or the playoffs. That is a lot of baseball. And of course, you'd like to use your PC or tablet to watch some of those games, right?No...
Should computer-controlled sensor arrays be used to keep referees from making bad calls? Officials of FIFA, soccer's international governing body, have called a special meeting to decide.Whether computer technology should be used to monitor goal lines has become an urgent question among soccer officials. During a match at the high-profile...
When Google unveiled the combination of the Nexus 7 tablet and the otherworldly Nexus Q streaming device at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, observers couldn’t help but think, “But what about Google TV?”The answer, I was told by several members of the Android and Google TV teams,...
At their best, video games are bite-sized experiments. The virtual world of a game is a miniaturized space where our imaginations can clash horns with psychology, culture and the technological horizon, often to addictively playable ends. We take a look at how five compelling trends from E3 2012 are pioneering...
One screen in your living room is no longer enough. At the E3 Show in Los Angeles this week, gaming console vendors Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo outlined plans to use the second screen to challenge the TV makers as the masters of home entertainment.The premise is simple: Two screens are...
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) didn’t introduce much revolutionary new gaming technology, but it did demonstrate that Augmented Reality (AR) apps are about to go mainstream - and they may spell doom for QR codes.For the unitiated, AR is the embellishment of reality through virtual additions, or as one...
Michael Lazerow, CEO, Buddy MediaSalesforce.com's willingness to shell out $745 million for Buddy Media shows the confidence Salesforce has in the social advertising specialist's ability to turn people's love of conversation to an advertiser's greatest tool.Salesforce announced the acquisition Monday with the intent of making Buddy's marketing tools available to...
Bloody battles over intellectual property have become the tech world's new normal. Google just bested Oracle in an epic patent and copyright battle over the use of Java in Android. Apple is fighting in courts around the world. Technicolor, the company that brought color to the movies, is counting on...
Jeff Ma, the MIT blackjack team member who served as the inspiration for Ben Mezrich’s book Bringing Down the House and the film 21, gave developers at the Atlassian Summit a glimpse of his new stealth startup: TenXer.TenXer is a tool for measuring employee performance, and is now available as...
Please note that the schedule is still fluid and will change as speakers and sessions are finalized. Wednesday, June 6th All Keynote Presentations Are In Room 503 8:30 Registration 9:15 Welcome Jim Zemlin, Executive Director at The Linux Foundation 9:30 Expectations for Tizen Dr. Kiyohito Nagata, Senior Vice President, NTT...
In what has long been a nightmare scenario for booksellers, the physical bookstore is becoming a showroom for the online shopper. After casually browsing the tomes in comfort, people will use their smartphone or tablet to buy their choices online at a much lower price. While most booksellers can do...
We are surrounded by failure in the tech world, and some of those failures are big enough to sit in our memories for years. After the latest news from Google, we were reminded of many other shameful moments in tech. We put together our own RWW Hall of Shame to...
The Department of Justice's (DoJ's) lawsuit against Apple and the major publishers over pricing may be a big win for Amazon, but is it really much of a win for Kindle owners? Ultimately, the suit may help Amazon shave a few bucks off of e-book prices, but it's doing nothing...
The music business, to say the least, ain't what it used to be. To be precise, the industry has shrunk by about 50% since Napster's heyday, and virtually nobody expects it to fully bounce back. The major labels know this and have tried just about everything to remain dominant, including...
Electric cars are the biggest trend in new vehicles, at least according to media coverage. But Internet connectivity in cars must run a close second. Of all the car manufacturers, Ford is probably giving online connectivity the biggest push. While at SXSW I checked out the latest version of its...
Here's the problem: Data has already gotten too big for its britches. There are increasing corporate mergers and takeovers, greater pressure among businesses in both private and public sectors to consolidate resources, and to boot, federal regulations mandating privacy restrictions and security policies. Especially in the healthcare industry, the first...
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