Archive for March, 2007
March 28, 2007 at 10:55 am
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Microsoft Vista sells 20M copies in Feb. – Yahoo! News
REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft Corp. said Monday it sold 20 million consumer copies of the new Windows Vista operating system worldwide in February, but analysts said the data shed little light on the program’s popularity during its first month on the market.
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By comparison,
Windows XP, Vista’s predecessor, sold 17 million copies in the two months following its 2001 launch, Microsoft said.
“It’s a stronger than expected start,” Bill Mannion, a director of product marketing for Windows, said in an interview.
But given that the personal computer market has nearly doubled since XP launched, Vista sales “probably should be more,” said Michael Silver, vice president of research at Gartner, a technology research group.
The analyst said 51 million PCs were sold to consumers worldwide in 2002; this year, the research group predicts 96 million consumers will buy a computer.
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March 20, 2007 at 10:06 am
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March 19, 2007 at 8:10 pm
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Adobe – Adobe Press Room: For immediate release
SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 19, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced that the first public alpha version of Apollo is now available for developers on Adobe Labs. Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system application runtime that allows web developers to leverage their existing skills in HTML, JavaScript and Ajax, as well as Adobe® Flash® and Adobe Flex™ software to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. Apollo combines the reach of Internet technologies with the richness of desktop applications, working seamlessly across operating systems and outside the browser to deliver a more consistent and engaging user experience. The alpha version of the Apollo application runtime and the Apollo Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) can be downloaded for free from www.adobe.com/go/apollo .
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March 17, 2007 at 8:45 pm
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Popularity Might Not Be Enough – New York Times
A site aimed at a specific demographic, like teenagers or Asian-Americans, would need to generate 800 million page views a month, by Mr. Liew’s reckoning.
And for a general-interest site, the ad rates go even lower, so traffic would need to be much higher to generate $50 million — about four billion page views a month, which would put it in the top 10 of all the sites on the Web.
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March 15, 2007 at 2:33 pm
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Can ‘Visits’ Replace Pageviews?
As gadgets, feeds, and AJAX make the pageview less and less relevant, something else needs to emerge. With Comscore now reporting visits, that process is underway.
In an attempt to provide advertisers with a new way to measure site traffic and engagement, comScore has added a new metric to its Media Metrix subscription reports: the visit. A visit measures the number of distinct times people visit a site per day, with at least 30 minutes between
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March 14, 2007 at 5:13 pm
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March 13, 2007 at 10:53 am
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Viacom Sues YouTube for $1B
The big lawsuits that were predicted have arrived.
NEW YORK — MTV owner Viacom Inc. said Tuesday it has sued YouTube and its corporate parent Google Inc. in federal court for alleged copyright infringement and is seeking more than $1 billion in damages.
Viacom claims that the more than 160,000 unauthorized video clips from its cable networks, which also include Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon, have been available on the popular video-sharing Web site.
The lawsuit marks a sharp escalation of long-simmering tensions between Viacom and YouTube. Last month Viacom demanded that YouTube remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips after several months of talks between the companies broke down.
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March 5, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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http://www.instyleyourlook.com/instyle/yourlook/
Instyle.com launched www.instyleyourlook.com to accompany the new magazine, In Style Your Look, which targets the 17-21 year old market and hit news stands 3/2. Some features of the new site include: video, photo galleries, a blog, a MySpace contest and lots of promotion for the users to email questions, pictures and comments to the editors.
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March 2, 2007 at 9:15 pm
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Techcrunch: 5 Ways to Mix, Rip, and Mash Your Data
Call them pipes, teqlos, dapps, modules, mashups or whatever else but fact is that recently we have seen a good number of new services that allow developers and users to build mini-apps and mashups that mix and re-mix data. Here we run through 5 applications that allow you to mix, rip and mash your data, looking at the data input, output, REST support, suggested use, and required skill level…
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March 1, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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Techdirt: Adobe To Offer Ad-Supported, Web-Based Version Of Photoshop
This could be the beginning or real web-based software.
Adobe now says it will deliver a free, web-based version of Photoshop supported by advertising. The company says the hosted version will serve as an entry-level version of its Photoshop and Photoshop Elements software, and not have all the features of those applications — but it wont have their prices, either. The company says it realizes that theres a large group of potential customers that arent interested in paying to buy its software, so the ad-supported model gives it a way to earn some revenue from them, as well as a marketing tool that could convince them to purchase one of the installable versions.
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