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Netflix-Streaming Blu-ray Player Still Probably Too Expensive At $399 (NFLX)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
LG's Netflix-movie-streaming Blu-ray player finally has a price tag: Next month you'll be able to pick up the "BD 300" for $400, according to the NY Times. Will it sell? Probably not like crazy: While $400 is a typical price for a high-end Blu-ray player -- that's what Sony is charging for its basi... (original story)
Finnegan Lands As Chief Digital Officer, Starcom MediaVest
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
That was quick. Eight months after leaving Omnicom for ad startup Vibrant Media, Sean Finnegan is back at an agency, this time in virtually the same role at Starcom MediaVest. Finnegan had been CEO of Omnicom's OMD Digital before he left the company to become in January to become chief media officer... (original story)
Metallica Finally Realizes It Can’t Fight The Internet
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
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Metallica is infamous for helping kill the original Napster, but it looks like the metal group has finally realized that they can't stop the Internet. Or at least they've figured out how to talk like that. Metallica's new album, 'Death Magnetic', leaked out onto the Internet a week before its schedu... (original story)
U.S. 3G Cellphone Adoption Beating Western Europe: Good News For Carriers
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
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For the first time, Americans are more likely to have a cellphone that can connect to carriers' fast, 3G networks than their Western European counterparts. Some 28.4% of U.S. wireless subscribers have 3G-capable phones, comScore M:Metrics reports, versus an average 28.3% of subscribers in the Wester... (original story)
The Porn Business Goes Public
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Is porn really growing up? There's no shortage of talk about the mainstreaming of the skin trade, but most of it misses the mark. Instead of ogling the Vivid Video billboard on 7th Ave, check out the OTC listings instead. Adult entertainment just got a new publicly traded player, Adult Entertainment... (original story)
CNBC's New Online Strategy: Partner With LinkedIn
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
We've seen TV news networks make quite a few forays into social networking. Conspicuously left out have been CNBC and LinkedIn, but today they're announcing a partnership that actually makes some sense. LinkedIn is the social network for careerists: everyone's resume on the Web. Presumably a larger ... (original story)
Google's Chrome Already Owns 1% Of Browser Market And 6% of SAI Readers
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
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No Mac version yet and a public panning from WSJ oracle Walt Mossberg, but Google's (GOOG) Chrome already owns 1% of the Web browser market. Actually, 1.13% of the market as of 1 p.m EDT, according to Net Applications, which is tracking Chrome usage by the hour. Similarly, StatCounter is giving Chro... (original story)
Microsoft Slashing Xbox 360 Prices, Sales To Soar? (MSFT)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
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How will Microsoft's Xbox 360 compete with Nintendo's innovative Wii and Sony's Blu-ray equipped PS3? By being the cheapest of them all. Microsoft is slashing $80 off the price of its cheapest Xbox, which means it'll now sell for $199 -- the cheapest current-generation game console. It's also cuttin... (original story)
National Enquirer Web Traffic Spikes On Edwards, Palin Scandals: Tabloid Not Doomed?
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 21 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
The struggling National Enquirer may want to rethink its strategy of spurning the web to protect its dwindling print business. Ever since the John Edwards-Reille Hunter affair, traffic has spiked to NationalEnquirer.com, and new allegations of a Sarah Palin affair will no doubt keep American Media's... (original story)
Comcast Sues FCC For Right To Limit Bandwidth Hogs
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 23 hours ago
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Comcast (CMCSA) is challenging an FCC ruling that blocked the company from slowing down Web traffic from peer-to-peer fille sharing applications such as BitTorrent. The FCC voted 3-2 in early August that treating certain types of Web traffic differently violated its "net neutrality" principles, whic... (original story)
IBM Drinks Second Life Kool-Aid, Makes More For Lotus Users (IBM)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 23 hours ago
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Think Second Life is over? IBM doesn't. Yesterday Big Blue announced it was integrating support for Second Life (and a few other virtual world platforms) into its Lotus Sametime corporate instant-messaging product. Why? IBM thinks if an engineer has to walk a customer through replacing a part on a c... (original story)
Engadget Dudes Ryan Block And Peter Rojas' New Gadget Startup: Gdgt.com
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 23 hours ago
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We still don't know what kind of gadget-content startup former Engadget editors Ryan Block and Peter Rojas are working on, but we now know its name: gdgt. The guys have kicked off the site with a blog post and a podcast episode, but Rojas cautions on Twitter: "gdgt isn't going to be a gadget blog, I... (original story)
Chrome: 1% Market Share In Less Than a Day
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 1 day 4 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
While the early release of the Chrome comic might have changed the way Google went about launching its new browser, it definitely did not hurt Chrome's early success. According to data from Net Applications, Chrome captured more than 1% of the browser market within its first day of release. Since th... (original story)
So Is Chrome The Fastest Or What?
Posted from TechCrunch 1 day 4 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
There have been a number of timed and anecdotal speed tests performed on Google Chrome over the last couple of days. My personal testing: Chrome is the fastest browser I have ever used. More structured TechCrunch testing showed similar results: It's fast. Here are what others came up with: CNE... (original story)
FFHolic: FriendFeed on the Rocks
Posted from bub.blicio.us 1 day 4 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Valley Talk
by Michelle Lentz FFHolic.com takes FriendFeed and separates out the “best.” It seems to divide things up into three categories: Most liked entries, most popular users, and most popular videos. It’s a great way to filter out a lot of the noise you can run into on FriendFeed as we... (original story)
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