Remember the long tail? It was the omnipresent theory that suggested there were oodles of cash to be made by monetizing a market’s disparate tastes via the Web.
Is most of the business in the long tail being generated by a bunch of iconoclasts determined to march to different drummers? The answer is a definite no. [...]
Why is a company that did over $10 billion last year worth so little? The primary reason is liquidity. Financial analysts estimate that the company is burning through $700 million in cash each year. At this rate, the company will be low on cash in a few years just when it has $1 billion in [...]
In my opinion, Twhirl (review) is the best way to use Twitter. But that position is hardly secure. Heavy Twitter users are fickle and often switch apps when newer and better ones come along. I say that based on experience as well as observation.
Twhirl was developed by Marco Kaiser in Germany. It’s the [...]
“We believe it’s imperative we align our cost structure with today’s economic realities,” said Yahoo spokesman Brad Williams. “We’ve been looking at ways to streamline our processes and bring more efficiencies to how we work as an organization,” he said, and the company hired Bain & Co. to “help us identify opportunities for improvement.”
With Microsoft [...]
There’s a boss that heads up the organization for both the cybercrime gang and the mafia. The boss does not commit the crimes. Under him is the “underboss” who manages the operation, providing the Trojans for attacks.
(Credit:
Finjan)
“The current cybercrime organizations bear an uncanny resemblance to organized crime organizations such as ‘La [...]
Microsoft's Mark Bolger demonstrates the Surface's multitouch user interface.
“Hear about the unique attributes of Microsoft Surface computing, dive into vision-based object recognition and core controls like ScatterView, and learn how the Surface SDK aligns with the multitouch developer roadmap for
Windows 7,” Microsoft said, in promoting the session. “Attendees will receive access to the Microsoft Surface [...]
Monday, referred to as Cyber Monday by online retailers, capped off a successful Thanksgiving holiday weekend for the industry, which overall saw spending jump 13 percent.
ComScore ranks the $846 million spent Monday as the second-biggest day of online shopping ever. That should be encouraging to retailers, since typically Cyber Monday isn’t the biggest spike in [...]
Among the critical patches, two affect Windows Media Player, one affects Windows, while the other affects
Microsoft Office. All could enable remote code execution if exploited.
Starting next month, Microsoft will be sharing the technical details of new vulnerabilities to give software developers a catch to update affected products before the public announcement. Also in October, Microsoft [...]
Rupert et al: Moderate winners Round and round they go. Maybe Murdoch or the folks at Time Warner (AOL) still hanker after Yahoo. If so, they may yet get another chance to twirl. During the last couple of months every scenario was on the table. Here’s another: if Yahoo’s stock fails to recover, Yang doesn’t [...]
With advertisers and marketers polluting the Web with scads of pseudo “viral videos” it’s nice to see a legitimate one crop up.
Leave it to the folks at The Onion to remind us what viral videos are supposed to do: entertain.
The expert from the Institute of Miley Research soberly tells viewers that within two [...]
