This Confusing Consumer Tech World

Navy’s newest warships top out at more than 50 mph – Yahoo! News

joesixpacktech — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Two Words: Waterskiing Marines!

BATH, Maine – The Navy’s need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.

Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 44 knots for four hours during builder trials that wrapped up this month off the Gulf Coast. The 378-foot Freedom, a ship built in Wisconsin by a competing defense contractor, has put up similar numbers.

Navy’s newest warships top out at more than 50 mph – Yahoo! News

AOL taps exec who famously warned Yahoo of trouble by AP: Yahoo! Tech

joesixpacktech — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:56:49 +0000

Garlinghouse was due to start Tuesday at the company’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., where AOL’s e-mail operations are based. He will be responsible for increasing the use of AOL’s e-mail, instant messaging and mobile offerings. He also will be expected to help AOL identify West Coast startups to invest in.

AOL taps exec who famously warned Yahoo of trouble by AP: Yahoo! Tech

Comcast tells us how they will “manage” BitTorrent and other bandwidth consuming services

joesixpacktech — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:24:09 +0000

Cable Digital News reports (here) that Comcast will deploy “Congestion Management Fairshare” servers to impede, block, throttle or slow the bandwidth hogs (ok they didn’t say that last part – my words).

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Trion Seeks Additional Funding – $100M and Counting

joesixpacktech — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:09:44 +0000

Trion is seeking additional funding to bring their first MMO to market. It must be good, because they are spending a lot of money. How many people have a clue what this game looks like?

Read the GameDaily story (here) and see if you can figure out what we should expect as an actual gaming experience.

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Fla Dem Rep Says She Didn’t Read Books and Did Cliff Notes Reports

joesixpacktech — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:55:05 +0000

Read for yourself: Debbie Wasserman says she did “Cliff’s Notes” reports.

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NBC Online Olympics Ad Bust?

joesixpacktech — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:55:16 +0000

TV Week citing an eMarketer report says that ad spending on the online service was less than $6M – can that be right?

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Verizon FiOS – Love it! Although at least one cranky analyst disagrees:

joesixpacktech — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:36:31 +0000

I have Verizon’s blazing fast FiOS data service and FiOS HD television service and they are great. I am not happy about the charges for the set-top boxes which are a ripoff, but otherwise the service works and looks terrific.

Craig Moffett has lead the critics on the financial side of the massive investment program and rings the bell again in the New York Times article:

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Time Mag’s Klein says “shocking to remember” Obama is different

joesixpacktech — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:46:51 +0000

Blame the republicans that Obama is a noob: Joel Klein says republicans are smearing Obama because he is inexperienced?:

“There is a straight up argument to be had in this election: Mcain has a vastly different view from Obama about foreign policy, taxation, health care, government action…you name it. He has lots of experience; it is always shocking to remember that this time four years ago, Barack Obama was still in the Illinois State Legislature.”

Media Research Companies

joesixpacktech — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:05:19 +0000

All publishers, advertisers and marketing executives use multiple media research companies.

Quantcast
Omniture
Nielsen
Comscore
Rentrak
IMMI

On which media/platforms do they focus (TV, radio, Internet, mobile, print)?

How do they aggregate to a dashboard?

How do they claim to go beyond traditional reach and frequency?

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Yahoo adds location based “platform” capabilities

joesixpacktech — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:16:49 +0000

NY Times reports on service available to app developers.

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