In conjunction, MTV promoted Joshua Dern from vice president of social media strategy to senior vice president and general manager of social media.
MTV Networks launched Flux just over a year ago as a social-networking platform that would be used across all its digital entertainment properties as well as eventually sites outside Viacom. The original Tagworld [...]

Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser has an interesting interview with Michael Zimbalist, vice president of R&D at The New York Times Co. He describes how the newspaper company is finding ways to link print and online in the mobile arena and how rich annotation of content will lead to more personalized delivery of information and the Semantic [...]

“Any near-term fatigue by some in all things Facebook may soon be reversed as Facebook and it’s application partners gin up innovative ways for us to enjoy Facebook anew.”

I’ve read a bunch of blogs where the authors contend the video is even a harbinger of the social network’s coming demise. If they really believe that, [...]

Looking at the Arte, you notice the solid statement it’s trying to make. It’s modern. It’s cutting edge. It’s quite heavy, but that seems to be part of its appeal. That heft comes from genuine materials: glass and metal. Heretical approach in these plastic times.
Basic keyboard–no pretensions at being a smartphone.
(Credit: Nokia)
Your home screen [...]

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in New York, alleges Pure Digital infringed on Advanced Video’s patent for its Full Duplex Single Chip Video Codec. The technology is designed to compress the video and allow it to be displayed on small-screen devices.

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Pure Digital)
Flip Video Ultra

Advanced Video Technologies lobbed a patent infringement [...]

“Cyberthreats have enabled terrorists and criminals to do the kind of damage they would never be able to contemplate doing in the real world.” –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
The government needs the “best and brightest” from Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the private sector to work on creating an advanced warning system [...]

I was curious about the weights of books, so I grabbed a few Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle novels off my recently read stack and weighed them on my kitchen scale:
That summary may sound like a narrow market, but it fits me pretty well, and I think it could make a decent business for BookSwim.
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The idea is to use novel eye-tracking and voice control technology to provide a shared, situational awareness interface, which robo plane crews can then monitor and interact with on large screen displays.

This approach inverts the typical paradigm for conveying information to UAV jockeys, according to VRAC. Because rather than augmenting the real-time camera picture with [...]

Here’s a historical view of clean-tech investment, according to Cleantech Group:

Behind that was energy storage at $471 million, transportation at $445 million, energy efficiency at $356 million, and recycling and waste with $291 million.

2003: $1.7 billion

2001: $714 million

2004: $1.8 billion

Energy generation was the most active sector with 172 deals, totaling $2.75 billion.

Investment leaped from $3.6 [...]

I’m not saying open-source is a bad thing, but it doesn’t pay the bills in this company, so we can’t embrace that way of doing things. … We give out free soda pop to everybody who works here. We make our stuff free, people gotta give back the soda pop — it’s just inconsistent with [...]