April 26, 2011
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According to the DVD and online video rental king Netflix’s last quarterly report, Netflix now has more subscribers than Comcast, the largest cable U.S. TV operator. 7% of all U.S. citizens now subscribe to Netflix. That’s great for Netflix but … Continue reading
April 12, 2011
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When Cisco CEO John Chambers said that the company had lost its way and that he was going to re-target the company, he wasn’t kidding. Today, April 12th, Cisco has shut down its popular Flip video camera business and is … Continue reading
March 31, 2011
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I’ve been a baseball fan since 1969 when the “Miracle” Mets bounced my Chicago Cubs from the National League championship. Living in the backwoods of West Virginia, I never saw my Cubs play in person or on TV. Instead, I … Continue reading
March 11, 2011
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Hi, there Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols your host today. I’ve been using and writing about Linux and open source for entirely too long. Suffice it to say that while I didn’t use Linux 0.01, I was running Linux not long after … Continue reading
February 18, 2011
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When Banshee, the popular Mono-based open-source media player was first included by default in the next version of Ubuntu Linux , Banshee’s developers thought this was great news. But, then Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company decided that they wanted 75% of … Continue reading
February 14, 2011
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First, Google opened up its VP8 video codec. Then, Google removed built-in support for the MPEG-LA patent encumbered H.264 video codec from its Chrome Web-browser in favor of VP8. After that it was only a matter of time before the … Continue reading