TOP5 for 08/24/2006
Filed in archive Daily Top 5 by Creative Weblogging on August 25, 2006
| Sony Lands Grouper for $65 million P2P File Sharing |
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| While I bash Sony for their colossal ethical lapses (1, 2, 3), they also deserve credit for their strategic vision (social networking, Mylo portable player with WiFi and Skype) Sony continues the latter tradition with the $65 million purchase of Grouper. Grouper launched as personal P2P file sharing software that enabled users to share files with friends. The company then focused... Read it all |
 Technology |
| Sony is part of a "Group' Hug The Digital TV Weblog |
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| Video sharing sites are a hot commodity. I recall reading somewhere that venture capitalists have poured more than $150 Million into 40 or more new startups just in the first 6 months of this year. YouTube's success, of course, was the catalyst of this trend. Well, news is out that Sony just bought Grouper (the 10th largest video sharing site according... Read it all |
 Consumer Electronics |
| JBoss - Leaders Quadrant, Enterprise App Servers - Gartner The CIO Weblog |
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| Open source is accepted...starts showing up high. Gartner has positioned JBoss in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2Q06 Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, vendors listed in the Leaders Quadrant are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market. "We believe our position in the... Read it all |
Technology |
| Hurray for Triple A The Personal Finance Weblog |
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| In this world of defective products, broken promises and surly customer service, it is only right to give praise to those who buck the trend. The object of my affections today: AAA. My car wouldn't start yesterday, so I called Triple A. As usual, the person on the phone was sweet as pie as she told me how sorry she was... Read it all |
 Business, Economy & Finance |
| Think About the Children! A Survey Digital Music - The Future |
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| Let's consider the children. A recent survey of tweens, teens, and young adults shows that the percent considering an act illegal drops from 98% for stealing a CD/DVD to 80% for buying a bootleg CD/DVD to 75% for downloading unauthorized music or videos to 35% for copying a friend's CD/DVD. A chart from an earlier Harris interactive polls shows that... Read it all |
 Ecommerce & Internet |
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