Top Ad Execs On Online Video Ad SpendingPublished: March 9, 2010
When asked the biggest challenges in online video advertising this year, top executives at media agencies like Starcom and MediaVest say they're most eager to target audiences better and to access more sophisticated data around viewership. At last week's 4A's conference in San Francisco that drew top brass at ad agencies and brands, Daisy Whitney caught up with MediaVest's President Donna Speciale, Starcom USA CEO Lisa Donohue and 4A's Managing Director Harold Geller. Here's what they had to say... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
As reported on Friday I was reporting a huge announcement from Cisco that was dubbed "The Internet will change forever" hype. If you want to track the live blogging of the announcement go here from Scott Raynovich. It was the general opinion of all journalists that this made Cisco look bad for overhyping this announcement. TelecomTV was very critical of this overhype.
I reported five major elements that Cisco was going to announce an end-to-end network play which would either will be announce... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
A friend of Art and I, Dr. Melissa Clothier, put a post up on her blog today talking about an interesting trend in society fueled in part by social media and our ever splintering layers of technology: Rent-a-friends:
This Rent-A-Friend concept is intriguing. So rather than fussing with some person with a boring, involved life-story, call up Joe and go to the movie. You hang out, talk about the movie, have some temporary company and then, boom, done. No sordid break-up stories. No diatribes agai... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
Gabe Rivera's Techmeme is the news reader of choice for much of the Silicon Valley tech-setters -- more so than Techcrunch because it has a much wider selection of articles.
I often see Gabe at press events, he has a press pass like other journalists. But is he a journalist? After all, he doesn't write any of the stories that appear on Techmeme.
It seems that the Austin based conference South By South-West (SXSW) doesn't think he's a journalist because it refused to give Gabe a press pass. Does... [
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Published: March 7, 2010
Its been a few months since I last blogged on Energy Use in the Office. If you remember from pervious blogs, we did a small proof of concept last summer studying different energy saving techniques in the office environment and found that just providing individuals with Awareness of their usage and some simple tips and tricks to reduce was the most effective. Weve been planning a follow-on PoC, on much larger scale, for some time now and Im very excited to tell you that it is finally about to sta... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
If you are or about to commence a vPro activation, chances are you are using remote configuration for the provisioning process. That remote configuration process starts with you obtaining a Remote Configuration Certificate from one of the available commercial certificate vendors, such as Verisign, GoDaddy, Commodo or Starfield.Recently there have been some changes introduced by Verisign, for which a blog was posted by a colleague of mine - http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/vproex... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
On Friday March 12, I will be presenting on the topic of Data Center Efficiency along with Chris Auger, Manager Dell Enterprise Technology and Ziff Davisapos;s Aaron Goldberg.A quick excerpt from the agenda is captured here:The single biggest conundrum for IT is that of having to spend the bulk of the budget just maintaining existing systems, and having precious little to invest in the game breaking new applications that will really drive your company.My involvement and focus will be to share ho... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
This has been a frequent question for many years - when will the Intel vPro capabilities appear on servers and workstations.Check out http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/server/blog/2010/02/23/new-platform-from-lenovo--amt-on-serversThe Intel AMT 6 release in 2010 also included workstation and entry-level server platforms. The Lenovo TS200v is an example. Other solutions are coming - check with your preferred OEM.
WiMAX, 3G and LTE: A Capacity AnalysisPublished: March 9, 2010
The mobile wireless industry is facing unprecedented challenges in meeting the data demands of their subscribers with their desire for fast, mobile Internet. Wireless technologies are often compared on theoretical peak data rates, but it’s actual capacity or spectral efficiency - the average realized data throughputs - is the real metric that wireless technologies should be compared.
For operators, meeting this demand translates into technology upgrades and more cell towers, both leading to h... [
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Published: March 9, 2010
How much time do you have left to create?
Hearing sound, seeing color - composer, musician, artist, Justin Lassen epitomizes the essence of synaesthesia, and his work of the same name, Synaesthesia, a project 5 years in the making that pairs him with some of most gifted CG artists in the world, so closely intertwines the relationship between sound and visuals itapos;s nearly impossible to separate them.
Be sure and join us this Thursday, at 3:30 PM PST for a live DigitalArts... [
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