Corrupt writes “As Viacom is granted access to YouTube user records, a more massive threat to user-generated sites emerges: The law is increasingly siding with rights owners.”
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Microsoft and its Xbox 360 franchise gets competitive with a price reductionPosted by: in Companies Competitive StrategyFiled under: Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Activision Inc (ATVI)
This is not good at all for the PlayStation 3 system. It’s high-priced, it isn’t as popular, and it would be very difficult for Sony to answer this move by Microsoft with a price reduction of its own. Gamers can get the PlayStation 3 for as low as $399, but that’s a far cry from $299 in an economy that is tanking thanks to energy costs and financial-sector issues. The negative wealth effect is on, my friends, and it’s only going to get worse. I recently wrote about Sony and how the company has lost a ton of money with PlayStation 3. Since the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 are considered equals in the minds of many not-so-hardcore gamers, the price reduction is going to have an effect. Of course, where does this leave Nintendo Ltd. (OTC: NTDOY) and its popular Wii console? Well, the Wii should be fine for now. People who purchase the Wii are usually more casual in terms of gaming, so the Xbox 360 price cut most likely will injured Sony. However, when there’s eventual parity between the price of a Wii and the price of a high-end system, then Nintendo probably will see some sort of effect. Where does this leave investors? Well, for my money, I think it leaves a best-of-breed publisher like Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVID) in a great spot. A higher number of Xbox 360s in homes means more opportunities to sell Guitar Hero units. As for Sony and its stock, investors should avoid it, in my thought. Disclosure: I own Activision Blizzard; positions can change at any time. An anonymous reader writes “As all hardcore Simpsons fans know, Chunkylover53@aol.com was revealed to be Homer Simpsons’ email address in one particular episode, registered by one of the shows writers, who would reply to fans as Homer himself. After a flood of messages, ‘Homer’ signed off — seemingly forever. Well in the last few days, security company Facetime Communications reports that anyone who had Homer on their AIM buddy list would have noticed his sudden reappearance. Unfortunately for all, he appears to have been hacked and pushing malware links which deposit those unlucky enough to run the file into a Turkish Botnet. The message claims the file is a ‘web exclusive’ episode of the TV show — an interesting way of targeting a specific group of fans who would assume Homers return would only coincide with something special like (say) a Television episode just for them. What I want to know is, is Homer smart enough to run an AV scan?” Read more of this story at Slashdot. Filed under: World wide web, Video, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0  After spending a few months in private beta, Odeo has launched a new version of its podcast aggregation service. OK, actually it looks like the new version of the site launched a few weeks ago, but we just noticed it, thanks to a short writeup over at TechCrunch. The updated site features a sleek new design and video. Lots and lots of video. Odeo now has videos from about half a million different partners, including major content partners like Blip.tv and Revision3. There’s also an improved Flash player for watching videos or listening to audio on the site. At its heart, Odeo is still a podcast aggregation site, which means that there are download links for most audio and videos. Because while you can spend all day watching videos online, sometimes you want to download them and take them with you on your portable media player. Users can also create profile pages, create playlists, rate podcasts, and share content using email links or embed code. The developers are also working on an improved version of Odeo Studio, a utility that lets users record or upload podcasts using a web browser. NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “RIAA sidekick MediaSentry’s ‘illegal investigation’ problem, which surfaced the other day when it got caught in a lie in Michigan (or got caught telling the truth after having told 2 years worth of lies in Brooklyn), has taken another turn for the worse. We learned this day from court papers filed in North Carolina, in one of the cases targeting NC State students in Raleigh, that the North Carolina Private Protective Services Board has scheduled a Grievance Committee hearing to determine whether there is probable cause to investigate an alleged violation of the law by SafeNet (formerly known as MediaSentry). Fortunately for MediaSentry, they won’t have to testify under oath, according to the notice (PDF).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Close Motor Finance - a personal approach to automobile financePosted by: admin in Latest NewsClose Motor Finance - a personal approach to car finance Wallick & Volk Finance Jobs and financial executive positions earning $100k+ at Finance Home - GNWT Department of Finance The OSU Virtual Finance Library FINANCE - Comcast.net Finance In Motion - South African Financial Advisor for Long and Short Finance at Pavilion Lincoln Mercury Inc. - Your Austin, Texas Lincoln Westchester County Finance Department www.Westchestergov.com The Finance Leadership Exchange Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Googleholic, web 2.0  Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
Todd writes “I’ve been looking around at ‘help wanted’ advertisements for programming jobs, and almost all of them demand that you not only have professional experience, but also that you show samples of your work. This got me wondering; with the work product, trade secret, and non-disclosure laws/agreements, how exactly can you show work that you’ve done in a professional capacity to a prospective employer without violating the privacy of the company for which the code was written? For instance, I can’t state I’ve written many BASH scripts (at least, not large ones) for myself personally, but the assortment of such scripts written for my current job is wide and varied indeed. I can’t very well just deliver these scripts, or even small portions thereof, to third parties to help demonstrate my scripting prowess. With that in mind, what am I supposed to show them?” Read more of this story at Slashdot. snydeq writes “Fatal Exception’s Neil McAllister raises questions regarding Web development skills in an era of constant innovation. Sure, low barriers to entry give underdog technologies ample chance to thrive without the backing of name-brand vendors. But doesn’t this fragmentation of the Web development market put undue pressure on developers to specialize? Choosing one tool to be your bread and butter from a field this broad is one thing, McAllister writes. Recruiting talent for a Web project when your technology stipulations eliminate most of the applicants is another. The result is a crisis, McAllister concludes, one in which maintaining a marketable skill set gets more and more difficult as the so-called say of the art changes on an nearly daily basis.” Read more of this story at Slashdot. |
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