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EPIX Movies Delivered in HD via Akamai

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST

Akamai Technologies today announced that EPIX, the next generation premium entertainment service from Viacom, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and MGM, has chosen Akamai as the company’s launch provider to deliver and manage its full length High Definition (HD) movies. EPIX is the leading next-generation, multi-platform entertainment service, delivering the latest movie blockbusters, new releases, library classics and original content across its premium, HD television channel, video-on-demand service and EpixHD.com Web site. Viewers with an EPIX subscription have access to everything – great entertainment anytime, anywhere, on every platform.

Zeus Software Now Available on Amazon EC2

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:00:00 EST

Zeus Technology today announces its flagship web traffic management solution, Zeus Traffic Manager 6.0, is available on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The solution gives companies access to extra computing power with the tools to deliver exceptional online services on a pay-as-you-go basis. The platform will make web development easier for companies and developers. Using a simple web service interface, users can monitor and control web traffic and automate maintenance to ensure online services are always fast and available even during high peaks in web traffic.

New IBM Mashup Capabilities Bring Business Analytics to the Desktop

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EDT

As part of its commitment to business analytics, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an expansion of its industry leading enterprise mashup portfolio, including the latest version of IBM Mashup Center and a new offering called IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service. IBM is also announcing a set of new clients that are using IBM Mashup technology to help transform their organizations by using information as a strategic asset. Every day, more than 15 petabytes of data are created. Mashups are critical in helping people make sense of this overwhelming amount of available data. Organizations from a variety of industries are using IBM mashup technology to empower not only business users but also decision-makers at the employee level to gain new insights from previously hard to access data found in a variety of sources, such as the Cloud, enterprise applications, and personal software and programs.

Google Analytics for Photographers

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:15:00 EDT

PhotoShelter, the leader in websites and online tools for serious photographers, today released Google Analytics for Photographers, a free, downloadable kit designed to help photographers succeed online. This kit contains comprehensive guidance - specifically for photographers - on how to implement and make sense of Google's powerful tool for monitoring website traffic. The kit can be downloaded at: http://pa.photoshelter.com/ref/ANALYTICS

Maca Kizi Hotel, Bodrum

Fri, 22 May 2009 05:15:00 EDT

Today I arrived in Bodrum for a long weekend. Divan Palmira kindly declined my reservation request after my 2007 review of the hotel. They were nice enough to recommend another boutique hotel in the area, so I checked in to Maca Kizi Hotel. My first half day here so far, the view from my room is fantastic. It is too early to write a formal review but if they don't royally screw it up between now and Sunday morning, this hotel has a potential to me my Bodrum summer stop going forward.

Oppenheim Hosts Legal Real Estate Workshop

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:43:00 EDT

Helping homeowners prevent foreclosure is keeping Roy Oppenheim busy as he defends the constitutional rights and wrongs for Broward homeowners. Considering the Sunshine State's foreclosures rank 4th in the nation and South Florida foreclosures jumped up 33 percent in the first quarter of 2009, foreclosure defense expertise is a hot commodity that is often times a missed step.

AeroMexico Expands Travel Agent Resources

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:51:00 EDT

AeroMexico has introduced deeply discounted Amigos Fares for travel agents, a customized Web site, and specialized travel agent and customer newsletters to make it easier than ever to promote and book the airline’s flights from 16 U.S. markets and two Canadian cities to more than 45 destinations throughout Mexico.

Lou Dobbs Continues With His Racist Comments on CNN Now Against Turks

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:34:00 EDT

Lou Dobbs said on Tuesday during his nightly CNN broadcast that president Obama's speech in the Turkish Parliament about religious diversity in America did not mean anything for the Turks. Lou Dobbs is a racist a**hole, who belongs Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Network with his nightly crusade against the Mexicans and all immigrants for that matter. Dobbs said on Tuesday that religious diversity did not mean anything for Turks since 98.8% of the population is Moslem.

Steve Jobs Pissed Off at IDG Once Again, Decides to Kill Macworld

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:55:00 EST

This is not the first time Jobs is having hissy fit over Macworld and its producer IDG World Expo. A few years ago when a genius IDG guy decided to move Macworld Expo East from New York City to Boston to save a few bucks, Steve Jobs was reportedly on the phone cursing every letter in the alphabet, and threatening to pull out of Macworld. At that time Jobs and IDG kissed and made up. I don’t know what happened today for Jobs to lose it and declare Apple is done with the Macworld Expo again. I don’t believe Apple can afford to do what they announced today, their decision to kill Macworld. We will see if Mr. Jobs will cool down and think more rationally after sleeping over this decision. We will see.

Is Jerry Yang the Dumbest CEO in Silicon Valley?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:00:00 EST

Please read the news story below filed today by my colleague Maureen O'Gara and think about the once-in-a-life-time lottery ticket this man had last February with Microsoft's acquisition offer, and then again through Carl Icahn's unasked-for help. He blew it and in my Wikipedia, this man is the dictionary definition of an IDIOT!

VAIO Extended Warranty a Huge Scam or a Terribly Managed Program?

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:45:00 EST

This time I was told that “Sony must have given me their phone number, they have nothing to do with Sony VAIO computers or their warranty work, they are an outside company and they are no longer providing any warranty services for Sony.” The woman on the phone said he would transfer to the right extension who may possibly help me but hang up the phone on me.

Did John McCain Add a New $3,000 Bogner Jacket to His Wardrope?

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:30:00 EST

Last couple of days as I watch the election coverage on CNN I could not help recognizing my five year-old Bogner jacket Senator McCain has been wearing. Well my jacket has been to India and a few long trips, got dry cleaned a dozen times, and a little beat up, but it is the same jacket looks like to me. Well if it's the same exact jacket which I own then I tell you RNC is hard at work dressing up the Senator as well, since from what I remember he is wearing a$3,000 Bogner jacket.

Is Oakland Airport Employing Violent, Dangerous and Dishonest Cab Drivers?

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:45:00 EDT

I arrived in California today for the AJAX World Conference. The only direct flight we could find arrived in Oakland Airport. After collecting our luggage we left the terminal building, crossed the street and got a van / cab. The fee schedule for these vans from the Oakland Airport to San Jose says $15 for each passenger or $65 if you want to ride alone. The Egyptian immigrant driver of the van we rented (pictured above), EZ Ride Express with California license plates 6W68864 and 510 395 5566 phone number which was advertised on the vehicle, charged us $100 instead of $65 and got violent at the hotel he dropped us off.

Google's Knol vs Ulitzer

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:00:00 EST

Google's Knol sounds like a knee-jerk reaction and retaliation to Jimmy Wales' public insults and threaths for more than a year. At least that's the common perception out there. Blogger Michael Arrington writes: 'Knol is not much different than existing products. It's a new knowledge base for authors. Anyone, eventually, will be able to write on any topic they choose. Google will provide authoring tools, store the information, allow others to comment and suggest edits, add ads with the author's approval, and provide traffic via their search engine. ... It's much more likely that Google is jealously eyeing the massive traffic that flows through its search engine to Wikipedia.'

Adobe Open Sources BlazeDS

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:15:00 EST

Adobe is open sourcing the remoting and messaging technologies in its commercial LiveCycle Data Services ES - Adobe's route to the Internet - as a new product called BlazeDS. The widgetry, along with the Action Message Format (AMF) protocol specification, is being sent into the wild under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL v3), making Adobe the first major company to use the little-used new license. Public betas are out at labs.adobe.com.

Adobe Hits Record Revenues

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:45:00 EST

Adobe earned $222.2 million, or 38 cents a share, up 21%, on record fourth-quarter revenues of $911.2 million, up 34% year-over-year, exceeding the company's revenue target of $860 million-$890 million. It attributed the results to Acrobat, its Creative Suite 3 products and momentum in its enterprise business. Creative Suite 3, which started coming out in April, includes upgrades to Photoshop, Illustrator and software acquired with Macromedia like Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. On a non-GAAP basis Adobe earned 49 cents in Q4, a penny more than Wall Street expected.

NetSuite IPO Flies Up, Up and Away

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:30:00 EST

First on Tuesday the number went from $13-$16 to $16-$19 and then on Wednesday to $19-$22 only to finally settle Wednesday night at $26 (after Oracle posted its latest glorious numbers), meaning NetSuite has raised almost $161.2 million and got itself a market cap of upwards of $1.5 billion - more than enough to pay Larry back the $8 million it owes him. The auction was supposed to price the shares closer to their actual market value than a typical IPO, which usually prices shares at a discount. Naturally, there are those who say the thing is overvalued. They've had practice saying that lately about VMware and VMware is in a lot better place than NetSuite. Ah, but the glamour of the Ellison name.

High-Tech Public Relations and Alan Zeichick - Analyze This!

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:45:00 EST

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Summit, Software Test & Performance Conference, and EclipseWorld. Also president and principal analyst of Camden Associates.' That's what his bio says.

Katerina Muchachos, Kayikci and SOA World

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:00:00 EST

I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into the hotel, guess who I saw? My friend who I met on the Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul. What a small world, isn't it? Her company was one of the sponsors of the event.

Amanda Chapel An Anonymous Public Relations Blogger

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:00:00 EDT

Buongiorno, il mio nome Amanda Chapel. I have 15 plus years experience in marketing communications. I am a former vice president in the Consumer Marketing Group at Weber Shandwick, one of the world's largest PR firms. Prior to Shandwick, I spent about 10 years bouncing around various top agencies. This includes senior posts at Cone Communications in Boston and Porter Novelli in Chicago. I cut my teeth at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in London.

Divan Palmira Hotel in Bodrum, Turkey: The End of an Era?

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:45:00 EDT

This 4th of July marked my sixth visit to the Divan Palmira Hotel in Bodrum, Turkey. My visit this year, which was quite different then the quiet escapes I've had in past years, prompted me to write a review for the first time. The Divan Palmira Hotel is located in the Golturkbuku region of Bodrum. Two recent cover stories published last year in The New York Times Travel Section called this Aegien Sea summer destination, The St. Tropez of Turkey.

Attacked by Underground Bloggers, SYS-CON CEO Fuat Kircaali Featured on the Cover of Forbes Magazine

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:30:00 EST

This man who writes for CBS / CNet / ZDNet sounds like he is out of his mind. Not a single person among SYS-CON's management team has ever heard of his name, had any business relationship with him, or knows who this person is. He was never asked to write for SYS-CON, he was never considered to write for SYS-CON, and he will never write for SYS-CON. Because SYS-CON does not think he is fit to write for the world's leading tech media company, he wants to boycott the company's advertisers? SYS-CON's advertisers are listed and updated on the company's website, which pretty much includes every significant technology player in every segment of today's software technology branches. So Mr. Blankenhorn wants to boycott the entire software industry because SYS-CON offended him? No one at SYS-CON has any idea who he is.

Welcome to A New Yachting Lifestyle!

Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Welcome to the premier issue of International Yacht Vacations & Charters (YV&C) magazine (www.yachtchartersmagazine.com), the first and only lifestyle magazine dedicated to yacht vacations.