Peter Kafka in Media on January 27, 2011 at 11:01 am PT
Time Warner Cable and Comcast appear to do just fine in Reed Hastings’s rankings.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 26, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT
Netflix, which is fighting with the cable guys and telcos over streaming video costs, says it will publish a ranking of the best broadband performers. Or in other words: Netflix says it will tell some broadband customers that they ought to get a new provider.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 20, 2010 at 5:11 am PT
A good reminder that the definition of the “World Wide Web” can change, depending on the country you’re living in: The Pakistani government is trying to block some of the planet’s most popular Web sites, including Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia.
Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
Bright and early this morning at 8 am PT, BoomTown will be jacked into the matrix for an invitation-only media and analyst briefing to hear exactly what the heck Cisco has been yammering on about of late.
Last month, the networking giant said in a mysterioso email that it would be making “a significant announcement that will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments.”
Significant? Forever? It had better be good.
John Paczkowski in News on February 22, 2010 at 10:59 am PT
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated behind a veil of secrecy by the United States, European Union, Japan and a host of other countries is a potentially onerous one. That’s the gist of a 20-page memo issued today by Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, who is clearly appalled by what he read in the portion of the draft of the agreement leaked to the Web last week.
Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2010 at 11:22 am PT
Yahoo is close to selling its Zimbra unit to VMware, according to several sources close to the situation.
Sources said the deal could be announced soon, but the price for the open-source email unit was still unclear.
One source noted that the reason that VMware was interested in nabbing Zimbra was that its execs want to expand “up the stack” from the software company’s position in virtualization.
And Yahoo’s reasoning? The Internet giant has been targeting assets for “de-acquisition” that are not central to the strategies of its new management.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 8, 2009 at 5:15 am PT
Spotify, the streaming music service Americans love talking about but can’t actually use, has given us even more to chat about: The company now promises to roll out some sort of TV service…some day.
Where? In Sweden, of course, which is where Spotify started, and which acts as a sort of test lab/best-case-scenario provider for the service.
Kara Swisher in News on September 21, 2009 at 4:16 am PT
According to numerous sources, Yahoo has been shopping around Zimbra, the open-source email company it bought in late 2007 for $350 million.
Zimbra is only one of the many assets of Yahoo that are now on the block, including its personals business, its HotJobs online classified unit and more to come.
The effort to unload Zimbra is yet another sign that the company is trying to slim down its diverse portfolio, even as it strives to redefine itself this week with a new, pricey marketing campaign that seeks to position Yahoo primarily as a consumer company.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm PT
Windows 7 system requirements; a new laptop for a Mac user and moving email contacts to a new Internet service provider.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 19, 2009 at 1:47 pm PT
The music industry’s online forays have always inspired head-scratching, but this one is odd even by those standards: Project Playlist, the online music service currently being sued by Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, is bolstering its tech staff by buying the assets of… a music service owned by Universal Music Group. But the lawsuits have yet to be resolved. Confusing? Of course.
