CNBC has relaunched with renewed focus on videos. The website about business and investing will be competing now with services such as Yahoo Finance and Google Finance and with new web content sites like Seeking Alpha, which recently took funding from BenchMark Capital.
Source : Techcrunch
CNBC will be hosting blogs written by CNBC anchors and will support tagging options too.
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Techcrunch is reporting that Wal-mart has sold an option for a digital download with the purchase of the “Superman Returns” DVD.
Techcrunch also did a review of digital movie download vendors but is sceptical of Wal-Mart’s venture into this digital movie business space. and mentions that If this is the best Walmart can do, we’ll be filing this under “Failed Movie Download Models” in the near future.
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If you want to forecast the future of a philosophy or technology, you need look no further than the world of academia. And in open source, there appear to be infinite tomorrows, with open source projects being undertaken by East Coasters like MIT, West Coasters like UCB and everyone else in between.
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Found in the Apple Store in Tokyo, Japan’s Ginza district: as described more fully in this week’s Overseas Report, Apple has now outfitted the multi-story elevator entrances in Ginza with video pillars…
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A drag and drop essentially consists of a few events (and by events, I mean, moments in time, not DOM events). There’s the moment a drag is started, there’s the continuous dragging of an item, and finally there’s the moment the item is no longer being dragged (ie: the drop). The items being dragged are sometimes referred to as draggables.
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Their are no dancers in sight, in fact all you see are torsos putting on different pieces of clothes and attaching an iPod shuffle to them. All of this whilst Who’s Gonna Sing? by The Prototypes is playing in the background.
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A fascinating look at what goes on behind the scenes at Microsoft as they begin the final weeks of Vista’s launch….
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Microsoft has been assembling the pieces of a VoIP play for over a year, and Steve Ballmer says it’s just about time to make a move.
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“Are I.T. Workers Blue Collar?” Interesting question. I was recently asked this by some executives who were concerned with improving the productivity of their I.T. departments. I asked them to explain why they thought this way. They contended their I.T. people (e.g., analysts and programmers) exhibit a lot of blue collar characteristics.
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