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Amazon Customers Supply Prime Directive for Exclusive Programming

"With an OTT device, you don't have to fill a schedule," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst with The Diffusion Group. "When Fox launched, they had to fill a number of days. Instead, Netflix and Amazon can throw everything at one show. Instead of a lineup, you can focus on making one show." ...

Dish Eyes LightSquared’s Wireless Spectrum

"This confirms what we have been saying for a while now," Joel Espelien, analyst with TDG Research, told the E-Commerce Times. "Dish has concluded that the future is broadband, not pay TV, and spectrum is the only way they are going to get there." That means there might be mor...

Jolla Floats 1st Sailfish Smartphone

"It sounds like the Barbie or G.I. Joe doll of the wireless world," said telecommunications analyst Jeff Kagan. "Change the back and change the features and colors. Interesting. Will the customer understand the need? That's the challenge -- educating the marketplace on what m...

Lawmakers Ask for Clarity on Google Glass and Privacy

The letter was sent from Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and seven other lawmakers from the bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus. It asks Google whether users will be able to opt in to various proposed scenarios. They ask, for example, whether users will be able to consent if Google collects device-specific information from Glass...

OPINION

Joe Tucci’s Magic Turnaround Formula

Joe Tucci, EMC's beloved CEO, is an organizational wizard -- kind of the Harry Potter of CEOs. I didn't understand this at all until last week, when I heard Joe Tucci explain what his company truly was at EMC World. It really opened my eyes to the fact that the EMC you thin...

YouTube Trends Map Shows What You Like to Watch

There are still milestones to be had with views on the site, for instance, said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at TDG Research, such as when South Korean entertainer Psy's hit "Gangnam Style" hit the 1 billion mark. However, YouTube's map actually shows that the most popular videos don't differ much throughout the nation...

Obama May Pick Twitter Lawyer for Privacy Post

Establishing a high-level position on privacy in the federal government is long overdue, observed Joel R. Reidenberg, a professor of law at Fordham University "Nicole Wong is a very skilled and experienced person in the privacy sphere and the public policy arena," he told Tech...

IE8 Exploit Had US Nuke Workers in Its Sights

"Don't use Internet Explorer," Joe DeMesy, senior security analyst at Stach & Liu, told TechNewsWorld when asked what users could do to protect themselves, apart from taking standard precautions such as refraining from clicking on suspicious links or opening suspicious messages from strangers.

EXPERT ADVICE

Risk and Compliance: The Yin and Yang of Security

Mushrooming industry and government mandates that govern IT security have led to a highly regulated environment and annual compliance fire drills. Compliance, however, does not necessarily equal better security. ...

Facebook Revs Its Mobile Ad Engine in Q1

"Facebook is facing its challenges head-on," Joelle Musante, director of operations at Affinitive, a Project: Worldwide agency, told the E-Commerce Times. "With the plethora of apps out there, by rolling out Facebook Home for mobile they are attempting to keep their users in the fold."

Dish Stirs the Pot With $25B Sprint Bid

SoftBank's acquisition of Sprint would be the better deal because that would make Sprint "a more competitive mobile broadband/cellular competitor," said Joe Hoffman, a principal analyst at ABI Research. "Dish Network would bring additional competing interests and priorities." Further, the track record of major acquisitions is "not so great." ...

Remote Airplane Hijack Threat Demoed: Simon Says ‘Crash!’

"This is quite a serious security flaw, particularly given that the attacker can conduct exploit activities from the ground," Joe Bonnell, CEO of Alchemy Security, told TechNewsWorld. It will require revision of ACAR to introduce encryption into wireless communications between aircraft and service providers...

HP Targets a Cloud-Friendly Future With Moonshot Servers

HP's plan to use processors from ARM and other companies in the Moonshot line of servers "mounts a challenge to Intel," Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics, told TechNewsWorld. "But you've got to put it in context -- it's yet another processor that performs a special purpose."

Oracle Launches New Servers – and War of Words With IBM

However, "Oracle is not the fastest as it claims," said Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics. IBM's System z12 is the fastest microprocessor in the industry, operating at 5.5 GHz; and IBM's Power 7+ processor operates at 4.4 GHz Benchmarks aren't a true indicator of a pro...

BioShock Infinite Goes Way Past 11

"Personally, I think consumers do want something new, but they don't want everything new," said Joe Rybicki, freelance video game consultant. "Take BioShock Infinite: It sounds like it tells a very interesting, unusual story, but does so within a fairly standard FPS gamepla...

TECH TREK

Feds Probe Hack of First Lady, Biden, Celebs

Police in Los Angeles have teamed with the FBI to investigate Russian hackers suspected of stealing and posting sensitive information about Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, law enforcement officials and Hollywood celebrities The material in question was posted on a website using .su...

Likes Can Tell the Story of Your Life

Ultimately, consumers bear the burden of protecting themselves, which may be frustrating and even infuriating in some cases. Still, that is the way the industry and the laws are trending. There are some situations in which a marketer's privacy violation might be actionable in a court of law, but cases of that sort are very tough, said Joel Reidenberg, director of Fordham Law School's Center on Law and Information Policy...

Pandora Tunes In Good Q4 Despite Royalty, Mobile Challenges

In addition to the earnings report, CEO Joe Kennedy announced he will be stepping down. Kennedy, who has been in place since 2004, oversaw Pandora's rise as one of the dominant radio streaming services in both the desktop and mobile arenas The streaming radio service reported ...

LINUX PICKS AND PANS

Precise Puppy Is a Fast, Furious Distro

That does not mean Puppy Linux gives you a boring, adolescent desktop. To the contrary, Precise Puppy is a mature hound dog that puts you in full control of your computing environment with a pleasant graphical user interface based on the JWM (Joe's Window Manager) desktop manager. This is a lightweight stacking window manager for the X Window System. Do not snicker at its name, either. This distro can easily become your computing best friend...

Consumer Signal Booster: An Electronic Gadget Grows Up

The final FCC specs will not be published for about six weeks, according to Joe Banos, COO of Wilson Electronics "It's premature for anyone to say their boosters comply since no one has seen the finalspecs," he told TechNewsWorld....

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