http://www.concordiacssa.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:40:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The company increased its 2008 forecasts for subscribers, expecting up to 9.7 million subscribers by year's end, compared with a previous forecast of up to 9.5 million. Netflix also slightly raised its revenue forecast to up to $1.39 billion, compared with the previous expectation of up to $1.385 billion. However, ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/09/netflix-profits-up-36-percent/ The free new perks were announced Tuesday by CEO Ivan Seidenberg during a lunch at WiredSafety's Stop Cyberbullying Conference at Pace University in New York. Seidenberg spoke in front of an audience filled with young people, parents, educators, and government officials, who all gathered for the daylong conference on cyberbullying. Parry ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/verizon-offers-free-parental-controls/ There's something to be said about a product still going strong after 23 years in this evolving industry. Amazon.com User Reviews (4.5 stars out of 237 reviews) Koss has a bad reputation for manufacturing terrible audio products, but it struck gold back in 1984 with one set of headphones, the PORTAPROS. ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/my-headphones-are-better-than-yours/ Most folks recall the story about the Tacoma, Wash., house that was trashed after a woman posted an ad on Craigslist telling people to "please help yourself to anything on the property." Well, some mischief maker in Jacksonville, Ore., apparently decided to re-enact the Tacoma house-trashing scheme. According to this ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/another-house-ransacked-from-craigslist-ad/ Microsoft hasn't committed to any iPhone apps. However, if I was a betting woman, I would put my money on something coming from Microsoft's Tellme unit. Tellme is the speech recognition company that Microsoft bought last year. Among its many products is one that lets you speak a search term into ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/microsofts-first-iphone-app-tellme/ commentary TechCrunch's Dan Kimerling suggests that Microsoft's stodgy enterprise software focus is largely irrelevant to a Generation Y reared on Facebook and Google. He may be right. As Microsoft continues to bloat its products in an attempt to entice upgrades, the rising generation is looking for Web-based applications that are "simultaneously powerful ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/microsofts-youth-problem/ commentary After three straight days of traveling to close my quarter, I needed to unwind tonight. Given that I don't drink or smoke crack, I chose to create a video: "The Challengers of Open Source." Cheesy title, but I had The New Pornographers' song ("Challengers") running through my head and car stereo ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/open-source-challenging-the-incumbents-the-video/ You know you love it: The CW Television Network has decided to start streaming its teen show Gossip Girl online again. According to The New York Times, free ad-supported episodes of the program will soon reappear on The CW's Web site. They'd been taken down in April as an "experiment" ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/the-cw-to-bring-back-gossip-girl-streams/ A screenshot from Dances With Google of the possibly coming dictionary (Credit: 与G共舞) Google is slated to release a robust Chinese-English dictionary featuring 13 dictionaries in collaboration with Kingsoft, a producer of PC-based dictionaries, according to a Chinese blog that I will inadequately translate as "Dances With Google." The new product will drop ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/report-google-to-release-chinese-english-dictiona/ Geek culture is once again showing its influence over the mainstream lexicon in the latest version of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which includes word additions such as webinar, malware, netroots, pretexting (thank you Hewlett-Packard), and fanboy (thank you Apple). Webinar is "one more example of the significant ongoing trend for ... http://www.concordiacssa.com/2010/08/geeks-get-a-word-in-with-merriam-webster/