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RSS disneyVegas baby: Cisco seeks consumer buddies
News But instead of Sony and Disney, back then it was IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers is to deliver a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas today - signalling a push into unfamiliar terrain for the... [09 Jan 2007]
BT enters quad-play era with IPTV launch
News Content providers signed up to BT Vision include the BBC, Disney, DreamWorks, National Geographic, SonyBMG, Universal and Viacom. BT has today pushed play on its long-touted IPTV offering, BT Vision, moving the telco into the quad-play era proper. [04 Dec 2006]
The DeployPHP Series, Part 1: Optimizing PHP and Oracle
White Paper Lufthansa, and Disney Online. The open-source language PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) powers some of the most popular Web sites in the world, such as Yahoo! This fact is even more remarkable when a person considers that PHP does so much with so... [17 Oct 2006]
Somix Manages 20x More Data With Embedded MySQL
White Paper Somix Technologies is a Network Management company that provides products and services to some of the world's leading companies such as Disney Stores, Fannie Mae and AutoZone. Somix found that existing Network Management products were expensive... [11 Oct 2006]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment Apple plans to sell it in the US for $299.iTV may also allow you to download content directly - Disney's Iger hinted as much during a Goldman Sachs conference shortly after the iTV pre-announcement, when he let slip that the device has a hard... [09 Oct 2006]
YouTube is doomed, says analyst
News It only takes one unhappy media company - Disney, Sony, CBS or News Corp for example - to force the company's hand. Another internet research company has predicted doom for YouTube's business model. Copyright issues that have plagued video-sharing... [03 Oct 2006]
Microsoft shows off iPod killer
News Films from four studios owned by Walt Disney will be available on iTunes 7, the new version of the download software, the same day they are released to DVD. The device, which the company anticipates will be ready in time for the holidays, will come... [15 Sep 2006]
Apple uncloaks iTunes movie downloads
News The studios are Miramax, Pixar Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures. Movies from four studios owned by The Walt Disney Company will be available on iTunes 7, the new version of the download software, the same day they are... [13 Sep 2006]
Apple set for big push on the living room?
News Also, BusinessWeek reported in August that Lions Gate and Walt Disney - where Apple CEO Steve Jobs now occupies a spot on the board of directors - are first in line to sell movies on iTunes for $9.99 to $14.99. [12 Sep 2006]
Disney cancels UK mobile kid-tracking
News Disney has shelved plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in the UK, saying the market is in flux. Now Disney has changed its mind, putting the plan on ice indefinitely. A Disney spokeswoman said the decision had been made as a... [14 Aug 2006]
Radioactive: Toddler telephony taps parental paranoia
Comment Even family media giant Disney has got in on the act. Always on the lookout for new opportunities, mobile operators see children as a segment waiting to be exploited - if they can convince parents mobiles are useful tracking devices. [15 May 2006]
Tracking children: Mobile's next big thing?
News So it's not very surprising that Disney, the omnipresent family entertainment brand, would target kids and their parents for a new mobile service, called Disney Mobile, which will launch in June. Disney hasn't built its own cellular network but is... [10 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.04.06
Round-Up In other (totally made-up) news it was announced that iTunes was switching to the WMA format and that Apple and Disney were acquiring each other in a phenomenally complicated takeover.silicon.com's own contribution to the japery involved Bill... [07 Apr 2006]
Linux leader attacks "anti-DRM" GPL
News As long as you expect Disney to feed your brain and just sit there on your couch, Disney and company will always be able to control the content you see," Torvalds said. Provisions against digital rights management (DRM) in a draft update to the... [06 Feb 2006]
Minority Report: Disney, Pixar and Apple - what happens next
Comment With Steve Jobs now holding a seat on Disney's board, the speculation has begun about what sort of media plans the Apple chief has in store for his Cupertino company. The Mac maker could stand to benefit not only from a content distribution deal... [03 Feb 2006]
