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Codename Keychest: Disney's New Film View Technology |
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Disney has been diligently working on a new technology, code-named Keychest, that would give users the ability to watch a movie from any device imaginable.
Does Disney's Keychest sound interesting to you? Tell us.
A studio insider gave this scenario on how Keychest could possibly work...
"Dad has a Zune, Mom has an iPod, there's a Mac and a PC at home and a Roku box; right now, those devices don't talk to one another ... We intend to blend those worlds."
It's being rumored that Disney could begin testing the new technology in as little as two months, and it may be consumer ready by next year. Supposedly, Keychest will use cloud-computing coupled with a physical product (e.g. a DVD), that will only require the person to pay for the rights so that it could be watched on any device.
It's no secret that companies have been looking for a distribution model, as some feel consumers are slowly buying less DVD's. This is where the Keychest technology would step in.
Would you use Disney's Keychest technology? Let us know.
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What People Are Saying About Microsoft Windows 7 |
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Machines with Microsoft's Windows 7 went on sale today. Unsurprisingly, it is one of the hottest topics on the web. Everybody's talking about it on Twitter. Everybody's searching for it. Microsoft and Windows queries are all over Google's Hot Trends list. Everybody wants to know more about Windows 7.
Well, let's look at what people are saying about it. Here's a sample from the Twitterverse:
For a little more meat on the subject, let's take a look at some recent videos uploaded to YouTube about Windows 7. First, here is CBS talking about the release:
Here is a review:
Here is a longer review:
Here is a comparison with Vista:
Windows 7 is now available on new PCs and is available as an upgrade on some old ones. Have you tried it yet? We'd love to know what you think about the operating system. Let us know.
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Newsday To Charge For Online Access |
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Newsday said today it will begin charging $5 a week for most of its online content.
Newsday said it will start charging for access next Wednesday, except for its customers who are current home subscribers or those who are Optimum Online customers, the Internet access service offer by its parent company Cablevision.
Users who are not subscribers will still have access to some content including the newsday.com homepage, classifieds, school closings, obituaries, weather and entertainment listings.
"This groundbreaking approach to newsday.com delivers added value directly for Newsday and Optimum Online customers," said Tad Smith, president of Local Media. "Providing exclusive benefits for our customers is something Cablevision has been doing for decades, starting with the launch of News 12 in 1986."
"We look forward to growing this unique service and, with Newsday's tremendous understanding of the Long Island market, believe that newsday.com will be a terrific resource for news and information specifically tailored to the local community."
About 75 percent of Long Island households are already Newsday home delivery and /or Optimum Online customers. Cablevision's Optimum Online customers in the New York total 2.5 million households.
Newsday has been adding new features to its website over the past few months and says it will continue to offer a more personalized experience in an effort to attract new subscribers and keep the audience it already has.
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Botnets Driving Click fraud Traffic |
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There was a significant jump in click fraud traffic from botnets in the third quarter of 2009, according to the latest data from Click Forensics.
Click Forensics told WebProNews that the amount of click fraud traffic from botnets generally hovers around 33 percent, and it believes the sudden rise may be to due to the increasing sophistication and proliferation of botnets.
Botnets accounted for 42.6 percent of all click fraud in Q3 2009, more than doubling in the past two years and up from the 27.5 percent reported for the same quarter last year.
The overall industry average click fraud rate was 14.1 percent. That's up from 12.7 percent for Q2 2009 and down from the 16 percent rate reported for Q3 2008.
In Q3, the countries outside North America producing the greatest volume of click fraud were the United Kingdom, Vietnam and Germany, respectively.
"The significant rise in botnet-generated click fraud lines up with recent findings of several well-known malware and online fraud tracking experts," said Paul Pellman, CEO of Click Forensics.
"Botnets perpetrating click fraud and other online schemes continue to grow in number and sophistication. Advertisers and ad providers need to be especially vigilant about such activity as we enter the competitive search marketing holiday season."
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Google Preparing For Future With 10 Million Servers |
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If McDonald's ever goes out of business, perhaps Google can buy up its empty buildings and use them all as data centers. A representative of the search giant recently stated that he's working on a storage and computation system capable of accommodating 10 million servers.
If Google ever gets its hands on 10 million servers, that means it'll have one for every person in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona. Or if you want another point of comparison, we found out earlier this month that Facebook only has around 30,000 servers.
Google's not necessarily planning to take over the tech world, though. Jeff Dean, a Google Fellow in the Systems Infrastructure Group, is the man who mentioned 10 million servers while speaking at an Association for Computing Machinery conference, and he said that's a design goal.
What's more, the lower limit of the design goal is 1 million servers, and earlier in his talk, Dean said it's important to "ensure your design works if scale changes by 10X or 20X," so he may be intentionally overshooting the mark.
Still, we'll just keep an eye on Google's data center plans and see where this heads. Hat tip goes to Rich Miller.
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