eBay sellers pounce on Chromecast shortage, price dongle 8X over list
With Google's Chromecast sold out and backordered for weeks, profiteers are offering the new stream-to-TV device for as much as $300 on eBay, a 757% markup.
With Google's Chromecast sold out and backordered for weeks, profiteers are offering the new stream-to-TV device for as much as $300 on eBay, a 757% markup.
Rackspace President Lew Moorman is stepping down from leading the company, he announced in a blog post today, but will remain on the board of directors of the cloud computing and managed hosting company.
Oracle had a busy couple of weeks at the end of June, rolling out a new version of its database software and announcing partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. In doing so the company – who's CEO Larry Ellison at one time bemoaned Cloud computing – has almost overnight become a major player in the industry. Here's why.
Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are the heavyweights in the video streaming industry, but there are many other options as wel
Google Wednesday launched a small $35 device, called Chromecast, that lets users send videos and music from smartphones, tablets and laptops to high definition TV sets.
Netflix's Open Source Software strategy started on June 23, 2011. One of the company's senior software engineers had an idea: "At some point, I think it would be valuable to open source the Zookeeper library I've written," Jordan Zimmerman wrote to his bosses, talking about a piece of customized code he helped develop. "Does Netflix have a policy on that?"
Amazon.com has Amazon Instant Video. Netflix has its video streaming service. These products are two of the most popular competing video streaming options available. And they both run on Amazon's cloud computing platform.
Google, and its bevy of services, including Gmail, search, YouTube and Maps, account for 25% of all Internet traffic in North America, on average, according to Deepfield, an Internet monitoring company.
The diversified range of new products being built and provided by Google now make the company accountable for nearly 25 percent of all Internet traffic, up from a mere 6 percent just three years ago, according to a new study.
Streaming video service Netflix does not infringe on several Rovi patents on an interactive program guide and parental control technology, the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a preliminary ruling.
Webscale pioneers like Netflix, Google, Amazon and Etsy have made a science of breaking their own applications and infrastructure so that they can determine if their application and operations architecture is complete and robust. While few IT shops run their apps and infrastructure in the same way as these behemoths, valuable lessons for CIOs and CTOs of all stripes can be found in the innovative practices these companies have created.
Netflix could shake up the Australian video streaming market if it ever chooses to enter, analysts told <I>Computerworld Australia</I>.
Twenty years ago today, CERN released World Wide Web technology -- all royalty free.
Netflix plans to abandon Microsoft's Silverlight media player plug-in for Windows and OS X in-browser video streaming, and replace it with a trio of HTML5 extensions.
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting is striking back against patent holder Rotatable Technologies, a Texas company that has filed patent infringement cases against more than a dozen companies in the past year.