securosis.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Did you buy one of the deeply discounted Plasma Televisions this weekend? How about a new digital camera? How about eBay? No, not something being sold there, but the company itself. Chris O’Brien over at the San Jose Merc speculates on what it would take to buy the auction site as there have been some rumors [...]
New Phones Today (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Next Newsroom Proposal is complete Chris O’Brien 6:27 AM | bio | Comments: 0 It is with great pleasure that I’d like to announce that we have completed work on our newsroom proposal for The Chronicle, the independent, student-run newspaper at Duke University. [...]
Teresa Lo | InVivoAnalytics.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... to “Neutral” from “Overweight” and cut revenue and adjusted earnings estimates for fiscal 2009. Chris O’Brien, a business columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, wrote an article in June that noted that ’something is not right’ with PAY: Boots Del Biaggio’s BFF Doug Bergeron of Verifone: A Match Made In …? By the way, Bergeron - who sold $134 million worth of VeriFone stock from...
Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
As AOL prepares close its user generated site on December 18, it is recommending that users switch their files to Motionbox , the small New York-based video sharing site. This development was first reported yesterday by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch who published AOL's FAQ's on the service change. Chris O'Brien at Motionbox has built an impressive platform. It is the first which allowed...
TopEnergyNews (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
... product. “More and more you’re going to see an ‘Intel-inside’ approach to thin-film production,” Chris O’Brien, Oerlikon’s head of market development in North America, tells us. Just as Intel makes the chip but doesn’t sell the computer, Oerlikon makes the solar fab line but doesn’t sell the panels. Today’s announcement is part of the company’s road map for delivering equipment that...
Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Today Oerlikon announced that is has unveiled its newest technology, “Amorph High Performance,” which adds a zinc oxide layer to the cells, boosting efficiency nearly a full percentage while also increasing fab capacity by 50 percent. “More and more you’re going to see an Intel-inside approach to thin-film production,” Chris O’Brien, Oerlikon’s head of market development in North America,...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... equipment has been a major factor in preventing the use of small UAVs on the front line,” states Chris O'Brien, from BAE Systems. “This new system dispenses with the need for specialist launch equipment such as rockets and catapults, bringing Brigade-level capability to individual Platoons. It can work with a wide variety of different UAVs and mortars without the need for re-qualification.”‘Project...
Social Media (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Chris O'Brien at the San Jose Mercury News: Will Obama use the Internet to change government? Chris briefly discusses what a bottom-up, open source approach means when applied to public policy. It'll be interesting to see where the Obama administration takes this and how it taps into the social networking phenomenon.
Social Media (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Chris O'Brien at the Next Newsroom Project: The Christian Science Monitor and the need to rethink the fish wrap edition.
Rakesh Agrawal's Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
I wish I had attended this event, but having missed it Chris O’Brien’s summary of the event is a good one. An excerpt (boldfacing added by me): My main takeaways from the day were far different what I would have expected going in. I’ve been in search of new ways to generate revenue to maintain [...]
Social Media (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Chris O'Brien at the Next Newsroom Project: Sustainability: Reporting back from the New Business Models for News Summit.
Social Media (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Chris O'Brien at the IdeaLab blog: What Newsrooms Can Learn from Obama Campaign. what do videogames and Obama have to do with newsrooms? It's clear that over the past year, Obama's campaign has developed a profound understanding of how its community finds and consumes information across a number of platforms. And Obama has embraced them all, and adapted his message to fit the way people...
Social Media (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Great coverage in today's San Jose Mercury News about this: Troy Wolverton: Authors, publishers settle copyright suit against Google. Chris O'Brien: Virtual librarians seek a way to loan copyrighted books for free. The settlement is a big win for publishers and authors, who will now get a bigger share of revenue when folks come across their copyrighted works. Google wins because it gets...
LisNews (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Chris O'Brien of the San Jose Mercury News writes: "When I heard Google had settled its feud with book publishers, I knew exactly whom I wanted to call first: Brewster Kahle , the digital librarian who is the founder of the Internet Archive. I first talked to Kahle back in 2004, around the time Google launched its Book Search. The program riled publishers, who felt it amounted to a massive...
