corporations

DivX Acquired By Sonic Solutions With Hollywood Streaming In Mind

DivX Inc, the company that owns the codec which made your early 2000s movie downloads look actually not too bad, is being acquired by Sonic Solutions, a content delivery company, for a reported $US300 million. Sonic’s been working in circular media like CDs and DVDs for years – they own the popular Roxio brand – but is now looking to the internet as the content delivery platform of the future. DivX, a current competitor of Sonic’s, has been helping deliver video content to internet users, legally and otherwise, for years.

28 March 2010

Palm’s CEO Will Email You, Too, But What’s He Really Saying?

With new Steve Jobs emails surfacing everyday, someone thought to send Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein a personal note. His chipper response is not necessarily what you’d expect from somebody who’s been watching his company crumble into a pile of dust.

17 July 2009

Brand Keyboard Is A Champion, Or Possibly Critic, Of Capitalism

This concept keyboard plays on our love of, or at least interest in, marketing by replacing all the letters with logos of corporations whose name begins with said letter. I seriously just spent five minutes picking them all out.

24 April 2009

Computing

A Lost Laptop Costs Companies $US50,000

A recent voluntary survey of 28 US companies found a single lost laptop to cost an average of $US49,246. (And no, these laptops did not cost $US50k in hardware alone.)

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