Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Sameer Al-Sakran. Al-Sakran is a data scientist and machine learning specialist who was formerly the engineering manager at Imeem

Viacom and DirecTV ended their dispute over carriage fees on Friday, which saw the return of 17 Viacom channels on the cable satellite service.

If you’ve been following my weekend watch reviews, you’ll note that I tend to like bigger watches. But even this monster – the Graham Oversize GMT – is too big for me.

Hulu released a new, chromeless video player on Saturday, in an effort to improve the viewing experience for users of its web site. The new player is designed to give viewers easier access to their settings, and has also added a 10-second rewind feature to enable viewers to quickly skip back and re-watch their favorite moments of a program.

Gillmor Gang: Or Are You Just Glad to See Me The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — turned into Google fanboys on a dime, or $200, with the release of the Nexus 7 tablet.

I’ve talked with thousands of people over the past few years about the “cloud.” What’s apparent? The real cloud services providers like Amazon Web Services have won

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch.  OpenDNS is web-based DNS management software, offered as an alternative to using a given ISP’s DNS servers.  Disruption doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it happens in context. And there is no greater example of disruption than what’s happening to enterprise technology market right now. Much of this is largely thanks to changing enterprise landscapes (consumerization of IT, cloud apps, mobility), new sales models and innovative go-to-market strategies (SaaS, Yammer d’état, land-and-expand) that leave the entire space ripe for disruption

When I started formulating the idea for my current startup, Roamz , the vision for the company was serendipitous discovery of the things happening around you. I imagined that we’d say to people “Want serendipity? Great download our app” and they’d respond “Yeah sure I was just looking for some serendipity”

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jason van Zyl. van Zyl is the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework and the Apache Velocity project and helped establish Codehaus, a well-respected incubation facility for open-source community projects. He currently serves on the board of the Eclipse Foundation and is CTO of Sonatype. Jason can be reached on Twitter @jvanzyl It’s no secret that today’s software is very different than it used to be.  It’s often cloud-based, includes social functions, and is available to anyone, anywhere, using any type of device.   What most of us don’t see is that it’s not just different on the surface – it’s also created and delivered in a very different way.

Earlier this year, young venture capital fund and startup accelerator 500 Startups announced some changes that indicated its intent to move beyond adolescence into adulthood, and expand its scope beyond the U.S. The firm raised a new, bigger fund, added new partners, and increase its focus on identifying and investing in talented international entrepreneurs.