Searching for music
It may come as no surprise, but I like to search for things on Google. Yep, when I'm looking for something, I always try it on Google first. And sometimes, that thing I'm looking for is music. Many...
No action needed now on Net neutrality-FCC chief
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - There is no immediate need for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules protecting consumers' ability to surf anywhere on the Internet, the agency's cha...
NTP signs license deal with Visto
NTP is best-known for a patent infringement ruling it won against RIM in 2002.
Google whistles a new tune
Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page. — Google Music will allow a us...
Internet encyclopaedias go head to head
Abstract — Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds. — One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is...
Google Dressing Up For Opera
Update: Google spokesperson emailed and said, no comment and that this is just a rumor. Opera spokesperson was even more blunt and said: "This is just as new to me as it is to you. We do not know of...
Welcome to the Splogosphere: 75% of new pings are spings (splogs)
In the blogosphere, pings are notifications sent by updated blogs to PingServers. A major issue recently has been unjustified pings, also known as Spings, sent by Splogs. Splogs have been discussed ...
FCC chief backs Net phone taxes
WASHINGTON—Imposing new taxes on a wider swath of Internet phone users is likely to be one of the Federal Communications Commission's top priorities next year, Chairman Kevin Martin said Wednesday. —...
Google Gets Its Groove On... But Are They Breaking The Law?
It's been rumored forever, but Google is finally launching their music offering. As we mentioned many months ago, the plan is not to offer their own music store, but to link to iTunes and others.
GUS Buys PriceGrabber.com for $485 Million
Retail and financial services company GUS PLC said Wednesday it has bought PriceGrabber.com, a U.S. company that offers online comparison prices for shoppers, for $485 million. — GUS is purchasing P...
A Talk to Google's Larry Page in 2038
First of all, I'm happy you finally agreed to an interview! So welcome, Larry. — Thanks. Glad to be here. — I know you're quite busy, as always. Has the pressure on you increased after Sergey r...
Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection
Here's a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP a...
Let's see some ID, please
The end of anonymity on the Internet? — Michael Rogers — •Profile — •E-mail — As the joke goes, on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog. But although anonymity has been part of Internet cul...
Witnessing the Revolution
Hands on time with Nintendo's next generation system. Will it change gaming? — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Interesting factoid about the Nintendo Revo...
Acquisition of PriceGrabber.com
GUS plc, the retail and business services group, today announces that Experian has acquired PriceGrabber.com, a leading provider of online comparison shopping services in the US. PriceGrabber.com ope...
The Meta Wars
For all that people are saying 2006 is going to be the year of this or that, I think that 2006 is going to be the year of metadata, and as such, we're about to see some of the bloodiest battles in blo...
Three Technology Companies Join to Finance Research
BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 12 - With federal funds for basic computer science research at universities in decline, three of the industry's leading companies are joining to help fill the void. — Universi...
New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior
Issue 41 •50 — NEW YORK— Electronic-entertainment giant Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Grand Theft Auto series creator Rockstar Games, released Stacker Tuesday, a first-person vertical-cra...
E-Paper's Killer App: Packaging
The cereal aisle at your local supermarket may soon resemble the Las Vegas strip. Electronics maker Siemens is readying a paper-thin electronic-display technology so cheap it could replace convention...
Port scans don't always precede hacks
Port scans may not be a pre-cursor to hacking efforts, according to conventional wisdom, reports the University of Maryland's engineering school. — An analysis of quantitative attack data gathered b...
Mr. LUA Goes to Washington
WASHINGTON, DC—The gospel according to LUA (least-privileged user account) took center stage at Microsoft Corp.'s Security Summit East here with a pair of Redmond consultants pitching the idea of a we...
Structured Blogging Will Flop
Darn it all, techno utopians are so cute. Nevertheless, structured blogging — the over-ballyhooed idea that people will post to their blogs using different forms depending on what they're posting — i...
DVR Buyers Shift and Zap
NEW YORK Contrary to recent assertions by the major broadcast networks, new research on digital video recorders by WPP Group's Mindshare found that consumers buy the devices mainly to "time shift" (re...
Greg Boser Interview
Mr. Pratt Interviews Greg Boser — When writing up some ideas for an interview of Greg Boser I did the usual, find a few of his sites, study his backlinks, blog, and comments in forums. One thing th...
Late Fees Back At Some Of Antioco's Blockbuster Stores
LONDON - Even though it's pretty unlikely a wide-eyed five-year old would have rented an X-rated movie, rationality goes out of the window when you're using your youngest child as a pawn for returning...
Google Gmail Now Accessible via Mobile Phones
If you've got a web-enabled mobile phone and a Gmail account, you can now access your mail on the run. Gmail mobile allows you to get your mail from just about any mobile phone browser, and most of t...
Animated Singing Santa Hack
How to customize a Wal*Mart Santa (by Gemmy) with your own routines. — If you've ever gone to Wal*Mart during the Christmas season, you've seen it. I figure that at least a quarter of the US popula...
Visto Files Legal Action Against Microsoft for Misuse of Visto's Proprietary Technology
(Redwood Shores, CA, December 15, 2005) - Visto Corporation has filed a legal action against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for misappropriating Visto's intellectual property.
Bank hero gets calculator
A BRAVE teenager who saved a bank thousands of pounds by foiling a cash machine scam was rewarded yesterday — with a plastic calculator. — Luke Bridges, 17, tore a false fascia off an ATM machine th...
Googling Google
A deal with NASA? A subculture of former employees? What's really going on behind the walls of the Googleplex? Washington Post staff writer David A. Vise was online Thursday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. ET t...
Rumor: Google to buy Opera, according to Yahoo Europe president
Pierre Chappaz, the former president of Yahoo Europe, claims to have a source, whom he says is generally very well informed, who told him that Google is planning on buying the Opera web browser.
Will U.S. carriers switch mobile standards?
North American telecom operators may end up shifting to the GSM mobile standard from the rival CDMA system, according to senior executive at Siemens. — "Latin America is already moving from CDMA tec...