Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google
Rebuffing aggressive overtures from Microsoft, Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the domi...
Merry Christmas From The RIAA
The music industry dropped 751 copyright-infringement lawsuits in the mail today, bringing the total number of legal actions this year against alleged peer-to-peer (P2P) infringers to more than 7,000....
Update on TypePad Issues
Here is an update on the current issues we're experiencing with TypePad. — Most importantly, we want you to know that your blog data is safe. We have no reason to believe that any of your posts, co...
Visto Sues Microsoft Over Patents
Update: Dispute centers on patents for wireless e-mail, challenges Windows Mobile. — Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Micros...
Searching for a fresher taste
First it bought photo-sharing site Flickr, and now it has snapped up bookmarking phenomenon Delicious. Why is Yahoo investing so heavily in the social networking stars of Web 2.0? Bobbie Johnson rep...
Start-up merges cell phone and PC into a handheld
It's a cell phone. It's a computer. It's the two invaluable companions of the modern executive in one. — DualCor Technologies next month will unveil the cPC, a full-fledged handheld Windows XP com...
'Mighty Mouse' robot frees stuck radiation source
DOE's Sandia, DoD's White Sands achieve successful extraction of deadly material — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories robot recently withstood enough radiation to kill 40 men in free...
did you hear?
Did you hear? — Okay, so Elaine, Seth, and I have never been the cool, popular kids in high school, so we're not really used to being the center of attention. Seth was the kid with asthma. Sandy h...
News Analysis: Publisher Apologizes To Online Lyrics Tool
The saga started in early December, in what has become almost standard practice: the music industry using legal threats to quash first, question later an interesting new technology. — But on Dec. 15...
Xbox 360 reaches out to mobiles
Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobile phones when their friends are playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console. — The software giant is working on a system which would let p...
Links are dead - long live links!
Contents: — Links are dead - long live links — Florida — Sandboxing — Clickstream — Clickstream indicates quality — Building for Clickstream — Clickstream vs Links — Conclusion — Lin...
Will Apple Push "Intel Inside"?
It sure is hard to imagine Jobs & Co. putting the chipmaker's ubiquitous logo on their gleaming machines — or in their ads — The coming year for Apple Computer (AAPL) is full of questions, and many ...
eBay faces up to online fraud
The online auctioneer eBay has admitted an "extreme growth" in the number of personal accounts being hijacked by fraudsters. — Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and us...
The Great Xbox Shortage of 2005
Why you can't buy the one present you really need. — Gaming enthusiasts camp outside electronics stores, desperate to buy the hot new game console. Corporate flacks are deployed to fend off PR cala...
Tekkeon Digital Bluetooth OLED Headset
Tekkeon's new ezTalker Digital is a next-generation Bluetooth v1.2 headset with an optimised organic LED (OLED) screen designed to significantly simplify making and receiving calls. — With the prese...
Yahoo hires DARPA director to head research
update Yahoo has opened an East Coast research center and hired an artificial intelligence expert and former director at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to open research centers in ...
What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere?
Suppose the mainstream media, fed up with the buzz bloggers keep getting and with bloggers criticizing their stories, decided to exact revenge. They initiate a vigorous copyright enforcement strategy...
JupiterResearch Forecasts Online Advertising Growth to be Driven by Media and Entertainment, Financial and Automotive Industries
NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 15, 2005—JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), forecasts that online display …
No Intel at Macworld
Apple says not to expect Intel at Macworld, in fact don't expect any new computer hardware. I have contact with someone that works for Apple at a higher level, when asked if they were attending Macwo...
Water-Proof Cell Phone Unveiled
LG Telecom, Korea's smallest mobile operator, Thursday took the wraps off the nation's first waterproof mobile phone, canU 502S, developed under alliance with Japanese firm Casio Computer. — ``If dr...
Psst, Don't Tell Anyone, But the Internet Is Over
Well, not really. But the reach of core Internet functions is down. People seem to be settling on what they use the Internet for, and doing fewer things overall. Time spent online isn't shrinking, ...
The Samsung i300 hits the shops
We told you the first mobile with hard drive was imminent and now it's here - the Samsung i300 wth 3GB hard drive is available on the O2 network, combining a phone, digital camera, music player and mo...
Hold the Photons!
How would you feel if you invested millions of dollars in quantum cryptography, and then learned that you could do the same thing with a few 25-cent Radio Shack components? — I'm exaggerating a litt...
Microsoft to reorganize entertainment division
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has split its entertainment and devices division into four businesses, the latest reorganization at the world's largest software maker, according to a company...
Q&A: SOE's John Smedley on Galaxies' outer limits
Galaxies boss sees only one game around that could possibly humble World of Warcraft. Are you sitting down? Part 2. — Last week, Sony Online president John Smedley discusssed the motivations and g...
Yahoo signs license with JPEG patent company
Search giant Yahoo has decided to take a license out on the so-called JPEG patent with Forgent Networks. Under the deal, Yahoo will pay Forgent royalties but be dismissed from the pending patent suit...
MCI Wins Network Deal With Dutch Bank
MCI Inc. yesterday said it had won a roughly $550 million deal to manage Dutch bank ABN Amro's communications networks, calling it the second-largest commercial contract in the company's history. — ...
HowStuffWorks says gets millions from Carl Icahn
NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - HowStuffWorks, which provides product information for Internet users, on Thursday said financier Carl Icahn made a "significant investment" in the company to help fund its...
The Web Will Read You a Story
This summer, Hugh McGuire was searching for free audio books online from his home in Montreal. He didn't find very much. — So McGuire launched LibriVox by recruiting amateur readers to create audio...