Audible nabs popular podcast
The Ricky Gervais Show, one of the most popular podcasts on Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store, is moving to a paid-only format to be sold by audio book specialist Audible. — Audible plans to annou...
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The number of blogs doubles every five months. As I'm writing this, Technorati is tracking 28.4 million blogs. That's a whole lot of voices. Here at Technorati, we want to make the world of weblogs...
Bloggers Who Pursue Change Confront Fear And Mistrust
BEIJING — When Zhao Jing moved his blog to Microsoft's popular MSN Spaces site last summer, some users worried the Chinese government would block the entire service. The censors had blacklisted the l...
Nude photo site wins injunction against Google
update A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, likely violate U.S. copyright law. ...
Apple Safari Browser Automatically Executes Shell Scripts
Shortly after reports of the first virus for Mac OS X, a new security flaw has surfaced. The culprit is the option "Open 'safe' files after downloading" in Apple's Safari web browser. This feature i...
Silicon Flatirons — Sunday PM, cont'd, with Bob Kahn's showstopper idea
Sunday PM, cont'd, with Bob Kahn's showstopper idea — If video over the Internet is truly the ultimate market battleground — as several discussants on Sunday afternoon's Video over IP panel proclaime...
Exclusive: MacBook Pro unboxing pics
I got my MacBook Pro today from a local reseller in Philadelphia. He called me to say that they got five MacBook Pro 2.0GHz models in stock today and that four we're already spoken for. "Do you want...
US Film Makers Sue Samsung Over Glitches on DVD Players
Samsung Electronics, Asia's most valuable high-tech company, is scrambling after multiple U.S. movie studios reportedly took the Seoul-based firm to court, alleging glitches in its DVD players. — Ov...
Tech pundits getting naked: a worrisome trend
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel bared it all at the Naked Conversations book launch. But they're not the first tech pundits to strip down. Lockergnome's Chris Pirillo runs a lovely little side busines...
YouTube, SNL, Bruce Springsteen, and Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis wrote earlier today that Youtube is not a real business. — He says, and I quote: … Let me break it down for you Jason. Youtube is as much a business as MySpace or Digg which you cit...
How to: get tons of HD content playing on your PC
Now that wehave mastered OTA HD reception and connecting our PC's to our HDTVs it'stime to bring the two together. HDTV content can come from many sources and those choices get broader and broadereve...
Sony High-Definition Video Recording Ready for Mainstream Consumers
Sony Introduces the World's Smallest and Lightest HDV 1080i Camcorder With Easy-to-Use Operation and Advanced Features — SAN DIEGO, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Changing the notion that high-definition vi...
Google has no license for China service: newspaper
BEIJING (Reuters) - Internet search giant Google Inc.'s controversial expansion into China now faces possible trouble with regulators after a Beijing newspaper said its new Chinese-language platform d...
Too Many New Gadgets, Too Much Information at Risk
It is the corporate version of keeping up with the Joneses: every day, it seems, someone arrives at the office with a shiny new gadget that combines a cellphone with all sorts of features you used to ...
Let's Get Together in Toronto
Last month, a few of us (Michael Mcderment, Rob Hyndman and Mathew Ingram) got together to talk about blogging and all the cool things happening within the Web 2.0 world. After awhile, someone broug...
Foldera: Never organize your inbox again
Huntington Beach, California based Foldera's goal is to organize all of the chaos surrounding work based documents (email, calendar, office documents, instant messaging, etc). It is a very big idea. ...
The arguments on the other side — in favor of a prioritized internet
in favor of a prioritized internet — If you're going to argue for an open internet, you'd better be able to respond to the following: — 1. It's strange to have as a default background assumption F...
Japan introduces new videogames rating system
CERO adds equivalent of Adults Only ratings category — The country has largely managed to steer clear of the controversy and politically-fuelled furore surrounding videogames ratings and the sale of...