iTunes: One Billion Served
Apple iTunes Hits Its Billionth Download — Feb. 23, 2006 — There's been a counter on Apple's iTunes Web page since early February that's been ticking up to the music service's 1 billionth download, ...
Microsoft's Origami project
So today Microsoft officially flippedthe switch on the buzz machine for their Origami Project — an atypical viral marketing manuveur for a company whoseproducts are usually known about years ahead of ...
Here Comes Open Source Telecom
My latest Business 2.0 article, The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom, just went online over at the CNN Money website. This is a story about a stealthy startup called Vyatta, that has build the wo...
Huge Anti-Piracy Push By MPAA
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is steamrolling across the great indexing plains. Tuesday brought news the eDonkey2000 indexing server Razorback2 was taken offline by Belgian Police,...
Hey Google — where's my calendar?
where's my calendar? — Not content with controlling a majority of the market for online search and search-related advertising, Google has been rolling out add-ons to its online hegemony over the past...
Half-Life 2 will not be required to run Episode 1
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 won't actually require Half-Life 2 to play, Valve's explained, and although the game will be "four to six hours" long, marketing director Doug Lombardi reckons it's "markedly ri...
MPAA sues newsgroup, P2P search sites
The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it sued a new round of popular Web sites associated with movie piracy, including several that serve as search engines but do not distribute...
US National Archives video available worldwide over Internet
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Online search giant Google has teamed with the US National Archives to make historic films viewable worldwide via the Internet, they announced. — The archives' holdings can be ...
YAHOO! TO BAN COMPARITIVE SEARCH ADS
Danny points at a SEW thread noting that starting next month Yahoo! will no longer allow competing businesses to bid on trademark phrases: … Trademark terms are some of the most valuable words in the ...
The Future of the Blog
Six Apart's Mena Trott helped start the stampede by co-designing user-friendly software. But she thinks the blogging trend is only just beginning — It's hard to imagine the world without blogs. Th...
GQ Magazine Sends a Message
The men's monthly ventures into a new arena — text messaging readers via cell phone. But will advertisers answer the call? — GQ is about to push its men's magazine franchise into the quickly growin...
carnival of the mobilists XVI (sweet sixteen)
Spending time in Barcelona post 3GSM feels comparable to being in New Orleans after an annual Mardi Gras party (which, BTW they went ahead with this year as their first sign of normality post Katrina ...
Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance
Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance — Over the past three or four hours Search Engine Journal has noticed some interesting referrals from Google.com/finance. — After visitng the referrin...
Linux powered, wireless sniffing web radio boom box
Isnoop writes - "For the past few months, I've been working on a web radio boombox. I've hollowed out a perfectly good radio and made room for a tiny motherboard and power supply that are set up to r...
Sex With Your Mobile Phone
We were just discussing the many reasons why mobile porn might not really catch on (the main one being that TV and internet porn caught on because they let otherwise embarrassed people enjoy the porn ...
MacBook Pro: First day, first Lab tests
Latest laptop looks and feels like a PowerBook — Our first MacBook Pros arrived yesterday—three 2GHz models bought with our own coin—and the testing started immediately. Macworld Lab has been churn...
'V-Chip 2.0' Turns On In March
The V-chip, a small device that allowed televisions to filter out content, was first introduced as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As of Jan. 1, 2000, all analog televisions sold in the U.S....
The HD Boycott Begins Now
This is important. I really want you to understand what's going on with the video industry's push towards HD. They are engineering a complete removal of the concept of fair use. They are setting up...
TV catches the Net video bug
Dirty secret or not, the Web has long been a platform for downloading and watching pirated clips of television shows like "Lost" and "The Simpsons," much to the chagrin of the television networks. — ...
Net video explosion triggers traffic jam worries
Blame Steve Jobs, or maybe YouTube.com. — The amount of video online is skyrocketing, whether it's "Lost" episodes or movie trailer mash-ups. The phenomenon is putting new stress on ISP networks, w...