Sellers of Internet addresses surf for — and get — some big payoffs
and get — some big payoffs — SAN FRANCISCO — Internet domain names are red-hot again. — This year, 15 names used in Internet addresses have resold for at least six figures to companies and individu...
TiVo Wins EchoStar Patent Suit
The victory could give it leverage as it seeks licensing deals with cable TV operators. — TiVo Inc. on Thursday won a pivotal patent infringement lawsuit that might allow it to pause and rewind the ...
ISP snooping gaining support
The explosive idea of forcing Internet providers to record their customers' online activities for future police access is gaining ground in state capitols and in Washington, D.C. — Top Bush administ...
Democrats more likely to favor iTunes taxes
Democratic politicians in state capitols are more likely than Republicans to permit what critics are calling the "iTunes tax"—taxes on digital purchases of songs and movies. — A CNET News.com analys...
Catchup Friday — Abrams to launch Socializr; Meetup, Zoom, Zixxo & more
Abrams to launch Socializr; Meetup, Zoom, Zixxo & more — Here are the latest Silicon Valley tidbits that fell between the cracks this week. Happy Easter weekend! — Friendster founder Jonathan Abra...
The Telcos Could Revolutionize TV... But They Won't
Martin Geddes has written up a post about how the telcos are wasting their money on IPTV, and reminds us of our own post on the subject from last summer. In that post, we wondered why the telcos were...
Inking in Internet Explorer
Over the last year or so I've experimented with various ways to add or integrate ink into Internet Explorer. The SearchTIP is one of these projects. It's a embedded control that contains an inkable ...
Post-Disaster Communications Petition
Recently, FCC placed on public review a petition filed by Evslin Consulting and pulver.com. The petition grew out of the experiences felt during a breakdown in communications network caused by Hurric...
BWL Raid Live Blog Pre-Blog
As some of you know, I play a game called World of Warcraft. In the interest of providing entertaining and interesting content to you, our readers, I will be live-blogging a Blackwing Lair Raid on Sa...
Benchmarks: Adobe Apps and Rosetta Emulation
Bare Feats has posted a set of benchmarks comparing two non-Universal Binary applications, Adobe's Photoshop CS2 and After Effect 7.0, running on a three different machines to gauge the true impact of...
EU outgrows BIZ
The new European TLD .eu has proven to be a real success. From its Landrush launch last Friday until yesterday, it has managed to outgrow the already well-established gTLD .biz. If the current rate ...
Fox will put TV reruns on the Internet: report
Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp.'s Fox network has signed a six-year agreement with its 187 affiliated stations that will let it show reruns of its television programs on the Internet, the Wall St...
A thirst for knowledge
Wikipedia and other online databases provide a soupy morass of information, but where can we find the variety of views that leads to wisdom — "Just who would want to vandalise an entry on cheese?" w...
Blogs, Pods and Really Simple Stuff Deliver Advertising At An Increasing Rate
The first installment in PQ Media's Alternative Media Research Series, the Blog, Podcast and RSS Advertising Outlook, reports that advertising spending on user-generated online media - blogs, podcasts...
Fox's Crafty New-Media Deal
Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV has cut an unprecedented deal to share revenues from the Web with its affiliate stations. — At a time when a string of new deals to offer current TV shows on the Web and for ...