Warner Bros. to Sell Movies and TV Shows on Internet
Warner Brothers plans to announce today that it will make hundreds of movies and television shows available for purchase over the Internet using BitTorrent software, which is widely used to download m...
Squidoo: Seth Godin's Purple Albatross?
Seth Godin is an exceptional marketing consultant. I've read all his books - my favorite is Purple Cow. I routinely bring up his ideas when talking to companies about the best way to get media and e...
AOL Buddy List's Social Network Expands With AIM Pages, Phoneline [by Staci]
The way AOL execs pitch it, the AOL Connections strategy is all about giving users ways to communicate whether it's IM, file sharing, video or the upcoming launches of social networking service AIM Pa...
Live Messenger Opens to Public
The Windows Live Messenger, previously available by invitation only (sort of), is open to the public starting at 9 pm PST tonight (Monday). It is available for Windows PCs only, must be downloaded wi...
Samsung unveils 6.9mm slim phone
Samsung Electronics showcases 6.9mm slim SGH-X820, or Ultra Slim Phone from May 10-13 at Sviaz ExpoComm 2006 in Russia. — X820 is a bar type phone with a 2 megapixel camera, camcorder, MP3 player, B...
Peer Review of Patents
Those working in the wireless and hotspot space are well aware of what damage and benefit patents have wrought: For every hard-won, hard-science patent that represents the unique result of expensive r...
Now a TV series only on your mobile
THE demise of traditional broadcasting will move a step closer when the man behind Big Brother introduces the first British interactive reality series made exclusively for mobile phones. — Get Close...
Robotic tentacles get to grips with tricky objects
Robotic "tentacles" that can grasp and grapple with a wide variety of objects have been developed by US researchers. — Most robots rely on mechanical gripping jaws that have difficulty grabbing larg...
Newspaper sales dip, but websites gain
NEW YORK — Newspapers offered a mixed story Monday as new data showed a circulation decline industrywide — by alarming rates at some papers — while visits to their websites grew. — Average weekday c...
As Chinese Students Go Online, Little Sister Is Watching
SHANGHAI, May 8 — To her fellow students, Hu Yingying appears to be a typical undergraduate, plain of dress, quick with a smile and perhaps possessed with a little extra spring in her step, but otherw...
My New 30" Apple Monitor
I love my new 30 inch Apple monitor. It is going to take some time to get used to so much real estate, but I love it. Here's what it looks like: shriking 2560 x 1600 pixels down to 500 x 312 doesn't...
Forget YouTube
Your laptop will never replace your TV. — In the last few months, the quality and diversity of Internet video has soared. Sites like YouTube have made it easy to watch user-generated content and du...
St George's iPod nano case and England earphones
Ok, so you've got your St George's mobile phone, but now it's making your iPod look a little unpatriotic with the World Cup rapidly approaching. Help is at hand from Ixos, which is joining the World ...
A Rising Tide
Yahoo! Search Marketing enhancements to benefit publishers, as well as advertisers — Today Yahoo! Search Marketing officially announced a significant initiative to improve search monetization capabi...
Beatles judge finds iTunes 'nothing to get hung about'
update Is your hard drive equivalent to a compact disc? The Beatles said yes, Steve Jobs said no. — And in the end, a judge ruled in favor of Apple Computer. The long and winding road to Apple Com...