Well, well, Dell
So Dell is starting a blog. — Ha. Heh. Ho ho ho. — It's a blog in content management system name only. — The subtitle is "direct conversations with Dell" but this is as much a conversation as ...
BitTorrent inks licensing deal with studios
BitTorrent is lining up entertainment companies as it prepares to sell downloads of feature films, TV shows and other video entertainment. — The San Francisco-based file-sharing company announced on...
Condé Nast Buys Wired News
Lycos is selling its Wired News unit to Condé Nast Publications for $25 million, Lycos parent Daum Communications announced in Korea late Tuesday, a deal that brings Wired.com and Wired magazine under...
Sulake Corp Oy Nets EUR 6 Million to Mobilize Habbo Hotel for Japanese Teens
Venture Wire is reporting that Helsinki based Sulake Corp. Oy has received a third round of funding this one totalling 6 million Euro ($7.6 million USD) to mobiliize Habbo Hotel, a game famously popul...
Google to Put a Research Center in Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 10 — Google plans to build an office and research center here that will have up to 1,000 employees, people who had been briefed on the plan said Monday night. — The announceme...
Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US
Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to post gains in market share, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com, while usage of Internet Explorer has fallen more than 2 percent since May. Opera, meanw...
Universal Service Tax On VoIP Will Actually Hold Back Universal Service
from the nice-work-FCC dept — Daniel Berninger continues to write some of the sharpest pieces on what's going on with the telco industry these days. In the past, he'd written up great pieces explai...
Bebo Shuns $550 Million Acquisition Offer
San Francisco based social network Bebo, which recently raised $15 million from Benchmark Capital, rejected a £300 million ($552 million) acquisition offer from British Telecom Group "a few weeks ago"...
Hellgate: London Source Code Stolen?
Reliable sources have indicated that the Flagship Studios network has been hacked and the source code for Hellgate: London has been stolen. I contacted the Flagship head cheese Bill Roper directly fo...
Time Warner Expects Offering AOL Free Will Be Costly
Time Warner Inc. expects its AOL unit to sacrifice nearly $1 billion of operating profit through 2009 under a proposed plan to offer the online service free of charge to some customers, according to i...
The next Web is the human Web
I just did a speaking gig at Microsoft. Spoke to Nestle executives from around the world. Nice group of folks. Asked some interesting questions. Couldn't believe that they could actually watch wha...
Microsoft Argo's Final Name: The Zune?
Our inboxes are on fire with brand new information about the new Microsoft MP3 player. We thought the player was code-named "Argo", but we now got word that the final product name that's been flying ...
Industry to stop 'music cheats'
The recorded music industry's trade group has asked internet service providers (ISPs) to freeze the accounts of customers who illegally fileshare. — The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has writt...
Citibank Phish Spoofs 2-Factor Authentication
Security experts have long touted the need for financial Web sites to move beyond mere passwords and implement so-called "two-factor authentication" — the second factor being something the user has in...
The 10 worst technologies in Q2 2006
We love seeing great new tech, but there's also a side of us that takes delight in seeing the other end of the technological spectrum. Like with a bad movie that achieves cult status because it's jus...