Sony in Deal to Acquire a Video Site
Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to announce on Wednesday that it has acquired Grouper, a Web site featuring videos contributed by users, for $65 million. — The deal marries one of the biggest and ...
Safety first for carry-on Dells
Qantas is issuing an advisory to all passengers on its flights on the safe use of Dell notebooks following the recall of 4.1 million batteries announced by the PC manufacturer last week. — The airli...
Microsoft to Provide and Sell Ads on Facebook, the Web Site
Microsoft said yesterday that it would provide advertising for Facebook, a Web site aimed primarily at college students, over the next three years. — The two did not disclose the terms of the deal, ...
Apple & Creative Announce Broad Settlement Ending Legal Disputes Between the Companies
Apple® and Creative Technology, Ltd. today announced a broad settlement ending all legal disputes between the two companies. Apple will pay Creative $100 million for a paid-up license …
When Muni-WiFi Becomes Vehicle For Muni-Censorship
Broadband Reports points out a press release which says the Culver City, California, will install filters on its muni-Wifi network — which covers all of one square mile — to weed out porn and P2P traf...
Net Neutrality Faces Biased FTC
FTC to the Rescue? — Monday the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC Chairman, Deborah Platt Majoras, stated the FTC was going to look into the Net Neutrality issue. Her statement already shows the o...
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, but They Hesitate
When AOL researchers released three months' worth of users' query logs to a publicly accessible Web site late last month, Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell, downloaded the data...
How Google can make - or break - your company
Smart entrepreneurs are learning the best ways to deal with the online Goliath. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (FSB Magazine) — Allan Keiter awoke one recent morning to the scary news that his Atlanta comp...
Unlock work internet or risk losing staff: Microsoft
Jobseekers will think twice about employers who lock down work internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said today. — "These kids are saying: forget it! I don't want to work with you. I don't...
Microsoft lands Facebook ad deal
Microsoft failed to sign MySpace to an advertising deal, so the software giant went out and landed Facebook, the second-largest social networking site. — Late Tuesday evening, Microsoft announced th...
podcasting site roundup
Let's face it folks: There are a lot of podcast directories and services. Is anyone using these sites? Are they growing or shrinking? Who's growing and shrinking? What does it all mean? — I have...
Pinger, a pretty cool vmail service
Have you ever been in a rush, and wanted to call someone, but just to leave them a message without actually talking with them? The big problem: If you call them, they might pick up. Joe Sipher and G...
Quattrone makes deal of lifetime
WELCOME BACK TO VALLEY LIKELY WITH CASE DISMISSED — Silicon Valley's storied financier, Frank Quattrone, stepped out of a federal courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday with a broad smile and a deal tha...
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HiPAD II: Korea's 10.4-inch answer to the cPC
After practicing incessantly on 4.3-inch and 7-inch form factors, a 10.4-incher is a piece of cake for those Koreans, and they're really just showing off with the new dual-OS HiPAD II. The 1-inch thi...
IBM to buy ISS for $1.3 billion
update IBM made a resounding move into security on Wednesday, acquiring Internet Security Systems for $1.3 billion. — The all-cash transaction of about $28 per share is meant to bolster IBM's abilit...
Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X?
[the only trolling here is being perpetrated by those sending people here to be outraged] — It took an attack on a Windows production server, not devotion to Apple, to put that provocative title on ...
IPod Gray Market Booms in India
CHENNAI, India — It's the same ritual every month. On the first, my wife sends the rent check to our landlord, a Punjabi cloth merchant with an enormous mustache. Five days later, he knocks on the d...
Dell quietly exits digital music player market
Several iLoungers note that Dell's last remaining digital music player, the DJ Ditty, has quietly disappeared from the company's online store. The DJ Ditty, a flash memory-based player that competed ...
.Mac's slow death
Somebody call the ambulance, because .Mac is dying...and Google is the assassin (with a little help from his sidekick Firefox). Now I've been using .Mac since it was free and called "iTools." I was ...
DivX Launches Its Own YouTube, Stage6
DivX, the video company well known for its coding and compression technology, quietly launched a YouTube-style online video sharing community, Stage6, a few weeks ago. While there seems to be no end ...
Creative Zen Vision W Unofficially Unveiled
A shiny picture of the Creative Zen Vision W found its way into the latest issue of Popular Mechanics, marking yet another time that a Create portable media player had its premature unveiling in the p...
Free Photo DVD of All of Your Flickr Photos and Tags from Backupr.com
Now this is slick. I just got off the phone with Jeff Bianco over at CustomCD.us and they have a great new service called Backupr.com that will make a back up copy of all of your Flickr photos tags, ...
GOOGLE JOINS INDUSTRY-WIDE MOVEMENT TO COMBAT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and its sister agency, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), have announced that Google has joined the Techno...
The Downfall of Digg is Forthcoming and Here is Why
It's only a matter of time. Another site will rise up from nowhere and Digg will slowly fade into oblivion. It is hard to imagine right now with the size and coverage of Digg.com but it is coming. ...
Salesforce.com unveils Google marketing tool
Firm buys small startup as it looks to help customers manage ads — LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Business-software provider Salesforce.com Inc. on Tuesday unveiled a new service that allows its custom...
Wow - Grouper Sells for $65 million
Sony Pictures is announcing the acquisition of online video startup Grouper tonight, Tuesday, at midnight EST. The acquisition price, confirmed by Grouper, was $65 million in cash. Our previous cove...
New GData API: Google Base
Post by Matthias Zenger, Software Engineer — We're excited to announce the availability of the Google Base data API, which lets you write applications that dynamically interact with Google Base. Yo...
SONY MERGES QUALITY LCD TV WITH DESKTOP PC FOR A SLEEK COMBO
Combining the power of a PC with a quality LCD and stylish design, Sony today unveiled the new VAIO® LS1 TV/PC Combo. — Sleek, yet highly-functional, this new device compliments any room in the hous...
TiVo Series 3 beta box snapped in the wild!
It wasn't exactly a well kept secret that TiVo was beta testing its Series 3 boxes in select markets, but up until now there wasn't a man or woman brassy enough to break the NDA and snap some shots of...
Game On! Microsoft and Razer Team Up to Rejuvenate PC Gaming Experience With New Peripherals
Microsoft Hardware and Razer meet growing demand for PC gaming devices. — Today at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Microsoft Hardware and Razer USA Ltd. are turning up the heat …
Mark Cuban's Sharesleuth Takes Business Reporting to Ethical Edge
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has one of the best named weblogs, Blog Maverick, because he is nothing if not a maverick in the technology, sports and online worlds. He shepherded his Broadcast....
Details on our CSS changes for IE7
We are currently locking down IE7 for shipping and I wanted to give an update on the CSS work that went into IE7. Chris originally outlined our plans for IE7, and we listened to a lot of feedback (bl...