YouTube vs. MySpace?
With millions of dollars in online ad revenue on the line, the two Net superstars could be headed for more conflict — Just a few months ago, News Corp. (NWS) landed a crucial deal with Internet lead...
Sequoia Invests in Blog Network Sugar Publishing
Blog network Sugar Publishing (the most popular blog in the network is PopSugar) has raised "around $5 million" in a Series A round investment from Sequoia Capital. Michael Moritz will join the Team ...
The Reporter Is Real, but the World He Covers Isn't
In preparing to open a Reuters bureau on a bustling island, Adam Pasick has been introducing himself to residents and interviewing entrepreneurs. After finishing such interviews, Mr. Pasick often lev...
MySpace Predator Caught by Code
Yaphank, NY — The computer crimes unit of New York's Suffolk County Police Department sits in a gloomy government office canopied by water-stained ceiling tiles and stuffed with battered Dell desktops...
One giant step for home entertainment?
Is this the way we will all be 'enjoying' our television programmes and computer games in the future? — In this astonishing photo, a model is wearing a new gadget, from electronics manufacturer Tosh...
Exclusive: Apple seeks rights to iPhone trademark
Apple Computer has filed for a trademark on the term iPhone, suggesting the company plans to use the moniker, recently popularized amongst the analyst and blogging communities, as the official name fo...
55 Million Blogs, and Now a Service to Track Them
LONDON — Corporations are growing increasingly conscious of the power, and potential pitfalls, of blogging. A favorable review from an influential blogger can help generate the kind of buzz around a ...
Joining the Party, Eager to Make Friends
To big-name marketers, the teeming mosh pits of social networking sites look like dangerous places for their precious brands. MySpace: Isn't that full of dirty old men picking up teenage girls? Face...
Google Gains Pay For YouTube
Did the YouTube deal pay for itself? At least for one week it did. On Friday, October 6, 2006, Google shares closed at $420.50 a share. With roughly 304.36 million shares outstanding, that meant th...
Stern freebie kicks off new online radio service
Ten months after leaving the commercial airwaves for subscription-based Sirius Satellite Radio, shock jock Howard Stern is out to attract a broad new online audience with his first-ever free Internet ...
Nintendo's Wiimote, like for your TV and stuff
The Wii controller's resemblance to a TV remote sure hasn't been lost on us — hence the affectionate "Wiimote" moniker that most people have assigned to the unique little controller — but it doesn't l...
Movie Downloads: iTunes v. The Rest
We started testing the various movie download services earlier this summer when rumors of Apple's new movie download store first heated up. We're now regular customers of three of the services. Mich...
Apple's No. 2 Has Low Profile, High Impact
When Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs lured little-known Timothy D. Cook to the company in early 1998, Mr. Cook was charged with straightening out the messy operations of a fallen Silico...
Google Reader feeds in your Gmail
Mihai Parprita, the blogger responsible for persistent.info and employee at Google, has created a greasemonkey script to incorporate your Google Reader feeds into your Gmail. — I'm happy he decided ...
First North American PlayStation 3 Commercial: "The Wait"
Look, I don't want to hear any complaints about how this ad doesnt show any game footage. Or how it doesn't even show the PlayStation 3. Or that if you didn't know better, and somehow missed the fin...
The Youngsters Aren't Listening as Much
Radio listening among teenagers has dropped off and, according to Larry Rosin, the president of Edison Media Research, two factors are involved. The first is the intense competition for media audienc...
A Floating Chernobyl?
The first reactor-on-a-barge will bring power to Russia's electricity-starved Arctic — While the U.S. hems and haws over reviving nuclear energy as a less expensive alternative to oil, Russia has du...
ConvergeSouth notes
[Welcome Scobleizer readers. While you're here, please check out our plans for the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference.] — Just got logged onto the NCA&T network, so can now liveblog the Con...