Microsoft Strikes Deal for Music
In a rare move, Microsoft said yesterday that it had agreed to pay a percentage of the sales of its new portable media player to the Universal Music Group. — Universal Music, a unit of Vivendi, will...
AdSense launches new channel targeting feature for advertisers
If you log into your AdSense account today and go through the process of adding a new custom channel, you will now see a checkbox underneath the field you enter your channel name into, stating "Target...
And the winners are:
After deep thought, long and careful deliberations, numerous trips to the coffee pot, three bottles of Visine and an absolute minimum of coin-flipping, I am delighted to present the 2006 Fierce 15. —...
For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap
When Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn't go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company the...
The Baby Billionaires of Silicon Valley
The Internet's new boom kids are poised to take over the world — if they don't crash first — >> Think you've got the chops to make it big? Get your brag on and see what other readers are saying abo...
Sharp MP-E200 / MP-E300 DAP
Sharp Japan has announced the MP-E200 / E300 MP3 players which are an upgrade to the B-200 and 300 announced in May this year. Except for the onboard memory 512MB and 1GB both the models share the sa...
Google's Web Video Service Sued
SAN FRANCISCO Google Inc.'s online video service has been sued for copyright infringement, providing a possible preview of the legal trouble that may plague the Internet search leader after it takes o...
Google Wears a Bullseye At Web 2.0
SAN FRANCISCO — The second day of the Web 2.0 Summit featured some of the Internet's heaviest hitters talking strategy, new products and how to compete with search king Google, one of several sponsors...
A factory of one's own
According to MIT's Neil Gershenfeld, the digital revolution is over, and the good guys won. The next big change will be about manufacturing. Anyone with a PC will be able to build anything just by h...
WEB 2.0: Google CEO: Take your data and run
Google wants to make the information it stores for its users easily portable so they can export it to a competing service if they are dissatisfied, the company's CEO said Tuesday. — Making it simple...
Google Accidentally Sends Out Kama Sutra Worm
Staffers mistakenly e-mail the virus to subscribers of the Video Blog mailing list. — Google accidentally sent out e-mail containing a mass mailing worm to about 50,000 members of an e-mail discussi...
Allchin Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus
During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yeste...
For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap
When Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn't go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company the...
EULA La Vista, Baby
There have been a lot of concerns about the end-user license agreement for Windows Vista. For instance, once you agree to the license you are not allowed to publish benchmark results without Microsof...
What the Democrats' win means for tech
update It was the narrowest of Republican margins in the U.S. Senate that doomed a crucial vote on Net neutrality earlier this year. — By an 11-11 tie, a GOP-dominated committee failed in June to ap...
Copyright eased for clips offered by Grouper
Film clips featuring stars such as Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz can now be shared online without violating copyright law. — Grouper.com, acquired last August by Sony Pictures Entertai...
Trying Out the Zune: IPod It's Not
Microsoft is probably the greenest company in all of high tech. Not green in the environmental sense — green with envy. — Microsoft is so jealous of the iPod's success that Tuesday it will unveil a...
A new face for 3.0
Firstly, a quick introduction. My name is Duncan and I'm an interaction designer here at Skype. I get to work with all kinds of interesting people, dreaming up new ways to make Skype useful, fun and...
A Wi-Fi Express Lane
IT'S axiomatic in the computer world that nothing is ever fast enough. And so it goes with popular wireless Wi-Fi networks, which already seem overcrowded and slow. The growing interest in video sit...
G80: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
DirectX 10 and Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system have been looming on the technological horizon for some time now. Although the two aren't going to be available until next year, many hardwar...
Boing Boing and Slashdot Pick up on Flickr's Attempt to Patent Interestingness
[I am the Evangelist and CEO for Zooomr] — Boing Boing: Flickr files a patent for "interestingness" Well a few weeks back I posted on Yahoo's attempt to patent interestingness after reading a notice...
A five year deal with Micosoft to dump Novell/SUSE
Wake up little SUSE, Wake up. No, that's not good enough. Wake up SUSE customers, wake up. Novell is jeopardizing the future of Linux for its own short-term rewards. If you want to see Linux flour...
Stikkit - Sticky Notes Reborn
At the Web 2.0 Summit Launch Pad, Rael Dornfest and Michael Buffington launched Stikkit, a slick new site for organizing your life. The basic concept is simple: take notes in your browser instead of ...
Why Socially Driven News is Better
When news broke earlier today that Rumsfeld has resigned, within 2-3 minutes I got an email from a social bookmarker about the development. 20 minutes later, another friend pointed out that Googling R...
America's Laziest Man?
Last year, Barry Diller took home a pay package worth $469 million, making him the highest-paid chief executive in America. — His shareholders didn't do so well. Stock in the main company he runs, ...