Universal Music sues MySpace over music copyrights
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, said on Friday it filed a lawsuit against popular social networking site MySpace for infringing copyrights of thousands o...
Blog Entrepreneur Leaves AOL
Jason Calacanis, the outspoken blogger and entrepreneur who ran AOL's Netscape division, resigned on Thursday in the wake of the firing of AOL's chief executive, Jonathan Miller. — Mr. Calacanis sol...
Sony Ericsson to unveil RAZR rival early '07: source
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson, the world's fourth-largest handset maker, plans to launch an ultra-slim, high-end Walkman camera phone in early 2007 to take on Motorola's blockbuster RAZR, an ind...
Yahoo Buys Site for Staging Online Contests
Yahoo is acquiring Bix.com, a site that allows users and advertisers to create, enter into and judge online contests. The deal is an attempt by Yahoo to bolster its offerings in social media, an area...
Hearst, The McGraw-Hill Companies
Traditional Media Companies Move to Leverage Power of Social Media — BOSTON, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Gather.com™, the place for engaged …
Movie Studios Sue to Stop Loading of DVDs onto iPods
The MPAA studios are at it again, snatching away our fair use rights, so they can sell them back to us for an "additional fee." — In a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York, Paramount Pictures ...
Jay-Z Versus the Sample Troll
THE SHADY ONE-MAN CORPORATION THAT'S DESTROYING HIP-HOP. — Last week, a mysterious company, Bridgeport Music Inc., sued hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, accusing him of breaking the law when he recorded his 200...
'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders
The recent surge in e-mail spam hawking penny stocks and penis enlargement pills is the handiwork of Russian hackers running a botnet powered by tens of thousands of hijacked computers. — Internet s...
RockYou's Past Catches Up
Netpickle, maker of the popular RockYou widgets, is in bit of a legal pickle. Anti-phishing company Iconix, the former employer of Netpickle co-founders Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen, claims that the duo...
IE+JavaScript Performance Recommendations Part 2: JavaScript Code Inefficiencies
Hello again, this is Peter Gurevich, Performance PM for IE. We have gotten a lot of good feedback from our first post on IE + JavaScript Performance Recommendations so I am eager to hear what you thi...
Yahoo's Rising Star
When Sue Decker joined Yahoo! as its chief financial officer in June 2000, both the company and the tech bubble that had lifted it up were deflating quickly. — Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people...
Australian Government Wins Patent Claim On WiFi; Demands Everyone Pay Up
from the thanks,-Australia! dept — How better to kill an emerging disruptive technology that to bog it down with damaging patent claims? We've noted over the past few years that a bunch of companie...
New World Numbers: The Trouble with Two Million
While the world keeps roiling in the wake of the CopyBot controversy, the world keeps growing at astounding rates. In the last installment of her New World Numbers series— posted less than a month ag...
Skype soft-launches Skype for Symbian
Runs on the Nokia N73 — OBSCURED BY all the razzmatazz surrounding the launch of 3's X-Series handsets, is the fact that on December 1st when 3 goes live with its new service, there will be a versio...
iSkoot, not Skype launched on Symbian
There is a lot of chatter amongst VoIP bloggers about the launch of Symbian version of Skype, mostly inspired by this story in The Inquirer. That is not exactly the case. — You see what happened wa...
New Beta Build Available! (Build # 1172)
It's been just about 6 weeks since our last update. During that time, we've been collecting and reviewing feedback from our customers, and working on getting some of those issues that you've been se...
Let's Get This Party Started!
The TechCrunch New York Party kicks off in three hours, 7 PM EST, at BED in Manhattan. — The final guest list is here, although it doesn't include sponsor attendees and press. All attendees should ...
Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Land Launches December 11
Search Engine Land is a new search news blog launching December 11, 2006. Danny Sullivan, along with Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz, will be providing information about search engine marketing and ...
Skype PR WakeUp Call II: The Solution
This is the second of three posts discussing Skype's PR management with the aim of improving the PR relationships associated with the launch of new Skype software and associated services. In the firs...
Yahoo! Maps releases from Beta
Yahoo! Maps is coming out of Beta today. Check out our more detailed notes on the Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog. Since we released the beta version, we've spent our time optimizing the product and respon...
SiteMaps Explained
By now, you've probably seen the news splashed all over Techmeme about the decision by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! to support SiteMaps. In case you haven't, you can check out these articles: — Micr...
Microsoft Says Thankyou! to Select Vista Testers
To everyone that took part in the Windows Vista beta test (as far as I know, about 20,000), only those that submitted at least 1 bug report will be offered a complimentary copy of Windows Vista Busine...