Court Greenlights DOJ Case Against Realtors
A Chicago district court cleared the way Tuesday for the Department of Justice (DoJ) to proceed with its antitrust lawsuit against the National Association of Realtors (NAR). — The DoJ contends the ...
BitTorrent Strikes Digital Download Deals
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform …
The Presence of Magazines on the Internet
TBG has recently completed a research study called "Analyzing the Presence of Magazines on the Internet". In the wake of success surrounding our previous newspaper study, "The Use of the Internet by ...
Adieu to Google Answers
Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time — and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accept...
The Venture Capital Aptitude Test (VCAT)
If you want additional proof that we're in a bubble, here it is: young people are trying to get into the venture capital business again. I get several emails a week along these lines: … They see a wo...
Voluntary code for blogs 'needed'
Blogs and other internet sites should be covered by a voluntary code of practice similar to that for newspapers in the UK, a conference has been told. — Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toul...
Time Warner plans movie downloads in 2007
Largest media company says consumers will be able to burn downloaded movies onto DVDs; CEO Parsons says he's not counting out a political career. — NEW YORK (Reuters) — Time Warner Inc.'s digital bu...
What would techies do with a newspaper? First, they'd make it all digital
Over the past month, I've asked a number of Internet entrepreneurs and thinkers a pretty simple question: If you owned a newspaper, what would you do with it? — OK, we'll discount the smarty-pants q...
When Google Crashes, The Web 2.0 Bubble Bursts
Thomas Hawk submits: Dave Winer has an interesting observation out today about the Web 2.0 bubble. Since most of the Web 2.0 companies are not going public, the question Dave raises is how will we kn...
IAC to tie together local info services, says CEO
NEW YORK (Reuters) - IAC/InterActiveCorp. (IACI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will unveil next week a new local information service that combines Web search, city guides, maps and event listings, in o...
The Design of the Mac OS X Shutdown Feature
Joel Spolsky posted a blog entry about how offering choices to end users is not always a good thing and illustrate his point with the redesigned Start menu in Vista. Moishe Lettvin, who worked on tha...
MTV's Niches: From Headbangers to Bible-Thumpers
A Q&A With MTV President Van Toffler — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — MTV viewers still lamenting the deletion of "Headbangers Ball" from the late-night lineup have a reason to thrash once again: The networ...
How To: Consolize an arcade game
Every so often, that console-modding Benjamin Heckendorn wanders away from his lair at benheck.com to share some interesting projects with Engadget. — If you're like us, you probably have many fond ...