New Digg Features O' Plenty
Big update today. Tons of new features to share with you - many inspired by feedback you've given us over the last few months (thanks!). Check out this video for a quick overview, or read below for ...
Ad and image placement: a policy clarification
We've recently received a number of emails from publishers asking how we feel about the placement of images near Google ad units. There's been some confusion on this issue, and so we turned to our po...
iPhone surprises technology world
A net phone called the iPhone has been launched by Linksys just weeks before analysts were expecting Apple to release a similarly-named device. — The wireless iPhone allows users to make free or low...
Google Kills Their Search API
What the-?! Google on their SOAP API homepage writes: — As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API. We encourage you to use the AJAX Search API instead. — (...
NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ...
The rich feature set for MySpace Mobile on Cingular includes:
Uploading Photos — Available on select Cingular handsets, MySpace Mobile allows Cingular customers to select photos stored on their mobile device and upload them to their MySpace profile. The same ...
PixSense, offering auto-storage of mobile photos & video, raises $5.4M
PixSense, a service that lets you automatically save and store your mobile phone photos — without the pain of syncing with a PC — has just raised $5.4 million in a first round of funding.
Australian court rules against MP3 link site
update Linking to copyright music posted elsewhere online without permission can be illegal, an Australian appeals court ruled Monday. — The issue before a three-judge panel at the Federal Court of ...
Suburbs against the U(ni)verse: the battle over AT&T's fiber rollout
Introduction — It wasn't supposed to happen like this. AT&T's IPTV-based U-verse service was being tested with great fanfare in San Antonio, and the company was ready to start in on the real deploy...
On Demand and on DVD at the Same Time
In an attempt to bolster consumer interest in paid video on demand, Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, has introduced an experimental program to release films on demand simultaneously with ...
Second Life: Hype vs. Anti-Hype vs. Anti-Anti-Hype
Analysis — Clay Shirky is a brilliant analyst of the digital era, and if there's anybody who could implode the media vortex currently surrounding Second Life, it would have to be someone of his cali...
Edelman and NewsGator Team to Offer Conversational Ads
Despite some hiccups, Edelman has been in the forefront of brand and social media convergence this year, and a new joint offering with NewsGator Technologies is no exception. The PR firm has linked w...
Remembering Bruce Fraser
On Saturday, Dec. 16, a long-time friend and colleague of mine, Bruce Fraser, passed away. He succumbed after a short bout with lung cancer, a few weeks shy of his 53rd birthday. To many of us, he w...
Natali Leaves TechCrunch
Natali Del Conte's last day with TechCrunch was last Friday. I'll let her make her own announcement regarding what she'll do next, but I want to wish her luck on behalf of the entire TechCrunch team....
Malware: Quality drops but quantity rises
Kaspersky: Ever-increasing amounts of malware are taxing the resources of security companies — They just don't make malware like they used to. Or at least like they did earlier this year. Even low...
Google's radio ad tests hit snag — analyst
analyst — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Google Inc.'s nascent radio advertisement business, known as Google Audio, has run into an unexpected snag: it seems Google doesn't have access to enough radio...
Google Officially Says "No" to Reciprocal Linking?
Barry again had the scoop on a hot story over the weekend which has spawned a discussion in the WebmasterWorld Forums. On Friday, there was a post from Stephanie from the Dublin Google Search Quality...
Linksys Announces iPhone Family Of Voice Over IP Solutions
Handheld Devices Offer Consumers More Than Talk — Linksys®, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc., and the recognized leading global manufacturer of voice, wireless, and networking hardware for home, Sm...
Skype team turns its attention to television
Now they are hoping to do the same for television. — "At the time we launched Skype, broadband capacity was extremely ripe for communication," Mr Friis recalls. "Now, three years later, it's the sa...
Newsmaker: IBM's virtual pioneer
newsmaker Irving Wladawsky-Berger has overseen IBM's efforts to catch waves that have swept over the computing industry—e-commerce, Linux, open-source software, grid computing. His new responsibility...
A Mouse on a Mission in the Document Maze
FIFTEEN dollars buys a respectable computer mouse these days, though game aficionados can pay far more for the sophisticated types that fight gun battles against monsters. — Now there's a high-end m...
Brands for the Chattering Masses
FOR many, many decades, successful branding — one of the corporate world's holy grails — involved a clear set of rules. Produce quality goods at the right price. Frame the value in memorable message...
Jajah brings free calls to Germany and Austria
We've called Jajah, the Mountain View Internet phone upstart both quirky and scrappy. — It remains so. It has just cut some deals that will let people call for free to anyone with a landline, even ...
NewsGator, Edelman Build Ad Widgets
Public relations firm Edelman has enlisted RSS toolmaker NewsGator to build ad widgets that pull in feeds, ratings, and comments. The joint product, called "Hosted Conversations," launches Monday. —...
Yahoo! Appoints Jill Nash Chief Communications Officer
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced the appointment of Jill Nash to senior vice president and chief communications of...
Agere's BluOnyx portable Bluetooth media streamer for your phone
So the portable media usage scenario we hear most about around these parts looks a little something like this: user has cellphone, user has portable media device, user wishes portable media device cou...
Cingular to offer MySpace on cellphones
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cingular, the largest U.S. wireless phone carrier, will offer a version of popular Internet social network MySpace on its phones in an expansion of their partnership, the companie...
Sony to enter video download market
Sony is to gatecrash the fledgling market in handheld devices to play downloaded video content early next year when it launches a service for the PlayStation Portable. — The decision, which could th...
Google Buys Endoxon
Google has bought Endoxon, a Swiss company focused on web-based geo information services. The company developed in 2004 map.search.ch, a successful map service, and this year local.ch, a local search...