Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers
Microsoft has filed for two patents covering technology used to organize and read syndicated Web feeds, such as those delivered via the widely used Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, family of formats...
Record firms sue Russian MP3 site
A group of US record labels has started legal action against Russian music download site Allofmp3.com. — The lawsuit was filed in New York on behalf of Arista Records, Warner Bros, Capitol and UMG r...
Venice Project Details And Screen Shots
More information on TheVeniceProject from beta testers is starting to come in. We've covered the rumors of the new online tv, or IPTV, project since the rumors surfaced in October. — Last week, Cen...
Censored 'SNL' Sketch Jumps Bleepless Onto the Internet
The nearly three-minute digital film, shown on "Saturday Night Live" last Saturday, was a parody of two boy-band singers (including one played by the real Justin Timberlake) crooning a holiday song ab...
And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing
Yesterday, Lee Odden posted about his blog being banned from Digg. A few of his stories were submitted and his domain was basically labeled as spam. The result - a lifetime banning from Digg. Don't...
Desktop Software is Paralyzed by Fear
Despite the power and rich UI that desktop applications offer, it's obvious that the move to Web applications is accelerating. For many people, the ability to access your data through any browser cle...
New report of a Windows vulnerability
As usual the holiday season is a busy time for everyone including those of us here in the MSRC. I hope that everyone has finished their holiday shopping so they can enjoy the long weekend. This is M...
At the Heart of the Wii, Micron-Size Machines
EVEN before its release last month, Nintendo's latest video game console, the Wii, was getting a lot of attention for its wireless motion-sensitive controllers. Swing the controller and — crack! — hi...
Is Your ISP Blocking BitTorrent?
I was having a conversation earlier today with a coworker at Wired magazine, and he mentioned the difficulties he was having with BitTorrent on his home connection. When he's running a torrent, his u...
Jeremy Allison Has Resigned from Novell to Protest MS Patent Deal
The legendary Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame) has resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls "a mistake" which will be "damaging to Novell's success in t...
Inside The Venice Project & Exclusive Screen Shots
EXCLUSIVE — Ever since we interviewed Janus Friis, the co-founder of Skype about The Venice Project, his latest start-up that plans to use peer-to-peer technology to disrupt the television industry,...
Do Cameraphone Megapixels Really Add Up?
These days, it's harder to find a phone without a camera than one with, and as the prices of optical components and sensing chips fall, the quality of the "pedestrian" camera increases. You're averag...
OpenID on the Upswing
OpenID is a lightweight, decentralized identity system that has been gaining prominence. I expect this upcoming year to be a big year for OpenID — and not just because of the Google trend chart with ...
Google Misses Another Chance To Be The Web Platform
from the strategic-errors dept — A few people have submitted various stories on the web about how Google has killed off their SOAP Search API in favor of their AJAX API, which is much more limited. ...
MS exec questions long term potential for Nintendo Wii
Satchell also unconvinced by Sony's online strategy — Chris Satchell, general manager of Microsoft's Game Development Group, has questioned whether the Wii has got what it takes to keep gamers' inte...
Google drops beta tag from Blogger
The beta version of Google's popular blogging service, Blogger Beta, quietly shed its "beta" tag today. The switch came without much fanfare, only noted by the loss of the "beta" tag and the introduc...
GoogleOS II: Starring Linus Torvalds
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus — Did the above image shock you? No, this is not a real Google advert! But something similar may well turn into reality. In this sequel to o...
FeedSky, China's Version of Feedburner - But With Bigger Numbers
By Read/WriteWeb's China correspondent, Gang Lu — FeedSky is the largest Chinese feed management provider and has just launched its Beta 3. CEO Xinxin Lv described it to me as "mainly a UI update w...