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AACS DRM cracked by BackupHDDVD tool?
Can it be? Is Hollywood's new DRM posterchild AACS (Advanced Access Content System, see more here) actually quite breakable? According to a post on our favoritest of forums (Doom9) by DRM hacker du ...
Asian Internet, Phone Services Hit by Taiwan Quakes (Update2)
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) — Internet and telephone services across Asia were disrupted, hampering financial transactions, after earthquakes near Taiwan damaged undersea cables. — ``The repairs could take ...
Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble?
Hundreds of Internet companies have emerged since the dot-com crash, looking to capitalize on a resurgent online advertising market. Companies in this new wave — known as Web 2.0 — have focused on on...
Vaporware '06: Return of the King
Pull back the red curtain and dim the lights. It's the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, our ode to the year's top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not...
Google Set To Expand Newspaper Ad Program
For some of the nation's newspapers, Google's offer was too good to pass up. — This fall, the search-engine company proposed to show how it could help newspapers sell print advertising to the hundre...
2007: The End Of The Page View
Recently there was 'big news', Myspace had passed Yahoo! in monthly page views. I put the words big news in quotes because it really wasn't as big news as it was made out to be. — It's common wisdo...
Amazon.com's 12th Holiday Season is Best Ever
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the 2006 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 11th. On this day Amazon customer orders exceeded 4 million...
Do you AOL-Yahoo? Maybe you will, if they merge
AOL and Yahoo are destined to merge, or so said Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen in a note entitled "Is 2007 the year AOL and Yahoo are in play?" that was sent to investors shortly before the ...
Where to Find Good Video: Megite and Tailrank
We've said it before and we'll say it again: online video discovery can be a challenge. Now, in the vein of Digg, StumbleUpon, and newcomers like Viral Video Chart, memetracking sites Megite and Tail...
Facing threats, Jobster targets profitability in 2007
Jobster, the job search engine that has raised $48 million in venture financing over the past two years, is undergoing an analysis of the business that could involve layoffs or other changes in the fi...
Online Chat Is a Grapevine That Yields Precious Fruit
When MD Moms was introduced to market baby skin-care products a year ago, it had plenty going for it. The founders are pediatricians who are also mothers. The company has a strong distribution strat...
Microsoft Sent A Free Laptop With Windows Vista
Ok, so yeah, I've been blogging about Microsoft quite a bit lately. I guess their marketing people are doing their job well, since the launch of Windows Vista is next month. Speaking of which, last ...
Crowd Wisdom vs. Google's Genius
The founder of Wikipedia plans to take on the giant by offering search results that tap the knowledge of people across the Web — Can the wisdom of crowds trump the genius of Google? The founder of ...
How Hackers Are Using Google To Pwn Your Site
No People have had something to add to this What Do you think? — Tell ShoeMoney — As most of you know a few months back my site was hacked. What many people dont know is that was actually the fir...