Ask an Attorney: Apple and Cisco Will Share 'iPhone'
Here's a likely outcome of the great Apple/Cisco iPhone spat: There's the "Apple iPhone" and there's the "Cisco iPhone." — A prominent trademark lawyer thinks the word "iPhone" may be general enough...
WORLD OF WARCRAFT SURPASSES 8 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS WORLDWIDE
Player population in North America now exceeds 2 million, while Europe and China pass the 1.5 million player and 3.5 million player marks, respectively — Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today...
Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation - Browsers Heading Apart Again
Mozilla has published a wiki page detailing its plans for the next version of Firefox, codenamed "Gran Paradiso". The target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year and it hopes to re...
CBS/Google: Analysts Say Radio Ad Deal Is Imminent, Has Sticking Points
CITING EXPECTATIONS THAT A MAJOR ad sales agreement with Google is imminent, securities firm Merrill Lynch reaffirmed its "buy" rating for CBS stock. In a report issued by lead broadcast analyst Jess...
Social Media Invades the Inc. 500
The Inc. 500 are thoroughly involved in social media at an adoption rate more than twice that of the Fortune 500. This is the finding based on Inc.500 survey & follows the earlier report, released se...
Taming Mac OS X File Systems
Google is a fantastic company to work for. I could cite numerous reasons why. Take the concept of "20 percent time." Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing proje...
GOOGLE: What if Google looked like Yahoo?
What if Google looked like Yahoo? — Google has a great virtue. It allows engineers to waste their time on hobby projects, and acquires irrelevant companies on a whim, but the front page has remaine...
CES 2007: HD DVD versus Blu-ray - The porn industry says HD DVD
Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover be...
Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla
The Venice Project is not just another online video start-up. The Luxembourg-based company is the latest co-production of the two-person hit factory of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The founders...
Cisco lost rights to iPhone trademark last year, experts say
An investigation into the ongoing trademark dispute between Cisco and Apple over the name "iPhone" appears to show that Cisco does not own the mark as claimed in their recent lawsuit. This is based o...
Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld
Most of Tinseltown won't buy into the Apple chief's digital vision until he ponies up more money and gets more serious about protecting content — By all accounts, Steve Jobs gave a socko performance...
Getting their video on, in New Jersey
How's this for attitude? "The television station New Jersey doesn't have." — At The Star-Ledger, a Newhouse newspaper in Newark, New Jersey, a new video site called TV Jersey features work by staff...
Microsoft takes email design back 5 years
As I type this post I still can't believe it. I'm literally stunned. If you haven't already heard, I'm talking about the recent news that Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet ...
Verizon increases SMS rates — customers now free of their contracts
customers now free of their contracts — It looks like Verizon Wireless is following in Sprint's SMS footsteps, announcing a planned hike in text messaging rates for those not currently subscribed to ...
Not Search Engine Spam
It's been a long time since I've engaged in serious spam fighting - about a decade. In 1998, the O'Reilly book Stopping Spam mentioned a spam filtering solution I had designed and helped implement fo...
FCC denies Comcast request; "integration ban" coming in July
The FCC Media Bureau yesterday put the kibosh on Comcast's request to ditch the "integration ban" that goes into effect on July 1, 2007. The FCC decision means that the ban will go forward as schedul...