Microsoft 'tried to doctor Wikipedia'
Microsoft has landed in the Wikipedia doghouse today after it offered to pay an Australian blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site. — While Wikipedia is ...
Fox's Piracy Czar Subpoenas YouTube over Pirated "24" and "Simpsons" Episodes
D'oh! Twentieth Century Fox has subpoenaed YouTube to reveal the identity of users who uploaded four episodes of the TV series "24" and twelve episodes of "The Simpsons," Google Watch has learned. —...
Adobe and its P2P Ambitions
Adobe Systems, now the owner of Flash multimedia technology, seems to be getting pretty serious about spreading its tentacles into new product categories - from VoIP to peer-to-peer networking. But i...
CIA Gets in Your Face(book)
If you're a Facebook member, a career as a government spook is only a click away. — Since December 2006, the Central Intelligence Agency has been using Facebook.com, the popular social networking si...
Yahoo! To Launch New Search Marketing Ranking Model in the U.S. On February 5
New Marketplace Values Ad Quality, Rewards Relevancy — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 23, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked In...
Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD
The next generation of optical disc technology holds the promise to change the way we interact with and store digital media. Perhaps the most exciting change is the arrival of High Definition (HD) vi...
SECOND LIFE: Virtual world's supposed economy is 'a pyramid scheme'
Linden Lab's virtual world — a much-hyped online amusement arcade of cartoon porn, avatars of IBM executives and frog bands — has an annual GDP of about $220m, according to Fortune Magazine's David Ki...
The Web Celeb 25
THE FACE OF FAME IS CHANGING. The ranks of the world's celebrities used to be dominated by millionaire actors, athletes and musicians, but the Internet has leveled the playing field. A kid with a vi...
How the Internet has lengthened our attention span
Tim O'Reilly talks today about the web training our minds to prefer snippets or "short form" culture (HT: Nick Carr). "The web," he says, "has put a premium on short-form content, both because it's e...
Let's get together
Online groups have become a great tool for managing and sharing activities and ideas for a defined group of people. Back in October we introduced a new version of Google Groups (in beta) in the hopes...
Yahoo! Q4 2006 Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Terry Semel - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer — Sue Decker - Chief Financial Officer; Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration — Analysts — Christa Quar...
Apple DRM is illegal in Norway, says Ombudsman
Apple's digital rights management lock on its iPod device and iTunes software is illegal, the Consumer Ombudsman in Norway has ruled. The blow follows the news that consumer groups in Germany and Fra...
802.11n in all but name: draft hardware in the clear
Late last week, we reported that the IEEE's 802.11 working group signed off on Draft 2.0 and sent it out to the rest of the IEEE membership for approval. More details have emerged from the working gr...
Rising Dead Pool Indicates Web 2.0 Bubble is Popping
The Web 2.0 "bubble" - where a thousand ventures can bloom and thrive - is starting to pop. In the last few weeks the number of startups to go belly up or teter on the brink has increased. TechCrunch...
A Red Cat's Journey, Enhanced by iTunes
Over the course of his career that has spanned four decades, the guitarist and producer Ry Cooder has recorded with groups from the Rolling Stones to the Buena Vista Social Club. But he hasn't been p...
Yahoo profit drops 61% on costs; sales up 13%
Stock climbs in late trading on rollout of new search ad technology — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc. reported late Tuesday fourth-quarter profit plunged 61% from a year ago, when it booked...
New Intel Wireless Product for Laptops Extends Networking Speed and Range
New Compatibility Program for Intel® Centrino Users with Wireless-N — Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel® Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection, an upgrade to the wireless component found...
AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual Results
Fourth Quarter Microprocessor Unit Shipments Set New Record, Increasing 26 Percent Year-Over-Year and 19 Percent Sequentially - — Fourth Quarter Mobile Processor Revenue Increased 85 Percent Year-Ove...
New Health Portal Moves into Preview Mode: Revolution Health
New online, in preview, from D.C.-based Revolution Health is a new massive health and health info portal. Steve "AOL" Case is the Founder and — HREF="http://www.revolutionhealth.com/ about/board-of...
ESA To Debut Satellite-Based Multimedia Radio
Radio listeners in Europe may need to thank the European Space Agency if all goes according to plan. The ESA is set to debut a new type of multimedia radio tomorrow that makes use of currently existi...
The Job Board Bubble
The world has changed since I wrote about the need for a decentralized job board service last August. Just not quite in the way I had hoped. — Job Boards are the product du jour of tech blogs. We ...