MP3 Patents in Upheaval After Verdict
Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury yesterday to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom. If upheld on appeal, it would be...
HEARST ANNOUNCES PLAN TO LAUNCH "NEWS READER"
Software Offers Consumers a Superior Onscreen Reading Experience — In a continuing effort to expand the reach of its content, Hearst Corporation today announced …
Digg Lets Banned Domains Back In
It seems Digg has unbanned a list of sites by letting them back in. From what I have noticed here are the sites that have been allowed back in.
Google to start filtering YouTube videos
Google is set to start filtering videos and other content on YouTube for copyrighted materials, taking a key step in helping the online video-sharing site comply with one of the biggest complaints it ...
Police, school get failing grade in sad case of Julie Amaro
Imagine you know next to nothing about computers. You're a substitute teacher for a seventh grade class. There's a computer in the classroom and, knowing you're going to be sitting there for a while...
Forget party schools: The RIAA lists the top piracy schools in the US
Ohio University, Purdue University, and the University of Nebraska have made it to the top of a list, but it may not be something the universities want to brag about. The RIAA recently named the top ...
Steve Jobs' iTunes dance
Now the Apple CEO says he would gladly sell songs without digital restrictions, if the record companies let him. That's hardly a brave defiance, and besides, I don't believe him. — In early Februar...
Internet Explorer loses ground to Firefox, Safari in US; holds its ground worldwide
Safari is either making huge gains or holding steady in the browser wars; it all depends on whose stats you use. The same can be said of Firefox, while Internet Explorer is losing ground in the US bu...
Merrill Lynch Claims 30% Of US Households Will Have A Wii By 2011
Looks like Merrill Lynch is the latest company to be added to the Nintendo payroll. Analyst Yoshiyuki Kinoshita is now claiming that by the year 2011, 30% of US households will own a Nintendo Wii and...
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March
Alright, we've been following the RIAA's increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it's about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it.
Skype petitions FCC for open cellular access
Skype petitioned the Federal Communications Commission earlier this week to force U.S. mobile operators to loosen controls on what kinds of hardware and software can be connected to their networks. —...
Judge rules against Canon in nanotube TV case
A federal judge has ruled that Canon breached a licensing agreement with a small nanotechnology company, a decision that puts another roadblock into Canon's effort to come out with a whole new style o...
Will you trust Google with your data?
IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Google Office — Phil Wainewright raises an interesting beef in his post on SaaS data worries. In a nutshell, Phil says it's strange that people are trotting out the "y...
Social Media Monitoring Firm Cymfony Being Bought By Taylor Nelson Sofres
You're reading it here first: Cymfony, the social media market intelligence and research firm based out of Watertown, MA, is being bought by UK-based research giant Taylor Nelson Sofres, paidContent.o...
Emotion robots learn from people
Making robots that interact with people emotionally is the goal of a European project led by British scientists. — Feelix Growing is a research project involving six countries, and 25 roboticists, d...
Microsoft and free software movement tag-team the Supreme Court
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Microsoft v. AT&T concerning liability for patent infringement for the distribution of software outside of the United States. Although the case...
Just Behave: Marissa Mayer on Personalized Search
It was almost 3 weeks ago today that Google posted on their corporate blog about some changes to the personalized search sign-up process. Danny covered this development quite nicely in a very compreh...
What's New in Firefox 2.0.0.2
Security Update: The following list of security issues have been fixed. — Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included along with the following caveats. — New ...
OpenCoffee Club
What is it? — An attempt to establish recognized, open and regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors (and anyone else who fancies coming along) in a totally informal setting...
Traffic measuring continued: Why Compete doesn't work, and why Quantcast does
It sucks when your Web site's traffic isn't being measured correctly. — It also sucks when you're trying to measure the significance of someone else's site, and are getting conflicting signals.
A magazine I would love to read
There's a magazine that I'd love to read if someone published it (yes, the print kind). Of course, it's about the Internet. It's about the stack that makes up the Internet, the platform or, as many ...