U.S. Copyright Royalty Board Rejects Webcasters, Embraces SoundExchange
On Friday, which is generally accepted in public relations circles as the best day of the week to release controversial news, the United States Copyright Royalty Board (image to the right) announced n...
The Real Google Phone
Andy Rubin has a team of about 100 people at Google working on the Google Phone. So people have been paying attention. Andy was the founder of Danger and later Android, which he sold to Google in Au...
I may not know prior art, but I know what I like
Crowds may not be all that wise (see the latest Wikipedia debacle, for instance), but they can be smart, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, an agency in need of help if ever there was one, is h...
RIAA Pushes Through Internet Radio Royalty Rates Designed To Kill Webcasts
from the broadcasters-must-be-a-special-boys- club dept — It's been quite some time since we last heard about arguments between internet webcasters and SoundExchange (a group spun off from the RIAA ...
Microsoft Announces 512MB Memory Unit for Xbox 360 and Increased Xbox LIVE Arcade Game Size Limit
512MB Memory Unit enhances storage capabilities and choice for Xbox 360 gamers; increased Xbox LIVE Arcade size limit provides additional flexibility for game developers.
Open Call From the Patent Office
The government is about to start opening up the process of reviewing patents to the modern font of wisdom: the Internet. — The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project that will not o...
Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million
Bono & Co. Spend up to $100 Million on Marketing, Incur Watchdogs' Wrath — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AdAge.com) — It's been a year since the first Red T-shirts hit Gap shelves in London, and a parade of celeb...
Microsoft patches Xbox 360
Microsoft has quietly released a fix for a security vulnerability that could let Xbox 360 owners run their own applications or operating systems on the console. — The update corrects a problem with ...
Yahoo Mixd Closes - Peanut Butter Manifesto in Action?
After a two-month pilot, Yahoo's Mixd mobile service has closed down. Mixd first came to light in November last year. It was a group mobile messaging tool for the youth market and had an experimenta...
The 50 Most Important People on the Web
Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling ...
Windows fails second virus test
Microsoft's Live OneCare security software has failed tests which check how well it spots and stops malicious programs designed to attack Windows. — OneCare was the only failure among 17 anti-virus ...
Who's Right About The Social Media Revolution — The People Or The Revolutionaries?
The People Or The Revolutionaries? — What are we to conclude from stark contrast between the (sometimes breathless) praise of USA Today's "social media" redesign among tech/media bloggers and comment...
Ashcroft Offered His Services to XM Before Being Hired by NAB, XM Says
WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who sent a letter this week to his successor Alberto Gonzales blasting the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Hol...
Google moves YouTube ahead
Since the acquisition, more deals struck for video, though copyright issues remain — In a clip posted on YouTube shortly after Google said it was acquiring the popular online video site for a whoppi...
USA Today social redesign - 92% don't like it
USA Today introduced a completely new website complete with lots of social network features like comments, reader rankings, blogs, photos, and better search. Reader reaction? 92% don't like it. I r...
A Richer Trip to the Mall, Guided by Text Messages
SEARCH engines made it easy to find items at online stores. Now the Internet is poised to solve a more vexing problem: finding items while you are at the mall. — Technology companies like NearbyNow...
Time Change a 'Mini-Y2K' in Tech Terms
Two years ago, when Congress passed a law to extend daylight saving time by a month, the move seemed a harmless step that would let the nation burn a little less fossil fuel and enjoy a bit more sunsh...
Apple plugs eight QuickTime holes
Apple on Monday released updates to its QuickTime media player software to repair eight serious security vulnerabilities. — The vulnerabilities expose both Macs and Windows PCs to cyberattack, Apple...
LegalForce, a marketplace for patents
LegalForce, an online marketplace where patents can be bought, sold or licensed, has launched. — It is significant because it is a way for investors, entrepreneurs and investors to find ideas in an ...
Diebold may leave e-voting business
Diebold, the makers of touch-screen e-voting machines at the center of a fairly large number of voting problems and controversies in the US, may be considering getting out of the e-voting business. A...
This is the Dawning of the Age of Apple
Carl Howe (Blackfriars Communications) submits: We have all heard about the "iPod halo effect" where iPod owners increasingly are buying Apple (AAPL) computers. Well, it appears that the iPhone has k...
Five Principles to Design By
I recently wrote these into my about page: five principles that I design by. — Technology Serves Humans. — Too often people blame themselves for the shortcomings of technology. When their compute...
Top 20 Most Admired Companies
To create the top 20 for our 25th annual rankings, Fortune and its survey partners at Hay Group asked 3,322 executives, directors, and securities analysts to select the 10 companies they admire most. ...
It's official: Pirates crack Vista at last
A genuine crack for Windows Vista has just been released by pirate group Pantheon, which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activate...
NVIDIA Ships 128-Core Graphics Cards for High-End Film Editors, Graphics Pros: Apple 'Excited'
NVIDIA just cranked up its highest-end Quadro graphics cards a notch or two, rolling out three products, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600 (pictured above), and NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Model IV...
12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert
If you're like me, you probably use Google many times a day. But, chances are, unless you are a technology geek, you probably still use Google in its simplest form. If your current use of Google is ...
Patent Fights Are a Legacy of MP3's Tangled Origins
Microsoft says it was doing the right thing: paying a German rights holder $16 million to license the MP3 audio format, the foundation of the digital music boom. Then an American jury ruled that Micr...
AddThis Widget Gathering Lots Of Interesting Data
You may have seen the AddThis buttons on blog at some point while surfing the web. It's a simple, free widget blog owners can add to their site that shows a number of bookmarking options at the end o...
Another Stanford University Startup coming September 2007
You know it as the birthplace of HP, Yahoo, Google, Sun, and Cisco, among others. — But coming in September 2007 another kind of startup is coming to Stanford University: a new Scoble! Yeah, Maryam...
Technorati's Opportunities and Exit Options
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus — About 2 months ago, HitWise published a report stating that Technorati, the leading blog search company, had for the first time fallen behind...
ODF threat to Microsoft in US governments grows
California has introduced a bill to make open document format (ODF) a mandatory requirement for agencies when acquiring software, turning up the heat on Microsoft. The bill follows similar legislatio...
Lego MMO Revealed
As I hinted earlier this year, NetDevil has been signed on to develop a massively multiplayer online game with Lego. — I think, if done right, this could very well be the next evolutionary step in m...
Three solid Gmail productivity tips
If you're a techie person, email is essential but it's hard to stay on top of all of it. If you use Gmail and Firefox, here's a few tips to get email under control. — The first tip is remedial: kee...
IBM Many Eyes After One Month
This is a guest post written by two of the researchers behind IBM's Many Eyes app, Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda B. Viégas. R/WW profiled Many Eyes, a "shared visualization and discovery" service, b...
A Contributor to Wikipedia Has His Fictional Side
In a blink, the wisdom of the crowd became the fury of the crowd. In the last few days, contributors to Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, have turned against one of their own who was found ...
Google Personalized Search, Google Bookmarks & Link Building
There's been a bit of a panic among some SEOs that the ramp up of Google Personalized Search Results last month will mean the end of SEO. But aside from the impact personalized search will have on SE...
FastWeb founder turns his attention to Internet television and video-on-demand
MILAN: In seven and a half years, Silvio Scaglia transformed FastWeb from a start-up with a plan to bring fiber-optic cables into houses from Milan to Palermo into a company with €1.3 billion in annua...
CrunchGear How-To: Fix an iPod that Won't Boot
There's a conspiracy theory that Steve Jobs wants you to buy a new iPod every 12 months. That may or may not be the case, but if your iPod is hosed, it doesn't necessarily mean it's time to put it ou...
Octopart: Search Engine For Gadget Parts
Today, Y Combinator backed Octopart has launched a vertical search engine for electronics parts, ideal for electrical engineers and hobbyists alike. The engine helps electronics buyers find the best ...
Game Developers Conference expands—but too far?
but too far? — Thousands of the video game insiders are expected to converge on San Francisco this week for the Game Developers Conference, now the largest game industry-only event worldwide. — Thr...
Izimi, latest social publishing site
Izimi.com is another neat little web 2.0 publishing tool - and boasts of an easier way to share video with the world than YouTube. — It does this by letting you share any file on your computer - not...
The 50 Most Important People on the Web
At PC World, we like making lists...from the 25 Worst Products of All Time to the 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year. People seem to like 'em, too—many of them rank among the most popular articl...
BEST PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES IN BUILDING CAPABLE RICH USER EXPERIENCES: ANNOUNCING REAL-WORLD AJAX
It's been nearly a year in the making but I'm finally pleased to announce the release of Real-World Ajax, a massive new compendium of the Ajax spectrum that I've compiled and edited …
Wireless: Cellphones open front in global fight against disease
PARIS: To Rwanda's top HIV/AIDS official, communication within the national health care system can be slow enough to present an actual threat to health. — "Information from clinics is written on a p...
YADAC: Yet Another Debate About Cloaking Happens Again
Sigh. Double sigh. Triple sigh. I guess now that the SEO industry has had the required twice-yearly debate about the reputation of SEO, it's time to do the go round about cloaking once again. A qu...