Turkish court bans YouTube access
Access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in Turkey following a court order. — The ban was imposed after prosecutors told the court that clips insulting former Turkish l...
PlayStation Home, the free virtual world of PlayStation 3
Sony has validated the "blackball rumor" with the unveiling of PlayStation Home — a free to download, virtual world for the PlayStation 3. While earlier murmurings mentioned customizable avatars and ...
Google Maps Send to Car
On the Google Maps team, our goal is not only to help you find local businesses, but also to enable you to quickly connect with those businesses, wherever you are. To that end, we recently introduced...
Microsoft's top search executive leaving company
The Microsoft Corp. executive who led the company's challenge to Google is leaving the company. — Christopher Payne, the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Live Search initiative, plans to lau...
GDC07: EA Signs Harmonix
Maxim's Big Buck Hunter Girlies — Arcade game Big Buck Hunter Pro makes its way into America's favorite jubblie-glossy Maxim Magazine this month. Turn to page 34, and the cabinet's in the "Good" se...
And Back to Analyst...
At my core, I am an analyst. It's what I do and I do it well and after much thought …
Skype Prime™ Beta — introducing the global expertise marketplace
introducing the global expertise marketplace — Today, we put out an update of Skype 3.1 beta for Windows. Download here. It contains the typical bugfixes and such from the previous release — thanks...
1 Miiiiiillion Users
It's now been more than two years since the first story was submitted and dugg on Digg. Since then you guys have helped Digg move from a personal project amongst a group of friends to a huge online c...
Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 Goes Windows Mobile
Yahoo! and HTC Announce Partnership to Distribute Yahoo! Go 2.0 on Millions of Windows Mobile-Based Devices — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Continuing to redefine the mobile Internet experience ...
Does Presence really matter?
Is the idea of "presence" really one of the next steps in communications applications, or is it just a fancy way of not having to answer your phone? — Alec Saunders, one of the founders of VoIP pres...
ADVERTISING: Facebook 'consistently the worst performing site'
So Facebook, which has been letting people know it's on track for $150m in revenues in 2007, must be an awesome advertising platform. Well, sorry to rain on the parade, but no. Media buyers — the age...
BT to Invest in FON?
FON, the Spanish share-your-Wi-Fi services company, is close to announcing a new round of funding that could total to as much as 10 million Euros (shade over $13 million.) — While some of its existi...
AT&T turns cell phones into TV remotes
AT&T Homezone subscribers are now able to program their digital video recorders from their cell phones. — AT&T said that starting Tuesday, it will allow customers of its Homezone product, a service ...
DIGGING DEEPER
Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff — BY MARK GLASER, 12:15PM — Whenever journalist-programmer extraordinaire Adrian Holovaty speaks at a conference, newspaper execu...
$1.5M Series A, Dan Bricklin joins Board, Version 1.1 of Grazr.com
I know I've been pretty quiet here, but behind the scenes lots of things have been happening. I probably should spread this into multiple posts, but I'll just lay it out briefly here and then go into...
Superpages.com Enhances Mapping Functionality As Local Search Continues to Grow in Popularity
DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Superpages.com, a product of Idearc Media Corp., today strengthens its mapping functionality with an enhanced map-based search application.
PlayStation Home Combines the Best of Nintendo's Miis, a few Xbox 360 Achievements, Second Life, and the Sims
Turns out the rumor was spot on. Sony's officially announcing the Home—or PlayStation Home as it's less confusingly known—feature for the PS3.
Yahoo HotJobs needs Craigslist to fill hot jobs at Yahoo
Who says $42 billion market cap Yahoo wishes "free" classifieds Craigslist wasn't disrupting its HotJobs online recruitment business? — In touting its for (big) fee recruiting services to employers,...
FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers and laptops.
Skype Prime™ Beta — introducing the global expertise marketplace
introducing the global expertise marketplace — Today, we put out an update of Skype 3.1 beta for Windows. Download here. It contains the typical bugfixes and such from the previous release — thanks...
Yahoo! China sued for alleged copyright breach
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Music industry giants including Warner Music Group Corp. are suing Yahoo! China for alleged copyright infringement by providing links to unlicensed music, trade organization IFPI ...
F.C.C. Chief Questioning Radio Deal
Kevin J. Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has privately questioned recent Congressional testimony by the architect of a proposed merger of the nation's two satellite radi...
Friendster makes Google its ad and search supplier
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (Reuters) - Friendster Inc. named Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research) as its exclusive advertising and Web search provider, part of a plan by the originator of the s...
Amazon's Unbox video download service "now available" on TiVo
Usually when a vendor says available "later this year," they deliver in December, not the following month. So excuse our surprise to find Amazon's Unbox video download service "Now Available!" to any...
Sony to Add Online Bells and Whistles for PlayStation 3
Moving to enhance its PlayStation 3 game console, Sony today plans to announce new online capabilities for it, meant to draw gamers into Sony's cyberspace community and allow them to share entertainme...
Samsung Q2 UMPC revealed!
So check it: every so often we find a juicy tip in our inbox, and today we sure got a doozy. One of our faithful readers — who prefers to remain anonymous — has sent in several slides featuring Samsu...
YouTube Reportedly Blocked in Turkey
Reader Mert Mavi sends in the following alert (HTML'ified): — I wanted to inform you about the bad news from Turkey. YouTube will be censored in Turkey (...) as a result of the disagreeable videos ...
Robotic age poses ethical dilemma
An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea. — The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for users and manufacturers and will be released l...