NBC Universal and News Corp. Announce Deal
Charter Advertisers, Including Cadbury Schweppes, Cisco, Esurance, Intel and General Motors, Will Now Reach 96% of U.S. Internet Audience Through This Groundbreaking Venture
Xbox Live accounts 'not hacked'
Microsoft has denied reports that users of its Xbox Live online gaming service have had their accounts hacked. — It follows a number of complaints from gamers that their IDs, or gamer tags, have bee...
Nokia N95 multimedia computer starts shipping
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that the Nokia N95 started shipping in key European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets, with expanded shipments to other markets in those regions in the coming we...
HP to Acquire Tabblo, Aims to Make Printing from Web Easier
HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tabblo Inc., a privately-held developer of web-based software located in Cambridge, Mass. — HP plans to leverage Tabblo's technolog...
It's Here!
Yes! Yahoo Widgets 4 is now available for download. This version has a lot of cool new features for users as well as developers of Widgets. — For those that think we've been sitting around drinkin...
Yahoo names click fraud czar
Yahoo has promoted one of its staff attorneys to an executive-level position that is akin to being click fraud czar at the second largest Web search provider. — For seven years, Reggie Davis helped ...
Jet passengers may not get to chat on cellphones after all
The once-highflying idea of letting passengers use their wireless phones on airplanes is about to be grounded. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is recommending the FCC drop ...
Best Buy finagles Apple TV exclusive
The blue-shirted ones scored a mini coup this week. — Best Buy said today that the just-released Apple TV will be available in all 822 of its U.S. stores starting Tuesday. That's two weeks ahead of...
Did Google turn down the revenue knob?
Tonight at Jeff Pulver's awesome party I met a Google employee who I'll keep nameless. He works closely with the advertising team and found it interesting that I noticed that Google is putting fewer ...
Online Video Ads Leave GIFs and JPGs Standing Still, Says DoubleClick
When it comes to grabbing the attention of Web surfers, advertising distributed via online video handily outpaces static image ads, according to a new DoubleClick report. — The company studied more ...
KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API
Posted by Nigel Tao, Software Engineer, Google Maps Team — One of the things I love most about Google Maps and Google Earth is that it's easy for anyone to create and display new geographically refe...
News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube
Several media giants are teaming up to challenge Google Inc. and its YouTube video-sharing service, seeking to blunt their incursion into the entertainment business. — News Corp. and NBC Universal p...
DMCA takedown backlash: EFF sues Viacom over Colbert parody clip
Viacom's DMCA takedown notices continue to generate controversy. The media giant fired off more than 100,000 notices to YouTube earlier this year, but it appears to have caught numerous legitimate vi...
Michael Moritz Will Not Seek Re-Election to Google's Board of Directors
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that Michael Moritz has informed the company that he will not seek re-election to its board of directors at the 2007 stockholder meeting. Moritz, who has be...
Xbox Live Security
Despite some recent reports and speculation, I want to reassure all of our 6 million Xbox Live members that we have looked into the situation and found no evidence of any compromise of the security of...
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One
The "wisdom of crowds" is a popular web 2.0 buzzword, popularized by James Surowiecki's book of the same name. At its most basic, the term means that two heads are better than one, and that still mor...
Yahoo Appoints New Click Quality Czar
I've always believed that click fraud was a bigger PR problem than actual problem for the search engines. Of course there have been raging debates about the percentage of "invalid clicks" that advert...
Microsoft severs Live Search from the rest of the Windows Live family
Live Search is no longer part of the larger Windows Live services family, in terms of engineering and development. — One by-product of the March 21 Microsoft announcement of the creation of a new Se...
Kongregate Gets $1M, Launches User Generated Games
We covered Kongregate when they were in private beta, but they're officially public with a new wad of cash from some big names to back them up. They've created a gaming community around Flash games d...
Judge's decision leaves RIAA with lose-lose situation in Elektra v. Santangelo
The case of Elektra v. Santangelo has been one of the more closely followed cases in the RIAA's crusade against suspected file sharers, due in no small part to the aggressiveness of Patti Santangelo's...