Microsoft set to unlock EMI songs
The software giant is on the verge of a deal similar to Apple's with EMI to sell tracks without anti-piracy protection — Microsoft has hinted that it may be close to reaching a deal with EMI to sell...
Vonage lawyer: Ruling a 'bullet to the head'
Judge says Internet phone company can use patented technology for existing customers. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) — Vonage Holdings Corp. cannot service new customers while it appeals a finding that...
Francisco, MKTW and DJ Draw Attention For Reporter's Role In Start-Up
For months, high-profile MarketWatch journalist Bambi Francisco has been involved—quite publicly—in a start-up with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Vator.tv (as in elevator pitch) features video repor...
VeriSign to raise domain fees
VeriSign on Thursday said it that it will increase the fees it charges for Internet domains ending in .com or .net. — Starting October 15, VeriSign will charge $6.42 for .com domains and $3.85 for ....
Intel to unveil new UMPC platform
Gates says jump, Otellini designs platform — INTEL WILL BE releasing a new ultra mobile PC platform at IDF Beijing, on April 18, according to slides published by HKEPC. — Whilst most have suggeste...
AFP & Google Settle Over Google News Copyright Case
The most significant copyright case against Google News, that filed by Agence France-Presse back in March 2005, has now ended. Google has signed a licensing agreement with AFP that settles the suit. ...
Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever
Apple TV is dead, long live the Mac Nano. Sort of. — Just two weeks after Apple released its streaming media box to the public, hackers successfully installed OS X, Apple's desktop operating system...
Rogers Traffic Shaping Making It Difficult For Users To Use Secure Email
from the nice-work dept — Canadian ISPs haven't been shy about using traffic shaping tools to try to slow down the use of things like BitTorrent. This is a lot of what the network neutrality debate...
Google AdWords Contract Upheld (Again)—Feldman v. Google
Feldman v. Google — Feldman v. Google, Inc., 2007 WL 966011 (E.D. Pa. March 29, 2007) — Yet another click fraud lawsuit, this time involving one of the 556 plaintiffs that opted out of the Google c...
Embracing Real Life in Virtual Earth
Microsoft announces 21 winners of the Virtual Earth and SensorMap Request for Proposal programs with funding totaling US$1.1 million to help academic researchers innovate in advanced mapping and locat...
GameTap Reveals Sega Saturn License, Plans
Turner's GameTap subscription PC 'all you can eat' gaming service has now added Sega Saturn games to its service, with the debut of platform game Bug! as a special Easter-timed Easter Egg for its serv...
YouTube offers to help Thais block offending pages
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Video-sharing Web site YouTube will help Thailand block access to pages that contain clips offensive to its revered monarch instead of blacking out the whole site, a cabinet minist...
Technorati CEO Search Confirmed
Technorati has retained New York-based James & Company to conduct a CEO search for the company. For the last few weeks, the firm has been reaching out to potential candidates in Silicon Valley and el...
Autonomy CEO says tags don't work
Mike Lynch, the CEO of Autonomy, the UK enterprise search company, was in town this week (video is coming). I used to meet with Mr Lynch regularly when I was at the Financial Times, and when the dotc...
AOL TO LAUNCH WHITE LABEL AOL-ONLY ADWORDS MONDAY
This was embargo'd till Monday, but AOL just told me the embargo was broken so I can post it now. AOL has worked with Google to execute a white label version of AdWords that allows AOL advertisers to...
Google Launches Free 411 Service
Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today - a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each...
The Sidebar Syndrome
Written by Bilal Hameed from the Startup Meme blog — This week we've seen evidence of a new trend in the Web, which I've termed "The Sidebar Syndrome". Before I analyze the effects of this trend, l...
Judge puts halt on new Vonage customers
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A federal judge on Friday ordered Vonage not to accept any new customers while it continues to infringe on Verizon Communications patents covering some aspects of Internet phone calls....
Verizon cans the word 'Unlimited'
Humbling purge plan leaked to the INQUIRER — THIS MORNING, we revealed how Verizon admitted it was capping its "unlimited" downloads at 5GB. Now it seems the firm is giving up using the word comple...
Spinning into oblivion - the death of the music business, and the habits of a mouse
Record store owners Tony Sachs and Sal Nunziato wrote a touching editorial in the New York Times about the death of the retail record store, and the music business in general. They started a record (...
Rogers Traffic Shaping Making It Difficult For Users To Use Secure Email
from the nice-work dept — Canadian ISPs haven't been shy about using traffic shaping tools to try to slow down the use of things like BitTorrent. This is a lot of what the network neutrality debate...
Aikido, Retreat or War. What's your Microsoft strategy?
One of the more interesting trajectories to watch in the communications space over the last decade has been the growth of the Microsoft ecosystem. Literally a decade long strategy, it was conceived a...
MediaMaster: Access Your Music Library Online
MediaMaster is a new web service that, like Faces and Oboe, let's users upload music from their hard drive and listen to it online. — The original service to experiment in this area was MP3.com's My...
Apple probe will shake up whole music industry
LONDON (MarketWatch) — A European antitrust probe into the pricing of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL : , , ) iTunes music downloads service could force the music industry to unravel the complex web of intellectua...
Google evades question about software similarities
Google calls its IME product 'a work in progress' that will continue to improve over time — Google has commented on a new software tool it released in China this week, although it did not address al...