YouTube Starts Paying Star Users
YouTube is going to start helping some of its indie video content creators make money, starting tomorrow. The company will launch a program that puts the creators of some of the more popular YouTube ...
Press release: Danish Complaint Case may have Global Consequences for Apple
A ground-breaking decision by the Consumer Complaints Board may have crucial consequences for Apple and for thousands of Apple laptop users all over the world — In a specific complaint case …
The End Of The Security Industry Not So Unrealistic
Last week, security expert Bruce Schneier caused a bit of a stir when he said that there shouldn't be a security industry. While his comment engendered a lot of debate, it really wasn't a particularl...
Breaking: Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr
I am at the annual Outcast CEO Dinner event - Brad Garlinghouse (Yahoo SVP Communications & Communities) and Stewart Butterfield (Cofounder Flickr) are sitting at my table and told me that they will a...
Sun Microsystems joins porting effort for OpenOffice.org for Mac
I'm excited to let you all know that as of now Sun engineering will add its support to the ongoing Mac/Aqua porting effort. — The MacOSX porting history is basically as old as OpenOffice.org itself.
Extreme Personalisation
An unexpected surprise of last week's Istanbul visit was coming across these working Nokia phones hacked/customised by Mehmet Erkök, industrial design lecturer at stanbul Teknik Üniversitesi's Departm...
Spidey 3 Online Ahead of U.S. Release
It's official: Spider-Man 3 has appeared online as an unauthorized download on public torrent trackers ahead of the release in theaters across the U.S. Just today, VCDQuality indexed two slightly diff...
T-Mobile's cell-to-WiFi service to launch this summer
T-Mobile could be ready to launch its long-anticipated cell-to-WiFi service this summer, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. The service, initially called "T-Mobile at Home," has b...
BILL'S HARD DRIVE
MICROSOFT EYES SEARCH GIANT IN PROPOSED TAKEOVER — Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, askin...
Google Gadgets are now an AdSense unit
Webmasters will soon be able to auction off widget space on their sites and blogs managed and marketed by advertising powerhouse Google. Advertisers will produce a Google Gadget in standard IAB unit ...
Google In Talks To Acquire SimplyHired
Rumors surfaced today that Google is in discussions to acquire job search engine Simply Hired. Trip Chowdry, a research analyst at Global Equity Research first spoke about it, and the story was then ...
The UMPC dies. And no one notices.
Recommend article: — We just started to like the concept of the UMPC. But the truth of the matter is that the UMPC, at least in the shape we saw these little computers over the past year, will join...
CalacanisCast 26 beta
Special guest: Digg's Jay Adelson and Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann — Hello everyone, Tyler here - back with a podcast for your listening pleasure (read: no video) — In this ep...
AACS vows to fight people who publish the key
Michael Ayers, the chairman of the AACS-LA (the organization that sent hundreds of legal threats to websites that published the random 16-byte number that represented one of the keys for cracking the ...
YouTube facing football lawsuit
The English Premier League is to sue video-sharing site YouTube for alleged copyright infringement. — The football organisation said YouTube had "knowingly misappropriated" its intellectual property...
Microsoft Poised to Rule Entertainment, Devices World
There are three ways to make money on an Xbox. Generally it's not on the hardware itself; we'll probably be gross margin neutral on that over the life cycle of the product and try to break even on th...