Facebook Classified Ad Offering Deals Another Blow To Newspapers
It's sure rough trying to charge for a service that other businesses are offering for free. Just ask any newspaper exec. With 20/20 hindsight, it seems inevitable that the web would be the perfect pl...
Media Rights Technologies and BlueBeat.com Issue Cease and Desist to Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Real Networks
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., May 10 /PRNewswire/ — The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law by President Clinton in 1998 to disseminate and protect the arts in the digital age.
iPods can make pacemakers malfunction - study
iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school studen...
YouTube's New Inline Ads: Screenshots
YouTube is experimenting with inline ads, showing a text ad at the bottom of its player as a video is playing. If a user clicks on the text, a video ad expands and appears layered on top of the playe...
HBO Exec Wants to Rename DRM
People have had lots of objections to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — centering mainly on its clumsiness and the futility of its anti-infringement rationale — but until recently nobody ha...
Exclusive: McCartney Goes Digital, Beatles 'Virtually Settled'
Brian Garrity, N.Y. and Paul Sexton, London — Paul McCartney's new album, "Memory Almost Full," will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones.
Jobs addresses backdating, environment at shareholder meeting
At Apple's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Thursday, Steve Jobs and other company executives heard criticism about the company's stock-options scandal and the recently announced delay of o...
Vonage Says It May Have Way Around Disputed Patents (Update5)
Vonage Holdings Corp. said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service, after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones.
Apple, others draw legal threat over media players
update A California company that makes technology designed to prevent ripping of digital audio streams has accused Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe Systems of violating federal copyright law b...
Out of Chaos, Order. Or So Google Says.
Over the years, Google has carefully cultivated the image of a zany company in which innovation and new products — lots of new products — emerge from a bit of chaos. — Now Google is trying to put so...
MySpace Launches Take Down Stay Down Copyright Protection
Leading Lifestyle Portal Launches Ground-breaking Tool to Prevent Users from Reposting Unauthorized Copyrighted Content — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—MySpace, the world's leading lifestyle portal, t...
Orbitz, the worst IPO of 2007?
We're not even halfway through 2007 and I'm ready to make a nomination for worst IPO candidate of the year: Orbitz. — You may recall that Orbitz - the online travel site founded by five major airlin...
TechCrunch20 Conference: Caterina Fake, MC Hammer & Rajeev Motwani Join Expert Panel
I'm excited to announce the next three experts for the TechCrunch20 Conference in San Francisco this September. Caterina Fake, MC Hammer and Rajeev Motwani join the previously announced experts.
Slide largest widget maker on the Web?
Slide, the maker of a Web slide show feature, has emerged as a major player, boasting 150 million daily slide show views and more than 200,000 new slide show "widgets" created daily. — These numbers...