Military puts MySpace, other sites off limits
Soldiers serving overseas will lose some of their online links to friends and loved ones back home under a Department of Defense policy that a high-ranking Army official said would take effect Monday.
Forrester: No Future For Paid Video Downloads
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The paid video download market is a dead end, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester estimates that paid video downloads will...
CBS News Acquiring Wallstrip, New Headache in Eeking Out Online Profits
Wallstrip - the Wall Street web video program featuring Lindsay Campbell trying to make the Nasdaq hilarious - is being snapped up by CBS News, we're told, for something in the $5 million range.
AT&T iPhone not to be pre-sold
If you have not been able to get your iPhone fix as of lately, this might help hold you over. According to an internal document from AT&T, the Apple iPhone has "advanced software 5 years ahead of any...
Digg is Censoring Content by Burying Stories Internally
We all know that the main reason why stories don't hit the Digg homepage is because they get buried. Some say the buries are caused by specific Digg users who have it out for us while others just bla...
First A4 colour e-paper unfurled
The world's first A4-sized colour electronic-paper - a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel, produced LCD. — South Korea's LG Philips LCD has developed the world's first A4-sized colour electronic-...
Contextual Overlay Advertising
YouTube Appears to be Testing It — Amir Ashkenazi, one of the founders of shopping.com which was sold to eBay, has just launched adapt.tv It is a new kind of advertising network that places adverti...
RFID being tapped to stifle exam cheaters
Cheating has been around for as long as there have been exams, and modern-day cheaters have a whole host of electronic tools to help them in their nefarious activities. The other side hasn't stood st...
How to Be a Star in a YouTube World
What it takes to stand out when anyone can be an entertainer — There are millions of people trying to get noticed on the Web, with everything from blogs to podcasts to videos. So with the huge glut...
Microsoft delves further into manufacturing with Zune plant
Software giant hopes new factory, designs will help player compete with iPod … SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Microsoft Corp., a colossus built on software, is making a new push in hardware manufacturi...
+ Why do Video Platforms Fail?
In online video, there is big interest in the entry point, the place where people go to discover and watch video and ultimately where payment is made, one way or another, for the watching. For some i...
Apple.com sees quite a spike is U.S. visitors
Apple.com sees quite a spike in U.S. visitors — Apparently, Apple's website saw quite a jump in visitors between March and April. comScore's data shows that the number of American visitors at Apple....
Amazon.com acquires dpreview.com
We're proud and excited to announce that Dpreview has been acquired by the worlds leading online retailer, Amazon.com. Started as hobby site in 1998, dpreview.com has grown to be the number one desti...
Music Radio on the Internet Faces Thorny Royalty Issues
Since Pandora.com closed its box of digital musical delights this month to users outside the United States, the complaints have been pouring in from Dubai to Patagonia. — It is "a step back to the d...
Google v. Yahoo: Who Cares The Most About The Environment?
SouthPark dedicated an entire episode to the smugness of hybrid car drivers and San Francisco residents in general. The episode is funny because its largely true - Silicon Valley is well known for ha...
10 Biggest Apple Rumors (that never came true)
With Apple rumors getting spread further around than ever (and regular coverage from national news media), it's important to remember that many (most?) tend to be either completely untrue or so premat...
BRING ON THE DIGG MOBS
Ambient TV Brings Web 2.0, Derision of Your Friends' Viewing Habits to TV — Oh, these NYU kids and their big ideas. (Disclosure: I was an NYU kid until Thursday.) Myra Einstein's project, Ambient ...
Introducing the Google Developer Podcast
A fair few Googlers enjoy creating podcasts, and a large number choose to participate in the medium as listeners. — I have really enjoyed creating Audible Ajax, as it gives me a way to get close to ...
Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog
Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day's e-mail. Coulton is 36 and shaggily handsome. In September 2005, he quit ...
Facing the full horror of Windows Vista
So far, Transit has been using Vista Business full-time for a fortnight. And so far, we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without b...
Lightroom and Open Source
· Over the last few years, I've become something of an open-source triumphalist, drifting to the conclusion that (on the engineering side) it's the best way to build software and (on the business side...
Why does Google retain data? Because nonexistent laws tell it to
Google wants to know what you search for, and plenty of people have wondered why. The company's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, recently posted an explanation to this question of Google's of...
Test-driving Telepresence
Charlene and I had a chance to test out Telepresence last week. Telepresence is a new product from Cisco — essentially a new form of videoconferencing that's designed to be as realistic as possible. ...
Attention Wal-Mart customers, Skype now in aisle voice
Wal-Mart is going to start selling nine Skype-certified hardware devices (and by extension the Skype service) in 1800 (or roughly half) of its stores. The deal also includes Skype pre-paid cards. Wa...
DOD blocking YouTube, others
To save bandwidth, officials say several sites to be off-limits at work — Starting Monday, the Defense Department will block access to MySpace, YouTube and a host of other sites on official departme...
LG.Philips LCD claims first flexible color A4-size e-paper
LG.Philips LCD announced yesterday it has developed the world's first 14.1-inch flexible color electronic paper (e-paper) display, equivalent in size to an A4 sheet of paper. This is a second breakth...
Web 2.0 'distracts good design'
Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. — He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were ba...
Battle of the botnets
Tech Talk - For the average user spam has always been an annoyance. For the average spammer it has always been about making money. For the criminal gangs that have muscled in on this lucrative indus...
Microsoft Claims Open-Source Technology Violates 235 of Its Patents
Microsoft is using the threat of patent violations by the free and open-source software community to try to drive enterprise customers to SUSE Enterprise Linux and to further muddy the waters around t...
Can CBS Put the Net Into Network?
Broadcaster Launches Plan — Syndicating Shows on Web, — Admits Old Strategy Failed — A year ago, CBS Corp. announced the creation of Innertube, an entertainment channel on CBS.com designed to ma...
Mobile Web Audience Already One-Fifth the Size of PC-Based Internet Audience in the U.K.
Early Adopters of Mobile Internet Tend to be Males and Under the Age of 35 — Telephia and comScore today announced the results of their latest study of mobile vs. PC-based Internet usage.
Apple iPhones on eBay for $1,000 to $10,000
A bidding war has broken out on eBay for Apple (AAPL) iPhones. — Prices for at least two of the $500-$600 devices have been driven past the $1,000 mark. One sale that closes today had 38 bids as of...
Source: Apple may build 3G wireless into future notebook model
Apple Inc.'s next big step into wireless may well be an integrated cellular broadband module, says one source — but would have a unique spin on an established formula. — An unproven but seemingly cr...
User Generated Content Is About Efficiency And Growth, Not Exploitation
There's been a lot of talk lately from some people who incorrectly believe that social sites and user-generated content sites somehow exploiting their users. This is silly for a variety of reasons an...
Understanding Apollo
During my recent visit to the US, I popped into the Adobe office in San Francisco to find out more about Apollo - the company's new RIA (Rich Internet Application) runtime and development platform. I...
Emoticons carry cultural baggage
The Internet clearly crosses cultural boundaries, but it may not always transcend them. That's the conclusion of some research (the author has made a PDF available) that looks into how people interpr...
Cell Phones Now Helping to Guide the Blind
In Stockholm, wireless technology helps blind people navigate independently. — Juris Kaza Today's Top Stories or Other Mobile Devices Stories — Although Sweden's reputation for extremely ge...