News Flash: Apple iPhone receives FCC approval
Apple Inc. on Thursday received the official go-ahead on its first ever mobile handset, with the Federal Communications Commission giving the iPod maker the green light to commence sales of the device...
Video Blending & Video Meta Search
There's nothing new about Google listing links to video content in its regular search results, including links to pages in Google-owned Google Video and YouTube. However, Universal Search is changing...
Regarding yesterday's Apple news
Yesterday Engadget posted an incorrect story about an iPhone delay, and I wanted to go into greater detail about how this happened. — At 9:09am CDT yesterday a number of Apple employees received an ...
Vista will be the last version of Windows for Pentium 4 and Core Duo owners
It's the end of the line for 32-bit operating systems, Microsoft has proclaimed at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering conference — After the software giant has gotten over its hangover from par...
PSP hardware refresh coming this year, says report
So it looks like those endless rumors of a newly-spec'ed PlayStation Portable are finally about to come true, with an analyst from Lazard Capital Markets reporting that Sony has in fact copped to just...
WPP Acquires 24/7 Real Media To Compete With Google And Yahoo
I saw one of Google's "agency relationship managers" give a pitch to a top agency, where she gave the standard line that Google doesn't want to be an ad agency. I didn't believe it for a second.
Keeping Xbox LIVE Fair
One of the great things about LIVE and the unified community is that we work hard to create a level playing field for all gamers and have a no tolerance policy towards inappropriate behavior like hack...
Q&A: Svensson On The Future Of Capcom
Capcom has been significantly busy in expanding its Western presence of late, revealing much of its 2007 line-up at an April press event, including new Phoenix Wright and Mega Man titles for DS, a ret...
Introducing localguides.com: local, meet social. social, meet vertical.
We've just launched the beta version of a brand spanking new site - localguides.com. — We think the site (and the technology and methodologies behind it) begin to lay the foundation to tackle two ve...
BitTorrent in Focus: TV-series are Hot
The statistics presented here are gathered by SumoTorrent, and based on a sample of more than 400.000 .torrent files collected from several public BitTorrent sites. From now on these statistics will ...
Google v. Perfect 10: Appeals court affirms that thumbnails are fair use
Google scored a partial victory yesterday in a case that is likely to have major implications for the evolution of copyright law online. In a 2004 lawsuit, porn merchant Perfect 10 accused Google of ...
Skype busts into casual gaming market
Skype wants to get into the lucritive casual gaming business and is aggressively courting game developers to generate a diverse range of content for the VoIP service. Skype's Paul Amery announced the...
The net is being carved up into information plantations
Search at Google.com on evolution or Iraq or Aids or Gordon Brown, and the same site will appear at the top of the list of results: Wikipedia. Alter your search into one for John Keats or Muhammad Al...
Latest AACS revision defeated a week before release
Despite the best efforts of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) Licensing Administration (AACS LA), content pirates remain one step ahead. A new volume key used by high-def films scheduled for ...
Rolling the Cheese
On the Internet, they say, no one knows you're a dog. After the start of this week, I can safely add, no one knows you are sick as a dog, either. — Such was the fun going on in the global headquart...
Feature: The Infinite Video Format War is Coming
Blu-Ray will dominate the industry in three years. Or maybe it will be HD DVD. The general consensus is that whoever wins doesn't really get a lasting victory, since they're both in the last physica...
Half of the future Gates
newsmaker Craig Mundie is trying to fill Bill Gates shoes. Well, at least one of them. — Keenly aware that no one person can replace Microsoft's cultural icon, the company has divided his responsib...
Universal search: The best answer is still the best answer
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience — Back in 2001, Eric asked for a brainstorm of a few "splashy" ideas in search. A designer and product manager at the time, I made a fe...
Making The Switch From Twitter to Jaiku
"I thought I saw a putty tat. I did, I did see a putty tat!" — These famous words were never the last from Tweety Bird, but for a growing number of Twitter users they will be. The last thing they ...
Rationale for the Offer
WPP is committed to delivering added value to its clients, its share owners and its people, by continuing to be a significant force in the global advertising and marketing services industry. This wil...
Google sets spotlight on videos
Search to include movies from many sites — Google nudged video closer to center stage on Wednesday, announcing that it would spotlight video content from YouTube, Metacafe, iFilm and other sites on ...
Newest AACS circumvented: The Matrix Trilogy set free
Just in case you didn't already piece it together, many (if not all) of the new HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles set for release on May 22nd will feature the latest revisions to AACS. Right, the update...
Amazon to start selling digital music
Amazon moved to shake up the online music business on Wednesday by setting up a direct rival to Apple's iTunes that will sell tracks without copyright protection. — Amazon said its decision to aban...
Google Korea to censor search results
(InfoWorld) - Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thurs...
What Makes Techmeme Tick? Inventor Gabe Rivera Explains
For many Silicon Valley insiders, one site has become the primary aggregator of technology news: Techmeme. The site constantly scrapes news sites and blogs and compiles a continually updated list of ...
New Stuff At My Yahoo
The big guys are really starting to focus on personalized home pages, where Yahoo dominates and Google is coming on strong (by adding a link from the Google.com home page). Google says their personal...
Skype Puts Mac Users First With Fresh Features in New 2.6 Release
Skype today released Skype™ for Mac 2.6, the latest version of its communication software for Mac users. In addition to improved quality, stability and more features, the company has done something e...
The Ranking Roller Coaster Cause And Effect
There are many reasons why your site might lose search engine result rankings. Some of those reasons can be traced to a particular fault while others just occur in the natural course of life. In ess...
InPlay's State-of-the-Art Technology Produces Industry's First Intelligent Pen for Tablet PCs
Microsoft's 16th Annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference — PHOENIX—(BUSINESS WIRE)—InPlay Technologies (NASDAQ: NPLA) today introduced the InPEN, the first intelligent digital pen for integra...