Microsoft to Acquire aQuantive, Inc.
Company details plans to build Internet-wide advertising platform for advertisers, publishers and ad agencies. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire aQuantive, Inc., for $66.50 per share...
Popfly - Mashup the web with Silverlight
Disclosure: This morning I announced that I'm working for Adobe. While I haven't officially started, consider me an Adobe employee for all intents and purposes. I have the disclosure statement at th...
Rumour: Google to buy Feedburner
I have just heard from a VERY trusted source that Google is buying Feedburner in order to get into the rapidly evolving RSS Ad market. The delay in announcing the deal, I am told is solely due to the...
Microsoft Launches Popfly: Mashup App Creator Built On Silverlight
Microsoft will announce the private beta launch of Popfly this morning, a new Silverlight application that allows users to create mashups, widgets and other applications using a very cool and easy to ...
Dell Tablet PC
There's been some chatter about a Latitude Tablet PC coming from Dell. Check out what Jeff Clarke has to say. — View Video — Format: flv — Duration: 0:58
The Pirate Bay to Launch YouTube Competitor
Some believed the video site might evolve from the idea that is Playable.com — a free music site started by Brokep of The Pirate Bay and the Swedish rock band Lamont — that aims at compensating artist...
Oh Canada...
a huge chunk of the explosive growth Facebook has recently seen in Canada (2 million Canadian users—or 10% of the Facebook population—and counting).
Netflix Sued For Violating Antitrust Law With Its Patents
from the who-to-root-for? dept — I'm pretty skeptical of most class-action lawsuits. They're often filed over bizarre claims, and the settlements almost always seem to enrich the lawyers a lot mor...
Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro screens subject of class-action lawsuit
Looks like Apple is about to face its next date in court: a San Diego filing by private citizens Fred Greaves and Dave Gatley calls for a class-action lawsuit, accusing Cupertino of deceptive advertis...
Facebook growing, but more roadkill coming?
Facebook is growing quickly, adding between 100,000 and 150,000 new users per day, the company tells us, with the highest growth rates coming from abroad. — Particularly noteworthy is its traction i...
AACS Updated, Broken Again
We predicted in past posts that AACS, the encryption system intended to protect HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies, would suffer a gradual meltdown from its inability to respond quickly enough to attacks. Lik...
Global net censorship 'growing'
The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests. — The study of thousands of websites across 120...
Origami 2.0 to be thinner, smaller, and (maybe) less expensive
Microsoft is working on a new set of specifications for its Origami project. Microsoft development manager Vikram Madan spoke this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles a...
Who will be America's First TechPresident?
As we enter the 21st Century our country faces daunting challenges. We must address terrorism, global warming, our failing healthcare and public education systems, our dependence on nonrenewable ener...
the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
There's a theory called 'The Uncanny Valley' regarding humans' emotional response to human-like robots. From The Wikipedia entry: … While most of us don't interact with human-like robots frequently e...
BitTorrent user loses appeal in movie piracy case
A Hong Kong man, believed to be the first person convicted of downloading pirated movies using BitTorrent file-sharing technology, lost his appeal on Friday in the territory's highest court. — Chan ...
Get Your Own Theme at Method Music
If you're a "Family Guy" fan like me, you might remember the episode where Peter finds a genie in a lamp and wishes for his own theme music. Well, a new website backed by the legendary frontman of th...
Nabbing (some) camcorders
Spider-Man 3 photo courtesy of Sony Pictures — The movie industry's assault on piracy in theaters has intensified in the past couple of years, and the most quantifiable result is a dramatic increase...
Joost's Deal Plans Hidden in PDF Presentation
PDFs can be tricky sometimes: a source of hidden data that you might not have intended to release. A source pointed out to us today that this year's hottest startup - Joost - may have accidentally le...
Microsoft Starts Banning 360s on LIVE - MS Confirms
>> With the amount of posts we see on our forums ... it's clear, Microsoft decided to start banning Xbox360 with modified firmwares today (both Hitachi-LG and Toshiba-Samsung drives). — While it's t...
Rumor: Apple issuing pre-release builds of OS X 10.4.10
With the postponement of Leopard until at least October having quieted the speculation (at least for a bit), attention has turned to what Apple will be doing with Tiger in the meantime. There are sti...
House Dems: broadband isn't broadband unless it's 2Mbps
Saying that the FCC "has not kept pace with the times or the technology," Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) opened a hearing today into the FCC's methods for measuring broadband availability in the US. The US la...
Yahoo 'censored' Flickr comments
Yahoo has been accused of censorship on its popular photo website Flickr, in a row that has highlighted the issue of copyright in the online age. — Earlier this month photographer Rebekka Gudleifsdó...
Dell Latitude Tablet PC spotted on Dell's blog
Let the rumors subside: Dell will indeed have a Tablet PC this year and you can see it showcased in a short video right on the Direct2Dell blog! My first impressions: this looks light and very thin, ...
LG Electronics to cut PDP production
(InfoWorld) - LG Electronics plans to cut back production of PDP (plasma display panel) screens as part of it efforts to improve the business performance of its display operations, it said Friday. — ...