Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace
Facebook is holding a massive press/developer event today in San Francisco to officially launch Facebook Platform. 750 or so people are here. — A number of third party applications will also be ann...
Dell Offers Three Consumer Systems With Ubuntu 7.04
It's finally here. Later today, Dell will offer U.S customers three different systems with Ubuntu 7.04 installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook. These sy...
Wal-Mart to Sell Dell Desktops in Stores this June
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Dell, Inc. announce that the two companies will partner to sell Dell Computer desktops in Wal-Mart stores nationwide, beginning June 10, 2007. The agreement includes the lau...
Facebook: The social Web utility company
The suspense is nearly over. In about an hour, Facebook will lift the veil on its plans to turn its social networking site into a platform that its makers hope becomes a pervasive ecosystem. Faceboo...
Wal-Mart to begin selling Dell PCs
Dell plans to begin selling desktop PCs in Wal-Mart Stores in the next few weeks, the first move in a major departure from its decades-long sales strategy. — Wal-Mart plans to sell the Dimension E52...
Copying HD DVD and Blu-ray discs may become legal
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Under a licensing agreement in its final stages, consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they've purchased, a concession by t...
Adsense For Video, Google Still Lagging
Google has announced a closed beta test of Adsense for Video. — According to the post on Inside Adsense, Adsense for Video consists of "in-stream" advertisements. Publishers define at what point th...
Flexible, full-color OLED
On May 24, Sony unveiled what it is calling the world's first flexible, full-color organic electroluminescent display (OLED) built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. OLEDs typically us...
HD DVD, Blu-ray "Managed Copy" coming later this year
The managed copy spec that will allow users to make copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray movies is finally nearing completion. MPAA head honcho Dan Glickman recently said that the AACS support behind managed...
RESTful Web Services
RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month. I interviewed the authors yesterday for an upcoming ITConversations show, but I also want to spell out here why I t...
N.J. Sues YouTube over Deadly Crash Footage
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is suing several video sites, including YouTube, for infringing on the copyright of car crash footage recorded on the turnpike, eWEEK has learned. — The footage in ...
Network Appliance F4Q07 (Qtr End 4/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Analysts — Brent Bracelin - Pacific Crest Securities — Presentation — Operator — Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Fourth Quarter Network Appliance Earnings Con...
Apple to drop new Macbooks and iMacs at WWDC?
While we know for sure that Steve is going to show off a "feature-complete" version of Leopard at this year's WWDC, and we wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone got some quality time on stage as well, w...
Make-It-Yourself 'Star Wars'
Lucasfilm Will Post Clips — From Film Saga on the Web, — Inviting Fans to Edit at Will — George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars," has never hesitated to protect his intellectual property, which is ...
Sarbanes-Oxley Audit Rules To Ease; Bad For IT Spending; Good For Corporate Earnings
One of the under-appreciated drivers of IT spending in the last few years has been Sarbanes-Oxley. While there is much complaining in Corporate America about the costs of compliance …
No such thing as a free download
It is difficult to grasp how successful the mobile phone industry has become. People think of it as a sideshow compared to the internet, yet in terms of revenues generated from content, it is already...
Ann Moore: 'Everybody Stay Calm'
Time Inc.'s CEO on Why Change Is Hard and Why Print Is Undervalued — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ann S. Moore, the top executive at Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, today said that le...
Basics: Cellphone Banking Is Coming of Age
YOU'RE starting a two-week vacation far from home when you suddenly realize you left the mortgage payment on the kitchen table instead of mailing it on the way to the airport. Or perhaps you're stand...
Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini
Even while at the top of its game, Apple Inc. can seemingly find faults with just about anything, including a bit of itself. The Mac maker is constantly evaluating the market segments in which it wis...
You might be digitzing books on the Web without knowing it thanks to this stealthy anti-spam technology
You know those pesky but necessary CAPTCHA boxes whose squiggly letters and digits you need to retype to make use of certain parts of sites such as Yahoo, Wikipedia and PayPal?
WeFi Finds Friends from Their WiFi
WeFi is a recently launched service that will find WiFi spots and connect you with other users using WeFi as well. — WeFi is a downloadable service that shows up much like an instant messaging windo...
Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find?
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton gives the full-disclosure treatment to the widely known and surprisingly simple technique for finding treasure-troves of credit card numbers online. He ...
Jangl Upgrades a Billion Phones Instantly, Adds Ability to Call Anyone Online, Worldwide, Anytime
Jangl Assigns a Phone Number to Every Email Address on the Internet — PLEASANTON, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Know someone online you'd like to talk to on the phone, but don't have their phone number - o...
THERE'S A HOLE IN YOUR TWITTER
You know Twitter, yeah? And you know how people love it because they can stay in touch with their friends and communicate privately what they're up to? — Well. If you use it like this and are happ...
Microsoft too busy to name Linux patents
OSBC First you get everyone riled claiming open source and Linux infringe on your patents, then you won't detail those patents. Why? The paperwork. — Yes, Microsoft cited administrative overhead f...
The OpenCoffee Club Movement
The OpenCoffee Club is "a place for people who love startups to hang out and meet" according to their recently launched social site on Ning.com. From Cork to Capetown, Seattle to Sydney, and Paris to...
Google patent app shows extensive Google plans for mobile search
A Google Patent application newly published on the United States Patent & Trademark Office website this morning appears to furnish extensive details on Google's plans for enhanced local searches via m...
SONY DELIVERS BIG SOUND IN MICRO HOME THEATER SYSTEM
Delivering big sound in a small package, Sony today introduced the DAV-IS10 micro home theater system. — The 5.1 channel home-theater-in-a-box system features five tiny speakers - each about the siz...
IT spending: March 'air pocket' or something worse?
Network Appliance (NTAP) reported strong fiscal 2007 results, but cut its first quarter outlook due to a technology slowdown in March. Network Appliance, which sells storage gear, called March an "ai...
Windows XP SP3 in the Works - Microsoft Confirms
Putting all rumors to rest, Microsoft today confirmed that Windows XP Service Pack 3 is very much under development and will be available later this year. — The Windows Service Packs roadmap still s...
The World's Thinnest Notebook
If it catches on, Intel's sleek laptop could be a game changer for PCs — When Intel asked designers to build a better laptop, its instructions were simple, really. The machine has to be fashionable...
Novell Reports Completion of Independent Stock-Based Compensation Review
Novell, Inc. today announced it has completed its self-initiated, voluntary review of the company's historical stock-based compensation practices and determined the related accounting impact.
HTC Kaiser Unboxing
Remember the exciting news from last evening? Here it is! As you can imagine, we've seen our share of devices here at BGR, and I personally have combed through almost all. Let's start it off like t...
Hard Drive Shifts Movie Viewing From the Desk to the Couch
Watching digital movies stored on a computer's hard drive on a TV set is still a relatively new idea, which is why hybrid products like the TrekStor MovieStation maxi t.u are popping up. This externa...
Apple and music labels accused of shortchanging artists
A fresh class action lawsuit charges Apple's iTunes, major online music shops, and top record labels with performing an end-run around a musician's permission and his royalty payments. — Dawg Music,...
2006 Online Ad Spending Hits Nearly $17 Billion
Online ad revenues continue their upward surge, hitting $16.9 billion in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual revenue report, released today. Search ads and dollars from con...
DOG (Distrust/Disdain of Google) moves in
Fear Of Google. FOG. It's all over the blogs today. I just got done reading my feeds and here's the posts that have FOG all over them: — Mary Jo Foley: Google is failing the Microsoft litmus test...
Network Appliance F4Q07 (Qtr End 4/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Analysts — Brent Bracelin - Pacific Crest Securities — Presentation — Operator — Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Fourth Quarter Network Appliance Earnings Con...
Novell and EFF Team Up to Reform Software Patents
Organizations Will Jointly Lobby Governments and International Organizations — Novell to Support EFF 'Patent Busting' Initiative — San Francisco (Open Source Business Conference) - Novell and the ...