Bombshell from RealNetworks: Rip/Save/Burn "All"
Just a few minutes ago at the "D" conference in Carlsbad, California, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser made a bombshell announcement about a new product from RealNetworks.
EMI Music, Google and YouTube strike milestone partnership
Fans to have on-demand access to videos from EMI Music's roster of artists on YouTube — EMI Music - one of the world's leading global music companies, Google and YouTube, the leader in online video ...
WHAT THE IMMERSIVE MEDIA PHOTO-CAR LOOKS LIKE!
You've all heard about what Google is doing with street-level views, right? — What you probably all DIDN'T know, however, is that the company actually shooting the majority of the photos for Google'...
TiVo prepping a "mass appeal" HD DVR priced below Series 3
Everyone knows that true DVR nirvana requires support for sweet, sweet HD video. Yet while the cost of HDTVs has dropped sharply in the last 5 years, the cost of getting an HD TiVo up and running has...
VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel
A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference. — The complete Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview videos: — Steve Jobs ...
Bancrofts Open Door To a Sale Of Dow Jones
Controlling Family Says — It Will Meet Murdoch, — Consider Other Offers — Dow Jones & Co.'s 125-year history as an independent media company could be nearing an end. — The Bancroft family, whi...
Linden Lab: The virtual world just got a little more real
TIM FAULKNER — Second Life may face a new threat, the need to apply and enforce real law in its virtual world. A Pennsylvania court has denied two requests by Linden Lab, which would have effectively...
Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt
Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiqu...
D5: YouTubers and Viacom CEO weigh in on copyrights
Before coming on stage at the D conference, a cute video about the making of YouTube was shown, where co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are talking about coming up with a business idea while they...
Wii will rock you
Fortune's Jeffrey M. O'Brien explains how Nintendo's new game machine won over the world - and beat the pants off Sony and Microsoft. — (Fortune Magazine) — Nintendo's legendary videogame designer S...
Multiverse Wins $4 Million in Funding
Multiverse, the open virtual-world building platform complete with universal browser being developed by some early Netscape employees, has just won $4.175 million in funding, according to a press rele...
Parallels 3.0 supports 3D games, 'SmartSelect'
Parallels on Thursday announced Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac. This new version supports 3D gaming and adds a new feature called SmartSelect. — Parallels Desktop enables Intel-based Mac users to ru...
New MacBook Pros on Tuesday, June 5th 2007? [Updated]
While we had heard convincing reports that the MacBook Pro updates would have to wait until WWDC (June 11th), a few new reports have started trickling in that the MacBook Pro could see updates as soon...
Campus Lawsuits Against P2P != Stopping File Sharing
The NPD Group's latest music stats provide yet another reason that the RIAA's war on college students is misguided: … This data suggests offline sharing is growing, and that's to be expected. Along w...
About Camera Raw 4.1
Adobe has released Camera Raw 4.1, and rather than a small update just for new cameras, this one is major. New features and new functionality are showing up in a long awaited upgrade of Camera Raw's ...
Why VC
Kevin Burton is surprised by a VentureBeat interview in which I mentioned we were raising money for Twitter. Says Kevin, "It just seems a shame that they're going down this path as Obvious seemed lik...
The New Portals: It's the Bread, Not the Peanut Butter
This guest post is written by David Sacks, the founder and CEO of new startup Geni. Previously, he was COO of PayPal. He also produced the movie "Thank You For Smoking." — For the last several yea...
Google moves to take on Microsoft
Google will announce an initiative on Thursday that will take its applications beyond the web and challenge Microsoft on its home turf of the computer hard-drive. — The internet company is launching...
'Spam King' suspect seized
Feds say arrest may lead to sharp drop in illegal e-mail — The Seattle man is accused of illegally clogging the planet's inboxes with billions of illegal e-mails using hijacked computer networks. —...
Will music industry dance again to Apple's tune?
news analysis Apple has plunged into uncharted waters by stripping security software off some of its music. — Never before has Apple sold songs without attaching antipiracy software—the digital righ...
Look, Ma — no wires!
no wires! — Since launching Checkout last summer, we've been working hard to extend it to new merchants and buyers. Last month, for example, we took a big step forward by making Checkout available t...
Lenovo Debuts Thinkpad X61 Tablet PCs
In one of the worst kept secrets in the Tabletscape, Lenovo is debuting its new Thinkpad X61 Tablet PCs, and yes, Dennis already has one of the newer models to evaluate. The Thinkpad X61 is a Core 2 ...
Studies: music industry overstating threat of P2P piracy
Unauthorized sharing of digital music remains a huge issue for the global music business, but is most of that sharing taking place on peer-to-peer networks? For years, peer-to-peer was the bogeyman, ...
Google agrees to acquire Panoramio
We are very (and we mean very) happy to announce that Panoramio will be acquired by Google. — The integration of photos from Panoramio in Google Earth has been so successful since John Hanke suggest...
AP steps up online copyright protection
SAN FRANCISCO - The Associated Press will intensify its efforts to protect its copyrights on the Web and possibly uncover new sources of revenue by working with a Silicon Valley startup that's trying ...