Google Photos Stir a Debate Over Privacy
For Mary Kalin-Casey, it was never about her cat. — Ms. Kalin-Casey, who manages an apartment building here with her husband, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new feature in Google's ma...
Final GPLv3 Draft Provisions 'Good for Novell Customers'
Novell has welcomed the provisions of the fourth, and final, draft of the upcoming GNU General Public License 3.0, which allow it to include technologies under this license in SUSE Linux Enterprise, O...
It's True-gle!
Unlike the rumor that FeedBurner is nearly code-complete on a multiplayer Wii edition, the blog posts, phone calls and conjecture about our future as part of the Google family tree are now officially ...
Anger over DRM-free iTunes tracks
The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them. — Some fear this data could be used to identify the ow...
Live Search Books: Now with In-Copyright Content
Today we're delighted to announce the availability of in-copyright book content in the Beta version of Live Search Books! — For hundreds of years books have been the repositories for the world's mos...
Activision Addresses Wii Third-Party Debate
Activision is confident that third-party publishers can succeed on Nintendo platforms, as the company confirmed today it is "reinvesting" in Nintendo in a way that eclipses the publisher's prior GameC...
Apple preps MacBook Pro updates, launches online outlet
Several bits of anecdotal evidence have turned up in recent days to suggest that it won't be long before Apple refreshes its professional notebook line with speedier models. Meanwhile, tipsters note ...
Keeping Second Life Safe, Together
The diversity of things to see and do within Second Life is almost unimaginable, but our community has made it clear to us that certain types of content and activity are simply not acceptable in any f...
Apple spruces up Special Deals section as new Apple Outlet
As anyone with dilapidated hardware can tell you, we are perpetually on the lookout for a new machine. The 800Mhz iBook G4 I'm writing on qualifies as a bit dilapidated in my mind. My issue is that ...
ChoicePoint Settles With 44 States in Data Losses
Data broker ChoicePoint agreed Thursday to pay $500,000 to 44 states as part of a settlement stemming from a 2005 data breach at the Alpharetta, Ga.-based company. The breach involved more than 160,0...
Yes, you heard right...PARALLELS DESKTOP 3.0 IS ALMOST HERE!
About 3 hours ago we let the world know that for the last few months, we've been quietly building and testing an entirely new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Named Desktop for Mac 3.0, this for...
Studio CEO: Blockbuster, Best Buy to launch movie download services
Best Buy and Blockbuster are both set to enter the growing movie download business—at least that's what Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told a bunch of industry analysts during a conference call yesterda...
Slacker Snares $40 Million
If Last.fm was worth $280 million after raising just $5 million in venture capital, what about a social music company that's raised more than $50 million? We may soon find out with Slacker Inc. — p...
Google Developer Day Videos Posted
As you saw from the many posts yesterday the Google Developer Day was full of announcements and in-depth technical sessions. 63 videos from Google Dev Days around the world have been posted to YouTube...
New AACS "fix" hacked in a day
The ongoing war between content producers and hackers over the AACS copy protection used in HD DVD and Blu-ray discs produced yet another skirmish last week, and as has been the case as of late, the h...
MLB aims brushback pitch at Slingbox
news analysis One high-and-inside pitch can be harmless in baseball, but two in a row is a strongly worded message. — This week Major League Baseball lobbed its second brushback pitch at Slingbox, r...
Social Media Analytics' Keibi Raises $6M
Last year Keibi Technologies' Paul Remer was General Counsel at photo social network Piczo. He says that while users generated content Piczo was fantastic, it was hard to process. So Remer launched ...
LiveJournal apologizes for mass deletion
LiveJournal apologized Thursday for a mass deletion of sex-themed discussions that purged literary criticism and accounts belonging to role-playing game characters and led to an unprecedented user rev...
AOL Local Search Beta
News & Updates — Welcome! — The AOL Local Search Beta allows you to find a local business or location with AOL Local by following three simple steps: — Enter a query term, such as PIZZA, a busine...
'Second Life' takes tough stance on taboos
Second Life has come under fire for some taboo sexual behavior among residents of the online world. Now maker Linden Lab is trying to lay down the law regarding what is and isn't permitted in Second ...
Nielsen: Ratings drop nonexistent when DVRs are accounted for
The proliferation of DVRs has not only affected how many people are reached by television-based advertising, it has also noticeably affected the ratings. A portion of a new study by Nielsen Media Res...
Appeals court ruling upholds Net phone taxes
A federal appeals court on Friday largely upheld a requirement that Internet phone companies like Vonage pay taxes into a fund to subsidize rural telephone service, but voice over Internet protocol re...
PSP PHONE FROM SONY ERICSSON
Nowadays everything seems to be converging into a mobile phone. It already can be a perfectly good digital camera, a mobile TV station a music player or GPS receiver. One of the things missing here ...
The Spam Bust That Wasn't
Robert Alan Soloway, the notorious Seattle spam marketer known as the "Spam King," was arrested Wednesday after being indicted on charges that include identity theft, money laundering and mail fraud. ...
Last.fm, CBS' $280 million hedge for its radio biz?
Why did CBS decide to spend $280 million to buy Last.fm, a UK-based music community that faces many challengers, and other risks such as the rapidly transforming Internet streaming royalty structure? ...
CNN Launches New Beta Website
This morning, Steve pointed to me to the new beta version of the CNN.com website, which is now available for public testing. You can view it here and take a guided tour of the new site here. Followi...
Towel Talk: Bancrofts to date Murdoch, likely to marry an LBO firm
Dow Jones & Company's (NYSE: DJ) Wall Street Journal (a.k.a., The Towel) occupies a unique spot in the media firmament. As I pointed out earlier in the year, it changed its format and now looks to me...
Hacker taps into Carson city coffers
A cyber-thief was able to take $450,000 from the city of Carson's general fund as part of an elaborate scheme that officials said raises questions about the security of municipal coffers. — Authorit...
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ubuntu applications
Ubuntu 7.04 has quickly become the operating system of choice for millions of people around the world - whether they're Linux newcomers, Windows and Mac defectors or pony-tailed system administrators ...
A Tale Of Two Cultures
Last week I had the opportunity to present some very preliminary results from our Chinese eye tracking study to a Chinese audience at Search Engine Strategies Xiamen. We're still going over the resul...
RIA: What is it good for?
This year there has been an explosion in Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks. The first major player to announce one was Adobe and its Apollo framework, which Richard covered back in March and...
Venezuela's counter-revolution won't be televised... but it will be on YouTube
When YouTube CEO Chad Hurley told a Congressional committee that his company "advances democracy," perhaps this was the sort of thing he had in mind. — An opposition Venezuelan television station wh...
Beware of that man between you and your Google Desktop
Last month, I wrote a piece about Robert Hansens Mr-T (Master Recon-Tool), a powerful tool that harvests data leaking out of Web browsers. In the post, I talked about how these types of reconnaissanc...
How Online Criminals Make Themselves Tough to Find, Near Impossible to Nab
Forensic investigations start at the end. Think of it: You wouldn't start using science and technology to establish facts (that's the dictionary definition of forensics) unless you had some reason to...
Is VC Bashing Passe?
News that Evan William is taking venture money for Twitter got me thinking. Is VC bashing finally passe? — We went through a period in the late 1990s during which people lusted after VCs and stalke...
What To Make Of Google Gears
Being a non-developer I was a bit of a fish out of water at Google Developer Day yesterday. The event, which took place in the 10 countries where Google has offices, was intended to showcase Google G...
Google Launches New Tool for Google Book Search Partner Program
Google will unveil a new marketing tool today at BookExpo America, as part of the Google Book Search Partner Program. The program, which will allow publishers to put a co-branded Google Book Search t...
Meshfight! Meta-Battle Between New Media And Old Media Over Panel About New Media vs. Old Media
Greetings from Mesh! Or, "mesh" as the e.e. cummings interweb types like to call it. I am at the Mesh conference in Toronto, and it is awesome (you hear that, Jian Ghomeshi?
Ten inconvenient truths about the music industry today
1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment "free music" rhetoric. — 2. Allofm...
YouTube content on the iPhone
One of the questions I asked Apple execs after the keynote at which Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone was to do with how feature-complete the version of Safari was that ran on the mobile device. I was t...
IS THERE ANY POINT IN LAUNCHING YOUR OWN SOCIAL APP?
When Facebook launched its new platform last week, a new era of interacting online was started. Suddenly companies can have immediate access to a network of over 25 million users which is growing at ...
TiVo deathwatch update: it's still on
As some of you may remember, a couple years back we (begrudgingly) posted a TiVo deathwatch, which was to remain active until TiVo becomes consistently profitable (or gets bought, or dies). Well, as ...
Google Photos Stir a Debate Over Privacy
For Mary Kalin-Casey, it was never about her cat. — Ms. Kalin-Casey, who manages an apartment building here with her husband, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new feature in Google's ma...
Yes, you heard right...PARALLELS DESKTOP 3.0 IS ALMOST HERE!
About 3 hours ago we let the world know that for the last few months, we've been quietly building and testing an entirely new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Named Desktop for Mac 3.0, this for...
Google buys RSS company FeedBurner
Google has acquired another medium for its advertising engine by purchasing FeedBurner, a company that distributes syndicated content for blogs and other media Web sites, the companies said Friday. —...