Amp'd Bankruptcy Filing: Verizon Wireless Largest Creditor With $33 Million
Amp'd Mobile's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware has a wealth of info on the company's creditors, and a list of shareholders of the company (we broke the story first he...
Hasbro unveils Real Gear Transformers based on real life gadgets
Those of you not able to bust out your cardboard box Optimus Prime costume and make a scene at your local theaters next month when the new Transformers movie hits can at least comfort yourselves with ...
The Next Web Conference happened today in Amsterdam.
Court Rules VoIP Providers Must Pay USF Fees
Internet telephone companies like Vonage must contribute to the Universal Service Fund (USF), a federal appeals court ruled Friday afternoon. If VoIP providers follow the lead of local, long-distance...
For Pornographers, Internet's Virtues Turn to Vices
The Internet was supposed to be a tremendous boon for the pornography industry, creating a global market of images and videos accessible from the privacy of a home computer. For a time it worked, wit...
Kevin Rose: Digg Expanding to Images, Restaurant and Product Reviews
Update: Now with video! — See also: 7 Ways to Stick it to the RIAA — On Friday, Kevin Rose spoke via video link at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam, outlining Digg's plans for expansion.
Canada seeks to shed image of movie-pirate haven
OTTAWA (Reuters) - That man at the end of the aisle in Canadian movie theaters may be doing more than munching popcorn — he may be a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer looking for movie pirates. —...
Google Gears: I've seen it all before
Back in 2002 I was director of marketing for UserLand Software. You know, Dave Winer's company. In January of 2002 we shipped Radio UserLand. It was pretty darn bleeding edge for its time. It had ...
Stats: Yahoo's disappearing management team
When we checked Yahoo's management page, we noticed yet another missing face: Lars Rabbe, the Sunnyvale internet company's chief information officer. Without much fanfare, he's moved over to Intuit, ...
Essay: Usenet, the Original Piracy Hotbed
So you think piracy is primarily taking place on BitTorrent, eMule and Gnutella? Think again. There is a whole parallel universe out there with people trading huge amounts of DVDs, TV shows, warez a...
My Soul, and 10 Other Things that Google Owns
The headlines just don't stop for Google. But with the now complete acquisition of Feedburner, are there any parts of our online lives that don't reside somewhere within the Googleplex? Through acqu...
Time to Write the FCC
Within the next month the Federal Communications Commission is very likely to issue final regulations governing the auction of valuable 700MHz spectrum, which, by law, must start at the beginning of 2...
Hugo Chavez coming out with his own PC?
Hugo Chavez, the cartoonish, combative leader of Venezuela, wants to come out with his own PC that he will then distribute to citizens in the region, according to sources in the PC industry who have b...
Facebook Polls Launches Tonight: Marketing Research Paradise
Facebook just launched a new product tonight called Facebook Polls - look for a link in the bottom navigation area next to "Advertising." — This is an advertising product that is designed to generat...
Zero-day sales not "fair" — to researchers
to researchers — Two years ago, Charles Miller found a remotely exploitable flaw in a common component of the Linux operating system, and as many enterprising vulnerability researchers are doing toda...
The Google 'ick' factor
Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighbo...
F-Secure CEO: There's more malware than ever
Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, recently rejoined the antivirus vendor from fellow Finnish company Nokia. silicon.com recently caught up with Alkio to discuss the security landscape, how governments sho...
Apple criticized for embedding names, e-mails in songs
It used to be that music fans believed cryptic messages about Satan or the death of a band member were hidden within rock albums. — Nowadays, the secrets buried in digital music are way too easy to ...
Hanging out in the Zoho data center
I am here in the Zoho data center. I'm hanging out with Kris of Zooomr. We're working on getting Zooomr back up. I am entertaining the hoardes that are hanging out in the chat room. — He is worki...