Why I disagree with Privacy International
Sigh. Google as a company takes privacy very seriously. I personally feel strongly about protecting our users' privacy. So I'm frustrated by a recent study that Privacy International did, and I wan...
Exact Keynote Transcript for WWDC07 [UPDATED]
In a last minute find, I happened across a German site that has an outline of tomorrow's play by play of Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote. The text has some issues when I performed the translation but I've c...
GE, Microsoft Discussed Buying Dow Jones
General Electric Co. and Microsoft Corp. were in discussions in recent weeks to combine Dow Jones & Co. with some portions of GE's NBC Universal, parrying a bid by News Corp., but the two sides couldn...
Movie studios fear the sequel to iPod
They see risk that new Apple TV signals effort to control distribution. — Some movie fans hope Apple TV will do for Internet video what the iPod did for digital music. — That's precisely what some...
Me.dium Secures $15M Series B - The Dawn of Collaborative Browsing?
Colorado-based Me.dium is announcing today a $15M Series B round led by Commonwealth Venture Partners. Me.dium is developing a next-generation collaborative browsing technology that dynamically combi...
Adobe Flex
Adobe® Flex™ 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems. — This page provides a summary of ...
QUEENS POL BLASTS GOOGLE AS A TERROR RISK
A Queens lawmaker is calling on Google to sharpen its focus on security by blurring satellite images of sensitive locations. — Assemblyman Mike Gianaris fired off a letter on June 5 to Google CEO Er...
Google Intensifies Microsoft Fight
Google Inc. has told state and federal antitrust authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating-system software puts rivals at a disadvantage in violation of Microsoft's antitrust settleme...
Hollywood's YouTube frustration grows
news analysis Google and its YouTube subsidiary are trying Hollywood's patience. — The search engine has made significant progress in recent weeks signing content partnership deals for YouTube. But...
Computex 2007: Philips Takes on AppleTV
The AppleTV may have already been hacked to pieces, making it a lot more convenient to us with downloaded files than it is out of the box. However, for those overly zealous Mac haters, or just those ...
Church wants cash for 'sick' game
Entertainment giant Sony has been branded irresponsible for using a cathedral from a city plagued by gun crime in a violent video game. — The Church of England says the company did not seek permissi...
Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers
THE seven million or so inhabitants of Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, have spent millions of dollars on digital makeovers, clothing and other goods and services for their avatars. —...
Marketers Are Joining the Varsity
Athletes, if they are talented, train hard and get a break or two, can climb the sports ladder from high school to college to the pros. Madison Avenue, sensing a lucrative opportunity, is heading the...
Xbox 360 Games for Change Challenge
New York—Microsoft and Games for Change (G4C) announced a joint commitment to explore new ways to bring together the world of digital gaming with the world of social change at the fourth annual Games ...
MPAA accuses TorrentSpy of concealing evidence
The movie studios may have discovered a new and powerful weapon in its war on copyright infringement. — The courts have for the first time found that the electronic trail briefly left in a computer ...
Wi-Fi memory cards coming to cameras
Think of it as point, shoot and post. — In the fall, start-up Eye-Fi plans to release Secure Digital memory cards with integrated Wi-Fi chips. With the card, digital cameras will be able to automat...
OpenOffice worm Badbunny hops across operating systems
Malicious software targeting OpenOffice.org documents is spreading through multiple operating systems, according to Symantec. — "A new worm is being distributed within malicious OpenOffice documents...
Nokia's "not enthusiastic" about touchscreens — Apple, LG, and HTC say wha?
Apple, LG, and HTC say wha? — Nokia's General Manager of Mobile Devices, Antii Vasara, had some interesting things to say in an interview with Sweden's E24.SE this morning. Of course, the fact that ...