I don't believe in the death penalty... for people
But I do believe in the death penalty for corporations. — Sometimes they do something so heinous, so unacceptable, that the only just punishment is oblivion. — An example: We should have put Exxon...
AT&T to target pirated content
It joins Hollywood in trying to keep bootleg material off its network. — AT&T Inc. has joined Hollywood studios and recording companies in trying to keep pirated films, music and other content off i...
Update to our event on 6/14
eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity. After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed that...
Microsoft Plugs 15 Security Holes
Microsoft issued free software updates today to fix at least 15 separate security flaws in its Windows operating system and other software. Windows users can grab the patches by visiting Microsoft Up...
EBay pulls ads from Google's U.S. ad network
But it keeps its AdWords campaigns going outside of the U.S. — EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be se...
"comScore Widget Metrix" Service Launched to Track Widget Usage Across the Web
Photo-related Widgets Dominate the Top 10; — Slide Ranks #1 with Worldwide Reach of 117 Million People — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore W...
Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime
Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle "botherders" and elevate the public's cyber security awareness of botnets. ...
Give your Photos the fun of Flickr
You may have recently seen the announcement that we'll be closing Yahoo! Photos and focusing all our efforts on Yahoo's photo sharing community, Flickr. — If you use Yahoo! Photos, fear not. We're ...
Facebook forced to sell stake after 'hardware stuff-up'
The networking site had to dilute its holding by 10 per cent after realising it hadn't bought enough servers to cope with its expansion — The owners of Facebook, the fast growing social network, wer...
Church asks Japan to join Sony campaign
LONDON - The Church of England on Wednesday urged the people of Japan to join its campaign against a violent Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). computer game that allegedly uses a British cathedral as a bac...
SanDisk Signs Licensing Agreement to Support DivX Format Video
Relationship will Allow Consumers to Enjoy High-Quality DivX Video in the Home or on the Go — DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) and SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced a licensing agreement a...
Ad software maker OpenAds girds to take on Google
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Openads, a supplier of free software used by Web sites to manage online ad campaigns, has received $5 million in initial funding, bolstering it to prepare for increasing comp...
Mahalo Greenhouse Launches
Two weeks ago we launched the human-powered "search service" Mahalo.com in alpha at the WSJ's D conference in California. The tag line of Mahalo is "we're here to help," and after 15 days of tremendo...
DIGG FOR THE IPHONE
What are iPhone applications going to look and feel like? We saw yesterday a simple shopping list application, and here's another one bound to be a big hit: Digg for the iPhone. — This "app," like ...
Announcements: Lifehacker's official Digg policy
Our brother site Gizmodo just clarified their Digg policy, so we thought it was high time we do the same. — First, let's state the obvious: Do we love the traffic that a link from the Digg.com front...
In and Out...
First, today we announced our investment in OpenAds, the developer of the leading free, open source adserving platform. Already used by more than 20,000 publishers across 140 countries in 20 language...
Voice First Look Viewer Available for the Live Grid
Voice is moving from the Beta Grid to the Live Grid! The Voice First Look Viewer is now available for download to use against the Live Grid. A "First Look" viewer is a publicly available test versio...
Web inventor gets Queen's honour
The inventor of the world wide web has been awarded the Order of Merit, one of the UK's most prestigious honours. — Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins an elite group who have received the honour from the Que...
Custom Search on the fly
Starting today, there's a new feature that makes Custom Search Engines (CSEs) even easier to create and keep up to date. — You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code o...
Confirmed: MS conducting hardcore turning on ROD Xbox 360's - Extra Cooling!
Just yesterday we reported on how French Xbox 360's were being repaired by Microsoft with extra cooling. And today, Czech reader Ikari mailed us in pictures of his newly repaired Xbox 360 from Micros...
A Quick Look Back, A Strong Push Forward
I hope you're enjoying our official SCEA blog. Personally speaking, it's great to finally have a place where we can talk candidly about the things we (and you) care about. While it's no substitute f...
Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced
Last week, I participated in the duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I couldn't resist the opportunity to show how Buffy is applicable to the everday Search marketing world, but mostly I was th...
New video-game league seeks mass appeal
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—To Kat Hunter, it was a no-brainer to make Vanessa Arteaga the very first draft pick for a new pro video-game league. — "Vanessa is a guaranteed win," said Hunter, general mana...
Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7, Firefox
Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted Safari 3's speed as one of its most appealing features. But in tests by Wired News, the first public beta of Safari for Windows is actually slower than both Internet Explo...
Happy hour with the iPhone
The American public will get its first chance to buy the iPhone at 6 p.m. in each local time zone, Apple confirmed Wednesday. — Somehow, I don't think Apple and AT&T will have two-for-one specials o...
CNN, YOUTUBE TO UNVEIL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE DETAILS THURSDAY
In a press call on Thursday morning, CNN and YouTube will unveil the details for the cable news channel's upcoming presidential debate coverage, claiming that the two are "teaming up to provide an unp...
Spartan DX personal DNA tester goes for a mere $15k
Just we always wanted, a DNA tester to call our very own! We've been waiting for them to break that crucial $15k pricepoint, and now Spartan Bioscience has finally accomplished such a feat with its S...
EARTH & THE ENVIRONMENT
From trends in alternative energy to products for environmental efficiency to tips you can use, the best of what's right—right now. — JAY'S GREEN GARAGE — Like most of us, Jay Leno has been lookin...
The vibe
Have you ever been at a banquet or in a boutique or at a concert or a meeting or a company where the vibe was incredibly positive? — I think you know what I mean. A time and place where there was a...
Microsoft to reflect UK dialects
A Microsoft project to create downloadable dictionaries to reflect the UK's rich local dialect heritage is drawing to a close. — Users around the UK have been asked to submit their favourite regiona...
Cisco's new acquisition talisman
newsmaker Ned Hooper is the latest in a long line of executives at Cisco Systems to head the company's mergers and acquisition unit. But will he be able to keep the magic alive that has made Cisco su...
DID FACEBOOK UNDERESTIMATE THE PLATFORM'S SUCCESS?
SECOND UPDATE: Check the end of this post for some more information from Facebook and ViddYou. — I think most of the Web has reached the consensus that Facebook Platform, the social networking site'...
Updating Maps on the Spot and Sharing the Fixes
Out-of-date maps can throw a wrench into your driving plans, but TomTom's new Map Share software combines cartography with community to allow users to update maps on the go — and later share the resul...
That iPhone Is Missing a Keyboard*
If there is a billion-dollar gamble underlying Apple's iPhone, it lies in what this smart cellphone does not have: a mechanical keyboard. — As the clearest expression yet of the Apple chief executiv...
OpenAds: A step in the right direction
I may be reading too much into this, but I take hope in a $5 million investment VCs made today in the company behind Openads, a free, open-source ad server. They already serve more than 20,000 publis...
YouTube Fails Us Politically (or is it vice versa?)
There's a blog-sharp maw waiting to gnash anyone who is critical of the democratizing power of YouTube. If you deride its star-making potential, you're accused of old media partisanship. If you doub...
An OpenSolaris/Linux Mashup
To non-technical readers of this blog, or those uninterested in the ebbs and tides of the free software world... this might be a good entry to skip. — I was just forwarded a pointer to this note reg...
Santa Rosa comes to the Mac: a review of the new MacBook Pro
Santa Rosa in the house — Apple MacBook Pro — Quick specs: 2.40GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, 17" 1920x1200 LCD — Price as configured: $2,899 (shop for this item) — Since Apple made th...
Everyscape: A 3D Worldviewer Made From 2D Photos
Everyscape aims to be able to show you the whole world — both inside and out — from its website. It plans to do this with normal 2D photos. Using proprietary technology Everyscape will stitch these ...
Google to use YouTube to amass video database
SEARCH FIRM WILL TEST ABILITY TO FILTER ILLEGAL CONTENT — It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way fo...
More ways for you to give us input
At Google, we are always working hard to provide searchers with the best possible results. We've found that our spam reporting form is a great way to get your input as we continue to improve our resu...
Ron Conway: Third-rate VCs are paying off entrepreneurs
Ron Conway, the most prolific investor in the latest wave of Internet companies, is hot for video companies, and ways to monetize them. — However, he's upset by some recent investment practices, he ...
Google Video Flaw Raises Privacy Concerns by Exposing Usernames and Passwords
Since we like reporting about search in forums, we generally wait for the discussion to begin there. As such, earlier this morning, Insomniac (aka Entriple) told Barry about a flaw in Google Video an...
'Widgets' May Snag More Ads
New data on viewing photos, videos and music on the Web may have an impact on the way advertisers and social networking sites perceive firms that help create this content. — Nearly 177.8 million peo...
BioWare Adapts Complex Event Processing To Online Gaming World
BioWare is using StreamBase's Stream Processing Engine, which is able to analyze up to 350,000 messages per second, for tracking players' actions and movements. — Complex event processing, a new tec...