Record exec to academic: stop criticizing us or I'll tell your university
Andrew Dubber, who is on faculty at the University of Central England, blogged a link to a story critical of RIAA lawsuits. Paul Birch, a British record exec who sits on the boards of the BPI and IFP...
CellCarriers fear mobile VoIP planet
Why is T-Mobile UK blocking calls to mobile VoIP start-up Truphone? — Mobile carriers are scared of one thing: becoming dumb pipes whose only utility is to carry voice and text. And it is one of th...
Deconstructing Facebook
Have you noticed a massive surge on Facebook lately, since it opened itself up to everyone outside of .edu? I have — and I bet that other social networks are now scrambling to respond, especially in ...
Defending Avvo's Right to Provide Information and Guidance to Consumers
I would like to respond to the class action lawsuit filed against Avvo today. — Avvo.com is designed to give consumers information and guidance to choose the right attorney. There is very little gu...
Pearson Weighs Dow Jones Bid
Financial Times publisher Pearson PLC has been trying in recent weeks to recruit partners to pursue a possible bid for Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., according to people familiar with ...
1-800-FREE411 Receives Patent for Free 411 Ad-Supported Directory Assistance Service
Patent Discloses 1-800-FREE411's Proven Business Model in the Growing Free 411 Space — MENLO PARK, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jingle Networks, Inc., operator of the 1-800-FREE411 directory assistance se...
Facebook's app feeding frenzy
NEW YORK—At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written "I NEED AN APP" in thick black marker on his na...
Is iPhone AT&T's Magic Bullet?
Companies Featured in This Article: AT&T , Apple, Sprint Nextel, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group, Telefon AB LM Ericsson, Sony — AT&T Inc. stands a good chance of stealing c...
Pirates nab Michael Moore's yet-to-be released doc
From all that we've heard about Michael Moore's soon-to-be released documentary indictment of the U.S. health care system, he clearly supports universal health care. — But does he support universal ...
Quadrangle Capital Partners
Brownridge to Serve As CEO — NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Quadrangle Capital Partners II LP, a private equity fund focused on the media …
Valve Confirms Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 Launch Date
Last night, Valve representatives confirmed to Shacknews that the studio's upcoming trio of Source-powered games will ship for all announced platforms on October 9, 2007. The suite, sold at retail an...
Michael Moore's 'Sicko' Leaked Onto Web
Every Movie Marketer's Worst Nightmare Becomes Grim Reality for Weinstein Company — LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Michael Moore's new documentary "Sicko" has been pirated and is now widely available for...
How victim snared ID thief
She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell — If it hadn't been for the distinctive suede coat, there would have been no chase through the streets of San Francisco, no heroine and, in a...
Backend: Dell Demands Takedown Of Our "22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager"
subject Posting by former Dell employee — Please remove the posting located at the following link: — http://consumerist.com/consumer/ insiders/22-confessions-of-a-former- dell-sales-manager-268831...
LA DirecTV Customers Can Now Get NY's WNBC, Experience NBC's Amazing Shows 3 Hours Early
DirecTV called LAist on the phone and left us a message. The recorded voice said that DirecTV had worked out a deal with WNBC in NY that allowed certain zipcodes in LA the ability to get the east coa...
Apple iPhone launch deets
Have you been sitting at home alone, trying to figure out what the heck is going to happen June 29th? Should you camp out in the store and then hijack the FedEx delivery guy? Probably not. But we d...
BlogHer, site for female bloggers, said to get money from Venrock
BlogHer, a site that aims to popularize blogs by women, has raised its first round of capital from Silicon Valley firm, Venrock. — We're not sure of the amount. The company has declined comment, [a...
SOURCE: StudioNow
StudioNow, the innovative online video editing company (www.StudioNow.com), announced that it has raised $1.5M in funding. Led by Claritas Capital, the investment also comprised of several successful...
Why no iPhone SDK?
Scoble says Steve Jobs isn't an idiot, he knows that developers make a big difference in the success of a platform. He concludes that an SDK, turning the iPhone into an open platform, will come at so...
iPods to blame for total eclipse of the art, says Hockney
Public enemy number one ... according to David Hockney. — Richard Jinman and wires — THOSE who prefer a well-painted landscape to a diamond-studded skull or a roasted corgi now have a culprit to b...
MySpace, Facebook Privacy Limits Tested in Emotional Distress Suit
The operators of MySpace and Facebook social networking sites assure their millions of subscribers that only designated "friends" can read registrants' private postings. — But do the postings stay p...
Safari for Windows... but WHY?
Steve Jobs & Company must have known that releasing a Safari browser for the Windows platform was going to result in some serious blowback: vulnerabilities, outrage and of course, the mocking. And as...
Sony Ericsson intros 5Mp Cyber-shot phone
Receive the days biggest stories by email, sign up here — Sony Ericsson is to beef up its line of Cyber-shot camera phones with a new five-megapixel model, but you're going to have to wait until nea...
Yahoo defect endangers users — do web sites care?
do web sites care? — Summary: — Critical cross-site scripting (XSS) defect in Yahoo services is discovered — Proof of concept of exploit is included — XSS bugs are on the rise because of web 2.0+ ...
Orange France sold over 250,000 Unik phones
Orange (FTE.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) has sold more than 250,000 dual-mode Unik Wi-Fi mobile phones since their launch in November 2006, a key product on which it has staked its future growth as a...
Video: Review of the Jaiku Beta client for S60
This kicks Twitter in the balls and then makes love to its mother. Jonathan Greene takes a stab at reviewing the latest beta of the S60 Jaiku client and he does a great job, but if you're going to wa...
Sony chief ponders cut for PS3 price
Sir Howard Stringer, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Corp, said the electronics and entertainment company was trying to "refine" how much it could afford to cut the price of PlayStation 3 gam...
LANdroid Wireless Battle Net
Ever wish that your wireless network could follow you wherever you went? Yeah, so does the US Army. DARPA's LANdroid is a palm-sized, totally autonomous network router on cute little tank treads. I...
MySpace Mini-Episodes, Courtesy of Honda
YEARS after Volkswagen challenged drivers to "Think small," another automaker, Honda, plans to run smaller commercials for a smaller car in smaller versions of television series. — Honda will be the...
Skype 3.5 Beta for Windows initial release
Today we have released Skype 3.5 Beta for Windows. It includes many new features in comparison with Skype 3.2 for Windows. — This is a beta release which means that we are still working on it and t...
Bookmark Only What You Want: Clipmarks and Web-Chops
The bookmark has evolved since Mosaic's "Hotlist" in 1993. Now when we save a web page, we can rename it, describe it, categorize it, tag it, and even share it with others via a service like del.icio...
Michael Moore's Sicko leaked on the Net
Sicko, Michael Moore's scathing look at the healthcare industry and the pharmaceutical companies that are destroying it, is scheduled to debut June 29 in theaters. But, if you're the savvy keyboardin...
Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050
Davide Casaleggio sent a tip to Read/WriteWeb about a video his company produced exploring the future of media. It is a very cool 6-minute video, which takes some educated (and imaginative) guesses a...
Choice
Users Get to Decide their Document Formats — With ISO/IEC having standardized Open Document Format (ODF) 1. and considering standardizing Ecma Office Open XML (Open XML), there is a lot of public di...
Seattle Lawyers Sue New Lawyer-Rating Web Site
A lawyer representing two lawyers filed a lawsuit against a lawyer-rating Web site founded by a lawyer. — Got that? On Tuesday we told you about Avvo, a new free site that rates and profiles lawyer...