Online Radio Is Saved; SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates on Sunday
At today's Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it (as readers of this blog already know), SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new ro...
Net Radio Wins Partial Reprieve as Royalties Loom
A coalition of webcasters have worked out a deal with the recording industry that could temporarily stave off a portion of crippling net radio royalties set to take effect Sunday, according to people ...
What is Facebook worth?
There's been a debate raging on Techmeme, the website that turns the tech blogosphere into a mail list, about the value of Facebook. — I have two answers to the question: 1. A lot. 2. Or very litt...
NTT DoCoMo Begins Super 3G Experiment
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that this month it began testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications. With this experiment, DoCoMo will seek to achieve a downlink transmission ...
Discover new galaxies!
Sometimes, astronomy is a zoo. — One of the big problems in recent astronomy is that we're collecting data faster than we can analyze it. This is no joke; modern survey telescopes equipped with dig...
Facebook Backlash: What If They Can't Sell Any Ads? (Updated)
There's a growing counter theory to the snowballing buzz on Facebook. The contrary view is that the company, rather than having a potential value in the billions, might really be worth next to nothin...
Intel and $100 laptop join forces
Chip-maker Intel has joined forces with the makers of the $100 laptop project. — The agreement marks a huge turnaround for both the not-for profit One laptop per Child (OLPC) foundation and Intel. ...
E3: David Reeves Talks PS3
The Euro bundle, the new PSP and the fight to be market leader. … GamesIndustry.biz: Now you've made the announcement about the PS3 bundle for Europe, what kind of reaction are you expecting? — Davi...
Fortune iMeme: VCs Talk About The New Tech Economy; Facebook '07 Rev To Top $100 Million
It's a bright shiny morning in San Francisco, where I'm back for the Fortune iMeme conference at the Ritz-Carlton. I'm here listening to a panel of venture capitalists talking about the outlook for t...
LinkedIn Traffic Up 323% in Past Year, Users More Likely to be on Gmail
Have you been getting a flurry in LinkedIn invitations in the past few months? I have been receiving a few requests a week, so I wasn't surprised to find that the market share of US visits to LinkedI...
About 25 percent of iPhone buyers are 'switchers' to AT&T - firm
About one quarter of consumers adopting Apple's heavily-hyped iPhone handset are 'switchers' to AT&T from other carriers, financial firm American Technology Research reported on Friday, citing unnamed...
PS3 60 Gig Phase-Out 'False' Claims SCEA
Confusion surrounds the future of the $499 60Gig version of PS3. SCEA has denied 'inaccurate' reports that its $100 price cut on the 60Gig PS3 is simply a move to clear stock before offering solely t...
Google takes swipe at Viacom
Google on Friday mocked media conglomerate Viacom, which is suing the search giant for $1 billion for "massive copyright infringement" by its video-sharing site YouTube. — Google CEO Eric Schmidt, s...
Sun Valley: Late Night With Eric Schmidt
Thursday night at the Allen & Company conference at Sun Valley, the mogul-cracy was in full frolic by the time DealBook and his fellow press buddies got back from dinner. The juxtapositions were fasc...
Windows Vista: Six Months In, Your Mileage May Vary
This may be news to Jessica Mintz of the Associated Press, but not every Vista user has been griping. While it's easy to look to Chris Pirillo's 52-minute rant on Vista, people forget that Chris has ...
Six months on, Vista users still griping
Some working around flaws or sticking with Windows XP — Chris Pirillo posted a 52-minute video rant on YouTube in March, complaining about Windows Vista. He runs a network of blogs about technology...
Intel Joins One Laptop per Child
Intel said today they will be working with One Laptop per Child (OLPC) to bring technology to the developing world and that they will also be joining the board of OLPC. — OLPC is a non-profit whose ...
Sony: Enough 60GBs for "several months" in U.S. [Update 4]
Dave Karraker of Sony Computer Entertainment of America has contacted Joystiq to give us clarification on the story that would have made us believe Sony had truly lost its mind once and for all. The ...
Your bank has a REST API now (shhh! — don't tell them)
don't tell them) — I'm very happy to announce the launch of the Wesabe API. This is a new release for us, and a new way of using Wesabe — as a tool for getting your data out of your banks and credit...
Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years
It's easy enough to find out how long copyrights last, but much harder to decide how long they should last—but that didn't stop Cambridge University PhD candidate Rufus Pollock from using economics fo...
comScore Releases Worldwide Rankings of Top Web Properties 772 Million People Online Worldwide in May
Online Retail and E-Commerce Sites Boosted by Holiday Spending — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of global Internet traffic for the month of May …
Google (China) vs. Beijing Guge
Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd. (.) is suing Google China () for disrupting its business - both companies use the name and this causes confusion. From Reuters: … The Reuters report was based...
AdSense for mobile launches in Beta
Just a quick update rather than a post, a feature high up on the request list for some has now come to fruition. I received an email tonight to say that I was invited to test out Adsense for Mobile. ...
iPhone buyers have no regrets
Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices, a survey out Friday says, and Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) are luring customers from rivals as a result. — In one of the first such stud...
iPhone buyers have no regrets
Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices, a survey out Friday says, and Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) are luring customers from rivals as a result. — In one of the first such stud...
LinkedIn's Growth Impresses But Still An Early Adopter Toy
If you are reading the a:c you are probably an early tech adopter and LinkedIn seems like old hat. But a report from Hitwise says that while visits to LinkedIN are up 323% year-over-year, its still m...
PHP 4 end of life announcement
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way,...
INEVITABLE: THE INVITATION EXCHANGE
The guys at TechCrunch have been thinking the same thing we have been over here: With all these invitation-based Web 2.0 betas flying around, someone could do the world a service by building an exchan...
NTT DOCOMO TESTS SUPER 3G SYSTEM WITH UP TO 300MBPS DATA TRANSFER RATES
NTT DoCoMo has always been ahead when it comes to the introduction of new mobile technologies. Japanese were already playing multimedia games when consumers in U.S. were only trying their first SMS m...
Asus Eee PC First Thoughts
The Asus Eee PC 701 notebook was officially announced at the beginning of June at Computex Taipei. Today I met with Asus to get a close-up look at this new device and talk more about the company's go...
iPhone's black screen of death
Being a PC person, I've encountered the dreaded "blue screen of death." — I've never seen a comparable thing on Apple products. (I have heard of the sad Mac face, or the sick iPod face.) So, much ...
Windows Live Mobile Search 2.0 Out
Microsoft released the second version of its Windows Live Mobile Search application on Friday, including some new features for both the standalone and Web-based versions of the client. — Versions of...
One on one with Nintendo at E3
Nintendo's press conference was arguably the most controversial of the show; some have walked away from the company's unveilings feeling disappointed, while others were elated. We found ourselves som...
Mythbusting: Why Facebook isn't the reincarnation of Google
Why Facebook isn't the reincarnation of Google … NICK DENTON — People assume that Facebook will find some way to make money besides traditional advertising, which is clearly not working. And why do t...
Facebook IPO: Fact or Fiction
So I was wrong, and Mark Zuckerberg was right to not sell his company for 3/4th of a billion to Yahoo. The prices since then have only gone up - even if they are prices of perceptions. Microsoft has...
Tiscali 'To Acquire' Pipex's Broadband Business For $420 Million
Italian broadband, IPTV and telephony provider Tiscali is expected to acquire a part of one of Britain's oldest ISPs, Pipex, today in a deal worth almost £210 ($420) million. Tiscali shares were susp...
One Man's Quest for $10 DSL: Revolutions
Okay, this is the final chapter of the process, as I now have it ordered. Whether it will work is another story, but we'll talk about that once the activation date for the DSL has passed. For the ot...
NetBooks targeting small business with on demand suite
In his bio, Ridgely Evers notes that he has been the CEO of four Internet-related companies and that he conceived, designed, led the development, and drove the launch of Intuit's QuickBooks small busi...
Get An Invite To Any Private Beta
One of the most frustrating things for early adopters like ourselves to deal with is the private, limited invitation beta. The startups seed a few invitations to their friends, and each new account h...