Web Site for Job Seekers Is Sold
Laurel Touby turned her popular cocktail parties into a high-traffic Web site for job-seeking media and creative professionals. Yesterday, she sold Mediabistro.com, the company that sprang from those...
Dow Jones Board Approves Sale
Backing of News Corp. Offer — Puts Pressure on Family; — A Bancroft Exits Meeting — The board of Dow Jones & Co. voted to approve News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the company last night, with two...
Yahoo! Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Analysts — Presentation — Operator — Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Yahoo! Q2 2007 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn the ...
Firefox fixes Internet Explorer flaw
Mozilla has just released Firefox 2.0.0.5 which purportedly fixes one of the attack vectors of the Internet Explorer input validation flaw that I previously detailed. I will go on the record as stati...
Democracy Player is dead, long live Miro
Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clie...
Last Harry Potter leaks online
The new Harry Potter novel — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — has hit the Internet days before its publication. The publisher spent a reported $20 million on keeping the book secret. Was the m...
EU regulators drop mobile phone probe
EU regulators drop mobile phone probe — BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Commission said Wednesday it had dropped its antitrust investigation into mobile phone roaming prices charged by operators in...
The very first iPhone
In late June, the [iPod] iPhone hit the US market. Apple aficionados queued for days to be first in line to get their greedy little paws on the long awaited gadget. fudder-employee Marc Esslinger is ...
SocialMedia is a new kind of widget ad network
Seth Goldstein and David Henderson have teamed up with one of the leading Facebook application developers and launched SocialMedia: part widget developer, part widget hosting provider/ad network. Alo...
"I'd close World of Warcraft!" MUD creator Richard Bartle on the state of virtual worlds
A couple of weeks ago I promised an interview with Richard Bartle, co-creator of the original Multi-User Dungeon (or Domain if you prefer) set up back in 1978 at the University of Essex.
Possession of Social Capital With Intent to Distribute
So a guy logs into Facebook. He posts a message on some girl's wall. This makes her socially obligated to reciprocate. The whole transaction is public. — What he said doesn't matter. What she sa...
SunRocket Users May Lose Service and Payments
Telephone service could be lost for more than 200,000 customers of SunRocket, an Internet telephone company that said on Tuesday that it had gone out of business, according to a person involved in its...
EU backs standard for mobile TV
European officials have backed a single standard for the rollout of mobile TV services across Europe. — Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has called on member states to roll out services using th...
Can we design gadgets that age?
iPhone: built to be perfect. Photograph: Michael Nagle/Getty — I harbour a pet obsession with materials - more specifically the idea of using alternative materials for the manufacture of electronic...