For NowPublic Citizen Journalism Seems to Work
NowPublic, a Vancouver-based citizen journalism site has raised $10.6 million in Series A funding from Rho Ventures/Rho Canada, Brightspark, and the Working Opportunity Fund. — So first off, that's ...
Google vs Jimmy Wales & Open Source Search
Jimmy Wales, the founder of not-for profit Wikipedia and for-profit, San Mateo, Calif.-based Wikia is part of a growing number of people who are discomforted by the growing control Google over search....
"Attempted infringment" appears in new House intellectual property bill
Back in May, the Justice Department issued some proposed legislation to tighten US intellectual property laws and to criminalize some forms of "attempted infringement." Now, legislation based on the ...
Conference Tips for Startups: Where to go and what to do once you get there
We have been to quite a few conferences already and quite a few people have asked me what conferences are good. The problem is not that some conferences are bad, its just that some conferences may no...
Match.com expands mobile online dating service
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online dating service Match.com is launching a new application for cell phones, allowing subscribers to keep track of their paramours while on the go. — MatchMobile will first b...
I Fought the Law
MY father was a lawyer, and I always thought I would be as well. I enrolled in the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, but I hated it from the moment I started. — Some people attend law scho...
Telecoms: It's the network, stupid
What's behind recent high-profile telecom failures? Operators not in control of their own destinies, says Fortune's Stephanie Mehta. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — At first blush, telecom flameouts SunRock...
HD DVD Camp Scoffs at Blu-ray, Target Deal
HD DVD Group downplays Sony's deal with Target — Target revealed last week that it would begin carrying the Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray Disc player this October. The announcement was significant as the S...
Cisco and Click.tv?
I picked up a juicy rumor this weekend that Cisco may have acquired Click.tv, a video annotation and deep tagging service that launched in 2006 and then shut down last month. — When Click.tv closed ...
The iPhone's secret sauce? Software.
It felt nice. An AT&T (T) spokesman let me babysit his iPhone overnight, and I couldn't get over how nice it felt in my hand. Much like the iPod nano it is tightly put together, with just enough wei...
Shi Tao's case: Yahoo! knew more than they claimed
Yahoo! executives say one thing in public, an official Chinese document says something else. Oops. — I just discovered today that the Dui Hua Foundation, which does excellent, low-key work on Chine...
Samsung Launches Next Generation of Award Winning NV Digital Cameras
NV8, NV15 and NV20 Join Samsung's Prominent NV Series — Secaucus, NJ (PRWEB) July 30, 2007 — Samsung Camera today introduced three new models to its revolutionary NV series of advanced point & shoot...
Microsoft's Gates Plans Leave Amid Great Change
Microsoft is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as planned. — But...
Battlemodo: Microsoft's Local SUV Armada vs Google's Streetview Fleet
Microsoft's Windows Live Local armada is striking back against Google's Streetview fleet with all the technological terror they can find. Check this Chevy Tahoe's intimidating top: six huge cameras …