iTunes Store Tops Three Billion Songs
Apple® today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the world's most popular online music, TV and movie stor...
Signs of real progress at the FCC
The Federal Communications Commission made real, if incomplete, progress for consumers this afternoon, as it set the rules for an upcoming auction of the publicly owned spectrum in the 700 MHz band. ...
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-27
Unescaped URIs passed to external programs — Impact: — Critical — Announced: — Reporter: — Jesper Johansson — Products: — Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey — Fixed in: — Firefox 2.0.0....
Did Facebook get hacked today?
<Update>: — Ok so it would seem that Facebook were fixing a technical issue regarding proxies, and nothing to do with security, according to the Scobleizer blog (which has some sort of access to Fac...
Bug Labs (initial review)
I went to a real interesting dinner tonight in San Francisco, to get introduced to a New York-based startup, Bug Labs, along with Ryan Block of Engadget, Robert Scoble and Jerry Michalski. — We met ...
Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product
Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded. — Microsoft Works 9.0 — which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to...
Can Murdoch Charge for WSJ.com and Give It Away Too?
"On Day 1," a lot of people in the Internet news business imagine Rupert Murdoch saying, "everything is free." — The conventional wisdom is that Dow Jones is making a tragic mistake by charging as m...
Campaign Optimizer now available
Today, we're happy to announce the launch of a new ad performance tool called Campaign Optimizer. It's an on-demand AdWords tool that provides personalized campaign ideas in just minutes. We're alwa...
Apple unloads torrent of patches, plus the first iPhone update
If you own a Mac or an iPhone, chances are you'll need to download at least one of the security updates issued by Apple late Tuesday. — Dozens of vulnerabilities and bugs were covered by a total of ...
State complains about iPhone battery
New York State's Consumer Protection Board has raised some complaints about the .iPhone's battery and the phone's repair and return policies in a letter to Apple, the agency said Monday. — The recha...
Phenom 3.0 demo surrounded by FUD
Let's dispel some of it — THERE HAS BEEN a great deal of speculation, FUD and outright whoppers about the AMD 3.0Ghz Barcelona/Phenom demo last week. Let's try to dispel some of it, and toss in a l...
Apple to host Mac event next Tuesday
Apple Inc. is gathering analysts and members of the media for a Mac-related press event to be held at the company's headquarters in Cupertino on Tuesday, August 7th, AppleInsider has been told. — Un...
Eminem suit targets Apple
Rapper's music publisher alleges company violated copyrights by selling songs. — Eminem's music publisher filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Apple Computer Inc. on Monday, alleging the comp...
Social Networking Goes Global Major
comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the expansion of social networking across the globe …
FCC to Set Airwaves Auction Rules as Google, AT&T Take Sides
U.S. regulators today set the rules for the government's biggest auction of wireless airwaves, with Google Inc. fighting against carriers such as AT&T Inc. to force the winning bidders to open up the ...
Online Advertising: Facebook doubles its rates in four months
Rip up your Facebook revenue estimates and start over, everyone. Since February, Facebook has doubled the rates it charged for sponsored groups from $150,000 to $300,000. Since exposing Facebook's s...
The long hard road to open source
Will Microsoft's new licenses change the way we think about open source? Regular columnist Bill Thompson believes they could. — Microsoft has stirred up debate in the open source community by annou...
IAC Reports Q2 Results
IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) released second quarter 2007 results today, reporting $1.5 billion in revenue, a 6% rate of growth over the prior year, and $136 million in Operating Income Before Amortization, com...
Half of European calls to be mobile by 2008
Mobile calls are replacing fixed-line usage across Europe, according to a new report from Analysys, but people aren't talking more, they're just using fixed-lines less. — The change has been most st...
Microformats in Google Maps
If you have spent any time in certain corners of the web, you will have heard of Microformats: Clever uses of HTML that add machine-readability to everyday web pages while preserving human-readability...
Blog pirates on the horizon!
The rise and rise of blogging as an online phenomenon has relied heavily on the ability of social nature of blogs - as each blog links into one another or as larger blogs link to and report on stories...