Perspectives about the news from people in the news
We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we'll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we'll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, bu...
Blockbuster Buys Movielink, As Expected
So the deal is done, after long and hard months of negotiation and trying to get the studios on board: Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) has an online strategy on the cheap: it has bought online movie service M...
Study: Fears over kids' online safety overblown
One of the commonly accepted mantras is that the Internet is a very dangerous place for kids—especially social networking sites, where innocent youngsters can be approached by strangers offering them ...
Google News Hypocrisy: Walled Off Content
TechMeme founder Gabe Rivera makes an interesting observation on the Google News story all over the blogosphere today. … Google crawls news sites and grabs their content for republishing on Google New...
Scripps Buys Photo/Video Sharing Service Pickle For $4.7 Million; Keyword Competition Hurting
Scripps Networks (NYSE: SSP) is serious about its online buys...last month it announced buying of Recipezaar for around $25 million. Now it announced that it is buying audio …
Court finds Qualcomm guilty of standards abuse
First create a standard, then sue the adopters — Qualcomm kept its patents on H.264 a secret until the video standard had been adopted by the industry, and then sued users for breaching those patent...
Judge Tells Qualcomm It Waived Right To Enforce Patents
This has not been a good week for Qualcomm on the patent front. The company, which relies heavily on the patent system for its business model, is discovering that putting so much faith in patents can...
Microsoft Confirms HDMI Port on X360 Premium Model, Not Core (Updated)
Update: Microsoft has confirmed the addition of HDMI ports to all newly manufactured Xbox 360 premium consoles. "Yes, we are offering an HDMI port for Xbox 360 simply as another choice in Xbox 360 ow...
NBC Universal launches Didja
Ad friendly video site to combat YouTube — NBC Universal is expanding its battle against YouTube and other viral video sites, using the weight of its top-rated USA cable network to launch an all-adv...
Fox Interactive turns annual profit; MySpace revenue to top $800 million in fiscal 2008
News Corp. said its Fox Interactive unit, which largely consists of MySpace, turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million for the fiscal year ending June 30.
VideoCafé Brings Video Content From Google, Yahoo!, Intel and Others Directly to Bloggers
New Video Content Portal Dedicated to Blogger Community — The NewsMarket — the world's leading online platform for raw video news content — today launches a new service enabling bloggers …
Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSF
Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said the Linux industry must create a vendor neutral standard for application development or face the same fragmentation that killed Unix. — Speaking before a packed audienc...
Get ready for a new Live.com - Windows Live Home
At a briefing given to Japanese press about Windows Live, Tetuya Onoda (Windows Live Director) held up a nice big picture of the new Windows Live Homepage that looks set to replace the existing perso...
Asus Launches 13.3" U3 Notebook
Asus launches a high-end leather-clad notebook — Dell isn't the only company these days with a sexy 13.3" notebook to brag about. Asus today announced its sleek new 13.3" U3 (LED backlit, WXGA) whi...
Did AT&T Censor Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza WebCast?
Ma Bell seems to be acting like the big brother. Apparently, AT&T censored parts of Pearl Jam's performance over the weekend. Rock band was performing as part of Lollapalooza. On their website, Pea...
New Wii Firmware Upgrade Blocks Freeloader for GC Imports
Nintendo's new upgrade restricts gamers from using the Freeloader disc to play import GameCube games on Wii — Those of you who already downloaded the Wii's latest firmware upgrade, released yesterda...
Microsoft spices up the IT image
Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — SHE doesn't have any IT qualifications - in fact she's a university drop-out - but that hasn't stopped software giant Microsoft hiring former Miss Australia...
GreatCall Rings Up $36 Million
Venture capitalists often use their children to help assess new technologies. Maybe some are also using their parents. — peHUB has learned that GreatCall Inc. recently raised around $36.6 million i...
Competition is good for search privacy, report says
WASHINGTON—Recent privacy policy makeovers by the five major Internet search companies show competition benefits users but a "comprehensive" federal privacy law is still needed, says a Washington advo...
Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it
Readers of Google Inc.'s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company...
Apple and Google alliance just got stronger
Yesterday's Apple press event saw the unveiling of new iMacs and major updates to the company's iLife and iWorks software suites. But it also provided further insight into the cosy relationship devel...
Perspectives about the news from people in the news
We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we'll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we'll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, bu...
Hearst Set to Buy Shoppers Site Kaboodle
Hearst Corp. plans to announce today its plans to acquire closely held start-up Kaboodle Inc., a service for sharing shopping recommendations and style advice online. — The deal marks Hearst's attem...
People search engine Spock launches
Spock, the Redwood City, Calif. search engine for people, launches tomorrow after a year of suspense. — It has remained secretive for months (see our original coverage), testing its engine, adding s...
Introducing Dabble Do
We're very happy to announce our second product: Dabble Do, a social to-do list. — THE INTERACTION'S THE THING — With social to-dos, it's all about the interactions. Everyone has their own list o...
How Apple's small things influence their big things
It's cool how Apple's design language keeps evolving. One product design follows another. There's a continuity this way, yet things continue to feel new. And it's interesting how their small design...
FiOS entry in Massachusetts doesn't uniformly wound competitors
An examination of wireline video subscriber patterns in 34 Massachusetts cities and towns after the introduction of Verizon Inc.'s FiOS TV reveals three early takeaways: — Initial incumbent cable su...
360 Cores and Premiums with HDMI? An inside source spills the beans
When I was at E3 I had a chance to get a look at the new Halo-edition 360 hardware, and I asked about the HDMI connection. "HDMI will probably be standard moving forward," I was told. I pushed for m...
Middle America, Meet The Hackers
Don't try to hack the hackers. — That's what Dateline NBC's Associate Producer Michelle Madigan learned at this year's DefCon, the largest gathering of hackers, crackers and security professionals i...