AllofMP3 Survives First Test In Court
Moscow's Cheremushkin District Court cited poor work by prosecutors Wednesday in finding Denis Kvasov, the former owner of digital music site AllofMP3.com, not guilty of violating intellectual propert...
Problems with Skype login
UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging in to Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanw...
Google Removes Blog Showing Leaked Facebook Code
FacebookSecrets, the blog that posted the accidentally released source code for the Facebook main index page, has been taken down. The blog was hosted on the Google-owned Blogger blog network and was...
The Great Advertising Share Shift: Google Sucks Life Out Of Old Media
[From Silicon Alley Insider] Everyone talks about advertising dollars shifting online, but when you're fighting all day in the trenches it's tough to get a handle on what this really means. Here's wh...
New robots.txt feature and REP Meta Tags
We've improved Webmaster Central's robots.txt analysis tool to recognize sitemap declarations and relative urls. Earlier versions weren't aware of sitemaps at all, and understood only absolute URLs; ...
Numbers
One of the great benefits of working at Microsoft is that when you add a new little one to your family, you get 1 month of paid paternity leave. Recently, we've had the opportunity to take advantage ...
Truveo Finds Its Video Destination
Until today, AOL's December 2005 acquisition of video search startup Truveo has been a white-label technology behind the video capabilities of many of the Web's biggest sites. With its relaunch as a ...
Meebo releases iPhone web app
Meebo, the reigning champion of web-based chat, has just released their entry into the iPhone app arena. I had a chance to speak with meebo's CEO, Seth Sternberg, earlier today about the release, and...
Prototype 1.6.0 release candidate
The first release candidate of Prototype 1.6.0 has arrived! The core team is continuing its tradition of bringing thoughtful incremental upgrades to the core APIs in addition to performance improveme...
Three of i-mate's five Ultimate devices canceled?
We wish we could say we were surprised about this, we really do. It seems that i-mate has canceled arguably the three most interesting versions of its Ultimate line: the 5150 slider, 7150 QWERTY flip...
U.S. to Expand Domestic Use Of Spy Satellites
The U.S.'s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation's vast network of spy satellites in the U.S. — ...
Industry pair to dish help on website
Tercek, Edelman set to launch PeopleJam — Dr. Phil's about to face some serious competition online: Hollywood execs Robert Tercek and Matt Edelman are prepping to launch PeopleJam, a website set on ...
Verizon prepares 15 still unannounced phones for release
We got our hands on a document showing the product line of Verizon Wireless for the whole 2007 and there are plenty of new phones in there! There are photos of both already available phones and of on...
EMI's New Digital Strategy May Have Prevented A Worse June/July Slide
About a month ago I posted a graph that showed EMI's year-to-date market shares for digital albums and CDs. The cumulative figures showed EMI's digital market share had increased in the month after t...
Biggest Facebook App Acquisition Yet: TripAdvisor Reportedly Acquires Where I've Been for $3 Million
Update: We are still awaiting comment from TripAdvisor. No official confirmation yet. — Just two months after asking, "I Have 250,000 Users, Now What?", Craig Ulliott has an answer.