iTunes Store To Stop Selling NBC Television Shows
Apple® today announced that it will not be selling NBC television shows for the upcoming television season on its online iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). The move follows NBC's decision to not renew i...
Google Earth Flight Simulator
Some time last week, Google expanded Google Earth with Google Sky. As fascinating as Google Sky is, that's not the focus of this post. Along with the latest update comes a hidden feature of which I ...
Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results
Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing ...
Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges
Mark Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking Web site estimated to be worth upward of $1 billion. — Three Harvard classmates, the founders of ConnectU, have l...
Spamhaus off the hook for $11 million judgment
Last year, Spamhaus found itself on the wrong end of a $11.7 million default judgment awarded to online marketing firm e360insight after it decided not to fight the case due to its belief that US cour...
Who's afraid of Google?
The world's internet superpower faces testing times — RARELY if ever has a company risen so fast in so many ways as Google, the world's most popular search engine. This is true by just about any me...
LET'S DANCE BABY
UNDERDOG AMAZON SET TO CHALLENGE ITUNES — Apple boss Steve Jobs is about to have another new challenger for dominance in the digital music business: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos. — The online retail gi...
Microsoft cooking up some BlackBerry pie?
Amid strong rumors of an impending buyout by Microsoft, stock in Research In Motion (RIM), the company that produces the BlackBerry line of push e-mail devices, has surged up to an all-time high of $8...
Google Desktop for the Mac in 9 more languages
In April we launched Google Desktop for the Mac to further our goal of delivering great products on the Mac and making them universally available on all platforms. A big thanks to all of you for usin...
Ross Levinsohn And Jonathan Miller To Announce New Buyout Fund Next Week
This news has been simmering for a while. When Ross Levinsohn (pictured left) resigned as the President of Fox Interactive Media late last year it was rumored that he intended to raise a large fund t...
File-sharers forced to play fair
Researchers have found a way to enforce good manners on file-sharing networks by treating bandwidth as a currency. — The team has created a peer-to-peer system called Tribler in which selfless share...
The 2008 iPhone display? Sharp's next gen multi-touch LCD revealed
Want to see the glass behind the iPhone's multi-touch panel? Well this ain't it, it's better. Sharp — one of Apple's iPhone panel providers — just unveiled their newest 3.5-inch, 320 x 480 pixel res...
NBCU's Response: Never Asked To Double Price; Shows Will Be On iTunes Through Early December
This is beginning to sound like a Jane Curtain-Dan Akroyd skit ... NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) never asked to double the wholesale price and insists NBC shows will be sold by the iTunes Store through ear...
Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart
Yahoo is looking to change the game with their new social job network, Kickstart. They are currently conducting research surveys among college students to find out what they think of this new service...
Wikirage: The Wikipedia Zeitgeist
At the beginning of this month, Andrew Pipes wrote about Yahoo! Buzz and Google Trends, two search engine zeitgeist tools that attempt to show what topics are popular based on search volume. The idea...
Update On Netscape.com: It's Done, Possibly Moving To WOW.com. Big AOL Layoffs Coming.
We've gotten an update on the controversial post we wrote earlier this month on the possible shutdown of the fourteen-month-old old Digg-clone Netscape. Too many AOL execs have had their eye …
Jamendo: Download Thousands of Free and Legal Music Albums
Jamendo is a great place for artists to publish their creative works and make it available to a wide audience. Users of the site can download these albums for free and donate directly to the artist i...
Less is more for Ruby on Rails, inventor says
(InfoWorld) - Don't expect much to be added to Ruby On Rails this year. When David Heinemeier Hansson gives an update on version 2.0 of his Web application framework at its user conference in Septemb...
Know Your Rights: What to do when the RIAA comes calling
Know Your Rights is Engadget's new technology law series, written by our own totally punk copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you sta...
NBC Will Not Renew ITunes Contract
NBC Universal, unable to come to an agreement with Apple on pricing, has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on iTunes. — The media conglomerate — which i...
Google Earth Flight Simulator
Some time last week, Google expanded Google Earth with Google Sky. As fascinating as Google Sky is, that's not the focus of this post. Along with the latest update comes a hidden feature of which I ...
'Flying saucer' nears US take-off
It has been called the vehicle of the future and the ultimate way to beat the rush hour commute. — It is the M 200G, otherwise known as a "flying saucer", which is being built by a company in Davis,...
Easy Way to Find Recent Web Pages
Now that Google indexes pages extremely fast and saves the date of the first indexing, it would be nice to have more options for restricting search results to a date range. Google only provided three...
Security researcher stumbles across embassy e-mail log-ins
Security consultant Dan Egerstad has managed to snag usernames and passwords for over 100 e-mail accounts belonging to embassy employees around the world. According to Computer Sweden, which was able...
New Twitter Visualization Tools Coming: First Is Twitter Blocks
The Twitter team must have had a Red Bull machine installed at the offices, because suddenly they're launching new stuff left and right. — They recently added search and Gmail import features to the...
An Open Letter to NBC re: Leaving Apple's iTunes Store
Hi, NBC. It's me, Jeremy. You probably don't know me, but I'm one of your customers. That's right, "customers." Two years ago, that word wouldn't have made any sense to either of us. The idea of ...
Enhanced Tools and New Options
Write Ads Right(er) — Let's admit it: Writing has gotten a whole lot easier in the last couple of millennia or so. I mean, would you write at all if you had to scratch out marks on a clay tablet wi...
Server is on track for RTM tomorrow
It's been cooking for the better part of two days now. (Stress tests) Just got an e-mail from our ever optimistic default release manager. Dilip Pai. Last week about this time we had some memory le...
Thailand reopens YouTube access, but with limits
Thailand has lifted a ban on YouTube about five months after videos mocking King Bhumibol Adulyadej prompted the military-installed government to block domestic Web surfers' access to the site. — Bu...
Philips energises portable entertainment with new Power4Life range
Berlin, Germany - Philips presents a new range of power solutions at the IFA 2007 in Berlin designed to remove battery life limitations and give maximum extended enjoyment from portable electronic dev...
Worse than Vogon poetry: bogus DMCA takedowns stun sci-fi lovers
Viacom isn't the only organization involved in sending out "bass-ackwards" DMCA takedown notices; the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (abbreviated, for complicated reasons, as the SFWA)...
1.9 Billion Words; Scribd Users Have A Lot To Say
Wikipedia attracted a lot of attention earlier this week when Nikola Smolenski calculated how much paper it would take to print out the English entries in Wikipedia. Smolenski calculated that as of l...