Joining Yahoo!
I am excited to announce that I am joining Yahoo! to run Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com) as Vice President and General Manager. Yahoo! is also acquiring BuzzTracker.com and related technologies a...
SCO files for bankruptcy
SCO Group, best known for suing IBM, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. — In a statement, SCO said it was filing to reorganize under Chapter 11. — The Board of Directors of The SCO Group (histor...
The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public
When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news res...
First Look at Microsoft's Free Web Analytics Tool 'Gatineau' (With Slides)
SHARE THIS — I wasn't expecting any notable announcements at Web Analytics Day, an annual industry conference organized by Brussels-based web analytics agency OX2, but when Ian Thomas (Director …
Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network
A little more than two months after we first reported rumors about Yahoo!'s new social network Mosh, the company has given us a preview of a social network with a slightly different name: Mash. — Th...
Brightcove Narrows Focus
NEW YORK While it once had ambitions to compete with YouTube for viewers and ad networks for media dollars, Brightcove is now focusing squarely on its video technology. — As part of that push, the c...
An iPod touch ships without OS X — hints at disabled Bluetooth
hints at disabled Bluetooth — You can argue that the iPod touch is an iPhone without the phone. So what's an iPod touch without OS X? You're looking at it. That's Dave's swanky new iPod touch, fre...
Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal
Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with Replay...
Google calls for web privacy laws
Search site Google has called on governments and business to agree a basic set of global privacy rules. — Without global standards the health of the internet was at risk, the firm's privacy chief Pe...
First Prince, now Village People target YouTube
Somebody combined the Village People's hit song, "YMCA," with footage of a dancing Adolf Hitler and posted the clip to YouTube. Now the company that owns the rights to the band's music is preparing t...
The iFlop
Steve Jobs tried to design —and dictate—the future of television. Here's how he failed. — Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley Svengali who gave the world geek chic in the form of the iPod, iTunes and th...
Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML
Google welcomes the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376). — Our engineers conducted an independent analysis of the OOXML speci...
The Power of Six
I wrote a few weeks ago about Google's attempt to influence the rules for redeployment of the 700-MHz radio band in the U.S. for voice and data applications. Google said it would agree to pony up the...
TD AMERITRADE Releases Results of Client SPAM Investigation
Assets Remain Secure; No Evidence of Identity Theft — TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:AMTD) has discovered and eliminated unauthorized code from its systems that allowed access to an inter...
WTF: Pitzer College Offers "Learning From YouTube" Class
Pitzer College, located in Southern California, is offering a for-credit class called Learning from YouTube this Fall, taught by Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor. The class consists of stu...
Local Search Finally Living Up To Its Promise
Nearly a decade ago, I believed in the power and promise of locally focused Web sites and applications. Back then, I was COO of About.com and in hindsight can say that I was a bit ahead of market ado...
What the Hell Is Microsoft Doing with My Computer?
Opinion: Microsoft is sneaking "updates" into my PCs. What the heck! — Listen carefully. They're my computers. They're not your computers. I choose to put Windows on some of them. I choose what...
Day 59: Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker
Now, we're cooking with some gas over at Yahoo, closing in on the two-thirds point of Jerry Yang's declared 100-day March to Happiness. — Today, the Internet giant will announce the purchase of a cl...
Google readies PowerPoint killer
Slideshow program will be with you, Presently — SURE AS EGGS ARE EGGS, it's been known for a long while that Google will at some point take on PowerPoint with a web-based presentations package. The...
Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins Read/WriteWeb
I'm very pleased to announce that Marshall Kirkpatrick is joining Read/WriteWeb as a Lead Writer, starting this Monday. Marshall teams up with Josh Catone in this role, meaning that Read/WriteWeb now...
Viacom's plan to be cool again
Left behind in the social media scene, the owner of MTV has some new stealth projects it hopes will allow it to catch up. Fortune's Richard Siklos divulges the media giant's plan. — NEW YORK (Fortu...
Salesforce.com: It's all about the UI
Salesforce.com on Friday announced a new offering dubbed Force.com, an on-demand platform that gives companies the backend infrastructure as well as the tools to design their applications. — The For...
Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon
Editor's Note: Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon, the company and the X Prize Foundation announced at Wired NextFest in Los Angeles Thursday. Members ...
Google calls for international privacy standards
Google will call for universal privacy standards today at a UNESCO conference in France. Google believes that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework could serve as the basis f...
Counting Clicks
Given that most of Google's $13 billion in revenue comes from clicks on ads, you would think the words "click fraud" would inspire fear in Shuman Ghosemajumder, the company's senior product manager an...
What do we think of Wii?
We received responses to our Question of the Week about the new gun-like remote wand that Wii is planning to unveil for its first-person shooter games. — Most people think it's a bone-headed idea. ...
Apple reveals details of $100 Apple Store iPhone credit
Apple has posted details of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' promised $100 Apple Store credit for early iPhone owners. The program is for customers who own a qualifying iPhone purchased prior to August 22, 2007...
Verizon Wireless Suing Over Auction Rules
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (Bloomberg News) — Verizon Wireless has sued the Federal Communications Commission, seeking to overturn auction rules requiring the buyers of some airwaves to make their networks ...
BT set to study internet novices
BT is setting up an initiative to find out why some people resist using the internet. — The project will employ psychologists to closely study a small group of people to reveal what stops them joini...