ABC's AOL Pact Marks Web's Growing TV Allure
Walt Disney Co.'s ABC became the latest major network to strike a deal with AOL allowing its full-length prime-time shows to be available free on the Time Warner Inc.-owned portal. — ABC shows will ...
Google Shared Stuff
Google's social side is more visible every day. A new service called "Shared Stuff" lets you share interesting links with your friends and the entire world. You need to drag a bookmarklet to your br...
Apple's Jobs Subpoenaed for Deposition, People Say
Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a backdating lawsuit against the company's fo...
Techcrunch Founder Shares His Pulpit
Michael Arrington, founder and (strong) voice of Techcrunch, an influential tech-centric blog about startups, is moving over to share his pulpit. — Willingly. — Starting Wednesday, Techcrunch will...
Welcome Erick Schonfeld, My New Co-Editor
I was dying to announce this at TechCrunch40, but the timing just didn't work out. Nevertheless, I am extremely proud to announce that TechCrunch now has a co-editor. Erick Schonfeld, most recently ...
Apple fesses up to faulty iPod touch screens
It looks like those complaining of problems with the iPod touch's screen weren't seeing things, as Apple has now reportedly confirmed that at least some early units did indeed ship with defective scre...
Gems from the archive of the New York Times
Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let's take a look at some of ...
Americans giving up friends, sex for Web life
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up frien...
0day: PDF pwns Windows
I am closing the season with the following HIGH Risk vulnerability: Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it ...
Nokia answers convergence call with Nokia 6301 UMA phone
Espoo, Finland - With a sleek stainless steel design, the Nokia 6301 phone launched today is not only stylish, but offers consumers seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networ...
We Are Opening the Social Graph
Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you. No one company should own who you know and how you know them. OpenID, w...
Zillow Gets Mo Money
Earlier this week we were joking about Fundinistas or companies that the ones who raise venture capital relentlessly. One of them happened to be Zillow, which had raised $57 million. Well, today the...
The gutsy marketing and strategy behind Apple's iPhone price cut
The iPhone price cut appears to be the story that will never die. Leander Kahney at Wired News and I had a great discussion yesterday about the what and why behind the iPhone price cut. Some of what...
Ignoring open source is costing us dear
Firefox, the browser that dared to challenge the supremacy of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, has just reached 400m downloads - and deservedly so. It now claims a market share of nearly 20% in the UK ...
MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked
Similar to the previously released e-mails, tracking database and phone call this leak is also spread by the group that goes by the name "MediaDefender-Defenders". In the .nfo that was posted with th...
iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage?
Back when we had commies to worry about, someone came up with the concept of "engage and contain": eg, rather than avoid them as we'd been doing, we should trade and talk and travel there, and by doin...
Hands-on with Texas Instruments' cellphone projector
Now that we have email, internet, TV, GPS, cameras, and satellite radio on our cellphones, our next wish is for bigger, higher resolution screens — which seems paradoxical, because larger displays alm...
Hitwise: August 2007 Search Share Favors Google, Yahoo - Microsoft Drops
Yes, it's that time of the month again — search popularity stats time. Several ratings services are out with figures for August 2007, and I'm starting off with a look at those from Hitwise.
Zimbra: Why Did Yahoo Buy Them?
This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M. It seems like only yesterday that Zimbra was the buzz of the 2005 Web Conference. But in two years, Zimbra has grown from a small 'coo...
Google Receives 64 Percent Of All U.S. Searches In August 2007
Google Search Market Share Increased Seven Percent Year-Over-Year — Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US se...
New York's subway stations to be wired for cellphones
After holding out for years, MTA has finally caved to the public's demand for cellphones in New York subways. New York City Transit has announced a deal with Transit Wireless, who's forking out $46.8...
M.T.A. Makes Deal for Cellphones in Stations
All 277 underground stations in the subway system are to be wired for cellphone use, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced yesterday. — But riders may have to talk fast, because the su...
Cities turning off plans for Wi-Fi
CHICAGO — Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated. — Houston...
Intel hopes open-source effort will lower Linux power
Intel plans to launch an effort called LessWatts.org on Thursday, a combination of open-source software and helpful hints to reduce power consumption of Linux servers, PCs and gadgets. — LessWatts, ...
Oracle Reports Q1 GAAP EPS Up 28% to 16 Cents, Non-GAAP EPS Up 27% to 22 Cents
Applications New License Revenues Up 65%, Database and Middleware New License Revenues Up 23% — REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) …
Google phone rumors heat up
According to a variety of sources, the Google phone rumor is starting to really take shape, and if we're lucky, it may even come true. Information gathered from Digitimes, GigaOm, CrunchGear, and mor...
Apple's iPod Touch Is a Beauty of a Player Short on Battery Life
In the hyper-competitive world of consumer electronics, it's highly unusual for one branded product to dominate its market for years on end. Yet, that's what Apple's iPod media player, now approachin...
Xbox 360 to get new HD DVD drive
Microsoft reaffirms commitment in high definition war — Microsoft will launch an updated HD DVD drive for the Xbox 360 in 2008, it said at its 25th hardware anniversary in London today. — Mark Ben...
Stumbleupon mathematics for stumblers
We may be totally wrong so just a heads up but I hope this will at least give you some idea of what your thumb up is doing. — Audience score — Every stumbler has an audience score in the old days ...
MediaDefender's Source Code Released
It hasn't been a good day, or week for that matter, for MediaDefender. Their internal emails have been leaked for the world to see, a phone conversation with a law enforcement official divulged, stra...
Old mobile spectrum to be freed
Old mobile phone frequencies in the UK could get a new lease of life thanks to proposals by regulator Ofcom. — The telecommunications watchdog wants to loosen restrictions on who can use the portion...
Commercial Software Will Include Open Source, Gartner Says
IT organizations will have to manage open-source software along with commercial software, Gartner says. — LAS VEGAS—At least 80 percent of all commercial software products will include elements of o...
Turkey Orders YouTube Blocked Over Clips
Turkey Bans Access to YouTube Again, Prompting Criticism From Watchdog Group — ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish court has ordered the country's telecommunications company to block access to the popul...
VIACOM'S FLUX HAS ITS FIRST MAJOR TENANT: THINKMTV
MTV has just launched a new social-networking community for youth activism, ThinkMTV, which is designed to network members both online and offline around causes ranging from climate change to HIV/AIDS...
21st-century pack mule: MIT's 'exoskeleton' lightens the load
Researchers in the MIT Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have created a device to lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry heavy packs and equipment. — Their invention, known as an exosk...
Why Hulu is Screwed, Part 1 (GE, NWS)
We've been skeptical about News Corp / NBC JV Hulu for a while. Recent news and our in-depth look into the Economics of Online Video only make us more so. In Part 1 of "Why Hulu is Screwed," we summ...
Update: Oracle posts robust numbers for quarter
San Francisco (IDGNS) - New software licensing revenue growth — the highest in 10 years for the company — helped boost Oracle's first-quarter financials. — New software licensing revenue grew 35 per...
Xobni: Turn Outlook Into A Social Network
Xobni is one of the cool startups to come out of the TechCrunch 40 conference, and after installing their software, I've come off pretty impressed. Xobni produces a free Outlook add-in (Xobni is inbo...
Terror Watch: A Secret Lobbying Campaign
The secret lobbying campaign your phone company doesn't want you to know about — The nation's biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lob...
Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach
Summary: The original vision of the semantic web as a layer on top of the current web, annotated in a way that computers can "understand," is certainly grandiose and intriguing. Yet, for the past dec...
Ameritrade leak looks to have started in late '05, much earlier than reported
E-mails obtained by Network World show that Ameritrade received explicit and repeated warnings from an IT security expert starting Jan. 9, 2006 that its customer data had apparently been compromised …
U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read
International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by secret Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed record...
Imagini Gets 4M+ Users & VC Backing
As our sister site a:c euro ha noted Imagini.net has beta-launched its social network and says it has already attracted over 4M +registered users. The social networking twist with Imagini is that it ...
We're thrilled about this NBC download service
If you haven't heard about it, see here. NBC is going to launch its own download service where you can get NBC shows. This is their new initiative in the wake of severing their relationship with us....
MTV Introduces Causes-Related Social Net 'ThinkMTV
MTV is beta testing a youth-oriented social network focused on activism and works of charity called ThinkMTV. The project also has the backing from an array of nonprofit groups including the Steve an...