Microsoft and Bungie Studios to Evolve Relationship
Companies to forge new long-term relationship. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a plan for Bungie Studios, the developers of the "Halo®" franchise, to embark on a path to become an independent comp...
Four reasons why the RIAA won a jury verdict of $220,000
The Recording Industry Association of American got a chance on Thursday to show everyone just how heavy and intimidating the legal club of copyright law can be. — As my colleague Greg Sandoval wrote...
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CONTINUE TO SOAR, REACH NEARLY $10 BILLION IN FIRST HALF OF '07
Historic Second Quarter: Revenues Exceed $5 Billion for the First Time — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today released the IAB Internet Advertising …
Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules
My team at O'Reilly Research has been crunching the numbers on the rise of Facebook as application platform, and we've released a new report today, entitled simply The Facebook Application Platform.
Bernstein's Yahoo (YHOO) Break-Up Plan: Ridiculous
The normally astute firm Sanford Bernstein appears to have developed brain rot this morning, at least with regard to a purported Yahoo break-up plan. According to Reuters and 24/7 Wall St, Bernstein ...
Why Hannah Montana Should Sell $200 Tickets
The WSJ reports on the fascinating court battle between IAC's Ticketmaster and RMG Technologies, a Pittsburgh company that runs TicketBrokerTools.com, a scalping/reselling service. IAC says RMG has ...
Q&A: Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra on the Future of the Site
Blog ranking site Technorati has seen two new developments this week — new leadership, and a new competitor. But having both come just months after CEO Dave Sifry stepped down and announced staff cut...
Bungie: When it comes to the Mac, never say never
Bungie Studios and Microsoft have decided to go their separate ways, answering the prayers of many Mac gamers who have wished for this day ever since Microsoft's acquisition of Bungie was first announ...
New PLAYSTATION®3 Model
New 40GB PS3 at €399 — Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced details of its exciting new PLAYSTATION®3 …
iPod Sets Man's Pants On Fire
ATLANTA — The new iPod Nano is hot. But one Douglasville man said his old Nano got even hotter — hot enough to burst into flames. — "So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest," said Dan...
Technorati CEO: Techmeme is "a great little site."
I was hoping that the changing of the guard at Technorati would mean that the company would learn to become somewhat humble. Early signs say that isn't the case. In a Wired interview, incoming CEO R...
iGoogle meets Desktop gadgets
We've often asked ourselves why Google Desktop Gadgets are confined to just the desktop and sidebar. With Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, we've decided to change that. In addition to improved Outlook searc...
Hi5 is working on its own platform for developers, to take on Facebook
Facebook rival Hi5 says it is working on its own developer platform today, the latest social network to realize that it had better open up quickly or potentially lose customers to more active pastures...
Virgin America and Boing Boing TV
PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Virgin America, the next-generation airline, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive partnership …
Kim Jong Il: I'm an Internet expert
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an "Internet expert" during summit talks with South Korea's president this week, a news report said Friday. — The reclusive leader...
Yahoo! oneSearch Gets More Knowledgeable
Today we're integrating Yahoo! Answers content into our mobile search service, oneSearch, and launching it globally in 18+ countries. — We're rolling this out today to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, ...
California
You get your brand new iPod home, in its shiny black box, which you open, and the first words you see are: — "Designed by Apple in California." — It's printed on the back of every iPod and iPhone,...
Google Mines Mobile Queries, Finds Longer Strings, More Searches, And More Clicks
Gary Price at ResourceShelf points us to an intriguing article appearing in the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Magazine about mobile search at Google. In the piece, two researchers at Google dissec...
Virgin America is Smart
A few years ago I had the chance to fly on Virgin's Upper Class to Europe. The experience was amazing. From 10 inch tv's to lie flat beds, the british accents to a full wet-bar and the mood lighting...
China Blocking RSS Feeds
The Chinese Government has added a blanket ban on all RSS feeds, according to a report at Ars Technica. — There have been reports previously that Feedburner feeds have been blocked, but to-date info...
Liveblogging the big iPhone 1.1.1 hack
Last night, iPhone hackers "dinopio" and "Edgan" brought 1.1.1 hacking into a new arena. By using symbolic links before doing a 1.1.1 upgrade, they were able to gain access to the entire 1.1.1 file t...
Skype 1.4 for Linux out of beta with new features
Skype 1.4 for Linux is officially out of Beta, and is available for download. — The two big WNITVs (What's New In This Version) are call forwarding, and a "Birthday Alert" service that notifies you ...
apple's antiCAPSLOCK
About a month ago I picked up a new Apple keyboard. That's the new thin model, the wired variant. — I'm rather pleased with it: like all keyboards, the previous model had a propensity of collecting...
Dear New York Times: The Pay Wall Was Only Half the Problem
A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times removed the pay wall in front of its TimesSelect service, which controlled access to much of the paper's archives and its popular columnists like Thomas Fried...
Mac Mini to be replaced by Mac Nano?
We approach all Apple-related rumors with skepticism, but sometimes we get a certain feeling about them, and today's from Mac OS Rumors gives us that tingle of plausibility. Word from one of that sit...
Fashion: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, Self-Detects Geeks
The Wi-Fi Detector shirt does everything you'd dream it could do: detect Wi-Fi signals and share them, via your chest, with the entire world. Spotting both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, signal streng...
Facebook to Launch iTunes Competitor
An extremely reliable anonymous source has informed me about Facebook launching an iTunes competitor within their company. Over the past months Facebook has been searching for a CEO to head up this n...
ZFS to play larger role in future versions of Mac OS X
Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple...
Apple exploring pressure-sensitive touchscreens, touchpads
Seeking to improve its portable devices, Apple has applied for a patent that could lead to touch-sensitive Macs or handhelds which react to the level of force, rather than just contact. — Originally...
You Can't Get There From Here
Several years ago I wrote a column describing a system I had thought up for sharing Internet hotspots that I called WhyFi. Among the readers of that column were some entrepreneurs in Spain who went o...
Labels Win Suit Against Song Sharer
In a crucial legal victory for record labels and other copyright owners, a federal jury yesterday found a Minnesota woman liable for copyright infringement for sharing music online and imposed a penal...
Apple's iPhone Walled Garden An Opportunity For Competitors To Make The iPhone The Next Hiptop
While we agree with some others that Apple's decision to focus on a walled garden approach to iPhone apps seems short-sighted, it certainly does open up an opportunity for competitors — and those comp...
iPod "nana" spews chest-high flames from trousers — lawsuit at 11
lawsuit at 11 — Prepare to be amazed at what passes for investigative journalism on television these days. Atlanta's WSB-TV Action News team ran a sensational iPod "nana" piece last night under the ...
Exclusive: Holt Renfrew Insider Says iPhone Coming to Canada in Two Weeks
While we're still marking this as rumour alert, a Holt Renfrew insider has told DigitalJournal.com the luxury retailer will be carrying Apple's iPhone across Canada by mid-October 2007.
Orange aims to improve GSM coverage for businesses
(InfoWorld) - Mobile phone operator Orange plans to offer a business version next year of the mobile-over-DSL technology it already offers consumers. — The Onsite Coverage service will enable busine...
Details Of Yahoo! (YHOO) Break-Up From Bernstein Research
24/7 Wall St. has obtained a copy of the Bernstein Research report on the break-up of Yahoo!. — The first model done by Bernstein assume that the company is broken into three parts. — The first pi...
The world's most boring-looking drums
Next to guitars—real, virtual or something in-between—the most popular musical instruments we've seen on Crave are drums. From fingertip pads to several types of rollaway versions, percussive gadgets...