Latest content ID tool for YouTube
A few months ago, we announced the initial development of a highly complicated technology platform — content identification tools for YouTube. Today, we are pleased to launch, in beta form, YouTube V...
New Live Search Maps Features Coming
At Searchification a couple of weeks back, the new features coming in Live Search Maps were shown for the first time to some press and bloggers in anticipation of the release. The bits are finally al...
AOL Layoffs Letter From CEO Randy Falco
More to come on this story, but AOL will lay off 2,000 employees. Here is the letter to AOL employees that went out at 11 a.m. EDT today from CEO Randy Falco: — Dear AOL colleague, — Just over a ...
Discovery Plans to Buy Web Site
Discovery Communications Inc., looking to jump-start a stalled Internet strategy, plans to acquire the HowStuffWorks.com Web site for $250 million. — Discovery, owner of cable channels such as Disco...
Bill Gates Presents the One (Really Big) Ringy Dingy
For Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and the other companies that make telecommunications equipment, this Tuesday is a sort of D-Day. — That day, Bill Gates plans to introduce Microsoft's invasion into their bu...
"Ship Me!" says the Nokia N95 8GB
Power-packed multimedia computer starts shipping — Espoo, Finland - The stunning Nokia N95 8GB made its debut global shipments today, and will be hitting a store near you soon. The Nokia N95 8GB is...
Google Reader Stats are Bulls**t (With Proof)
Google Reader stats, in case you don't know, are bulls**t. In fact, all Feedburner stats for most top blogs are bulls**t due to the effect of default feeds. Want 80,000 free subscribers? How about ...
iTunes Plus DRM-free tracks expanding, dropping to 99 cents
It's been a while since Apple launched iTunes Plus, its version of DRM-free tracks sold through the iTunes Store. Only EMI tracks were sold as 256kbps, DRM-free AAC files through the iTunes Store in ...
Google's sneak attack? Adsense for Facebook
Is Google-the-Goliath sneaking into the Facebook building — via the basement? — Google is actively recruiting third-party developers with applications on Facebook to run Adsense ads within applicati...
The Declining US Dollar: Winners And Losers
Many within the United States might not have noticed the trend yet, but the rest of the world has: the US dollar is in serious decline. Americans have long made fun of their friends North of the bord...
Hitachi developes world's smallest read-head technology for hard disks; result may be 4-terabyte drives
Disk drive technology marches on. We take it for granted. But there is some serious science behind it all and Hitachi is showing some off today. The Japanese company is announcing …
Drive advance fuels terabyte era
A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi. — The company has successfully managed to shrin...
DirecTV Hits 72 HD Channels - Still insists 100 by year's end...
Hatebook Embraces the "Evil" Side of Social Networking
We all have bad days (or weeks/months) but many of us may be wary of venting our frustrations online using Facebook, especially since our parents and bosses can now see our status updates and wall pos...
iPhone's hazardous chemicals
When will promises of a greener Apple bear fruit? — International — Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple's iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types ...
The 16GB iPhone? Nope, don't be a fool
While we're pretty certain a 16GB iPhone is on the way given the recent emergence of the 16GB iPod touch — this ain't it. Posted in the user forums at MacRumors and making its way around the interweb...
Two GUIs for jailbreaking your iPod touch available
Wanna set your iPod touch free and install tons of wacky apps on it but don't want to muck around with the Terminal? Now you don't have to with the debut of two new apps that will jailbreak your iPod...
Is Scribd a Porn Document Network?
Please note that this post is NOT SAFE FOR WORK (NSFW). While I have not embedded any offending images, some of the content and links is objectionable. — One of the most popular services for blogge...
Microsoft mind reading
Not content with running your computer, Microsoft now wants to read your mind too. — The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning th...
Competing for Clients, and Paying by the Click
You can do cool things with Google, like take the pulse of the legal profession. — Google is, of course, more than a search engine. It also sells advertising, including the shaded "sponsored links"...
Ex-colleagues, chilly competition
In August 2004, two entrepreneurs were having drinks at the bar at Rialto, the Harvard Square restaurant, following a board meeting. — Hilmi Ozguc was the chief executive of Maven Networks Inc., a C...
Caterpillar: Web 2.0 giant
There may well be a time when Facebook, YouTube, Digg, and the other Web 2.0 fashion plates make some real money, but for the moment their results pale in comparison to those of the most unexpected be...
DE.LICIO.US + GOOGLE WEB HISTORY = HOOEEY
Hooeey is a new bookmarking and tracking service for your browsing habits. You install a small toolbar in your browser, and it will quietly keep tabs on all your tabs, including which sites you're go...
$100 Zune30s on Woot! today
If you don't know what Woot! is, now is a great time to find out. Woot! sells one product each day starting at midnight CST. But whatever that product is will usually go for a lot less than you woul...
Video Chat Service Aims to Follow YouTube's Path
A Web start-up company with some of the same backers who helped catapult YouTube to glory wants to do for live video chats what YouTube did for video watching. — The company, TokBox, allows people w...
Led Zeppelin to sell music online
LONDON (Reuters) - British rockers Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next month, they said on Monday. — The band, whose reunion gig in London in November prompted more th...
Jiglu is a Smarter Way to Tag Your Content
Tagging is one of those crucial areas that can make or break a site. Not only can it profoundly influence SEO but it can have even greater effects upon HOW people find your site as well as how deeply...
Pirates take over anti-piracy website
The Pirate Bay scores another victory over the music biz — Software pirates have launched an astonishing smash 'n' grab raid on the music biz, stealing the domain name of one of its foremost anti-pi...
Google's GPhone strategy could keep user costs low
SEATTLE - Google's (GOOG)widely anticipated - and top secret - GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple's (APPL) glitzy iPhone - by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say. — That scenar...
Broadcom bungs 3G on a chip
This chip has everything bar the kitchen sink — SEMI FIRM Broadcom reckons that it's the first to market with a CMOS device which it spins as the first "3G phone on a chip". — The excitingly named...