Gov't Commissioned Study Finds P2P Downloaders Buy More Music
A newly study commissioned by Industry Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian population on music purchasing habits, finds what many have long suspected (t...
I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone
A RETINAL scanner emitting a blue glow monitors the entrance to Andy Rubin's home in the foothills overlooking Silicon Valley. If the scanner recognizes you, the door unlocks automatically. (The sys...
AP: The News Gatekeeper is Dead! Long Live The News Gatekeeper!
The CEO of the Associated Press, Tom Curley, gave a speech yesterday to a group of news executives supposedly calling on them to drop their antiquated ways, learn to embrace the new opportunities of t...
Microsoft Denies Nigerian Linux Scam
Microsoft is a tremendous competitor in every market in the world. And according to a letter written by Mandriva Linux CEO Francois Bancilhon, it's so bent on winning that it undercut a deal between ...
Best Buy Replaces Backordered $99 Toshiba HD-A2s with HD-A3s
Best Buy brings Christmas early to some customers — Best Buy often gets a reputation of not having the best customer service and looking down on "devil customers" who only come to Best Buy locations...
Living with robots: The $3.5m DARPA Urban Challenge
Diary of a human Well, here I am at the crack of dawn getting ready for DARPA's Urban Challenge - the $3.5m robotic race of the century. — 5:12 a.m.The hard-working hacks, if you will, were up at 4 ...
Google to unveil 'Android' phone software
Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open-source technology, backed by some of the largest wireless industry companies in the world. — The company is expected to ...
Video Workload survey results
Posted by Andy survey, newspaper video, multimedia — So, the responses to my second little survey about video have slowed enough for me to put out some results. — I tried to expand on some of the ...
Painting with the palette of the Web: a pointillistic approach to storytelling
Former multimedia war correspondent and Yahoo! newsman Kevin Sites talks about how online media pick up where traditional media leaves off. — Backpack journalist and multimedia storyteller Kevin Sit...
Apps Already Coming for Google's New OpenSocial
A day after MySpace and Google sent shockwaves through the Web 2.0 world, third-party developers already are announcing plans to build applications using their jointly developed social network APIs. ...
Google to unveil mobile platform; target: iPhone?
Negotiators continued to hammer our deals over the weekend — Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers and hardwar...
Jammie Thomas: her story in her own words
RIAA News:- Through their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), BPI (British Phonographic Industry), IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), CRIA (Canadian Recording Indu...
Masked thieves storm into Chicago colocation (again!)
Think your data's secure. What about your data center? — The recent armed robbery of a Chicago-based co-location facility has customers hopping mad after learning it was at least the fourth forced ...
CEO and Three Top Execs Ousted at WebTrends
Big news rocked the analytics industry for the second time in two weeks as WebTrends's board of directors ousted CEO Greg Drew and three of his top executives. — The dismissals, which WebTrends said...
EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing
Everything you need to know about Virtualization at The Register's eSymposium — Comment Nothing beats word of mouth for getting people to put their hand in their pockets. So it didn't take long for...
First OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes
It didn't take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes. — A developer who goes by the alias "theharmonyguy" and describes himself as "just an ama...
Where the hell is the Container API?
Yep, I'm still bitching about this stuff. The more I see, the more annoyed I get. — All this song and dance and wait, and the only sites that can play host to all the "exciting new applications" be...
Canadian Study: Piracy Boosts CD Sales
University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz surveyed a large group of Canadians to find out what the effect of piracy is on music sales. The results are surprising, at least,...
Rogers and Yahoo! Expand Strategic Relationship
New Agreements Provide Canadian Customers Continued Access to the Rogers Yahoo! Broadband Services and Expanded Mobile Offerings; Yahoo! oneSearch to Become Exclusive Mobile Internet Search Service —...
Yochai Benkler
I think it's safe to say that this will be the chewiest of my interviews this week—and also the most important. Lawrence Lessig's Code 2.0 was good, but Yochai Benkler's The Wealth of Networks may we...
DailyMe Personal News Aggregator
Florida-based DailyMe is a personalized news aggregation service that creates a daily online newspaper that can be delivered at set times via email or browsed from the web. The site aggregates news i...