Screenshots of first Googlephone app [Exclusive]
Remember WhatsOpen.com, the stealth search startup that piqued Google cofounder Sergey Brin's interest last month? Brin was so intrigued he told the founders to keep the company hush-hush. Now, howe...
IE Automatic Component Activation (Changes to IE ActiveX Update)
Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to "click to activate" before they could interact with the con...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for November 2007
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: November 8, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: November 13, 2007 — This is an advance notification of two security bulletins...
Alicia Keys MySpace page is hacked
Attacks on MySpace seem to be on the rise. First, at the end of October, there were a number of links added as friend-comments that went via MySpace's open-redirector (MSPlinks) to exploit sites in C...
Redstone: 'If Content Is King, Copyright Is Its Castle'
He may look his age when he's not speaking, but when Sumner Redstone, the 84-year-old chairman of Viacom and CBS, starts talking about the shifting media landscape, you forget he was born when radio w...
iPhone queue forming at Regent Street store
The first few people have formed an iPhone queue outside the company's Regent Street store — Jonny Evans — Apple will launch the iPhone in the UK at 6.02pm tomorrow night - and a queue is already ...
Apple posts firmware v1.1.2 — goodbye jailbreak!
goodbye jailbreak! — Looks like Apple just published firmware v1.1.2 for the iPhone; hit the download link to grab it yourself because iTunes hasn't yet gotten wise to the fact that it's out. Detail...
YouTube Releases Multi-file Uploader, Raises File Limits to 1 GB
YouTube just announced the availability for Windows users of a desktop uploader (install page here). Users will now be able to do bulk file uploads. The company also raised its file size limit from ...
Vonage loss widens, but settlement boosts shares
update Internet calling company Vonage Holdings on Thursday reported a bigger quarterly loss on litigation costs, but a legal settlement with AT&T raised hopes that such problems were coming to an end...
Blu-ray's DRM crown jewel tarnished with crack of BD+
One advantage that backers of Blu-ray have touted in the format battle with HD DVD is its extra helping of "unbreakable" DRM called BD+. It's not unbreakable after all. SlySoft, makers of AnyDVD, ha...
Major Update to Wink People Search
Today we released a major update to Wink People Search. Wink now gives people control over their search profile allowing them to fill in or correct information, and decide which links to include. We...
WORDPRESS FOUNDER LOOKS INTO BLOGGING'S FUTURE
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—If you type "Matt" into the Google search bar, you won't immediately get results for the actor Matt Damon or the political site owner Matt Drudge, as you might expect. — Instead, the...
Block Facebook Beacon
So here I am, burning some brain cells and taking some time to relax playing a game on Kongregate, when a little window pops up in the corner of my screen and says "Kongregate is sending this to your ...
LookSmart (LOOK) Bombs: Bad News for GOOG/YHOO?
LookSmart had a terrible quarter, with advertising revenue growing only 4% year over year (this is Internet, remember, not TV). It also stopped providing guidance (presumably because it doesn't have ...
Adobe: Online Photoshop coming this year
MONTEREY, Calif.—Adobe Systems has committed to shipping a beta version of its online image-editing tool, Photoshop Express, this year, and said it will be complete in 2008. — "By late this year, we...
How's the weather?
A wise man once said, "I ain't often right, but I've never been wrong." When it comes to weather forecasts, this certainly rings true. You always remember that day when you planned a picnic because ...
LookSmart Announces Sale of FindArticles.com
LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), an online advertising and technology solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Company's FindArticles.com property t...
Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds
Hushmail, a longtime provider of encrypted web-based email, markets itself by saying that "not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail, since each message is...
Radiohead: comScore totally inaccurate
A New Music Express piece on Radiohead brings with it a rather large knee to the goolies for comScore, which came out with some numbers on downloads of the band's "pay what you want" album In Rainbows...
'Internet van' helped drive evolution of the Web
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—If not for this nondescript, gray van with the letters "SRI" painted on the side, you might not be reading this article right now. — Parked feet from the entrance of the Comput...
The Walt Disney Company Reports Record Earnings for Fiscal Year 2007
EPS for the year was $2.25 compared to $1.64 in the prior year. Net income increased from $3.4 billion in fiscal 2006 to $4.7 billion in fiscal 2007 — EPS for the year included a net benefit of $.33...
iPhone queue forming at Regent Street store
The first few people have formed an iPhone queue outside the company's Regent Street store — Jonny Evans — Apple will launch the iPhone in the UK at 6.02pm tomorrow night - and a queue is already ...
Research Note: Evil is in the DNA, Special Facebook Edition
"..."There are these small bands of people who are trying to take over the world," Yu said. " This is so much more fun than working at a hedge fund or an investment bank. ie, Gideon Yu, Facebook's C...
Surge in encrypted torrents blindsides record biz
BPI claims losing is winning in P2P arms race — Exclusive The legal crackdown and publicity blitz aimed at people who share music, videos and software online is having an unintended consequence for ...
How we got here
CableCARDs have an intriguing pedigree. They come not from the cable industry, but from Congress, which in 1996 passed the massive Telecommunications Act and charged the FCC with (among other things)...
Nintendo DS TV Tuner In Action
You can jot down notes while the show is on which the official website recommends for cooking shows.
Blogcosm Challenges Technorati, Techmeme to Parse the Blogosphere
Blogcosm is a new company aiming to build a directory of the blogosphere. From the mundane to the esoteric, the company wants to provide users with a rich data set about any particular blog of intere...
Fear Among Facebook Developers
LOS ANGELES - — Travel back in time six months to Facebook's last big event, at a warehouse in an artsy part of San Francisco, where scrappy independent developers were the apple of Chief Executive ...
Is Web Video Really Hurting TV?
The current conventional wisdom is that the rise of Internet video may mean the end of television as we know it — a view that extends to the music industry as well, as we've seen before. Viacom's $1 ...
FreshBooks Goes the Extra Mile
FreshBooks is a billing web application that allows people to send, track and collect online payments. I don't use FreshBooks (I generally have no one to invoice) and I don't know much about the Onta...
Website for computer security experts hacked
Triple F get F for security? — First Forensic Forum - a UK based association of computer security professionals - has been hacked. — F3.org's website was defaced (screen shot here) with a message ...
TiVo temporarily reinstates $400 lifetime subscription for Series3, HD
Call it a quick holiday cash-in targeted at current TiVo owners if you must, but you're not about to kill our buzz about the fact that TiVo's resurrecting the greatly missed Product Lifetime Service (...
Allen & Co. Invests In Mobile Product-Search Startup
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Allen & Co. LLC, the secretive New York boutique investment bank, has made an investment of an undisclosed size in closely held mobile product-search company GPShopper LLC. — ...
I Know Why Digg Hasn't Sold Until Now
So the chatter last night is about whether Digg will sell soon. Valleywag calls it a rumor, Techcrunch says they should just sell, and the good Doctor yawns. I believe that Digg will sell soon becau...
Apple confirms international 1.1.2 iPhone update to Pocket-lint
In a meeting this morning with the UK Apple press team, it was confirmed to Pocket-lint that version 1.1.2 will be an international update on Friday 9th November for iPhone owners. — Although the ti...
Time Warner (TWX) Should Sell AOL To Yahoo (YHOO)
In the first installments of our How to Fix AOL series, we discussed boosting morale and reorganizing the content business. AOLers then weighed in with many suggestions of their own. In this next in...
Microsoft CEO plays down Google threat in online business
TOKYO: Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, in Tokyo to launch the new Windows Live services, played down the threat of Google Thursday, denying the rival was ahead in any way but in online search...
Pen Phone Design is Smallest Yet [Cellphones]
Pen Phone Design is Smallest Yet — There have been pen phone concepts before, even a few working products, but none as slim and small as this one sent us by an anonymous tipster. He told us this "d...