Breaking: Facebook Updates Beacon
Facebook has just announced that they will be updating their Beacon system. Stories will no longer be published "without a user proactively consenting." According to Facebook here is how the Beacon ...
Facebook To Cry Uncle Over Beacon
Sources say Facebook is near to announcing changes to its Beacon marketing platform after pressure from privacy advocates over the last week. — MoveOn launched its campaign the Monday before Thanksg...
Attack of the interns: recommendations and drag-and-drop
One of the great things about Reader, and feed readers in general, is that they let you follow sites much more efficiently than you could just by visiting them directly. This means that once you get ...
Xbox 360 tops PS3, trails Wii in initial holiday sales
Microsoft sold more than 310,000 Xbox 360s last week in the United States, according to data released by the company this morning. The number essentially completes the statistical picture for the fir...
AdBrite Raises $23 Million
Online advertising company AdBrite has raised $23 million in third-round funding, according to a regulatory filing discovered by peHUB. Return backers include Sequoia Capital and hedge fund Artis Man...
Warner Music: We're totally screwed
I'm paraphrasing a little, but that seems to be the general thrust of Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s comments about the company's latest financial results. In a nutshell, Warner — which Edgar Jr. maintains is ...
Apple to Unveil Faster IPhone, AT&T's Stephenson Says
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said. — T...
'Bot Roast II' Nets 8 Individuals
Second Phase of Ongoing Cyber Investigation Reveals More Than $20 Million in Economic Loss and More Than One Million Victimized Computers. Public Urged To Take Precaution. — The FBI today announced...
Amazon's Kindle Makes Buying E-Books Easy, Reading Them Hard
Companies have failed for many years to produce a successful electronic reader, a dedicated device that would do for books what Apple's iPod has done for music — allow you to carry around large number...
Verizon's Real Move to Openness
Verizon Wireless got a lot of attention Tuesday for its vague announcement about offering open access to its network. But a much geekier announcement today may well be more important. — The company...
NETFLIX AND NBC UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCE ONLINE DEAL FOR 'HEROES' AND OTHER POPULAR SERIES
by Netflix Subscribers the Day After its Network Airing — UNIVERSAL CITY and LOS GATOS, Calif., November 26, 2007 - Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service …
Insider charged with hacking California canal system
Ex-supervisor installed unauthorized software on SCADA system, indictment says — A former employee of a small California canal system has been charged with installing unauthorized software and damag...
.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)
Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development. — O...
Quad FX canceled, upgrade path unclear
When AMD introduced its Quad FX dual-socket enthusiast platform one year ago, the entire proposition was a tough sell, because Intel had a single-socket quad-core solution that combined superior perfo...
Apple developing mini-disc adapter for slot-loading drives
Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a collapsable hardware solution that would allow his company to reduce shipping and packaging costs by selling software on smaller discs which could then be us...
Coming Soon: A Small Move by Facebook, with Big Implications
So a lot has been made of the Facebook vs. Google fight, whether it be the fight over talent or potential advertising revenues. The reality is that if Facebook needs to keep growing, it needs Google.
Google Digg-Style Experiment
Google Experimental is currently running an experiment that allows some selected users to "influence [the] search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results." — On a result page, you...
Verizon Selects LTE As 4G Wireless Broadband Direction
Technology Platform to be Trialed in 2008 — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE - Long Term Evolution - t...
Yahoo, Adobe team on PDF ads
Yahoo and Adobe are bringing pay-per-click ads to Adobe's Portable Document Format so that publishers can serve up ads inside PDFs distributed on Web sites and over e-mail that are contextually releva...
Facebook May Revamp Beacon
After pressure from MoveOn and members, the social network may change a policy on sharing info on users' Web buying and activities — In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discus...
Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again)
Don't look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware. — The company's overall track record for designing gadgets is pretty awful. Remember the Smart Display? The Spot Watch?...
Wireless connectivity problems still plague some MacBook users
Earlier this year, owners of many Apple laptops were having problems with Airport either causing kernel panics or just being flaky. MacBooks seemed to be hit especially hard, but a patch or two later...
Earnings: Warner Music Profit Down 58 Percent; Digital Grows 25 Percent, Hits $130 Million
As expected, the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) quarter ending Sept. 30 proved to be a challenge: The company booked revenue of $869 million, up 2 percent from last year's $854 million …
Turns Out You Can't Sue Creative Commons Because You Didn't Understand The CC License
A few months ago we wrote about a somewhat bizarre lawsuit where the family of a teenager sued Creative Commons after a photo of the girl was used in an ad campaign by Virgin Mobile Australia.
Why You Can't Get Your Hands on a Wii
Brace yourself for another cranky Christmas, when hopeful children get up early only to discover there's no Wii under the tree. — The Nintendo console's broad appeal — and a maxed-out supply chain t...
Group chat and rich emoticons now available in Gmail chat
The new Gmail Seattle team is happy to announce two additions to Gmail's built-in chat capabilities: group chat and enhanced emoticons. — To start a group chat, click "Group chat" from the "Options"...
How long should copyright last?
In 1735 William Hogarth, after a lively public campaign, helped to pass an act giving engravers the rights to their work for 14 years from publication. It was a landmark in the history of copyright a...
Exclusive: Helio Mysto outed
Look what I found today. The first official pics of the Mysto from Helio. The CDMA version of the U600, of course. Ain't she a beaut? No word on specs or release date, but it'll run $150. Can't w...