Google Will Apply to Participate in FCC Spectrum Auction
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it will apply to participate in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band. — As part of...
The First Year of IE7
It's been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about where we are after the year. — According to internal Micro...
Google Will Bid in FCC Spectrum Auction
Google Inc. announced Friday that it will apply to bid for wireless spectrum in a January Federal Communications Commission auction. — The Mountain View, Calif., Internet company had previously said...
Motorola Names Greg Brown Chief Executive Officer, Succeeding Edward J. Zander Who Remains Chairman
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Greg Brown, 47, as Chief Executive Officer of Motorola, effective January 1, 2008.
New feature: OpenID commenting
Blogger in Draft now lets you enable OpenID-based commenting, in your blogs' Settings | Comments tab: — (OpenID comments work in both the Anyone and Registered Users modes) — This means that user...
Microsoft buys Toutonghi's Seattle startup
Microsoft's apparently still enthusiastic about the work of Mike Toutonghi, a former distinguished engineer who initiated the Media Center version of Windows before leaving for startup world. — With...
Act II will follow a brief intermission
As of an hour ago, I am no longer affiliated with IAC/InterActiveCorp/Connected Ventures/Vimeo. No hard feelings! — Goodbye to everyone at CV; you are wonderful and I will miss you. — And now, I ...
Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking
Faced with its second mass protest by members in its short life span, Facebook, the enormously popular social networking Web site, is reining in some aspects of a controversial new advertising program...
Motorola Names Greg Brown Chief Executive Officer, Succeeding Edward J. Zander Who Remains Chairman
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Greg Brown, 47, as Chief Executive Officer of Motorola, effective January 1, 2008.
A Tipping Point For MP3s
The scope of a yearlong download promotion planned between Pepsi and Amazon, Billboard has learned, is among several developments forcing further consideration by Warner Music Group (WMG) and Sony BMG...
Vimeo Founder Fired, Does A Bong Hit
Jakob Lodwick, the co-founder of IAC owned video site Vimeo, left the company today. The reason? Apparently Lodwick didn't see eye to eye with the IAC brass on creative issues, and specifically had ...
Facebook Nabs $60 Million Investment from Li Ka-shing
While a lot of people were beginning to doubt Facebook's ability to raise more money after getting a lofty $15 billion valuation following a $240 million investment from Microsoft last month, it seems...
Gamespot Editor Fired Over Kane & Lynch Review? [Rumor]
We've heard an unsettling rumor today from an anonymous tipster that longtime game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot has been let go. That wouldn't necessarily be newsworthy, but the conditions u...
Social Media Aggregator Flux Releases New Platform Aimed Expanding Services Beyond MTVN
Social Media Aggregator Flux Releases New Platform Aimed At Expanding Services Beyond MTVN — Social media aggregator Flux.com is releasing two products today designed to let web publishers move …
'Exploding Cell Phone' Was a Lie
The death of a quarry worker in his 30s in Cheongwon County, North Chungcheong Province on Wednesday was not caused by an exploding mobile phone but by a heavy vehicle accident, police said Thursday. ...
Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off
Before Apple makes any more smug OS-related attacks on Microsoft, it ought to take a good look in the mirror. — I'm not sure what ticks me off more about Leoptard (I can't take credit for that nickn...
Exclusive: Hackers say they can pick pockets of characters in Second Life virtual world
As if we don't have enough worries in the real world, now we have to worry about virtual world pickpockets. The Mercury News has learned that security researchers have found a flaw in Second Life vir...
Ironic, Yes, But Zuckerberg's Privacy Violated
[UPDATED with more information.] — So exactly why did Facebook unleash such a massive legal fury on 02138 magazine yesterday over documents the publication posted online? — Because, said sources, ...
DS gets another pimped upgrade, DSVision gets you video, books, and manga on your DS
The Nintendo DS is becoming the device everyone secretly wishes the PSP could be. The latest addition to the DS is no different, it uses a microSD card in conjunction with a DS cartridge to deliver v...
Tracking Santa, then and now
It was more than half a century ago, on Christmas Eve in 1955, that a Sears Roebuck & Co. store in Colorado Springs advertised a special hotline number for kids to call Santa. What the company didn't...
BlackBerry 9000 specs revealed, our early Christmas present to you
Let's start this off this by stating there's more to this device than what will be listed. This is just what's known at this point, although these details have yet to be confirmed as final specificat...
Is AT&T Angry With Apple? - Or did AT&T CEO just screw up?
This week AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson let it slip that consumers could expect a new iPhone next year that offered HSDPA wireless broadband support. That's not a particularly bright move for the CEO o...
Sprint Declines Two-Part Offer: Investment, Return of Donahue
Companies Featured in This Article: Sprint Nextel, Embarq, Procter & Gamble, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group — Sprint Nextel Corp. recently rejected an offer by South Korea's S...
Online Consumer-Generated Reviews Have Significant Impact on Offline Purchase Behavior
Study Conducted by comScore and The Kelsey Group Reveals that — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the results of a new study conducted with The ...
GameSpot editor fired, possibly for panning Kane & Lynch
When a big game comes out, GameSpot runs advertisements for it in a big way. It's not uncommon to see every ad slot on the site taken up by a single title. During the Madden launch, it wouldn't have...
Valleywag's Megan McCarthy Gets Wired
I'm a big fan of Megan McCarthy, not just because we're good friends, but because I admire her tenacity and her writing. This is a person who gets what she wants - by earning it. — Megan is leaving...
Google working to make Street View anonymous
In the face of ethical concerns, Google is considering changes to its Street View Google Maps feature that would protect the privacy of those it photographs. — When Street View is rolled out in Euro...
Net neutrality may not resolve Comcast vs. BitTorrent
Comcast's recent efforts to throttle file transfers that use the BitTorrent protocol have led to a renewed call for Congress to enact stiff Net neutrality laws. — Pro-regulatory groups including Pub...
Studios' "Groundbreaking" Offer Rejected
Looks like the striking WGA writers and Hollywood studios still don't see eye to eye. The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers offered up a fresh proposal addressing the new media concer...
Google About to Kill Expired Domain Sales
Today is Google day on Marketing Pilgrim. I had to throw in this story. First Google is testing a way for people to customize their search results. Marketers shutter (but you know it's coming). No...
Gamespot Editor Fired Over Kane & Lynch Review? [Rumor]
We've heard an unsettling rumor today from an anonymous tipster that longtime game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot has been let go. That wouldn't necessarily be newsworthy, but the conditions u...