NBC pulls its TV shows from Apple iTunes
No more ad-free episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs or Friday Night Lights for $1.99 each. — As promised, NBC (GE) removed all its content and that of its affiliates from the iTunes Store over t...
Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal
Acquisition of LiveJournal, creation of new operating company and investment fund by SUP promise new innovation and expansion for pioneering online community — San Francisco, CA - December 3, 2007 -...
Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Coronary
THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT AT HUMOR — PLEASE REPOST — At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this blog, as well as one of my clos...
The next evolution of labels
Back in the Paleolithic Era, the world was a very different kind of place. People were hunter-gatherers, lived in caves, and kept all their email in folders*. You can't really blame them. Between t...
More Facebook Advertisers Bail From Beacon. Plus, New Concerns.
The backlash against Facebook's Beacon advertising program just gets worse every day. First, advertising partner Coca-Cola got cold feet over privacy issues. Now Overstock is bailing from the progra...
Facebook App Developers Square Off: RockYou! Overtakes Slide
Back in August, we noted that most of the very big Facebook apps seem to be owned by Slide or RockYou!. At that point Slide had the most popular Facebook app (in terms of users), with Top Friends.
Internet Ad Spend Set To Overtake Radio In '08, Magazines By 2010: Report
Despite growing pressures on global advertising dollars in general, ZenithOptimedia's optimistic outlook for online ad spending is undiminished, projecting that the category will surpass radio ad doll...
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America
These groups line up against tech interests in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country. — Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the ...
Google Bans Ads For (Most) Paid Links Marketplaces
Google continues to crack down on those text link advertising methods which don't carry the "nofollow" attribute as a "machine-readable disclosure." The latest move, triggered by communication betwee...
Comcast Statement About 700 MHz Wireless Auction
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ — The following statement may be attributed to D'Arcy Rudnay, Senior Vice President, Comcast Corporation: — "Comcast Corporation has decided not to bid in the 700 M...
Popular WD Passport(R) Now Available With a Whopping 320 GB of Storage
Popular WD Passport(R) Now Available With a Whopping 320 GB of Storage. (PRNewsFoto/Western Digital Corp.) — LAKE FOREST, CA UNITED STATES — Western Digital Corp. logo. (PRNewsFoto) — LAKE FOR...
In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones
With all the talk about Amazon's Kindle, there's a bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In Japan, half of the top ten selling works of fiction in...
Images and new categories launch tonight
Hey everyone. Believe it or not, the dedicated images section you've been waiting for finally goes live later tonight. Lots of changes in this release: — New Universal Taxonomy — Now you can subm...
Oops! Yahoo dumps Britney
You've got to give Yahoo credit for trying drag the collective mentality out of the celebrity gossip gutter. — Every year, the company releases a top 10 list for Web searches. Last year, Britney Sp...
Time Warner Won't Bid on 700 MHz Spectrum
Time Warner, a key player in a coalition of cable operators that succeeded in buying broadband wireless spectrum during the last FCC auction process, won't participate in the 700 MHz auction, Time War...
Stealing Books For The Kindle Is Trivially Easy
If you are willing to violate copyright laws, getting free ebooks is almost as easy as getting free music. There are numerous sites that have free, legal, out-of-copyright ebook files available for d...
Photobucket, Picasa bring photo-sharing to TiVo
Apparently, fast-forwarding through commercials just isn't enough. TiVo announced on Monday that users of select photo-sharing services are now able to access their image collections through its set-...
Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard in 100 pictures
Can't believe we missed this! The brand new Motorola Q9 with Wi-Fi we just got? Yeah, that has Windows Mobile 6.1 on it! We're getting the video up soon, but for now, check out our full Windows Mob...
Vivendi and Activision to Create Activision Blizzard - World's Largest, Most Profitable Pure-Play Video Game Publisher
Combination Brings Activision's Best-Selling Video Games, Including Guitar Hero(R), Call of Duty(R), and Tony Hawk, Together With Vivendi Games' Portfolio of Leading Franchises …
Microsoft Delivers New Tools and Training for Advertisers, Search Marketers and Webmasters
Company furthers its commitment to provide data transparency for customers of Microsoft adCenter and Live Search. — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled two tools and an accreditation program designed …
iPhone browsing marketshare closes in on .1%
Net Applications came out with its quarterly browser marketshare report this weekend. More surprising than the solid market share gains that the Mac platform made, was iPhone's phenomenal showing. —...
News Corp. Buys Beliefnet.com
Steve Waldman's belief paid off today when News Corp. purchased Beliefnet.com, the spirituality-based Web site Waldman founded in 1999 and has run as editor-in-chief since. — In response to an anony...
Nick Show Captures Bigger Audiences Online Than on TV
'Yo Gabba Gabba' Has Turned Into a Viral Sensation With 17.8 Million Streams — by More Than Just Kids — Either kids have gotten really web-savvy (quite likely) or adults are starting to spend more t...
First OLPC deployment: now it's real.
This week, Uruguay became the first-ever real, non-pilot deployment site of OLPC XO laptops. And I was there to hand out the first one. — A bit of backstory — Early on, when talking to countries ...
Security in Ten Years
This is a conversation between myself and Marcus Ranum. It will appear in Information Security Magazine this month. — Bruce Schneier: Predictions are easy and difficult. Roy Amara of the Institute...
NBC officially removed from the iTunes Store
Now that December has arrived and NBC's contract has expired, all of their content has been removed from the iTunes Store, as promised. That means no more Bravo, mun2, NBC, NBC News, CNBC, NBC Sports...
Nokia Internet Radio Service Beta Available for Nokia N95
Nokia's latest service for mobile phones, the Nokia Internet Radio, is now available. In order to listen to radio shows broadcasted on the Internet, simply download and install the Internet Radio app...
Roll over, Beethoven: Deutsche Grammophon ditches DRM
Universal has been one of the two major labels to drop DRM (along with the UK's EMI), but its support of the MP3 format has been experimental. Should the experiment not go well, Universal has always ...
Apple, AT&T sued over iPhone's Visual Voicemail feature
Apple and AT&T on Monday were hit with a hefty patent infringement lawsuit from Klausner Technologies, which charges the pair with treading on patented technology by offering Visual Voicemail service ...
Sony Invests In Community Site Gaia Online; Signs Up For Virtual Movie Screenings
Gaia Interactive, a San Jose, CA-based virtual space "hangout" geared towards young people, using avatars, has received an undisclosed amount of investment from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures.
Google Banning Ads for PageRank Selling Schemes
On a blog post discussing why Google does not like irrelevant Sponsored Blog Posts that pass link juice, Matt Cutts left a little tidbit of information in a comment stating that the Google Spam team a...
Two More Facebook Advertisers Say No To Beacon
Now, it's not just Coca-Cola who is holding off on using Facebook's Beacon. Travelocity and Overstock have also reportedly decided to sit on the sidelines (paidcontent). — Meanwhile, after applaudi...
Digg Filter, a Recommendation Engine for Digg - Interview with Founder
This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. — We have been hearing about an upcoming new way to discover conte...
Microsoft's sex-obsessed RoboSanta spouts filth at children
The Register Desktop Support Seminar . Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — Disturbing news has reached our Yuletide youthful innocence bunker that Microsoft's new artificial intelligence-power...
At Wikipedia, Illustrators May Be Paid
The foundation that runs Wikipedia has finally agreed to pay contributors to the online encyclopedia a modest fee for their work. But it won't pay the thousands of people who participate in creating ...
Breaking: Federated Media Expands Into Facebook
Federated Media Publishing has announced their expansion into Facebook through partnerships with the owners of the Grafitti application and Watercooler. The initial sponsors launching on Facebook are...
Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis
The financial crisis that began late last summer, then took a brief vacation in September and October, is back with a vengeance. — How bad is it? Well, I've never seen financial insiders this spook...
TeXtra's Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET TV
TeXtra, a tech news video show hosted by former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, may be shutting down well shy of its first birthday this upcoming February 13. That's because CNET has poached Nata...
Forecast for '08 Is OK, but Only Online Shines
ZenithOptimedia's 6.7% Global Growth Prediction Inflated by Presidential Election, Olympics, Soccer — It's a good thing working in the media business is fun, because the forthcoming ad-spending fore...
CREATIVE INTRODUCES THE WORLD'S
Creative Technology Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, today introduced the world's first 32GB flash memory-based portable media player …
NEW NOKIA 6 OR 8 MEGAPIXEL IMAGING SLIDER IN THE WORKS?
It's been a while now since Nokia came up with an interesting phone form factor innovation in an actual phone, instead of patent applications. — You know, something along the lines of Nokia 7380 "li...
Inside Microsoft's security war room
REDMOND, Wash.—Tired of having to fight for a free conference room, Microsoft's security chief, Mike Nash, decided in early 2005 that the company needed a dedicated "war room" where his team could han...
Online Fame Easy; Ads Harder to Get
Income for Web Video Creators Varies From 'Retire' to 'Keep Your Day Job' — Some Web video stars, like the "Ask a Ninja" guys, are raking it in. Some, like Beet.TV video blogger Andy Plesser, are e...
Microsoft Boosts Tools for adCenter, Live Search
Microsoft unveils online ad and search utilities to help advertisers and search engine experts do their jobs better. — Microsoft said Dec. 3 it has created two new utilities, one designed to improve...
Secrets of Shell and Rolls-Royce come under attack from China's spies
Rolls-Royce and Royal Dutch Shell have fallen victim to Chinese espionage attacks, The Times has learnt. — Sustained spying assaults on Britain's largest engineering company and on the world's secon...