'Kill switch' dropped from Vista
Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints. — The so-called "kill switch" is designed to prevent...
Nokia World 2007: Nokia outlines its vision of Internet evolution and commitment to environmental sustainability
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - At the annual Nokia World conference today, Nokia outlined its vision for the mobile industry, predicting rapid change driven by the convergence …
Adobe Debuts Flash Media Server 3 - Slashes Price
Adobe, which celebrated its 25th birthday over the weekend, today announced the release of Flash Media Server 3, the delivery platform for its near ubiquitous Flash technology. Perhaps the most strik...
Verizon Embraces Google's Android
How Verizon Wireless learned to stop worrying and love open access. Step one: Realizing it's a way to add low-cost customers — In yet another sudden shift, Verizon Wireless plans to support Google'...
Deutsche Telekom Wins Ruling in IPhone Sales Dispute
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's largest telephone company, can block buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPhone from using the handset on competitors' networks, a German court ruled, overturning...
Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia
The Register Desktop Support Seminar . Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — On the surface, all is well in Wikiland. Just last week, a headline from The San Francisco Chronicle told the world ...
MySpace to Showcase Music and Sell Performance Videos
MySpace, the social networking site where people create home pages and embellish them as they would a dormitory room, plans today to start positioning itself as a top destination for buying exclusive ...
World of Warcraft-branded Dell laptop: Start saving your gold now
While I am technically a Mac guy, I would only be 80 percent embarrassed to be seen with this Dell XPS 1730. And yes, that's strictly because it has World of Warcraft graphics on it. The laptop, whi...
Where the hell is Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook?
It's just totally amazing to me how badly Facebook is handling the PR around its new Beacon system. — This story is NOT going away. Even if this particular story goes away, there's a bad taste in o...
Kenmos and Nano-Op supply LED notebook BLUs to Dell and Apple
Kenmos Technology and Taiwan Nano Electro-Optical Technology (Nano-Op) have become suppliers of notebook-use LED backlight units (BLUs) for Dell and Apple, with the makers' shipments to the segment ex...
Google Announces Fastest Growing Search Terms
Yesterday Yahoo announced its top search trends for 2007. Google's list traditionally come later in December (here's last years list), but today VP of Search and User Experience Marissa Mayer reveale...
MySpace Launches New Music Program Empowering Top Artists to Record and Sell Content Exclusively on MySpace
Multi-Platinum Custard/Atlantic Recording Artist James Blunt Debuts ''MySpace Transmissions'' — Leading Social Network Provides Exclusive On-Demand Video Content and Audio Content Available at www.M...
MPAA's University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released a software toolkit designed to help universities detect instances of potentially illegal filesharing on school networks.
Bubble 2.0: The Video
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Microsoft Anti-Piracy Approach Evolves to Meet Ongoing Threat
Q&A: Microsoft Corporate Vice President Mike Sievert discusses some of the latest tactics the company has implemented to respond to increased organization and sophistication of software pirates.
Those 200 iPhone-Related Patents Don't Seem To Be Stopping Patent Infringement Lawsuits
from the welcome-to-the-patent-thicket dept — When the iPhone was first announced, Steve Jobs proudly hyped up the 200 patents the company had filed around the various parts of the device.
Web search for nudity is ruled 'fair use'
A federal appeals court says Google can display tiny photos in search results, even when the images are copyrighted. — The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reaffirmed its earlier support ...
Oxygen Lets Go of 65 Staffers
Now that its acquisition of Oxygen has been finalized, NBC Universal on Monday began the inevitable culling process, letting go some 65 staffers in cuts across a number of departments. — According t...
Here Comes Another Bubble!
Sung to the tune of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire," this music video by the San Francisco-based Richter Scales is pure genius. — And so, as the song asks, we sure will blog about it (plus i...
Xbox 360 Fall 2007 Dashboard update hands-on
What, you didn't wait up all night to play around with Microsoft's Xbox 360 Fall 2007 Dashboard update? Ok, fine, we're just that geeky, but we feel vindicated: this is hands down our favorite 360 up...
Flixster For Sale (Again)?
Yesterday, a source told me that Flixster, the fast-growing social network for movie lovers, was back in talks to be bought by Barry Diller's InteractiveCorp. — Those IAC-Flixster rumors flew about ...
MySpace Launches Transmissions - No, It's Not an Auto Repair Social Network
MySpace has announced this morning the launch of MySpace Transmissions. The program is described as, "a music program that empowers top recording artists with a new platform to create and distribute ...
Judge Dismisses LimeWire Antitrust Suit
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday threw out an antitrust lawsuit that the operator of the LimeWire online file-sharing service filed against a coalition of major record labels. — U.S. Dis...
Judge refuses to entertain Lime Wire conspiracy theories against RIAA
P2P provider Lime Wire found itself on the receiving end of a judicial beatdown yesterday as a federal judge tossed the company's claims against the RIAA. — The case began back in 2006, when the RIA...
LA Times invests in Mixx, integrates social news site
The Los Angeles Times has partnered with Mixx, a social news website, to give readers more input in the news they read. — It has also said it will start using technology from Aggregrate Knowledge, a...
Google's Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage
Back in the day, when PC stocks were kings on Wall Street, a pesky college kid named Michael Dell figured out that he could do an end run around the then-established PC makers by developing a smarter ...
SAP puts a Web 2.0 spin on CRM upgrade
San Francisco - SAP on Tuesday announced an update to its customer relationship management software with a Web 2.0-style interface that could help to increase usage rates among workers. — Companies ...
Edit your photos! On Flickr!
Picnik's awesome photo editing tools are now only a click away. If you've ever wanted to deal with the dreaded red eye or crop a photo just so, click on the new "edit photo" icon located above one of...
Gmail + chat + AIM = crazy delicious
I was pretty excited when we launched chat integration in Gmail. Finally I could chat and email in one place—but I couldn't chat with friends using other instant messaging services. — From the begi...