Apple, Think Secret settle lawsuit
PRESS RELEASE: Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were rev...
Federal Trade Commission Closes Google/DoubleClick Investigation
Proposed Acquisition “Unlikely to Substantially Lessen Competition" — The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will not seek to block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of I...
7 pictures of the Nokia N96 leak! This isn't a render folks, this is real hardware
All 7 images can be found on my Flickr account here, the images came from Mobile Review. Immediate thoughts are it looks like an N81, but even larger. No specifications are known, but people say it ...
Who Will Be The First Tech President? Help Us Endorse A Candidate
Our series of podcasts and interviews with the 2008 presidential candidates continue - so far we've spoken to Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel. We are in active sc...
America Movil and Yahoo!
America Movil Selects Yahoo! oneSearch(TM) as the Preferred Search Service for Its Wireless Properties; Companies Also Make Mobile Web Products Available
A Message From Matthew
“The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but...
Yahoo in Huge Mobile Search Deal
Yahoo nets a 16-country Web services pact with America Movil. — NEW YORK (Reuters)—Internet company Yahoo and Latin America's top mobile phone company America Movil said on Thursday they have struck...
Long Bet Winner: Weblogs vs. The New York Times
In 2002, blogging evangelist Dave Winer made a long bet with New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz: “In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007,...
Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep
Discount travel site Kayak has acquired rival SideStep for $200 million. This story was set to be announced tomorrow but word is leaking all over the place after Sidestep CEO Rob Solomon told his com...
Blockbuster grinches Total Access customers with price hike
A handful of disgruntled (and in a couple of of cases, soon-to-be-ex-) Blockbuster customers wrote in this morning to point out that the video rental giant has hiked the prices for its Total Access ma...
Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting
It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues. — Screenshots relayed t...
Apple Kills Think Secret: Publisher Nick Ciarelli Talks
The two-year court battle between popular rumor site Think Secret and Apple has concluded. Sadly, the end result is that Think Secret will no longer be published. — Speaking by phone Wednesday morn...
MICROSOFT, GOOGLE AND YAHOO! PAY MILLIONS TO U.S. FOR THEIR PAST PROMOTION OF ILLEGAL GAMBLING
St. Louis, MO: Microsoft Corporation, Google, Inc. and Yahoo! have entered into settlements with the U.S. to resolve claims that they promoted illegal gambling, United States Attorney Catherine L. Han...
Pownce Is Still Alive
Yeah, I know. It surprised me too, but they are still kicking. Stagnation is the name of the game in Web 2.0, and Pownce is no exception. — In case you forgot, Pownce is a Twitter clone whose adde...
RIM: BlackBerry demand just swell; Earnings more than double
Research in Motion said Thursday that it added 1.65 million BlackBerry subscriber accounts for the third quarter ended Dec. 1 and shipped more than 3.9 million devices. That demand added up to RIM do...
First In-Flight Calling Finally Launched by Air France
The first production in-flight mobile system is now airborne: After years of setting dates and pushing them back, OnAir has its first bird aloft. The satellite-based mobile phone and data service is ...
Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem
The furor surrounding the now infamous Bubble video (embedded above) is not over. To recap: the parody video was watched more than one million times on YouTube, then taken down because photographer L...
Making sense of sharing video with iPod and iPhone
As the iPod evolved, so did its features for sharing pictures and video out via various ports. With the introduction of the iPhone and iPod touch this year, Apple upped the ante with new capabilities...
Social Media Can Lead To Better Companies
'Don't Be Evil' Is The Next Corporate Cliché — With every new development in social media, communications departments are faced with new challenges. If the end goal is to control the message - and ...
iSuppli cuts its forecast for semiconductor industry in 2008
iSuppli has trimmed its semiconductor forecast slightly for next year. Now it expects 7.5 percent growth instead of 9.3 percent growth. Dampening effects include the sub-prime mortgage crisis and ri...
BitTorrent search site loses case
A website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case. — TorrentSpy was taken to court by the Motion Picture Association o...
PopCap launches holiday half-off sale for casual games
For the late gift-givers and the forgetful gamers comes one easy present for the casual games fan in your life. PopCap Games, makers of such digital crack as Peggle and Bookworm, are selling everythi...
Customers Compile Wish List for Google Apps
Soon after installing Google Apps, two customers ask for task management and full Calendar synchronization. — Google Apps Premier Edition is not even a year old, but the enterprise flavor of the com...
Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement
After being hounded by the IFPI since April 2006, Yahoo! China - partly owned by one the world's most prominent internet businesses, Yahoo! - today had its music search (via deep linking) deemed illeg...
Charlie Giancarlo, #2 Guy at Cisco Joins Silver Lake Partners
The exodus of senior management at Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues. Today, Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo and the #2 man at Cisco resigned. He is joining buyout shop, Silver Lake Partner...
How To Make Friends, Japanese-Style
Social networking is so popular in Japan in that one standing joke says that a Japanese salary man has three online profiles: one that's real, a second that's edgier so he can venture into pages that ...
NetSuite's sweet IPO
By Michael V. Copeland — You have to hand it to NetSuite. While the markets have been whipsawing all around, the on-demand finance software company backed by Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison got its...
Digital music: Go legal, get screwed
The Big Four record labels want us to think that the sound recording business is a reformed character these days. Recently, we've heard ritualistic self-flagellations from a succession of top executi...
IBM unveils ‘smart’ e-mail search engine
IBM has created a free semantic e-mail search engine aimed at users of the company's Lotus Notes software and Microsoft Outlook. — The engine, called IOPES (IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search), all...
Microsoft signs rare open-source deal, under EU orders
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft signed a rare deal with an open source software group on Thursday, taking a step towards meeting sanctions imposed by the European Commission for antitrust violations. ...
Apple designs next generation iPod Boombox
A new patent filed by Apple describes a next generation digital device called the iPod Boombox, or simply the Boombox. Proof of the Cupertino-based company's plans surfaced today in a patent publishe...
Federal Trade Commission Closes Google/DoubleClick Investigation
Proposed Acquisition “Unlikely to Substantially Lessen Competition" — The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will not seek to block Google Inc.'s proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of I...
Q&A: Going to the mat for photo copyrights
It wasn't Lane Hartwell's first heated exchange over a photo copyright issue, but a tussle involving a witty YouTube video probably was the one with the highest profile for the professional photograph...
Liquid Image Digital Underwater Camera Mask allows you to take photos/videos underwater hands-free
Liquid Image will be releasing their 5.0 megapixel Digital Underwater Camera Mask at CES 2008 which allows swimmers to record underwater photos and videos hands-free.
$299 ASUS Eee PC 2G Surf in Multiple Colors Appears Online
The Eee PC family expands even further — The ASUS Eee PC family recently expanded even further with the addition of the $299 2G Surf model. Newegg now currently lists ASUS Eee PC 2G which is availa...
N95 struggles to find itself
The latest firmware for the Nokia N95 offers many new features and much better memory management, and is free to download - but it also takes away the tracking feature from Nokia Maps, which the compa...
Look Who's Bidding in Auction 73
The FCC's auction of wireless spectrum is swarming with participants, some of which you might not expect—including Chevron and Vulcan's Paul Allen — U.S. government auctions of wireless spectrum alw...