Apple to Offer Fox Movie Rentals
Twentieth Century Fox and Apple are preparing to announce a deal in which Fox movies would be available for rent digitally through Apple's iTunes Store.
New product release today
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. — I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completel...
The MacMini HDTV revolution
Yesterday I was over talking with the team behind Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine. — We all agreed that Apple TV sucks. More on that in a minute. — But we all notice a trend: hook...
Managing your shared items
We've gotten a lot of helpful feedback about our new sharing feature. We'd hoped that making it easier to share with the people you chat with often would be useful and interesting, but we underestima...
Wal-Mart cancels movie download service
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc quietly canceled its online video download service less than a year after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on Thursday. — Wal-Mart shut down...
Wal-Mart Kills Video Download Store Before Christmas, No One Notices
Honestly, if we hadn't been tipped to this, we probably would've been none the wiser—same as pretty much everybody else on the planet apparently—but it looks like Wal-Mart's video download store caugh...
Amazon beats Apple to non-DRM Warner music
Amazon today landed a coup by announcing the availability of Warner Music Group albums on Amazon MP3. The store becomes the first to offer music from the label in a universal format withoutdigital ri...
FlickrFan: Dave Winer's New Photo Viewing Software
Long-time inventor Dave Winer has released an early version of his new Mac software called FlickrFan tonight. Though there are some kinks in it at launch, the service leverages a number of APIs to do...
Samsung SDI unveils 31-inch organic display screen
Samsung says it has developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating worldwide race for organic displays. — Recommend this story? — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Kore...
Apple's Piping Hot Innovation
Want a coffee with your iPhone? — Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee a...
Dell XPS One Is Better Machine than iMac, Loses Battle for the Software, Mossberg Says
Today, December 27 at 1:01AM EDT, The Supreme Pope of Tech Walter Mossberg has declared the Dell XPS One a better machine than the iMac. And yes, that sound you thought you dreamt was Steve Jobs scre...
Google suffers patent blow
Google has been hit by a setback in a patent row with Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC. — A federal appeals court in Wisconsin yesterday rejected part of a summary judgment that could have worked to Go...
3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM
Warner Music has bent beneath the force of the anti-DRM winds sweeping the globe. The label will now offer its complete catalog, DRM-free, through Amazon's new MP3 store. — The announcement means t...
Dell's All-in-One PC Has the Guts, Design To Compete With iMac
Something interesting is going on at Dell. The Texas personal-computer behemoth, long associated with boxy, boring machines, has started emphasizing industrial design. And the company, which in rece...
36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!
This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will...
What Is The ROI Of Requiring User Registration To Access Online Content?
I somehow got logged out of my NYTimes.com registration and just hit the registration wall when I tried to read an article — I almost forgot it was there. Which made me wonder, now that the TimesSele...
Digg This: Deal or No Deal?
CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008 — As the year winds down, so often does the Web rumor mill. After all, even the most pr...
U.S. court of appeals hands Google a patent setback
Google's browser toolbar is back in court on patent infringement charges, after a U.S. court of appeals overturned part of a lower court decision. Google's AdSense contextual advertising service, tho...
How to Safeguard Your Privacy Online
As privacy issues continue to monopolize our national conversation, sparked by everything from Google's proposed takeover of DoubleClick to Facebook's Beacon advertising platform to warrantless wireta...
The technology with impact 2007
The last 12 months have seen plenty of talking points around technology - from the iPhone, to Facebook, the launch of Vista and the XO laptop - but what were the developments, stories or gadgets which...
Music Download Warning List
Claims to have the “Largest Music & Movie Selection,” “Over 12 million MP3 files,” and to allow users to “Find Any Song for Movie Fast!" — Charges $34.44 for a lifetime membership — Claims to be “le...
NEW at Wal-Mart: SEM Services
This should make for a good laugh. — The following is an email marketing campaign that was forwarded on to me from my good friend Gene Carbonell who just so happens to run an online store over at My...
Apple's new price target: $300
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been a truly fun company and stock to watch and write about during the course of 2007. Not a bad name to own either. I have probably written a dozen posts for BloggingS...
The Pogies: Envelope, Please
Good evening, and welcome to the third annual Pogie awards! Let's hear it for Rico and the band! — As you know, this award was created to celebrate the tiny glints of cleverness and innovation that...
Radiohead on Current TV!
<grammarnazi> Shouldn't the post read “Radiohead is going to play an...” The current sentence just feels wrong to read. Otherwise good news. </grammarnazi> — I can't wait! — hell yeah ha! intera...
Google-powered mobile phones to make a February debut?
First came the fervent and persistent rumours of a Google mobile phone. — Then, just six short weeks ago, the search supremo (and just-about-everything-else-online supremo) announced there would not...
Did you get a Zune for Christmas?
Microsoft's Zune digital media player is catching on, if this holiday season is indication. — Microsoft first released the Zune last year and introduced a new line in November in time for the holida...
Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful
It was 2 o'clock in the morning but in the subterranean retailing mecca in Midtown Manhattan, otherwise known as the Apple store, it might as well have been midafternoon. — Late one night shortly be...
The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?
Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in acce...
Will Apple Blow Past Netflix, Amazon, and Microsoft With A Fox Deal?
Articles this morning in the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple (AAPL) has signed a deal with the 20th Century Fox Pictures unit of News Corp. (NWS) to develop a rental se...
$40K to fill an iPod? One third of PCs use LimeWire instead
Pop quiz: what music and movie downloading app is installed on over one third of the world's computers, according to a new report from Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne?
The Best Money-Saving Technologies of 2007
Here are some of the technologies that gained prominence in 2007 and that are considered to be among the best at helping companies retain their hard-earned profits. — For companies that aren't flush...
Movie Industry: DRM Is For Customers, Not For Members
This week several DVD-screeners leaked on BitTorrent. “I Am Legend”, “Gone Baby Gone” and several other movies showed up at BitTorrent sites, presumably leaked with the help of industry insiders. — ...
Nokia Blows Game-Service Release Again, Kills “Ovi” Buzz
Nokia has again had to delay the launch of its N-gage mobile gaming service, further hurting its incipient “Ovi” Internet services brand. Nokia dominates the mobile market, but its late entry into th...