Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org
The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era of Data P...
AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter
For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the ...
Why is Apple Launching New Gear a Week Before Macworld? The Official No-Answer Reads Like a Zen Koan
I had a briefing with Apple on their new Xserve and Mac Pros that were released today, midweek during CES, a week before Macworld 2008. I had only one question for them, and it had nothing to do with...
Frontline ‘closed for business’
With its extensive connections, firm's ultimate fate is unclear — The future of Frontline Wireless L.L.C., the Silicon Valley-backed and politically connected startup that spent months positioning i...
Yahoo Releases Browser Based MP3 Player
This is clearly just a first step in whatever Yahoo's grand plans are around the future of their music service, but today they released some code to embed a very simple Javascript based MP3 player on ...
Mitsubishi laser TV rocks my socks
Photo from Dvice. — Not entirely sure how it works, but the picture quality on the 65-inch Laser TV is stunning and produces twice the color of HDTVs today. It's the first of its kind in terms of l...
Paramount in HD-DVD blow
Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD-DVD following Warner Brothers' recent backing of Sony's Blu-ray technology, in a move that could sound the death knell of HD-DVD and bring the home entert...
Paramount Denies Report It Will Drop Toshiba's HD DVD
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures denied a newspaper report that the studio is poised to follow Time Warner Inc. in abandoning Toshiba Corp.'s HD DVD technology. — “Paramount's c...
Fast Opens New Front in Microsoft's War With Google
Microsoft is mounting a new challenge to Google, IBM and other competitors with its acqusition of Fast Search. — Analysis:Microsoft's play on Jan. 8 to buy Fast Search & Transfer ASA for $1.2 billio...
Japan's Matsushita to develop Internet plasma TVs with Google, YouTube - report
Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (NYSE:MC) , the world's largest consumer electronics maker, has teamed up with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) …
CES: Comcast plans a big, fast future
Roberts gets a little assist from Ryan Seacrest in talking about Comcast's new services — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts became the first cable head to keynote CES and he didn't disappoint. — The leade...
CBS Web guru Quincy Smith talks Digg partnership
When CBS Interactive announced on Tuesday that its CBSNews.com property had entered a content partnership with Digg, there wasn't a whole lot of information released other than the fact that election-...
Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films
Comcast, the nation's largest cable television company, will outline an ambitious plan Tuesday to set up two new paradigms for how people will watch movies and television shows in their homes or on th...
Apple Introduces New Mac Pro
Fastest Mac Ever—Eight Processor Cores Standard — Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its p...
Microsoft Announces Offer to Acquire Fast Search & Transfer
Companies' combined expertise, technology will help businesses capitalize on the power of enterprise search. — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT") today announced that it will make an offer to acquire F...
Paramount in HD-DVD blow
Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD-DVD following Warner Brothers' recent backing of Sony's Blu-ray technology, in a move that could sound the death knell of HD-DVD and bring the home entert...
Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts Announces Project Infinity: Strategy to Deliver Exponentially More Content Choice on TV
Comcast To Give Consumers More than 1,000 HD Choices in 2008 — Announces Roadmap to Add 6,000 Movies with 3,000 in HD — LAS VEGAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Comcast Corporation …
Google Enabled Televisions Coming Soon
Japanese manufacturer Matsushita (Panasonic) has signed a deal with Google that will see the company launch flat panel television sets that allow users to access YouTube and other Google services such...
9 VCs You're Gonna Want to Avoid
Editor's Note: Fundraising is tough. So more and more of you bootstrap as long as you can. But once you get close to $1 million in revenues, VCs will come calling. That's right: they'll come to you...
Ars gets its hands on the Optimus Maximus, begins payment plan
How do you get people interested in a $1,500 keyboard? Simple, turn each key into an OLED screen. When you hit caps lock, the keys change to show they're upper case. Play a first-person shooter and...
Upcoming referrals changes
Are you currently displaying a referral unit for AdSense on your website? Then read on, because there are some upcoming changes to the referral program that you should be aware of. But first let me ...