Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features
Pownce, a service that lets users send messages, files, links, and events to friends, first launched into private beta over six months ago. It was founded by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka ...
HBO Putting Shows Online, at No Additional Charge
HBO, cable's most popular premium channel, is carefully entering the arena of Internet video. — The channel, a subsidiary of Time Warner, will introduce HBO on Broadband starting this week to subscr...
iPhone goes corporate: AT&T announces business plan
Without a 3G iPhone announcement at MacWorld, Apple remains focused on increasing the penetration of their generation-one handset. True to the rumors circulating the intertubes last week, AT&T is now...
NBC chief eyes TV shake-up
Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, is planning to seize on the writers' strike to eliminate what he sees as extravagances in the way Hollywood makes and promotes television. — NBC and ot...
Will We See Delicious 2.0 This Week?
It's been four and a half months since Yahoo first previewed Delicious 2.0. We've heard not a peep from them since as to when it might launch publicly and replace the existing, somewhat dated interfa...
Telegraph to become OpenID provider
2007 was a big year for the Telegraph. This year will be even bigger. There are several big announcements coming over the next few weeks but today I am pleased to be able to make the first of them. ...
The Weighted Companion PC
Foreword — When it comes to great new games, one of the first thoughts on anyone's mind is “POORTTAALL!!" The utterly tongue-in-cheek humour, the innovative gameplay and entertaining (sometimes vex...
Getty Images For Sale; Could Fetch $1.5 Billion
Getty Images (NYSE: GYI), the world's biggest supplier of stock pictures and video (and increasingly a digital player) has put itself on the auction block and could fetch more than $1.5 billion, repor...
In Europe, Apple Faces Hurdles to iTunes Movie Rentals
LONDON — After introducing an online film rental business for American consumers last week, the chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, said he expected that the service would be expanded into inter...
EA pushes ad-backed video games
Electronic Arts is to release a free online version of the popular Battlefield game to be supported by adverts and micro payments. — The PC game, Battlefield Heroes, will be available only online la...
From MySpace to YourSpace
Two years ago, Chris DeWolfe, the co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, was talking about international expansion with Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corporation bought the social networking site in ...
RIAA wiped off the net
A lack of security controls allowed hackers to “wipe” the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. — The existence of an SQL injection attack on the RIAA's site came to ...
Wi-Fi music polling device takes heat off the DJ
Ever had a party ruined by your host's atrocious taste in music? Then you might welcome a system that polls the musical preferences of party-goers and creates a playlist to keep everyone happy. — D...
Free Space to Three Gigabytes
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you'll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we're always thinking about how the improvements we make to the foundation of the ...
Talking About AT&T's Internet Filtering on AT&T's The Hugh Thompson Show
Yesterday, I was invited to talk about gadgets onThe Hugh Thompson Show, a television-style talk show sponsored exclusively by AT&T for distribution on the online AT&T Tech Channel.