Music Biz Pushes Piracy Blame To ISPs; Digital Sales Up 40 Percent
We said in December the music industry would this year start to shift blame for piracy on to ISPs. As of today - and buoyed by recent similar French moves - the business is going after access provide...
Google to kill Domain Tasting
A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The...
Vudu drops price to fend off resurgent Apple TV
Vudu is knocking 25 percent off the price of its eponymous video-on-demand box. Effective immediately, the Vudu is now $295, down from its original $399 asking price. Customers who've purchased the ...
Gates Calls for Kind Capitalism
Famously Competitive, Billionaire Now Urges Business to Aid the Poor — Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates. But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capital...
Netflix bringing streaming rentals to Macs, game console next?
Recent announcements on iTunes rentals certainly caused a stir amongst the neglected Mac-masses, but it looks like the online rental game is about to get a little more cutthroat for fanboys and fangir...
Google ties up with Japan's DoCoMo
Google's search engine will be featured on NTT DoCoMo, giving it access to 48 million mobile Net users in Japan. — DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, said Thursday the tie-up on Internet searc...
Linux-less Eee PC launched in Japan
Asus has formally launched its bonsai laptop, the Eee PC, in Japan, pre-installing the machine with Windows XP Home Edition rather than Linux. — The machine's specifications proved to be those of th...
Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain't what it used to be
Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success? A provocative new study by a longtime software analyst suggests that the giants of the commercial software world are cashing ...
Microsoft: Vista has fewer first-year vulnerabilities than any modern OS
He we go again. Like an evil pope preparing to recapture the Holy Land, Jeff Jones, Microsoft's self-proclaimed “Security Guy” (and Microsoft Director) just published the Vista One Year Vulnerability...
The “Work From Home” Generation
For decades in American households the most dreaded morning sound was that of an alarm clock. Sometime between 6 and 7am a beep or radio music signaled that it was time to get up and head to work. B...
YouTube On the Go
YouTube first dipped its toe in the mobile world in November of 2006 with a deal to deliver some video clips through the VCast service of Verizon Wireless. Last year it created a mobile Web site acce...
EA Calls Fox Out on “Insulting” Mass Effect Inaccuracies
Electronic Arts, likely sick of having their recently-acquired role-playing franchise Mass Effect dragged through the mud on national television, has requested that Fox News Channel correct their erro...
After the Techcrunch Bump
I see many consumer Internet pitches these days where the basic marketing strategy is to (1) get covered by Techcrunch, (2) get tens of thousands of users from the “Techcrunch Bump”, and then (3) “gro...
Your Website Shouldn't Be Just An Electronic Version Of Your Print Publication
We spend a lot of time here at Techdirt beating up on large media companies for their poor media strategies. For a long time, established media companies saw their websites as little more than an aft...
We can't stop adding features!
We kicked off 2008 with a slew of new presentation features and your feedback is keeping us busy. Today's additions address some of the most requested features: — Save as PDF, for when you really ne...
Rethinking The Local Paper
This is my local newspaper, called The Villager. If you live in Greenwich Village, NYC, you probably read The Villager. But there are several problems with The Villager (which was voted NY State's “...
The AT&T leaves: Wireless strong; U-Verse buildout continues; Outlook in tact
AT&T reported its fourth quarter earnings and the big takeaways are that wireless growth is strong and enterprise spending is chugging along. — AT&T's earnings report garnered a little more attentio...