Reznor: Radiohead offering was insincere, industry is inept
Major musicians are exploring the market potential for directly interacting with their fans and releasing music independently. Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead both made headlines recently for experimen...
EA's Take-Two Saga Turns Hostile
Electronic Arts Inc. is taking its battle for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. directly to the rival videogame publisher's shareholders. — Following the rejection of its unsolicited bid to acquire...
Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Rapt
Rapt solutions will provide Microsoft with advanced technology and services for digital media publishers. — Microsoft Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advert...
CNN tracks Ashley Dupre's social networking activity and provides full report
For most people, updating your MySpace or Facebook profile is not news. Sure, it might appear in your news feed on the site, but that's just about as far as the story is likely to travel.
Verizon embraces P4P, a more efficient peer-to-peer tech
The Distributed Computing Industry Association's P4P workgroup is devising a new protocol for what researchers describe as carrier-grade peer-to-peer file transfer systems. Verizon reports that a rec...
FriendFeed vs SocialThing!
In the past year there has been an explosion in social media. Where once we had only to worry about managing our Facebook or MySpace networks, we're now each creating a seemingly infinite number of f...
Microsoft Pitches Merger Vision To Yahoo at Meeting
Senior executives from Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. met Monday to discuss Microsoft's takeover offer for the Internet company, according to people familiar with the matter. — The meeting, the firs...
How Internet news should work
By the mid-90s I became accustomed to reading news on the web. So much so that I cancelled subscriptions to the NY Times and Wall Street Journal because most days I'd never take the papers out of the...
Google Exec: Android Will Outsell iPhone
Google has not released sales predictions for devices based on its mobile operating system Android. But that doesn't stop Rich Miner, group manager for mobile platforms at the search giant, from bein...
Report: DVR could turn Apple TV into multi-billion dollar business
By integrating digital video recording (DVR) features into Apple TV, Apple stands to transform it's niche media hub business into a serious growth driver worth over a billion dollars annually, accordi...
Is KickApps Next to Board AOL's Gravy Train?
While a lot of focus yesterday has been on the gobs of cash that Time Warner shareholders now have to fork over to social networking site Bebo, which was bought by its AOL division for $850 million in...
Bridging your traffic engine with your revenue engine
Viral loops are only good for one thing — ... and that thing ain't revenue. Viral loops generate traffic, but you still need to: — Retain the traffic that's generated virally — As well as also mo...
Trend Micro hit by massive Web hack
San Francisco - Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days. — A Trend Micro spokes...
And Now InDirecTV
The lack of a broadband pipe and the subsequent inability to offer video on demand is the proverbial glass jaw of John Malone's satellite broadcasting service, DirecTV. While the broadband dilemma is...
FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why?
If you haven't been keeping up with the noise, FriendFeed is the hot startup of the minute. The service launched to the public February 25 and announced $5 million in funding at the same time. — Th...
Dell busts out 20-inch UltraSharp 2009W LCD
Not feeling enough LCD love from Dell lately? How about this new UltraSharp 2009W? The new 20-inch 16:10 widescreen monitor does up a 1680 x 1050 resolution, with 36% more pixel content than Dell's ...
I've Acquired ReadBurner: Attention Data is the Future of Social News
I'm happy to announce that along with Drew Olanoff (former technology evangelist at Pluggd) and Eric Kerr (creator of TinyLoad), I have acquired ReadBurner, a very cool project launched earlier this y...
Child-like intelligence created in Second Life
Four-year-old Eddie might behave like a typical young boy. Outside of the Second Life virtual world, however, he is anything but. — The child is a product of logic-based artificial intelligence and...
First MySpace OpenSocial apps unveiled with very little fanfare
As promised, MySpace users can now get their hands on the first fruits of the social network's official Developer Platform — the means by which outside developers can create official applications that...
PodShow said to lay off 20 out of 60-plus employees
PodShow, the San Francisco-based online-video network best known for launching the career of CNET's Natali Del Conte, is laying off about 20 employees, or as much as 30 percent of its staff. “There a...
Behold the strange allure of the Eee PC
Ever since Asustek launched its tiny, cheap Eee PC in October, I've had readers e-mailing me and colleagues stopping by my desk at work to ask if I'd tried one yet. The lure of a very small, hard-dis...
iPhone Launches in Austria and Ireland
Apple and T-Mobile are now selling the iPhone in Austria. The iPhone is being sold for 399 euro (8GB) and 499 euro (16GB) with the following plans: — 39 euro/mo “Classic” - 3GB data / 1000 Minutes /...