Yahoo's first quarter good; Not good enough for a higher Microsoft bid; Yang wants more
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was “open to all and any alternatives including a sale to Microsoft” following the company's first quarter results. The brief comments indicate Yahoo hasn't ruled …
EBay Files Suit Against Craigslist
SAN FRANCISCO — All is not well in eBay's extended family. — EBay, based in San Jose, Calif., filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the state of Delaware against Craigslist, the online classified advertising c...
FCC: Comcast blocking was widespread
Comcast's slowing of peer-to-peer traffic appeared to be more widespread than the company has disclosed, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. — FCC chairman Kevin...
Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code: Mass Attack JavaScript injection - UN and UK Government websites compromised
Websense® Security Labs has been tracking a recent development of the malicious JavaScript injection that compromised thousands of domains at the start of this month, just 2-3 weeks ago.
DRM sucks redux: Microsoft pulling plug on MSN Music DRM
Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft's now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forev...
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods …
Ex-Googlers working on stealth social search
Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News, has been quietly working on a new social search service he started with the help of two other Google refugees, CNET News.com has learned. The site, c...
Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
Techies, VCs, and the press are always swooning over the glory of the Bay area. This is where all the excitement, the money, and the people are, they say. And that's true to the extent that your gre...
To defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one
Beating the “botnets” - armies of infected computers used to attack websites - requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers. — A team at the University of Washingt...
Intel Mash Maker: Mash-ups for the masses
Intel wants to make the whole Web editable, just like a single Wikipedia page. — The chip giant on Tuesday will make a beta available of Intel Mash Maker, a free browser extension that allows users ...
Google sued over advertising program
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request. — When participating in Google's online auction-based advertisin...
Shame On You, John Edwards: The Exploitation Of Web Culture
It must seem like a small thing to the folks at John Edwards now-mothballed campaign for the Democratic nomination, but it pains me that the staff, and John Edwards, simply dropped out of the Twitterv...
Twitter May Not Have To Care About Uptime Any Longer
We used to speculate that Twitter's persistent downtime and overall poor service quality could result in a Friendster-type nose dive. But after a three day weekend outage I realized that in the last ...
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT joins Nokia Comes With Music
Music bundle on Nokia devices to include SONY BMG content — London, United Kingdom / Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT has officially joined Nokia Comes With M...
Eee! A New Cellphone!
These are topsy-turvy times for electronics makers. — Since the Eee PC burst onto the world's electronics scene last fall, the $400 nearly palm-sized laptop has been a phenomenon. Its Taiwan-based ...
MICROSOFT AND MARKETS AWAIT YAHOO! EARNINGS
It's D-day for Jerry Yang and his beloved Yahoo!. — Not since the first quarter after the marriage of AOL and Time Warner has a quarterly earnings report had so much riding on it as Yahoo!'s does to...
Microsoft finally takes the beta tag off its Salesforce competitor
For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been crowing about its hosted CRM service that competes head-to-head with services from Salesforce.com. It wasn't until today, April 22, however, that Micr...
AT&T first quarter on target; Wireless data access revenue strong; iPhone demand solid
AT&T said Tuesday that it ended the first quarter with 71.4 million wireless subscribers and a retail churn of 1.2 percent. — The telecommunications giant detailed its wireless stats on its first qu...
Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter)
Remember DodgeBall, the early social mobile network that languished after Google bought it? So does Leonard Lin, a founding member of Upcoming.org who recently left Yahoo, where he organized Hack Day...
NBC has news for MySpace
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News and MSNBC.com will provide political news and other content to social networking site MySpace. — Terms of the deal weren't announced Monday. But NBC, MSNBC ...
Web 2.0 goes to work
By Michael Copeland — On the eve of the latest and largest Internet gathering this year, O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Conference and Expo, Forrester Research dropped a report that concludes that companies wil...
Photobucket shares interface, matches Flickr
Photobucket, is making a significant change aimed to weave the widely used photo-sharing site more tightly into the Web 2.0 fabric. — The company is releasing an application programming interface (A...
The Reality of Depending on True Fans
I have been researching new business models for artists working in the low end of the long tail. How can one make a living in a micro-niche? Is it even possible, particularly in this realm of no-cos...
Oosah: A Hub for Your Personal Online Media
Oosah is a self-described “media management system” with a simple-sounding intention: to serve as a one-stop shop for managing all of your online video, image, and audio files. This idea doesn't make...