YouTube suit called threat to online communication
NEW YORK - A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube's ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchan...
Blazing Samsung 256GB SSD Is the One We've Been Waiting For
This is the solid-state drive that we've been waiting for: a full 256GB, which Samsung says is “the world's fastest and largest capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-based SSD with SATA II Interface.” Sick sequenti...
Semantic Tagging with Faviki
Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers something that services like Ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, and Diigo do not - semantic tagging capabilities. What this means is that instead of having us...
New York Times API Coming
As print circulation continues its slide at most newspapers, one of the United States' most respected newspapers, the New York Times, is taking steps to boost online readership. The paper is already ...
Warner Tries a New Tactic to Revive Its DVD Sales
LOS ANGELES — Retail's love affair with the DVD is on the rocks and Warner Brothers Entertainment would like to patch things up. — Faced with a decline in DVD sales, Warner Brothers, part of Time Wa...
Sometimes Crowds Aren't That Wise
Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect. We've written recently on ReadWriteWeb abou...
Should services charge “super users”?
Om Malik says that Twitter should charge super users like me and come up with a business model. — Dare Obasanjo, in a separate, but similar post comes to the conclusion that Twitter's problems are d...
Demo of iPhone Earth
Want to see what the earth would look like in your iPhone? Watch the video below, which was shot by Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog. It shows a demo of the “coolest thing” he saw at the recent...
Beautiful And Original Product Designs
Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren't likely to spend money on something they ...
FriendFeed Should Kill Those Who Accuse It of Murder
Internet - Can we please stop with the FriendFeed murderous meme? — Over the weekend it was that FriendFeed is going to kill Twitter - which won't happen. Today it's that FriendFeed is going to kil...
Brando's iPhone Super Grip makes sure your iPhone never slips away
iPhone may be a beautiful phone but without a proper case it can easily slip away. On the other hand, that same case makes the device look uglier, but I guess that's a trade off for protecting it aga...
Via set to fight Intel in microprocessor arena
Several years ago, a tiny Taiwanese chipmaker created a family of microprocessors that could run Windows software using less electricity than it takes to light a compact fluorescent bulb. — Now, Via...
Nvidia has two CPU lines
Meet the Tegra APX and CSX — NVIDIA IS GOING to release two types of CPUs in the near future. On June 3rd, according to the slides from this week's reviewers day. Luckily as they forgot to invite ...
Google Temporarily Penalizes Blogspot & Info Domains
Over the weekend, I noticed reports from WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums suggesting that Google dropped .info and blogspot results from its index. — First reports came in at around 9:50am (ES...
PayPal Apparently Costs Merchants Thousands of Dollars By Not Communicating
Last week I explained why startups should have status notifications for downtime, maintenance and any other customer communications. I assumed large companies already knew this but apparently not.