FCC Staff Signs Off On XM, Sirius; Satellite Still Screwed
The FCC's staff has given the XM and Sirius merger the go-ahead, which means it's finally a done deal (after a mere 15 months or so) unless something extraordinary happens in the near future, the WSJ ...
The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs
The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers an...
Bill Gates: 10 Memorable Moments
A PC industry without Bill Gates is almost unthinkable. And yet it's almost upon us. Here are some fond memories. — For more than 30 years he has roamed among us, a strange hybrid of Napoleon Dyna...
eBay opening up selling app to outside developers
At the eBay Developers Conference this week, the auction company will announce a new marketplace for sellers' add-ons to its online auctions. Essentially the program gives developers access to all th...
Rumor: “Avatars” are Microsoft's take on Mii's?
Well, well, well, what have we here? Looks like we're finally getting some real evidence that Microsoft really does have some sort of response to Nintendo's Miis on the way. It's been rumored for so...
Small Publishers Feel Power of Amazon's ‘Buy’ Button
PARIS — Amazon, the online retailing giant with a fast-rising share of the consumer book market, has adopted the literary equivalent of a nuclear option for rebellious publishers who balk at its deman...
Icahn says Yahoo-Google ad deal has merit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionare financier Carl Icahn, who launched a proxy battle in May to replace the board of Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) in the wake of its failed deal to be acquired by Micro...
IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla
Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft's most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same noncompliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relen...
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them
The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated partie...