New Firefox extension turns Amazon.com into illegal free-for-all
A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon lets users download movies, games, TV shows, and MP3s free of charge by cross referencing Amazon's product pages with torrent files from the Pirate...
Google Gears Down for Tougher Times
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Corporate austerity is reaching one of the most extravagant spenders of the boom years. Google Inc. has begun to tighten its belt. — For much of its 10-year history, Google ...
Guess what? Automated news doesn't quite work.
Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short. Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table ...
Amazon.com Invades the Apple App Store
Amazon.com will join the iPhone frenzy on Wednesday with a new application available free for download through Apple's App Store. — The software is relatively straightforward, offering a way for iPh...
The High-Res Society
For nearly all of history the success of a society was proportionate to its ability to assemble large and disciplined organizations. Those who bet on economies of scale generally won, which meant the...
Twitter CEO: The revenue's coming soon, but I won't tell you how
At a Churchill Club event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams brushed off—again—criticisms that the company is slow to turn on its revenue-generating engines.
Apple deletes Mac antivirus suggestion
Updated 7:45 p.m. PST with expert comment, at 7:20 p.m. PST with context on previous coverage, and at 7:08 p.m. PST with background. — Apple removed an old item from its support site late Tuesday th...
E-Commerce Spending Jumps 15 Percent on Cyber Monday to $846 Million, the Second Heaviest Online Spending Day on Record
Eclipsed Only by Green Monday 2007 with $881 Million in Online Spending — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking …
2,000,000 Pandora iPhone users!!!
At 10:04am this morning we hit 2,000,000 registered iPhone Pandora users! — We're hearing all sorts of wonderful feedback from listeners who are using it on their commute, jogging with it, plugging ...
.Tel Them Where to Find You
On Wednesday, companies and organizations can register Web addresses with a new top-level domain, .tel. The new domain, which stores and encrypts contact information directly into the Domain Name Syst...
BlackBerry Sign-Ups Miss Target
Research in Motion Ltd. became the latest smartphone maker to lower its outlook for the latest quarter, coming at a time of slumping demand and heightened competition in the smartphone market. — Sha...
Yahoo's Music Outsourcing Continues: CBS Takes Over Radio Offering
Here's a Yahoo story I can report with certainty: The company is getting out of the Internet radio business, by handing over its Launchcast streaming music service to CBS. — The transition will kick...
Everything you always wanted to know about Google...
Dimdim Exits Beta With New SynchroLive Platform, Releases Source Code (Get Your Free Pro Accounts Here)
Dimdim, provider of a browser-based web conferencing platform that doesn't require the installation of any desktop software, is dropping the beta tag with the release of a new edition …
Vlingo one-ups Google with a better voice-powered iPhone app
Voice-transcription service Vlingo has launched a really fantastic new iPhone application that lets users talk into their phones to search the Web, dial contacts, and update their status on Twitter an...
MySpace Video Goes Mobile (But Sans Hulu & Not on iPhones)
You know it's a strange, finicky sign of the times when MySpace announces that it has launched a beta mobile video site that will stream video directly to handsets around the globe — but that news is ...
Health Social Net DailyStrength Bought By HSW International
Health information social networking site DailyStrength has been acquired by HSW International, the digital content company that is a spinoff from HowStuffWorks.com (which later got acquired by Discov...
Firm makes one billionth mouse
Logitech says its factory in Suzhou, in western China, has produced the firm's billionth computer mouse. Video courtesy of Logitech. — A Silicon Valley company has hailed as a major landmark the pr...
Video: Livestation demos live Internet TV on iPhone and iPod touch
Livestation is currently in talks with Apple to bring a version of its Internet TV application to the iPhone and iPod Touch. A working prototype already exists (see video below) that delivers Livesta...
Web Marketing That Hopes to Learn What Attracts a Click
ONLINE advertisers are not lacking in choices: They can display their ads in any color, on any site, with any message, to any audience, with any image. — Now, a new breed of companies is trying to t...
World's 1st 3D LED Display Sports 180-inch Screen
NewSight Corp of the US developed a 3D display using LEDs as pixels for the first time in the world. — Featuring a 180-inch screen with a width of 3.84m, the “3D LED Video Wall” is one of the world'...
Nokia eyes wider use of Linux software in phones
BARCELONA (Reuters) - The world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia, could start to use open-source Linux software on its more expensive phone models, a senior company official said on Tuesday. — “I...
Open source, VC and the long path
My CAOS colleague Matt Aslett wrote recently about how we expect to see an uptick in open source merger and acquisition activity given the current economic conditions and bargains for the larger, most...