Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits
After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online ...
Is the internet going down? Undersea sub-cables have just broken...
Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.
comScore Releases November 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In November 2008, Americans conducted 12.3...
A Wrench in Silicon Valley's Wealth Machine
A year ago, cash rained on tech startups like Digg. Now their valuations are slipping, and venture capital is drying up — A year ago there were reports that Digg had hired investment bank Allen & C...
Evan - Twitter needs a better policy on Usernames
I have a bunch of Twitter usernames — I gobbled them up in March 2007. I'd consider them some of the “quality” ones. Almost like the domain game of 1995, I grabbed some of the best Twitter usernames...
T-Mobile G2 coming on January 26th '09
Yesterday we told you about the new update coming to T-Mobile G1. This update will include new features like mms, and video capable. Unfortunately, some features will not be including for the G1. I...
UPDATED: Palm doesn't confirm Nova launch at CES, but they may as well have
Use a Palm phone? Like the idea of Nova? We hope so, because the company revealed in its earnings call yesterday that it'd be transitioning its entire lineup over to the new, homegrown platform …
One More Thing: Apple's New Multi-touch Mighty Mouse
Let's face it, the Mighty Mouse is flawed. Luckily, Apple has filed for numerous patents directly hinting at a multi-touch Mighty Mouse, which could prove to bring us an unexpected treat sometime in ...
Samsung Electronics will launch Google Phone in Q2
Samsung Electronics will release its first Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in North America. — The launch of Google phone by Samsung is regarded as a signal of its plan for incre...
Evidence that Next iMacs and Mac Minis to use NVIDIA Chipsets
Configuration files buried within some versions of Mac OS X show evidence that the next iMac and Mac Mini will indeed be based on the NVIDIA MCP79 chipset. Apple recently switched their MacBook, MacB...
New eBook Reader Undercuts Kindle, Sony Reader Prices
Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader costs $359—but you can't get one until at least February. Sony's PRS-700BC costs $399—also pretty darn costly. But Foxit Software will soon begin shipping an e...
Meebo Passes IMs Between MySpace And Facebook
MySpace and Facebook may be frenemies forever, but now they have a new mutual friend that will pass notes between them. Meebo, the Web-based IM service, now supports IM accounts from both social netw...
Japanese seek to scrap Google's Street View
TOKYO (AFP) - A group of Japanese journalists, professors and lawyers demanded Friday that the US Internet search giant Google scrap its “Street View” service in Japan, saying it violates people's pri...
EA boosts layoffs to 10 percent of workforce
Updated 8:02 a.m. PST with more information about EA's decision to increase the size of its layoffs and with Friday's share price performance. — Game publishing giant Electronic Arts announced Frida...
Google's Secret Revenue Weapon Revealed (GOOG)
All quarter long, Wall Street has been trying to figure out why Google has introduced a slew of new revenue-generating products and suddenly developed new religion with regard to costs. The obvious a...
Windows 7 Beta download coming?
Neowin's Tom Warren is reporting that Microsoft's Windows 7 homepage has been updated with a download link for the beta release. Here's what it looks like: — Currently, the link goes nowhere. — I...
Google Shutters Its Science Data Service
Google will shutter its highly-anticipated scientific data service in January without even officially launching the product, the company said in an e-mail to its beta testers. — Once nicknamed Palim...
Silent protest planned for Jobs-less keynote
There's a lot going on during your average Macworld keynote, with writers busily typing away, photographers covertly snapping pictures, and Apple fans doing of a bit of cheering. The upcoming Macworl...
Facebook Stares Down Labels Over Project Playlist Takedown Demand
Earlier this afternoon MySpace scrubbed all traces of Project Playlist music widgets from the site, and users are unable to embed any further playlists. The scrub was the result of infringement notic...
No ISP Filtering Under New RIAA Copyright Strategy
The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday announced a new strategy in its quest to curtail online copyright infringement — a plan that for now requires no filtering from internet service...
Dell Studio XPS 13 leather-wrapped laptop revealed, Adamo info leaked!
Thanks to a totally amazing Engadget source, we've gotten our hands on photos of the absolutely sick Dell Studio XPS 13, and some new info about the company's forthcoming Adamo. First off, the photos...
Scribd Raises $9 Million. Still Working on Business?
Over the past few years we've seen the rise of cute ideas, ones we love using on a daily basis, but are hard to turn into real, long-term businesses. Most were hoping that a sugar daddy would buy the...
ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches
Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on...
Native Client: Google's craziest idea yet
Is Google's plan to run native x86 code inside browser windows just a disaster waiting to happen? — The browser's role is ever increasing. It already has become far more than a mere tool for access...
OS4.7.0.83 Leaked for the BlackBerry Storm 9530!
w00t! Whether you're celebrating Christmas, Hannukah, Festivus or anything and everything else this Holiday Season, for you BlackBerry Storm 9530 owners the sweetest gift just arrived... a new update...
European Business Social Network XING Acquires socialmedian (Update: For $7.5 Million)
Hamburg, Germany based XING, a global professional social network that's strong in Europe, has acquired New York based socialmedian for approximately $7.5 million in total, a mix of $4 million in cash...
Android's New Version To Support Upload to YouTube?
Google's mobile phone OS “Android,” will soon be updated with several new features as a part of a major roadmap update. One of those features will include support for a video recording mode that will...
RIM calls the Storm “Verizon's best-selling device” — whatever that means
whatever that means — We're still no closer to determining just how many BlackBerry Storm sales have been reversed by now, but either way, said handset is reportedly Verizon's “best-selling device.” ...
Polaroid files for Chapter 11
(CNN) — Polaroid Corp. announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. — The Minnesota-based company said it is taking itself and its subsidiaries into bankruptcy in order to restructu...
Palm CEO: It's not too late for us; Is it a dead company walking?
Is Palm a dead company walking or just one in a rough transition to a set of next generation products that will return the company to past glory? — Palm CEO Ed Colligan clearly believes Palm is that...
Online Jihadists Plan for ‘Invading Facebook’
Online jihadists have already used YouTube, blogs and other social media to spread their propaganda. Now, a group of internet Islamic extremists is putting together a plan for “invading Facebook.” —...
Linux Foundation Appoints Ted Ts'o to Position of Chief Technology Officer
Linux Foundation Appoints Ted Ts'o to Position of Chief Technology Office — Linux Kernel Developer Ted Ts'o to lead Linux Standard Base and ISV relationships, among other initiatives