Could Disney Join Hulu? Sources Say Talks Are Serious
Updated: The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company could wind up with an equity stake in Hulu in exchange for adding ABC programming to the NBC Universal-News Corp (NYSE: NWS) joint venture, a source famili...
Asustek to launch new Eee PC with built-in ODD in mid-April
Asustek Computer is scheduled to launch its new Eee PC, the E1004DN, which will be the first Eee PC to have an optical disc drive (ODD), in mid-April, and will follow with the 1008HA in May, according...
Jeff Bezos Works In Kentucky Distribution Center For A Week
Jeff Bezos is spending this week working in an Amazon distribution center in Lexington, Kentucky (AMZN). He apparently wants to see what it's like to be a rank-and-file Amazon employee. More CEOs sh...
Apple developing ‘stealth’ biometric security for iPhone
Apple has developed a new technique that would hide a biometric reader inside an iPhone or a Mac and let owners lock down their systems with fingerprints or even facial recognition — all without ever ...
8 Hours a Day Spent on Screens, Study Finds
IN a world with grocery store television screens, digitally delivered movie libraries and cellphone video clips, the average American is exposed to 61 minutes of TV ads and promotions a day. — Some ...
The $70 Million Obopay Deal Is More About The UnBanked Than The Banked
When news came out earlier this week that mobile payments company Obopay raised another $70 million, effectively doubling its total funding raised to date, some observers were surprised at the sheer s...
NVIDIA Files Countersuit Against Intel
Seeks Termination of Intel's License to NVIDIA Technology — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: — SANTA CLARA, CA. — MARCH 26, 2009 — NVIDIA Corporation today announced that it has filed a countersuit in the ...
EU Rejects ‘3 Strikes’ for File-Sharers
For the third time in a year the European Parliament has spoken out against tougher anti-piracy legislation that would allow alleged file-sharers to be disconnected from the Internet based on evidence...
Akamai Data: Internet, Broadband Still Going & Growing
The launch of super high-speed DOCSIS 3.0 cable broadband technology, the increased deployment of fiber and faster DSL lines resulted in a sharp increase in the average speed of broadband connections ...
Reddit's Ad Experiment Is Good News for Condé Nast. Maybe for Digg, Too.
How do you sell ads on a user-generated content site frequented by people who love technology and hate ads? — Sell ads that look exactly like the content itself. — That's the strategy that Condé N...
Twitter still has no business model, and that's OK
Don't let the attention-grabbing headlines elsewhere fool you. Twitter still has not announced a business model. There are no Pro Twitter accounts. There is no TwitterWords advertising program. Yo...
HTC Magic Passes FCC with T-Mobile USA Branding
Well well well, what do we have here? Today the HTC Magic, showing some sexy pink and gray T-Mobile USA branding and sporting T-Mobile USA 3G bands, passed through the beloved FCC filters. The HTC M...
Charter Communications Commences Previously Announced Pre-Arranged Financial Restructuring
Company's debt expected to be reduced by approximately $8 billion; includes $3 billion refinancing and new equity capital — Operations to continue as usual under Pre-Arranged Plan Trade creditors to...
Netflix Launches New Personalization Features
Hi, this is Todd Yellin, Director of Product Management at Netflix. We are rolling out several features to delight our members with a more personalized website that puts an emphasis on movie discover...
Music startup imeem making money, not dying unless the labels kill it
Sure, the music industry — including music startups — are having trouble coming up with significant online music business models, but recent rumors circulating about imeem's money problems appear to b...
Youth Bloggers Network Acquired By Teens In Tech
Teens In Tech, a blogging network founded by 16 year old Daniel Brusilovsky, has acquired the Youth Bloggers Network (YBN). YBN consists of a network of over 100 young bloggers, and was founded by Pa...
Amazon Sued For Search Ads
A company that sells instructional videos and CD-ROMs has sued e-commerce giant Amazon for trademark infringement stemming from ads on Google. The complaint, filed this week by Lakewood, Colo.-based ...
AT&T offering refurbished BlackBerry Bold for free
In the market for a new AT&T smartphone? Don't care if it's refurbished? The BlackBerry Bold is about as good as it gets from AT&T right now, and those of you who haven't pulled the trigger yet are ...
MyID.is Now In Public Beta, Aims To Become The Digital Certification Standard
Digital certification platform MyID.is is taking a crack at offering a way for people to claim their real identity online, in order to be able to prevent ID theft and to verify content they publish on...
Google Releases Major Blog Search Blogroll Algorithm Update
The much awaited update to the Google Blog Search blogroll detector algorithm has finally been pushed through. — An updated Google Groups thread has Googler, Jeremy Hylton saying: … We did expect to...
Google searches for holy grail of Python performance
Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project's goals is to replace the Pyt...