Obama Spurns Silicon Valley Vets, Names Virginia's Secretary of Technology As CTO
President Obama will be naming Aneesh Paul Chopra as his choice for CTO during tomorrow's weekly address, as first reported by the Washington Post and confirmed in this press release posted to the Whi...
Oprah Fails to Tweet on Her Big Twitter Show
How could one possibly make Twitter even more of an exercise in self-absorption? How about by broadcasting yourself on national TV while using Twitter? Oprah's big Twitter show is on right now and w...
Hulu iPhone App Coming Soon, ‘Badass’
Hulu is in the process of developing an app for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch, we have learned from a plugged-in industry executive. The app is coming soon (within a few months) and is “badass...
New in Labs: Suggest more recipients
Have you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include? Well, some of us on the Gmai...
Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay
If the site goes away, search engines could become the new starting points for digital pirates. — This week has offered a hard lesson for pirates, both water- and Web-based: Keep a low profile and y...
WPP Sues Spot Runner for Securities Fraud, Breach of Contract
Accuses Agency of ‘Pump and Dump’ Stock Scheme — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — WPP has filed a lawsuit against Spot Runner, the Los Angeles self-service ad creator in which it has a stake, as well as the a...
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement
Guest blogger Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law ...
The Pirate Bay Trial: The Official Verdict - Guilty
While only a few weeks ago, it seems like an eternity since the trial of The Pirate Bay Four ended and the court retired to consider its verdict. The prosecution claimed that the four defendants were...
Twitter's big day? Here comes Oprah
The official answer's in regarding Twitter Chief Executive Evan Williams' teasing tweet Thursday about Friday being a “very big day”: @Oprah. — Oprah issued her first tweet around 7:10 a.m. PDT Frid...
Documents: FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists and Hackers for Years
A sophisticated FBI-produced spyware program has played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in federal investigations into extortion plots, terrorist threats and hacker attacks in cases stretching back a...
Sidekick LX 2009 is a Lean, Mean Twittering Machine (With a Better Screen)
T-Mobile's new Sidekick LX 2009 isn't a radical new departure from past models, but it brings a beautiful, 3.2-inch, 854x480 screen to the table along with Twitter integration. It's also the slimmest...
Snow Day, Employee Arrest At Fox/MySpace
Los Angeles tech companies may not be able to stand up to their northern California neighbors when it comes to technology clout, but they sure do seem to have a more interesting and varied work life. ...
Google CEO Schmidt Wants A Twitter Search Deal
During yesterday's earnings call, Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt talked up the benefits of a search deal with Twitter: — “Without commenting specifically about Twitter ... you could imagine that ......
U.S. video games sales fall 17 pct in March: NPD
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Overall U.S. video game sales fell 17 percent in March to $1.43 billion, research group NPD said on Thursday, a revealing figure for an industry that had so far shown resilie...
A Look Back At Some Prescient Predictions On Copyright
Via Michael Scott, we are alerted to a blog post by Thomas O'Toole, where he looks at two separate papers from the pre-DMCA era, both presenting incredibly accurate predictions of what was about to ha...
Kindle owners find out about DRM's ever-present threat
Some Kindle users are angry because Amazon blocked them from their Kindle accounts, thereby blocking them from accessing their already-purchased media. Even if these stories are exaggerated, they onc...
Sony Ericsson to cut 2,000 jobs after losses
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday said it would cut 2,000 more jobs after it swung to a loss of 293 million euros (384 million dollars) in the first quarter of the year. — The group, which ...
Google's CEO Predicts Strong Year for Android
Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted good times ahead for Android, the company's mobile phone OS and software. — “Overall, it looks like Android is going to have a very strong year,” he sai...
Ubuntu 9.04's final test version released
The Ubuntu project has published a release candidate, or final testing version, for the upcoming 9.04 version of its popular Linux distribution. — “We consider this release candidate to be complete,...
Best Buy plans downloads
Co. hatching digital movie biz — Stung by falling DVD sales, Best Buy is on the verge of launching a digital movie service that could debut as early as this summer, according to studio insiders. — ...
NBC Universal Earnings Sliced In Half, But There's a Bright Side
The bad news for NBC Universal: The TV & movie powerhouse saw earnings drop 45 percent in the last quarter. The good news: The GE unit says that if you stripped out one-time costs, charges, etc, it w...
Palm Pre available from Chinese Accessories wholesaler?
An anonymous tipster and treocentral forums have pointed out that new Palm Pre photos had surfaced on a chinese treo forum. The photos were taken by Ludle International, a wholesaler company in China...