Update to U.S. ad text trademark policy
Imagine opening your Sunday paper and seeing ads from a large supermarket chain that didn't list actual products for sale; instead, they simply listed the categories of products available - offers lik...
Apple Serious About Background App Support For iPhone 3.0
Apple (AAPL) is serious about letting more iPhone software — beyond its native apps like phone, iPod, and Mail — run in the background, we've heard from sources in the mobile industry. This could pot...
Hulu Questions Count of Its Audience
Does Hulu, the Web's most popular place for TV viewing, reach nine million people a month or 42 million? — Millions of dollars in advertising revenue may hinge on the answer. But no one seems to kn...
Microsoft Working on Digital Entertainment Handheld
When I got the first piece of information regarding a Microsoft digital entertainment handheld last year, I wanted to be sure it wasn't just a wild gossip. In a time when people is afraid of losing t...
How Twitter and Facebook Now Compete with Google
Last year I wrote a blog post entitled “If the news is important it will find me”. The point was that we all live in so many social networks, that someone will send us an update if something in the w...
Quietly, Google Updates Its Blog Search Algorithm
There's no official announcement (yet), but Google tells Search Engine Land that it's made several improvements under the hood of Google Blog Search. — In an email conversation, Google's Jeremy Hylt...
Palm Pre pics released into the wild by Sprint freedom fighter
You know, if you're going to post pics of yourself onto the Internet goofing around with the Palm Pre in a Sprint back-office, Engadget's going to be there to post them. However, if you're dumb enoug...
Tony Hawk's new ‘Ride’ game includes motion-sensing skateboard controller for shredding your mom's new carpet
We'd heard rumblings that Tony Hawk was working on something with motion controls — which seems only natural after EA's Skate hit the scene with its intuitive Flickit control scheme …
Twitter's Real-Time Uselessness Proven by (Mistaken) Gay Marriage Hysteria
Because people are irredeemably stupid and nobody pays attention to anything, thousands of Twitter users rejoiced today at the news that the California Supreme Court just overturned the state's gay ma...
GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping in 2010
We've all become accustomed to using the Global Positioning System, or GPS, whether via our iPhones, car navigation devices, handheld GPS units, or even watch-based devices like the Garmin Forerunner ...
crackho.com DNS prank ruffles Sarah Palin's feathers
Is it really copyright infringement if all you're doing is redirecting one of your own domains to an official government one? The Alaska attorney general doesn't seem to understand the complications ...
Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists?
Is venture capital becoming obsolete for Web start-ups? — Yes, according to Robert Hendershott, a professor of private equity and entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara Uni...
Facebook Prepares To Launch Live Video Chat Product
Want to call your Facebook friends via video chat? Soon enough you'll be able to. Earlier today one of our readers sent us a link to one of Facebook's cached JavaScript files which reveals a number ...
CHART OF THE DAY: YouPorn Still On Top Of Competition
A year ago, YouPorn had taken off as the top user-uploaded adult video site, attracting 3 million U.S. unique visitors in April '08, up 1300% year-over-year, according to Compete. A year later, YouPo...
About Those iPhone App Store Revenue Numbers
I don't think it's a stretch to say that Apple's App Store has been more successful than even Apple ever imagined. It entered a market that had been completely controlled by carriers and handed the k...
Take-Two Sues Duke Nukem Forever Devs Over Failure To Deliver
The 12-year-long development soap opera that was Duke Nukem Forever ended on a disappointing note. More disappointing for publisher Take-Two Interactive, which invested over $12 million in the game. ...
EU proposal could ‘stifle’ games
The future of games development has been called into question after the EU Commission suggested developers provide a two year guarantee. — Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva want to exp...
Malicious JSRedir-R script found to be biggest malware threat on the web
Research done by experts in SophosLabs has revealed that a new web-based threat has blown all previous web-based malware out of the water, being found six times more often than its nearest rival.
New York Times Considers Two Plans to Charge for Content on the Web
By the end of June, The New York Times will come to a decision on how to charge for some of its content on the Web, The Observer has learned. — Executive editor Bill Keller said at a meeting with st...
Wait... Wouldn't Micropayments Be Bad For Journalism?
It's been funny watching newspaper execs and journalists go on and on and on about how important it is to “save journalism” and then come up with plans that will likely hasten the demise of newspapers...
Fujitsu unveils world's fastest CPU
Take that, Intel! — WHEN IT RAINS, it pours for Intel, it seems, with Chipzilla receiving bad news not only on the legal front but also on the tech front as well this week, as Fujitsu has just unvei...
Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online
iPlayer? Cough up — Free whitepaper - Avoiding costs from oversizing data center and network room infrastructure — The BBC's technology chief has called for the licence fee to be extended so that...