Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty
Jammie Thomas-Rasset's federal retrial concluded today as a jury found her liable for willful copyright infringement, awarding the record labels nearly $2 million in damages. — A new lawyer, a new j...
Appmodo: Official AT&T iPhone Tethering to Cost $55 Per Month
Appmodo: … That sounds outrageously high to me, unless they mean $55 total, not $55 in addition to the existing $30 data plan. If they want $85 a month for tethered data, that's larceny. What are ca...
Want to Work for the City of Bozeman, MT? Hand Over Your Social Network Logins and Passwords
We have written quite a bit about the pitfalls of disclosing too much in your social network profiles, especially when it comes to employers accidentally stumbling over your party pictures on Facebook...
Google Cofounder's Wife Gets Another $2.6 Million Investment From Google
Google (GOOG) just told the SEC it's invested $2.6 million in Anne Wojcicki's biotech startup 23andMe. — Wojcicki is Google cofounder Sergey Brin's wife, and he's recused himself from the whole deal...
The Pre App Catalog Is Tracking Way, Way Behind Apple's App Store. And It's Palm's Fault.
One month after the launch of the App Store in 2008, Apple had seen over 60 million downloads of its apps. The Palm Pre hasn't been out for a month yet, but it's about halfway there, so how close is ...
New Features on Google Books
Think about how you use a book. You want to read it, sure—but there are a host of other ways for you to interact with the words between the covers. You might want to flip through the pages to find a...
Google Flipper Is About To Jump Out Of The Water
Google is about to launch a new Google Labs project it calls Flipper, we've learned. No, it's not a dolphin. As you can see in the screenshot, it looks like the project is a more visual way to read ...
iPhone 3.0 Update: 10 Hidden Features
It has been a crazy night trying to download the latest iPhone update, with many reporting that they are unable to access Apple's servers due to unusually high traffic. But Apple's servers are now up...
Munster: 500,000 new iPhones this weekend
Will there be long lines outside Apple Stores Friday at 7 a.m. when the iPhone 3G S goes on sale? — Gene Munster thinks there will, although not as long as last year's. — Piper Jaffray's senior re...
About that new BlackBerry Messenger... It's coming to all devices on OS 5.0, newer version revealed
You read the headline right, kids — the new and insanely hot BlackBerry Messenger that we exclusively showed off to the World looks to be headed to all BlackBerry devices that will receive the OS 5.0 ...
Sirius XM iPhone app offers free 7-day trial
Satellite radio seems to be something people either fall in love with, or can't understand why anyone would. I've been a loyal XM listener for years. To my surprise, XM's merger with Sirius didn't w...
Another Music Start-Up Sued: EMI Takes Grooveshark to Court
Digital music start-ups seem to come in two flavors these days: Those being sued by the major music labels and those with expensive licensing deals they can't afford. — But for some reason, plucky G...
T-Mobile to Offer Huawei's Android Phone Next Quarter
T-Mobile will release a smartphone running Google's Android operating system in Europe in the late third quarter, the phone's Chinese manufacturer, Huawei Technologies, said Thursday. — Huawei's U82...
Who's Watching Google Watch You? Web Publishers Face Congress Today
Here's a nice way to visualize the Internet privacy circa 2009 — Google's assessment of what I'm interested in, at least when it comes to Web browsing (click to enlarge): — That listing comes from ...
Samsung “Highlight” On Its Way
Well, another Samsung dropping for T-mobile in the coming weeks and while its not the phone we are all hoping for, its bound to please the kiddies still looking for a little touch screen enjoyment. W...
Not Ma Bell's Yellow Pages
AT&T plans to launch a local search site for young people later this year. — For AT&T, the Yellow Pages is still big business. — The telephone company's advertising solutions unit, which includes ...
Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11
In a world where most startups choose gaining users over making money, Animoto is an odd exception: It's doing both. Since launching in August 2007, the company has signed up some 750,000 users, and ...
Globetrotting This Summer?
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NBC Taps Microsoft For Ad-Sales System
General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal will use technology from Microsoft Corp. to sell commercial time on its broadcast and cable-TV networks in a process similar to the sale of online advertising. Th...
Nvidia: For smartbooks, Windows CE beats Android
Mature CE trumps Google's upstart OS, says chip maker — Computerworld - Despite the hype surrounding Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Nvidia Inc. sees more immediate promise in Microsoft Corp...
Big Update: Evernote for iPhone 3.0 is Here
Ever since Apple announced plans for the new iPhone 3.0 a couple of months ago, we've been hard at work rebuilding Evernote to take advantage of the platform's new features. Today is the big payoff: ...
$1 Million Netflix Prize So Close, They Can Taste It
Electrical engineer Martin Piotte and software engineer Martin Chabbert of Montreal decided to enter a million-dollar contest to improve Netflix's recommendation engine after they read about it in a 2...
Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011
Hammered over downgrade plan, company gives OEMs more time to sell XP PCs — Computerworld - Just hours after a noted research analyst criticized Microsoft's plans to limit sales of Windows XP PCs, t...