Music industry wants cut of Pirate Bay sale
The music industry will attempt to seize money paid to acquire the Pirate Bay, according to a high-level music industry source and a spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Indu...
Twitter's Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”
On Tuesday evening more than 300 confidential Twitter documents and screenshots landed in our inbox. We said we were going to post a handful of them only, and we've spent much of the last 36 hours ta...
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER 2009 RESULTS
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2009. — “Google had a very good quarter, especially given the continued macro-economic downturn. While mo...
Yahoo Search Ad Deal With Microsoft “Down to the Short Strokes"-But Caution Also Advised
Unless there is some major glitch, there might finally be a search and online advertising deal struck between Yahoo and Microsoft at long last. — Top executives at Microsoft-including SVP …
Apple drops to 5th in US computer sales
Apple has sunk a full position in the US computer market during the spring, according to early estimates by IDC. The Mac producer is expected to have dropped from fourth place in the winter to fifth ...
Mojo SDK available to all
After a successful early access program, Palm's Mojo Software Development Kit is available to all interested app developers. The SDK can be downloaded from a new developer portal — Palm webOSdev — at...
Apple demanded Microsoft to stop its Laptop Hunters ads
According to a Microsoft executive, Apple legal isn't too happy with Microsoft's Laptop Hunters ads. — Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners during his Worldwide Partner C...
Games Industry Suffers From Recession, Finally
After a few months of lagging sales, market researcher NPD Group is finally saying the recession caught up with the video games industry. All it took was for gaming to suffer its biggest year-over-ye...
Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 1
“Bits of destruction” is a phrase Fred Wilson uses to describe the destructive part of “creative destruction” brought on by digitization. We hear a lot about the destruction wrought on the newspaper ...
Analysis: Palm Pre sync flap, hardware issues, hurt Palm
Pre fans point to the Palm's WebOS, saying it matters most — Computerworld - Since the Palm Pre launched on June 6, it has been hailed with exaggerated exuberance as an iPhone killer and reviled for...
Firefox Add-ons Contributions Pilot
The Firefox Add-ons community is an amazing source of creativity and innovation for Firefox users all over the world. Thousands of developers create add-ons that foreshadow the future of Web browsers...
TechCrunch Upskirt: Why Michael Arrington Blogs about Porn
In 1970 porn was a 10 million dollar industry. Today, the porn industry pulls in close to a billion dollars. According to Alexa, four of the hundred most trafficked sites on the web are porn sites.
IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On
Just six years ago, the web was dominated by one browser: Internet Explorer, specifically Internet Explorer 6. Without Netscape to compete against it and the ability to bundle its browser with Window...
Google Wants You To Know A Google Docs Redesign Is Coming (I Wonder Why)
On the Google Docs blog today, the company took the time to make a non-announcement. Basically, there's a bunch of words that bury the real story: That Google Docs will soon be launching a “brand new...
Bill Gates: What does ‘browser’ mean these days, anyway?
In an interview with CNET News, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates responded to Google's announcement that it is developing Chrome OS, an operating system entirely integrated with a Web browser. — He not...
BlackBerry OS 5.0 to have tabbed browsing
You know us; we have nothing for love for RIM but it seems that its case of ADD is a lot worse than previously thought. For the better part of a week we've been playing around with a new beta build o...
Former AOLer Jim Bankoff Scores $7 Million for Sports News and Community Start-Up
Jim Bankoff-the well-regarded former AOL exec who runs an online sports news network called SB Nation-has nabbed $7 million in funding from investors to grow the company, including Comcast Interactive...
Bit.ly Starts Warning About Malicious Links
Since it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility. — Bit.ly has started warn...
Microsoft: Citing Worries On Windows, Argus Says “Sell”
According to Thomson/First Call, there are 33 sell-side analysts with ratings on Microsoft (MSFT). They count 13 Strong Buys, 10 Buys, 10 Holds and zero Sells or Strong Sells. But that information i...
LG's BL40 Black Label phone captured in the wild — alongside a kid sibling
alongside a kid sibling — The more we see of LG's latest Black Label handset — the mysterious BL40 — the more we want to touch it, play with it, talk on it, and put it (or, at least try to put it) in...
Belkin kills the FlyWire — does wireless HD / HDMI even have a chance?
does wireless HD / HDMI even have a chance? — We sort of saw the writing on the wall, but now Belkin has went and made it official: the FlyWire is dead. Originally showcased at CES 2008 and at pract...
Google's Eyeing Cellphones For Chrome OS
At today's Mobilebeat 2009 Conference, Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra spoke about mobile platforms and what enables success. Interestingly enough, Gundotra quickly mentioned web app developmen...
Twitter Leak Illustrates Google Chrome OS Security Hazards
Recently leaked Twitter documents that were stored on Google Apps highlight a deeper issue - namely, when everything you do is stored online, how will you protect your personal data? As Google revs u...
Is There Really a Recovery in the Works? Time to Check with Google
Is the ad market really starting to rebound? Or is the (muted, cautious) happy talk we were hearing this spring just happy talk? Time to take a peek at Google's quarterly earnings this afternoon, w...
No, @Oprah doesn't really want you to watch that pirated copy of Harry Potter
If you're following celebrities like Oprah, Michael Arrington, and Justin Timberlake you might find that folks are retweeting some odd stuff purportedly originally posted by the aforementioned celebri...
Revving Up Digg
What Digg is doing outside the media spotlight to gain traction and keep momentum. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg, is not easily flustered when cool technology hits the ...
Green shoots in the music industry?
Is it possible that the music industry has finally spotted the light at the end of the tunnel - and it's not the flashing light on the oncoming Pirate Express locomotive? — This week a big piece of ...
Google Reader's Social Evolution
For more than a year, Google Reader has been struggling to add social features and almost all the new features were contrived, difficult to use and only cluttered the interface. — Originally, Google...
Is Google Overriding Title Tags with Business Name?
Is Google replacing Title Tags on the main Google results page with Business names? — I have a local client, Napoleon Engineering Services, that markets their custom bearing services nationally and ...
Mobile OS company Symbian enters app store fray: Launches Horizon
Symbian, the company that makes operating systems for a large number of the world's mobile phones, today will be announcing the launch of Horizon, its own path into the thick forest of app stores.
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Says Facebook Is Full Of Holes
In order to comply with Canadian privacy law, Facebook must take greater responsibility for the personal information in its care. That's not what we said, it's what Canada Privacy Commissioner Jennif...
MySpace CEO: “Our users don't know if we're a social portal, a music site, or an entertainment hub”
One thing that's great about MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta - his emails to employees always have at least one good sound bite. In June the zinger was his reference to laid off employees as “bloat.”
Laptop Security while Crossing Borders
Last year, I wrote about the increasing propensity for governments, including the U.S. and Great Britain, to search the contents of people's laptops at customs. What we know is still based on anecdot...