Apple plans Mighty Mouse makeover
Twenty five years after introducing the world to mouse-based computing, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is now hoping to deliver significant advances to the input device by applying the company's extensiv...
Latin Becomes a Living Language on Facebook
Most of the time when we stumble upon a Latin phrase, it's etched in stone: carved in the hallways of universities, chiseled on facades of government buildings or carefully imprinted in cathedral foye...
Google Removes Pirate Bay Frontpage From Search Results
Removing search results is nothing new for Google. The company has been cleaning up its search results for years, following up on complaints from the Chinese government, and of course copyright holde...
Publishers Like Time Inc.'s “Hulu for Magazines” Pitch. What Will Apple and Amazon Say?
Earlier this year, Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore tasked her lieutenant, John Squires, with figuring out how to put the digital “genie back in the bottle.” Here's part of his answer: A Hulu for magazines.
Twitter CEO sees journalists as curators of tweets
Evan Williams, founder and CEO of Twitter, kicked off the Online News Association conference in San Francisco. — The format was a fireside chat, except before an audience of hundreds of journalists,...
iPhone Market Share Could More Than Double When Apple Drops AT&T Exclusivity
Apple is stifling the iPhone's share of the mobile market by selling it through so few carriers. And when it eventually starts selling the iPhone at more carriers per country, its market share could ...
Sir Martin Sorrell: Rupert Murdoch's pay wall plan is right
Sir Martin Sorrell, the WPP chief executive, has strongly backed Rupert Murdoch's decision to move premium newspaper content behind paywalls and has warned the media industry to expect mass consolidat...
New Cloudera Desktop GUI Simplifies Hadoop for Users
Cloudera, which touts itself as the commercial Hadoop company, has announced the release of Cloudera Desktop, a graphical user interface (GUI) for Hadoop applications. — NEW YORK — Cloudera, which t...
Ask the Boss: Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google
Q: Will Google ever grow to rival Microsoft in the operating systems market? — Ameer Ali, London — Ali, — Well, we haven't even built Chrome OS yet - so let's wait and see! The reason Chrome is...
Sony prototype sends electricity through the air
Despite the numerous technologies that exist for sending data through the air there's one cable that most gadgets can't do without at some time. The power cable remains a necessary but sometimes unsi...
Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO
About six months ago, critics pummeled Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — He'd made questionable management decisions, or so it appeared from the outside. He'd fumbled the site's redesign ...
Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge
According to data supplied by web metrics firm Net Applications, both Vista and Internet Explorer lost market share during September, while Windows 7, Firefox and Chrome all saw a surge in market shar...
Easy Does It: Google Friend Connect One-Ups Facebook Connect's Install Wizard
The battle over your online identity rages on. Google Friend Connect, the search giant's platform that lets you accept Google and OpenID accounts on your site, has just made implementing the service ...
Confirmed: Facebook Testing New Advertising APIs with a Few Agencies, to Expand More Broadly Soon
Earlier this year, we speculated on when Facebook would launch APIs for Facebook Ads to allow performance marketers to automate ad management. Well, it appears it's happening now: recently …
NPR Launching New Online Local Pilot With $3 Million From CPB, Knight
When Vivian Schiller took the job as CEO of NPR, she told paidContent she thought NPR was uniquely positioned in hyperlocal: “Big news organizations spend hours wondering how do I create the hyperloca...
Informed P2P User Act to clamp down on filesharing software
Concerned that too many peer-to-peer software users don't know what they're installing and what they're sharing, the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday passed the “Informed P2P User Act” an...
Crowdsourcing coming to iPhone apps, big time
If you've ever been driving down the highway and looked at the Google Maps application on an iPhone to see what traffic is like ahead, you may have wondered where the data behind the green, yellow, an...
Deal struck between Apple and Eminem's music publisher
DETROIT — A lawsuit between Eminem's music publisher and Apple has been settled after five days of trial in federal court in Detroit. — The dispute centered on who had the right to authorize downloa...
Chased From Sweden, Pirate Bay Sails To Ukraine
At the end of August, Stockholm's district court ordered Black Internet, the bandwidth supplier to The Pirate Bay, to disconnect the site from the Internet, pending the outcome of a civil action taken...
If HP merges PCs and printing, executive power will shift
HP Executive Vice President Vyomesh Joshi isn't as close to Hurd as colleagues Livermore and Bradley are. Photo: HP. — If HP CEO Mark Hurd does merge the PC and printing businesses, what will that ...
Twitter experimenting with a lab of its own
LONDON—Could Twitter Labs prevent drunken tweets like Google Labs hinders drunken e-mails? Here's hoping. — Britt Selvitelle, Twitter's user experience and front end engineering lead, said here Fri...
Babelgum's Multimillion-Dollar Original Content Push
Babelgum, the shape-shifting video startup that has yet to find its true calling, has been making a new bet as of late: original content. Backed by Italian telecom entrepreneur Silvio Scaglia, the co...
O2 could impose out-of-contract iPhone lock-in
Whose handset is it, anyway? — iPhone users might, or might not, be able to unlock when their contract expires, as O2 still hasn't decided if deserters should be able to take their toys with them. ...
Acer to shift focus to Android smartphones
Acer, while still developing Windows Mobile-based smartphones, has shifted its development policy to focus more on the Android platform, with at least half of new models launched in 2010 to be Android...
Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics
Some seeds for overhauling Web browser graphics were planted more than a decade ago, and Google believes now is the time for them to bear fruit. — The company is hosting the SVG Open 2009 conference...
Google Now Showing Ads On iPhone Map
We got a tip from Anthony Avolio yesterday, who pointed out that Google was showing ads on Maps on the iPhone. Until then I hadn't noticed it. This is another way in which Google seems to be alignin...
Yahoo Kills Xoopit For Gmail
Yahoo is killing support for a popular Gmail plug-in from Xoopit, a startup it acquired in July. An email was sent out today to Xoopit users on Gmail tited, “Xoopit for Gmail is closing. Here's the ...
New Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse arrive at the FCC
Well, well, what's this? A new Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse have arrived at the FCC, and they've got new model numbers of A1314 and A1296 — the current wireless keyboard is A1255 and the Mighty...
Schmidt: Google-Apple board member should stay put
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said former Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson should stay on the boards of both Google and Apple Inc, despite regulatory scrutiny. — Schmid...
Google Mass Bans & Warns AdWords Advertisers, But Why?
I have been watching ongoing complaints from Google AdWords advertisers for the past five days or so, in regards to Google both banning and warning of banning advertisers for having “poor quality land...
Intuit and Mint promise “no changes”; but maybe a few would be OK
When it comes to personal finance software on the Web, I like Mint - even though I was a bit concerned that the site would change after Intuit announced the acquisition last month. But the message se...
Adobe, Google sued by Textscape over patents
Google and Adobe Systems have been sued by a New Jersey company for allegedly violating patents used for processing text, according to recent court filings. — Google and Adobe Systems have been sued...
Psystar counsel resigns from defense team in Apple suit
A California attorney representing Psystar in its defense against an Apple lawsuit withdrew himself from the case this week, according to new court documents. — David Welker of the law firm Welker a...
Cyclopedia mixes Wikipedia and augmented reality on the iPhone
Cyclopedia ($2 App store) is a new iPhone application that allows to to view geo-tagged Wikipedia articles in a augmented reality browser. The browser uses the iPhone's camera to create a backdrop wh...
Craigslist wins preliminary ruling in eBay lawsuit
DOVER, Del. — Craigslist, the online classified ads company, has won the first salvo in a legal battle with Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. — A Delaware judge on Friday granted summary judgment to Cra...
Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake
Update 2:08 p.m. PT: To include The Pirate Bay's reaction in Swedish newspaper. — Google on Friday said an error caused the search engine to remove The Pirate Bay from its search pages. — “Google ...
No, Your Social Networking “Friend” Isn't Really in Trouble Overseas
According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there has been an increase in the number of hijacked social networking accounts reported to www.ic3.gov. — One of the more popular scams invol...
Eminem's music publisher, Apple settle dispute
Eminem's music publisher, Apple settle dispute — DETROIT - Apple Inc. and the music publisher for Eminem have settled a lawsuit over the digital downloading rights to many of the Detroit rapper's so...
Palm Pixi to launch on October 20th? Not so fast.
Okay, so we've been hearing whispers all morning that Palm and Sprint are gearing up to launch the Pixi on October 20th, and while we hate to be the bearer of bad news, we've been in contact with sour...
Technorati to change how it measures bloggers' influence
Technorati is about to make some big changes to the way it measures how important bloggers are. That means its top-100 list of the most influential bloggers is going to change. Some bloggers may be ...
The ‘Twitter Feed, Netflix Faves’ Mating Game
Looking for love online — or at least a date — almost requires a touch of clairvoyance to decipher profiles. Is someone who claims to enjoy sitcoms more of an “Arrested Development” fan or an “Everyo...
Researchers Hijack a Drive-By Botnet
The team gathered data on compromised pages and the would-be victims. — By infiltrating a criminal computer network aimed at infecting visitors to legitimate websites, university researchers have ga...
LinkedIn Launches Profile Organizer, Enters Salesforce Territory
The business social network LinkedIn is not just a way to connect with your business contacts. For a lot of recruiters, salespeople, and other professionals, it's a great business database for findin...
Could Swine Flu Take the Internet Down?
If the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic arrives this fall, one thing that may break under the strain is the Internet. Emergency planners say that school-age children and telecommuting adults could be accessin...
Sidebar Will Deliver Personalized Mobile Apps And Content To Your Phone
With over 85,000 apps on Apple's App Store alone, the task to find apps tailored to your needs and likes is daunting. Who wants to sift through that? Sidebar is hoping to help smartphone users with ...
Laptops for all
A pioneering project's chequered start — FOR the past year the pupils of Escuela 95, in a poor neighbourhood of Montevideo, have had a new learning tool. Each has been issued with a laptop computer...