Macmillan Books Return to Amazon After Dispute
Electronic and paper books from the publisher Macmillan were returning to Amazon.com Friday evening, ending a week-long public conflict as the parties negotiated over the future price of e-books. — ...
Faster, Simpler Photo Uploads
Facebook is the largest photo-sharing site with over 2.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month. In order to make sharing photos even easier, today we are announcing a new and improved photo ...
Google Recommends The Competition On Your Business “Place” Page
I'm scratching my head over this one: Google has added a new content block on place pages that, quite often, gives free advertising to a local business's competition. It's called “Nearby places you m...
Enhanced Cooperation with Facebook on Search
Facebook has been a close and valued partner of Microsoft for a number of years. We have worked together on several fronts all designed to create great experiences and services for our users. As we ...
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited
WASHINGTON—The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in in...
Sling: We didn't ‘work’ with AT&T for 3G streaming to iPhone (Updated)
AT&T made headlines Thursday by announcing that it had decided to allow SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone to stream video from a Slingbox over its 3G network. AT&T's CEO claimed in the announcement that ...
Gmail Creator says he is not working on new email platform
With nearly 400 million users, Facebook is increasingly challenging the traditional Web overlords like Google and Yahoo on all fronts. — So the reports on Friday that Facebook was developing its own...
Apple's A4 chip: Engineers correct stupid journalist
Updated with several more emails. — I have no clue about computer chip design and manufacturing. So I trolled VentureBeat's readers with a challenge: Explain to me how Apple's switch from third-par...
Patent office to review VoIP patent
IDG News Service - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP. — The patent, held...
Facebook's Doppelganger Week Is Viral Groupthink
When I logged in to Facebook this week, I was greeted with updates from such friends as Mariah Carey, Natalie Portman and Ryan Gosling. Exciting, right? Except that when I clicked through, it was cl...
Mozilla ends Firefox support for Mac OS Tiger
Calls Mac OS X 10.4 ‘hindrance’ to development; Apple's already dumped Tiger — Computerworld - Baring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from fut...
Google: We will bring books back to life
We at Google could make that wealth of knowledge available at a click. And authors would earn too — If you love books and care about the knowledge they contain, there is a problem that needs to be ...
NBC Airing Emmys Live For The First Time, Thanks To Twitter (GE)
NBC is considering scrapping the time delay when it airs the Emmys on Aug. 29, according to Broadcasting & Cable. — The TV show typically airs live on stations on the East and in Central time zones,...
Foursquare Passes 1 Million Check-Ins A Week. Rate Doubled In The Past Month.
Yesterday, we got a nice little breakdown of which clients are used most often for the location-based service Foursquare (hint: still the iPhone). Today, the company has some new big news to share vi...
The dark side of crowdsourcing?
Earlier this week, at our weekly faculty research lunch seminar at the Kennedy School (one of the few “free lunches” that has survived our budget crunch-driven cost savings), Jonathan Zittrain, the In...
Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped through security
Malware hidden in two extensions threatens Windows users — Computerworld - Mozilla confirmed late Thursday that it failed to detect malware in a pair of Firefox add-ons, which may have infected up t...
Kindle: more than an e-book reader, it's a development platform
Last month we announced the forthcoming release of the Kindle Development Kit, a suite of programming interfaces, tools, and documentation that allows you to build active content that you can promote ...
Silicon Valley companies look to hire
From giant tech vendors to tiny solar start-ups, some of Silicon Valley's hottest companies are dusting off their “Help Wanted” signs as they gear up for a return to growth. — But the hiring may occ...
Facebook's Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product
Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it's...
The $9.99 Ebook Is Dead: Third Major Publisher Hachette Dumps on Amazon
Amazon's ebook pricing structure has crumbled. Hachette's the third major publisher to push for the agency model, following MacMillan and HarperCollins: They'll set the ebook prices (higher, natch) a...
An Apology To Our Readers
On Monday evening I received a phone call from someone I trust who told me that one of our interns had asked for compensation in exchange for a blog post. Specifically, this intern had allegedly aske...
Siri launches an iPhone personal assistant that actually works
The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it's always an exaggeration. Usually the service in question can only tackle a small slice of what a human assi...
Matt Asay's big break is a big one for open source
I have a confession to make. — I'm a huge Matt Asay fan (right). Always have been. — Matt is the Anthony Bourdain (below) of open source. By that I mean he cooks better than most cooks, writes b...
To RIAA or Not to RIAA, That was the Question
February 5, 2010. As you may be reading in today's paper, the Justice Department in its filing regarding our settlement with Google continues to see legal problems with the settlement, focusing on cl...
A Letter From Marc Whitten: Discontinuation Of Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games
On April 15 we will discontinue the Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox v1 games playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals. I want to start by saying this isn't a dec...
iTablet launches from UK company
Like the iPad but with USB ports, Flash, multi-tasking, choice of OS, HDMI... In its own words “hot on the heels of Apple's latest product launch”, UK company X2 Computing has launched the “iTablet” ...
Microsoft, Facebook expand search partnership; Facebook to sell own ads
Microsoft and Facebook have revised their search pact into a global deal where the social networking giant will sell its own ads and get all the features Bing has to offer. — In a blog post, Microso...
AT&T FamilyMap App Launches on App Store
App Brings Peace of Mind to Families On-the-Go; Keeps Schedules, Events and Whereabouts Accessible, Centralized on iPhone
Full Details on the New Nook 1.2 Firmware Going Out Now
A B&N employee (who'd just updated their store's Nooks) sent us all the details of the new Nook firmware 1.2 update that, according to the date on this memo, should hit later today. UPDATE — • Enha...
New York City Names Winners of Apps Contest
The winners of the first NYC BigApps competition, which invited the public to develop applications using raw sets of municipal data, were announced at an event in New York on Thursday evening. — The...
Google Rolls Out Ocean Showcase: It's a Multimedia, Underwater Street View
Ah, the sea. The big blue. From sharks to shipwrecks, from the perfectly formed pipes of Hawaii's waves to the dark and chilly depths of the deepest sea trenches, it's one of Earth's most fascinatin...
Location Based Social Networking & Video Calling Coming to iPhone
There's an old adage concerning the finding of a location for your brick and mortar retail business: Location, location, location. While that may still hold water today, that saying is going to be hi...