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| Feb 5, 2024 | Prince Harry to travel to be with King Charles following his father's cancer diagnosis | Prince Harry will be going to the U.K. in the coming days to see his father, King Charles III, after the British monarch was diagnosed with cancer, CBS News confirmed Monday.
Harry spoke with his father about the cancer diagnosis, Buckingha... |
| Jun 20, 2021 | Metaverse Weekly: News About Holograms, NFTs, Awards, Partnerships And Launches From All Corners Of The Metaverse | Metaverse Weekly getty |
| Jun 24, 2008 | Roundup: Broadcom backdating, games at work, and more | Former Broadcom executive Henry Samueli to plead guilty in backdating case — The Broadcom flameout saga continues, with former chief technology officer Samueli admitting that he previously lied to SEC investigators about whether or not he h... |
| May 22, 2008 | Behavioral Targeting May Be Illegal | A bunch of ISPs have been experimenting with systems such as Phorm and NebuAd that monitor their users’ online behavior and create profiles that help third parties create more targeted advertisements. Back in March we noted that behavioral ... |
| May 21, 2008 | Hollywood Shoots Itself In The Foot Yet Again With Netflix Set-Top Box | When I started reading CNet’s write-up of Roku’s new Netflix set-top box, I was beginning to think that the movie industry might finally be getting its act together. The price ($99) seemed reasonable, and the subscription rate (as little as... |
| May 20, 2008 | Microhoo: Is It Joint Venture Time? | Updated with Yahoo response, more on potential search deal: Microsoft on Sunday issued a statement that opens the door to a partnership with Yahoo, but not an acquisition.
Now Microsoft is talking some sense (Techmeme).
The 20-second versio... |
| May 20, 2008 | Collapse of Music DRM Continues; DRM Customers Still Screwed | Support for DRM in the recording industry is in freefall. On Tuesday, Napster released a new version of its music store offering 6 million DRM-free tracks. Napster is a relative latecomer to this party, joining Apple, Amazon, and Wal-Mart, ... |
| May 20, 2008 | I Am Failing To Get Excited About Napster's 6 Million Songs | Napster just announced that they are now selling their entire catalog of 6 million songs for $0.99/each, no DRM. And for some reason I’m having trouble getting excited about it (CNET, however, has more than enough excitement for both of us,... |
| May 20, 2008 | A win for digital distribution as Netflix set-top box debuts | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Finally living up to its name, Netflix today introduced the Netflix Player by Roku, a small piece of hardware that can play any... |
| May 19, 2008 | American Gladiators vanquished by optional broadcast flag | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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If you're like most Americans, then you probably don't spend Monday nights aquiver with anticipation at the thought of a new ep... |
| May 19, 2008 | Microsoft Confirms That Windows Media Centers Use The Broadcast Flag | While NBC Universal still won’t say if it set the flags on certain shows recently that would prevent them from being recorded, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Media Centers do abide by the “broadcast flag.” You may recall that the broa... |
| May 18, 2008 | HP launching teen PCs | Hey, Bro! HP is launching some gnarly teen PCs and they’ll be cold lamping in the house with sexy new designs.
Ameer Karim, directory of HP’s future and innovations group, announced the new line at a Teens and Tech conference. He said they ... |
| May 16, 2008 | VIA's Isaiah chip set for slap fight with Intel and AMD | Look out Intel and AMD, there’s a new kid on the block. He comes from the wrong side of the tracks, kicked out of his former school for staying out at recess long after the bell rang. His name’s Isaiah and he’s gunning for the both of you.
... |
| May 16, 2008 | Scientific Alliance newsletter 16th May 2008 | Scientific Alliance newsletter 16th May 2008
16-05-2008
A different view of environmental issues
Biofuels from waste
Waste, fuel and food together present us with some high priority problems at present. How do we deal with the high levels o... |
| May 16, 2008 | Roundup: Facebook’s latest profile changes, Jangl sells, Kindle matters, and more | More on Facebook profile changes: The feed wall — The new profile is slated for launch later this year. The latest new feature the company is previewing: A “feed” portion of the new design, where you can easily add content from within a sta... |
| May 16, 2008 | Battle Over Data Ownership on Gillmor Gang | Epic Gillmor Gang today. Everyone went in with guns blazing over the data portability/ownership debate that has spilled out over the Facebook/Google scuffle. DataPortability founder Chris Saad was also on the call, but failed to take a lead... |
| May 15, 2008 | Gates gives "In the future" talk, says touchscreens are the way to go | It’s safe to say we’re approaching the top of the technology tree when it comes to mice and keyboards. As apps get richer and interactive devices become more intuitive and ubiquitous, the mouse/keyboard combo is becoming more and more a nic... |
| May 15, 2008 | Random Scams Won't Take Down Google | Three years ago, reporter Tom Foremski tossed out his idea for how Microsoft could kill Google in an underhanded way: offer $100 million to whoever clicked on a random Google ad. The trick would be that no one (other than the person adminis... |
| May 15, 2008 | Nintendo Loses Patent Suit In East Texas, Of Course | The latest in a long line of patent lawsuits in every patent hoarders favorite district of East Texas involves the game controllers used by Nintendo. A company holds a patent on a 3D controller and sued Nintendo (and Microsoft) for supposed... |
| May 15, 2008 | CrunchArcade: Nintendo sued, ordered to pay $21m over patent-infringing controllers | Some lawsuit news for your enjoyment today. An itsy-bitsy Texas gaming company, Anascape Ltd., successfully sued Nintendo in federal court over patents relating to the Wavebird, GameCube and Wii Classic controllers. (None of the motion-sens... |
| May 15, 2008 | CBS Pays $1.8 Billion for CNet: CNet Shows How It’s Done | In a deal that was surprising only in its price, CBS has announced that it will buy CNet, owners of everything from News.com to Download.com to our competitors Webware, for $1.8 billion.
That’s 10% more than Google paid for YouTube, and tha... |
| May 14, 2008 | Does Microsoft's Media Center Let TV Producers Block Shows From Being Recorded? | And here we go again with rumors about questionable DRM tactics involving Microsoft and NBC Universal. Just days after a (later denied, after first being confirmed) report that Microsoft was going to put a “copyright cop” into Zune devices,... |
| May 14, 2008 | Apple keeps things secure with biennial PGP key update | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Despite a lot of criticism about its lack of communication on security issues, Apple does a lot to keep Mac OS X as secure as p... |
| May 13, 2008 | Big important study: Violent games so aren't bad for kids | We’ve been saying for awhile that violent video games aren’t bad for kids, and now we’ve got research from Harvard to prove it.
They spent nearly one and a half million dollars in four years following the habits of 1,200 kids. As it turns o... |
| May 13, 2008 | MSN Messenger accidentally blocks YouTube links | Last Friday and Saturday, MSN Messenger users found themselves unable to send YouTube links to each other. Microsoft acknowledged and fixed the problem, pointing the finger at “a 3rd party that is a Microsoft partner” responsible for managi... |
| May 12, 2008 | Why Is The FCC Subsidizing The Least Efficient Providers Of Rural Telco Services? | The Universal Service Fund (USF) is a huge boondoggle for telcos, who keep getting more and more money out of it, with almost no oversight into what’s done with that money. And, the way it’s set up, it actually blocks more innovative (and c... |
| May 12, 2008 | Google Kicks Off Its Facebook Ground War | Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site.
Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version.
A... |
| May 12, 2008 | Powerset opens to everyone — now, what’s next? | Today, natural language search engine Powerset is finally opening its doors to everyone, as well as unveiling a set of tools that have previously been seen by only a handful of people. This marks the end of a long phase for Powerset — since... |
| May 12, 2008 | Social Networking Sites Turn Outward | The New York Times reports on MySpace’s new Data Availability project, which will allow third-party websites to automatically import information from a user’s profile, saving the user the hassle of re-entering it on a bunch of different sit... |
| May 12, 2008 | Powerset's Search: Does It Deliver? | Powerset has rolled out its semantic search engine and has managed to get a ton of attention. The larger question for me: Does it deliver? And where does Powerset make the most sense?
Powerset on Monday introduced its natural language searc... |
| May 12, 2008 | EA Backs Down On Controversial DRM | It amuses me sometimes when people get angry at a position we take, and say to us something along the lines of “well, if you’re so upset about it, stop talking about it and do something,” as if talking about it doesn’t help to bring about c... |
| May 12, 2008 | Bold new BlackBerry 9000 to take on expected 3G iPhone | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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RIM said "hello" to the iPhone this morning when it introduced the long-anticipated BlackBerry 9000, also known as th... |
| May 10, 2008 | Powerset's Dilemma: Go For It, Or Sell | San Francisco based search startup Powerset will be launching shortly. For now, Powerset will query only Wikipedia and Freebase. But as I said when the product was demo’d to me a few weeks ago, it is compelling nonetheless: “When I tested t... |
| May 9, 2008 | Congress Follows States' Lead In Trying To Ban Stores From Selling Violent Video Games To Kids | At least 10 states have tried to ban the sale of violent video games to kids, and in each and every case, the laws have been found to be unconstitutional. Yet that doesn’t stop state governments from trying… and apparently the politicians a... |
| May 9, 2008 | Roundup: Tidbits on Jangl’s demise, Virgin considers Helio hookup, VCs looking overseas, and more | updated
The back-story on Jangl’s slow death — Yesterday, we reported on Jangl’s asset sale process. A tipster tells us that Seattle-based WhitePages had offered to buy Internet phone company Jangl for $20 million, but then kept the company... |
| May 8, 2008 | TorrentSpy, Though Out Of Business, To Appeal Massive Fine | Following yesterday’s $110 million fine against TorrentSpy, ostensibly for copyright infringement, but really for destruction of evidence, we figured that the whole thing would drop, as the company has already shut down. But… not so fast. T... |
| May 8, 2008 | House Passes Pro IP Overwhelmingly | Last week we questioned why Congress seemed to think that the White House should be playing the role of copyright cop. Yet, apparently, the House of Representatives didn’t think it was a question worth asking, as it has passed the PRO IP bi... |
| May 8, 2008 | RIAA, MPAA In Denial About The Death Of DRM | As a bunch of you are submitting, at a panel discussion down in LA, an RIAA representative claimed not only was DRM not dead, but that it was making a comeback. However, the statements show a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s happening... |
| May 8, 2008 | AMD's New Roadmap: Can It Execute? | AMD has revamped its server processor roadmap with plans to jump to six and then 12 cores in the first half of 2010, but the larger question is whether the company can actually deliver.
Given that AMD has had a hard time delivering its quad... |
| May 7, 2008 | Court Orders TorrentSpy To Pay $110 Million To MPAA | Just as IsoHunt is gearing up to fight its MPAA lawsuit, a judge has ordered TorrentSpy to pay $110 million to the MPAA in a similar lawsuit. However, despite the MPAA’s Dan Glickman giving the expected “this is a warning to other such site... |
| May 7, 2008 | FBI Forced To Back Down On Secret Info Request To Internet Archive | Congress curtailed the FBI’s ability to use National Security Letters (NSLs) a few years ago after it became clear that the FBI was widely abusing the process to request information from organizations with no judicial oversight and with bui... |
| May 7, 2008 | Microsoft Agrees To Put A Copyright Cop On The Zune | Want to know exactly what not to do in order to build up marketshare against a formidable competitor? It’s doing what Microsoft appears to be doing with the Zune: making it less useful for buyers. Remember, last month NBC Universal claimed ... |
| May 7, 2008 | Congressman Freaks Out About Second Life; Demands Ban In Schools | Just a few months after worrying about terrorists hiding in Second Life, now at least one Congressional representative is worried about how Second Life is corrupting your children. He’s trying to drum up support to ban Second Life from scho... |
| May 6, 2008 | Roundup: Sprint to announce a big wireless partnership, Sun previews JavaFX and more | Here’s the latest action:
Sprint and Clearwire to join forces for WiMax venture — The telecom companies, along with Comcast, Time Warner, Google and Intel, are about to announce a $3.2 billion investment in a new wireless Internet company u... |
| May 6, 2008 | Roundup: Another Google exec leaves for Facebook, Mosso adds more storage to the cloud, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Another Google exec heads to Facebook — Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs will become the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, BoomTown’s... |
| May 6, 2008 | MK Capital finalizes acquisition of Kontiki from Verisign | MK Capital has completed its previously announced acquisition of content delivery network Kontiki from Verisign for an undisclosed price. The companies plan to announce the deal this morning.
As announced, Verisign is likely divesting Konti... |
| May 5, 2008 | Will Psystar Represent A Key Case Concerning Enforceability Of EULAs? | A few weeks back, a company named Psystar made some news by offering to sell PCs with Mac OS X installed. This raised questions about how legit this offer was. After all, when Steve Jobs returned to Apple years back, he killed off all licen... |
| May 5, 2008 | Yahoo's Yang Gives His 'Don't Crush Our Stock We're OK' Address | Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on the company's corporate blog gave investorsâ€"that's who he's really speaking toâ€"a "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" missive.
Yang had to say something given he's in for an ugly Monday ... |
| May 4, 2008 | Yahoo's Yang Speaks, Notes That Glass Remains Half Full | The most notable news this Sunday is what didn’t happen – no Yahoo/Google search deal was announced, meaning there is literally nothing standing between Yahoo and the unholy beating it is going to take when the markets open tomorrow morning... |
| May 3, 2008 | Microsoft/Yahoo: Summary Of Today's News & Bonus Gillmor Gang | Summary Of Today’s News: Negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft, widely expected to result in a negotiated deal by Monday, fell apart today. There were a number of statements, all summarized below. Steve Gillmor also convened a special se... |
| May 3, 2008 | Yahoo breaks the wrist, Microsoft walks away | Microsoft is pulling its offer to buy Yahoo and walking away, a source tells CNET [it is now confirmed, update below]. The two sides, which had been in negotiations this weekend hoping for a deal, possibly as early as next week, were appare... |
| May 3, 2008 | Microsoft now has $50 billion burning a hole in its pocket… | Okay, Microsoft’s attempt to buy Yahoo fell apart — so now what? Well, in his letter to Microsoft employees, chief executive Steve Ballmer says that Microsoft will be just fine going forward without Yahoo. As a company, that may be true. Bu... |
| May 2, 2008 | What Psystar needs now is lawyers, sweet lawyers | News.com.com digs down into what Psystar really needs to keep itself alive during the sure and swift onslaught of litigation that will some hit them broadside. Here’s the rub. According the the OS X license:
“This License allows you to inst... |
| May 1, 2008 | Can Someone Explain Why The White House Should Be Playing The Role Of Copyright Cop? | This isn’t exactly a surprise, but the PRO IP bill, which is actually quite anti-IP, has been approved by the House Judiciary Committee. This is the bill that would create a “piracy czar” with a new department reporting to the White House, ... |
| May 1, 2008 | Refurbished iPod gives a little tainted love to tech writer | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| May 1, 2008 | AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo Get $100 Million Bill | A Federal Court found today that AOL, Real Networks and Yahoo owe $100million to songwriters and composers as back payment for streaming music online.
The court ruled on a request from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishe... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | Glitch Postpones Windows XP SP3 Availability | News Glitch Postpones Windows XP SP3 Availability
One of Microsoft's retail point-of-sale applications has an incompatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. By Kurt MackieApril 30, 2008 One of Microsoft's r... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | MySpace Wins Against Spamford Wallace Who Has Disappeared (Once Again) | Remember Sanford “Spamford” Wallace? Back in the 90s, he was the face of the proud spammer. He was quoted widely and proclaimed himself the spam king (which he insisted was legal). That was great until the law caught up to him and he claime... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | Glitch Postpones Windows XP SP3 Availability | News Glitch Postpones Windows XP SP3 Availability
One of Microsoft's retail point-of-sale applications has an incompatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. By Kurt MackieApril 30, 2008 One of Microsoft's r... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | Watch out for virus-laden, third-party "recertified" iPods | This isn’t as weird as the girl who got a cryptic, anti-capitalist note instead of her iPod, but it’s potentially far more damaging. This guy bought a refurbished iPod Touch through Buy.com for $99 — what a deal, right? As it turns out, not... |
| Apr 30, 2008 | So Much For Those Synergies Between Time Warner Cable And AOL, Huh? | While the AOL/Time Warner merger has gone down in the record books as one of the worst mergers ever, I still contend that it could have gone much better if stronger management had been in place. Most specifically, there were obvious synergi... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | Automatic XP and Vista updates temporarily stopped | Apparently the service packs for Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems aren’t playing nicely with another one of Microsoft’s products; Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System.
The incompatibility is a big enough pro... |
| Apr 29, 2008 | RIAA Now Decides That Not Enough People Have Heard Of Project Playlist | There they go again. The RIAA and MPAA keep picking totally random, mostly unknown, startups and suing them — giving them all sorts of free publicity. They did it years ago with Napster and more recently with The Pirate Bay. And yet… they k... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Definitely Web 2.0? Maybe. | Accosted by a man with a video camera who asks you what Web 2.0 is all about during Web 2 Expo, I had a crack a the subject in a few pithy sentences. The video by SocialTNT is below, but if you don’t have 5 minutes (for the whole video) the... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | How Much Is Twitter Worth? | Yesterday CNET’s Charles Cooper reported that Twitter had signed a term sheet to raise $15 – $20 million in a new round of venture funding
It’s fairly well known that they are out talking to VCs (it’s hard to keep that quiet), but our sourc... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Judge Dismisses DMCA-Abuse Lawsuit Over Video Of Baby Dancing To Prince | Last summer, we wrote about the EFF suing Universal Music for sending a DMCA takedown notice to YouTube over a 30-second home video of a baby dancing to some barely audible music by Prince. The EFF claimed that this was an abuse of the DMCA... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Sun snaps up secretive low-power x86 startup Montalvo | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Here's a bit of advice for anyone who's considering starting an x86 processor design shop from scratch: don't. The case of secr... |
| Apr 27, 2008 | Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh | Back in the good old days, big software companies did big things. Little companies tiptoed around in the shadow of the platform makers, gaining enough speed to liftoff and attract enough attention to survive long enough to be acquired. Like... |
| Apr 27, 2008 | Twitter secures its new $15-$20M round? | More reports are coming in about Twitter, the micro-messaging service, raising a new round of funding. Twitter has signed a term sheet for either $15 or $20 million, CNET is reporting. This is in line with earlier reports that the company w... |
| Apr 25, 2008 | Friday roundup: pirates beware, Wii gamers despair | Avast ye pirates! The Bush Administration is accusing China, Russia and seven other countries of failing to protect American producers of movies and other entertainment from piracy. The question comes to mind: why did it take so long for th... |
| Apr 25, 2008 | WebMission – That's a wrap! | I’m going to have to apologise for the lack of updates on the Web Mission trip of 20 startups to San Francisco and Silicon Valley this week. What with being located in a different hotel to the group, having to run and jump on a bus somewher... |
| Apr 25, 2008 | LendingTree Pressures Blogger To Remove Comments | You may have heard the story earlier this week about how LendingTree had a security breach as employees were apparently handing out company passwords to mortgage firms, allowing them to access customer data directly. LendingTree is now suin... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | As Expected, Republicans Push To Get Telcos Off The Hook For Illegal Activities | Back in February, we broke the story that some Republican Congressional Representatives were looking to circulate a discharge petition to force a vote on the FISA bill that would grant telcos retroactive immunity for any illegal activity ha... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | FBI Wants More Power To Monitor Internet Activity | The FBI, which still can’t even get its own computer network working properly, would rather just have more widespread access to spy on the computer network everyone else uses: the internet. Talking to Congress today, the FBI proposed a few ... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | Roundup: Mashups at Web 2.0, Linden Lab gets new executive and more | Here’s the latest action:
Mashup companies take over Web 2.0 — InfoWorld profiles three companies making announcements at this week’s conference: Serena, which is launching an online marketplace for business mashups; JackBe, which has a new... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | We Can't Afford Even One E-Voting Morris Worm | Over at CNet, Declan McCullagh has an interview with probably the most prominent computer scientist who supports paperless e-voting, Michael Shamos. In a wide-ranging discussion, Shamos acknowledges that e-voting isn’t perfect but insists t... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | AMD drops triple-core procs as rumored | AMD today finally updated its Phenom chips from dual-core to triple-core, as has been rumored for weeks.
The new chips have clock speeds between 2.1GHz and 2.4, 1.5MB front-side cache, and AMD’s HyperTransport at 3600Mhz. Pricing starts at ... |
| Apr 23, 2008 | Laptop searches at the border: No reason? No problem | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Apr 22, 2008 | Intel lets you mash up different web pages | Intel is launching a new product called Mash Maker — which doesn’t just mash-up music, but entire web pages — in testing mode today.
When you install Mash Maker, it creates a toolbar in your web browser. The toolbar then suggests different ... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | Twitter! Japan! Ads! | Twitter Japan launched today at Twitter.jp via a partnership between Twitter and Digital Garage. It’s basically Twitter, in Japanese, with display ads.
A sizable Japanese userbase has grown up around Twitter, despite the fact that it is onl... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | Are E-Voting Paper Trails A Bad Idea? | News.com is running an interview with Carnegie Mellon CS professor Michael Shamos, who is rather opinionated about everyone who keeps pushing for a voter-verified paper trail in e-voting machines. He thinks that a paper trail is a bad idea,... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | Intel cuts prices, intros new Celerons and Core 2 Duos | Remember the good old days of scouring Pricewatch.com to see who had the cheapest processors? You’d wait for Intel to release a new chip and watch the one it was replacing plummet to half its original cost, right? Ah, simpler times.
Anyway,... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | AT&T Lobbyist Predicts Doom & Gloom, Clogged Internet By 2010 | We’ve noticed a nice little pattern. Whenever you hear news reports about how the internet is getting clogged up due to things like music downloading or YouTube or video downloads, the claims are almost always from consultants or lobbyists ... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | Politician's Spectrum Plan Sounds Mighty Familiar | You may recall the well-hyped venture-backed startup named M2Z that wanted the FCC to hand over a segment of unused spectrum. Part of the plan was to offer a free ad-supported wireless service that would cover 95% of the country, that would... |
| Apr 19, 2008 | European news round-up | In our new regular weekly round-up of news in Europe, here’s some of the broader stories that may be of interest.
• The European Union is never very far away from reaching for the regulation trigger, so it was refreshing this week to see th... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | Does Microsoft's Plan To Sell Software As A Service Make Sense? | While Microsoft remains dominant in the office productivity suite space, it knows that it’s facing renewed competition from online offerings and open source offerings. While none of those other products really match the breadth and depth of... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | The surge is working — at least for Google’s stock | When a stock is trading over $400 a share, you might think it would be impossible for its price to rise over 20 percent in one day — you’d be wrong.
Following yesterday’s first quarter report in which Google blew right past Wall Street and ... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | NBC Universal Now Says It Should Be Apple's Responsibility To Stop Piracy | Sometimes you wonder how the folks at NBC Universal get anything accomplished, when they seem totally unable to accept responsibility for the market challenges they face, and demand that everyone else fix NBC Universal’s business model prob... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Politicians Want To Ban Already Banned Mobile Phone Use While Flying | Politicians just love to grandstand in the hopes of getting some publicity for their next election campaign — and that includes passing laws against things that are already illegal. The latest is that some politicians are looking to pass a ... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Congress Won't Fund Paper Backups For E-Voting Machines | It was Congress that first mandated that polling places needed to start using e-voting machines a few years back, which has led to the ridiculously long trail of stories concerning buggy machines with questionable results and no way to go b... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Exec: Apple must address piracy before NBC returns to iTunes | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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NBC says it wants to be able to put its TV content back on the iTunes Store, but still has a few reservations—one of which coul... |
| Apr 17, 2008 | Spoof Vista SP1 video ad is… well, see for yourself | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Apr 16, 2008 | The world's smallest violin plays for NBC as it demands anti-piracy measures by Apple | Pity the media conglomerate that tries to enforce copyright by demanding the modification of an extremely popular and user-friendly piece of hardware. NBC’s Chief Digital Officer George Kliavkoff says they’re wary of releasing its TV shows ... |
| Apr 16, 2008 | How Deep Should Deep Search Go? | For years, people have talked about the “deep web” or “dark web” of information that’s hidden from the public (and search engines), sometimes behind registration or paywalls, but more often behind specific forms. That is, there’s a lot of i... |
| Apr 16, 2008 | Seagate makes good on solid-state drive patent threats | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Apr 14, 2008 | Office Open XML out of Microsoft’s hands?officially | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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A couple of weeks ago, ISO members voted to make Microsoft's Office Open XML format an official standard. The vote was not with... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Bad Ideas: Blockbuster Planning Yet Another Set Top Box Offering | It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Apparently Blockbuster is working on plans to offer up its very own set top box for downloading movies that can be watched on your television. This is a bad idea. There is a long and disastro... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Virtualization May Help With Windows Bloat | News Virtualization May Help With Windows Bloat
The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained. By Kurt MackieApril 11, 2008 The Microsoft Windows operating system... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Roundup: VentureBeat site update, Microsoft’s new map service to avoid traffic jams, and more | Here’s the latest action:
The VentureBeat site today: So what happened was… We switched to a new web host, and due to a number of technical issues, the changeover was not especially smooth. In fact, if you were either trying to read our sit... |