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Facebook Disconnects Google Friend Connect
Facebook says it denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data for failing to respect its privacy requirements.
Yahoo, Google Talks Reportedly Still On
The two Internet companies began discussing an advertising partnership after Microsoft made its unsolicited offer for Yahoo.
Missouri Mom Indicted In MySpace Cyber-Bullying, Suicide Case
The social networking site cooperated with authorities and is named as a victim in the case.
RIAA Setback: Making Music Available May Not Be Copyright Infringement
A district judge may order a new trial in a music file-sharing suit that won record companies $222,000 for copyright infringement.
Comcast Restricted Bandwidth To BitTorrent Users 24/7, Study Charges
The Max Planck Institute released a study showing that Comcast has engaged in routine blocking or throttling of BitTorrent files at all hours of the day.
Comcast Goes Social With Plaxo Acquisition
The social network has been developing a universal address book for Comcast's SmartZone communications center, which should launch later this year.
Google Adds Demographic Features To YouTube Analytics Tool
The addition of visitor age and gender information to YouTube Insight is part of Google's overall mission to make the video sharing site profitable.
Zero-Day Internet Explorer Vulnerability Published
The potential exploit relates to the Microsoft Web browser's "Print Table of Links" feature.
Icahn Amasses Yahoo Shares To Push Microsoft Merger
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he's been recruited to lead the proxy fight by Yahoo investors unhappy with the company's refusal to accept Microsoft's bid.
Amazon Launches Music Widget For Bloggers, Web Sites
The MP3 Clips Widget lets users pick the song and albums they want to display or select the latest bestsellers or new releases within a specific genre.
Adobe Unveils Flash Player 10, 3-D Features
The new Flash Player has several new features Adobe hopes will help maintain the plug-in's dominance in the face of growing competition.
Ask.com Buys Dictionary.com Parent Lexico
Search site Ask.com will announce Thursday a deal to buy Lexico, home to popular reference Web sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, a move that will expand its audience by 11 percent.
Google's Search Share Rises To 67.9% In April
The market share numbers are important because search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key commercial segments.
Zoho Ties Login To Google, Yahoo
The feature makes it possible for someone to log in to Zoho using Google or Yahoo credentials in order to view and collaborate on documents created by a Zoho user.
Software Piracy On The Rise, Study Finds
Rates of pirated software ranged from a high of 93% in Armenia to a low of 20% in the United States, according to the 2007 BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy study.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee To Track Origins Of Digital Content
The Web inventor's share of the $5.5 million Knight News Challenge award will tackle what his backers believe is one of the most pressing challenges.
Online Ad Network Prices Dropped In April
The AdPrice Index showed an average 23% decline from March to April in monetization from online ads.
HP Outsources Outsourcing To EDS
HP has been trying to grow its IT services business for years, without a lot of success. Will the acquisition of EDS let it better compete with IBM for big contracts?
Scarlett Johansson Debuts Album On Free Music Streaming Site
The third-largest social network in the United States also boasts recent launches of music from The Rolling Stones, Avril Lavigne, and Ray.
Workday Lands Software Industry's Biggest SaaS Deal
The deal, for 200,000 users, marks a tipping point for interest in and use of on-demand software among large companies.
After Failed Microsoft Deal, Yahoo May Face Proxy Campaign
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is reportedly considering asking for an election of new board members at Yahoo, since Microsoft's last $47.5 billion bid fizzled.
Craigslist Countersues eBay For Deception And Phishing
CEO Jim Buckmaster claims eBay placed on Google ads that purported to direct users to Craigslist but instead sent them to Kijiji, a competitor owned by eBay.
16% Of Workers 'Hyper-Connected' To Technology, IDC Finds
People in this category also use at least nine applications, such as instant messaging, text messaging, Web conferencing, and social networks, analysts found.
Nimbuzz Offers All-In-One VoIP, IM, Text, And Chat
The application developers say the mobile VoIP service enables users to communicate with each other around the world, often free of charge.
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope For Virtual Stargazing
With the launch of WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft will extend its battle for Internet dominance with Google to the cosmos.
Men Accused Of Hacking Restaurant Credit Card System
The U.S. Attorney's office says the men installed packet sniffers to capture credit card data as it flowed through the restaurant chain's computer systems.
Google Upgrades iPhone Reader
The newsreader offers many of the same features as Google's desktop version, but optimized for smaller mobile phone screens.
Government Can Protect Content Rights By Enforcing Copyrights, Group Says
Copyright Alliance Executive Director Patrick Ross says the government should limit its role in controlling distribution of content.
Powerset Previews Semantic Search Engine
Powerset aims to prove that its natural language-based search makes it easier to find things on Wikipedia and Freebase, an open community database.
Nokia To Take Mapping Service Online
Much of the information on Nokia's mapping service is from mapmaker Navteq, which Nokia announced in October it planned to acquire for $8.1 billion.
Google's Friend Connect To Spread Social Data
The software is part of an emerging set of technologies like OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, and MySpace.
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Messenger TV In Europe
Messenger TV lets a user embed content from MSN Video into their IM's for simultaneous viewing with whomever they're chatting with.
Cisco Unveils Video Conferencing Systems
The System 500 and System 3200 are the latest examples of how video conferencing can reduce travel and make more efficient use of employees' time.
Learn To Play Guitar Online
Online guitar schools like GuitarTricks.com, BerkleeMusic.com, JamPlay.com and GuitarSchool.net want to turn you into the next Jimmy Page.
Facebook 'Connect' To Let Users Share Profiles
Following MySpace's lead, Facebook's upcoming service includes user-maintained controls for basic profile information, photos, personal videos, and friend lists.
Lawmakers Eye Net Neutrality As Anti-Trust Issue
The Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act would require carriers to promote competition and allow people to use any device they want to on the carriers' networks.
Internet Users Help Nab Accused Child Predator
Interpol credits Internet users with helping to identify and locate a suspected child predator, who was arrested in New Jersey.
Microsoft Set To Launch WorldWide Telescope, Gates Says
With the launch of WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft will extend its battle for Internet dominance with Google to the cosmos.
Google Sees YouTube Products Soon, Warm On Yahoo
Google expects to launch new products for its YouTube Web video service in the next few months and sees reason for closer cooperation with Yahoo, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
Google Founders Have Grown Up, CEO Says
It's official: The guys who founded Google are grown up.
Rocker Neil Young Steals Limelight At JavaOne
Neil Young is using Java to create a multimedia musical archive of his work, updatable with new material and accessible to millions.
ID Theft Monitoring Services: What You Need To Know
Fee-based services say they'll protect your identity, privacy, credit, name, and more. Find out what they can and can not do -- and learn what you can do to defend yourself.
Microsoft Disbands Board Slate For Yahoo
Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo last weekend after the two sides failed to agree on price.
DARPA Plans Cyberwar 'Matrix'
The agency's National Cyber Range for cyberwar simulation would be similar to Star Trek's holodeck or a Snow Crash-style Metaverse.
MySpace To Share User Profiles With Other Sites
Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter have joined the site's "data-availability initiative" using OAuth integration technology.
TorrentSpy Ordered To Pay $110 Million In Piracy Case
The Motion Picture Association of America announced that it won a permanent injunction against the site for distribution of pirated video.
Google Cuts Price, Rebrands Postini Security Service
Google has slashed the cost of its security service by 40% and added an optional protection feature for public Wi-Fi users in its continued efforts to lure businesses to Google Apps.
Facebook Commits To Stronger Safety And Privacy Measures
Facebook is working with state officials to protect young users of its social networking service.
Google Among Sites Under Investigation In China For Illegal Mapping
The Chinese government's concern may have been heightened by an image of a new naval base that appeared in magazines and online back in April.
Samsung Making 'High-Bright' Digital Signage Panel
The 46-inch display was built for use in transit centers, bus shelters, shopping malls, and at point-of-sale retail locations as a replacement for poster advertisements.
Hackers Join Social Network Craze With 'House Of Hackers'
GnuCitizen's site promotes exchanging ideas through elite circles and tiger/red teams, but frowns on all criminal activities.
Yahoo Behind Them, Microsoft Sends Out Feelers To Facebook
In October, Microsoft took a $240 million stake in Facebook, which valued the start-up at $15 billion.
Microsoft To Move On Without Yahoo, Gates Says
Despite firm statements by Microsoft's top two leaders that it's no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo, some investors appear confident that a deal will still happen.
Sprint Wins In WiMax Deal, But Risks Still Loom
The nation's No. 3 wireless carrier retained majority ownership in the wireless broadband network while spreading the financial risk across a diverse set of partners.
Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs
McAfee Avert Labs says more than half a million of the adware programs disguised as media files have been detected in less than a week.
Sprint, Clearwire Partner With Intel, Cable Companies To Spread WiMax
Google, Comcast, Time Warner, Intel, and others are investing $3.2 billion to resuscitate the Sprint-Clearwire WiMax partnership.
MySpace Traffic Down From Last Year
Still, MySpace held 73.82% of the market share of U.S. visits in April, and Facebook accounted for 14.8%.
Mac Clone Offered On eBay
The unauthorized Apple desktop was flaunted with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip, 2 GB of memory, a 250-GB 7200 RPM serial ATA hard drive, and an Intel 3-D graphics chip.
World Of Warcraft's Legal War To Defend Copyrights Heats Up
Advocacy group Public Knowledge claims Blizzard's use of copyright infringement laws to crack down on MDY's Glide automation software is outrageous.
Another Google Executive Joins Facebook
Eliot Schrage joins several other former Googlers at Facebook, including Sheryl Sandberg, who left her job as Google's VP of global online sales and operations.
Piracy Becomes Focus Of Net Neutrality Debate
The Recording Industry Association of America weighed in on the Internet traffic management issue at a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
District Of Columbia Tests Google Apps
Google has "donated" 1,000 user licenses for Google Apps, Premier Edition, to the District's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, according to the city.
Microsoft Gets More Social With Zune Update
Users of the portable media player can now download friends' nine most recently played songs, as well as nine tunes flagged as favorites.
Yahoo Partners With McAfee To Make Search More Secure
The collaboration covers Web site security issues, such as identifying sites associated with adware, malware, spyware, phishing, and spam.
Web Firm Sounds Alert On Criminal Data Trove
A Web security firm said on Tuesday it had tipped off international banks and police after finding a huge trove of stolen business and personal data amassed on a server in the space of just three weeks.
Yahoo Shares Up On Hope Of Talks, Google Deal
Yahoo investors latched on to hopes the company would resume talks with Microsoft or soon forge a deal with Google, sending shares up 6 percent Tuesday.
Microsoft: 'We've Moved On' From Yahoo
"Yahoo would have been an accelerator, but we've moved on and now we're focused on how fast we can grow organically," Windows Live general manager Brian Hall said.
Xobni Makes Outlook Searchable And Social
Xobni makes Outlook social by scanning your e-mail to find connections between e-mail senders and recipients.
Pummeled In The Stock Market, Yahoo's Yang Looks Ahead
Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo wanted $37 per share because they believed that Microsoft's offer undervalued their company.
SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies
SAP will offer by early next year on-demand "components" that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says.
Ballmer: Microsoft's Web Strategy Doesn't Stop With Yahoo
Microsoft will continue to improve search relevance, build out its own advertising platform, invest in engineering for the Web, and pursue partnerships around the world.
With Microsoft Out, All Eyes On Yahoo CEO Yang
Just two days after Microsoft pulled out of merger talks, Yahoo's stock dropped more than 15%, erasing roughly $6.5 billion in market value.
Nine Inch Nails Offers Free Album Online
Nine Inch Nails is offering The Slip in a variety of digital formats and plans to make it available on CDs and vinyl in a few months.
AOL, Yahoo, RealNetworks Suffer Setback In Music Licensing Fees
ASCAP estimates that the court's formula would lead to a total payment of $100 million from the three companies.
Wikipedia Battles Literary Agent Over Negative Comments
While many sites add user-generated content to enhance user experience, Wikipedia relies almost entirely on posts from contributors.
AT&T Launches Mobile TV Service For Cell Phones
The AT&T service will be available 58 markets and give customers access to more than 150 programs from a variety of TV networks, cable channels, and exclusive content providers.
IBM To Launch Web-Based Application Market
IBM's Blue Business Platform will feature a mix of business applications and services aimed primarily at small- and mid-sized companies.
Spam Turns 30 And Never Looked Healthier
One e-mail security company estimates that spam, initially a nuisance, now makes up 95% of all e-mail.
Amazon Sues New York State Over Online Sales Tax Law
The company argues that it should not be subject to New York taxes because it lacks a physical presence in the state.
Microsoft Poised To Detail Next Moves On Yahoo
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday that walking away from a deal with Yahoo remained one of "three big options" the company is weighing and to expect an announcement shortly.
Lego's Latest Brick Trick: A Virtual World
Lego Universe's upcoming MMOG will let players create online versions of themselves and interact with each other.
IBM CEO Palmisano Says New Trends Will Spur Old Company
In addition to data centers, IBM expects to capitalize on the 3 billion people joining the middle class in the next 20 years.
Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate 'Cloud Computing'
The companies plan to exploit their common technological world view and considerable talent to build a worldwide network of servers for consumer and business use.
Apple Trick Triples Safari Market Share
Using its software update service to offer a new product to millions of Windows users was risky, given that the unusual tactic annoyed some people.
Giant Wireless Hotspot Planned For Las Vegas Resort
Sprint and MobileAccess are building a universal communications system to deliver wireless voice and data services throughout the M Resort's 2 million-square-foot facility.
Warez Site Operator Sentenced To 30 Months
Prosecutors said David Fish's sentencing is linked to the largest and most successful global criminal enforcement actions ever taken against organized piracy.
Google Lets AdWords Users Buy TV Ads
Google says to expect to pay anywhere from $100 to $1,000 to create a TV ad, which seems rather inexpensive given that a national 30-second spot may cost millions to produce.
Apple iTunes To Sell Films On Day Of DVD Release
Hollywood has previously been wary of doing anything that might cannibalize DVD revenue.
Craigslist Blanched As eBay Eyed Marriage, Says Lawsuit
Web classifieds leader Craigslist sought a divorce, while online auction giant eBay proposed a formal marriage, according to court papers unsealed Wednesday that detail a testy four-year relationship.
Microsoft's Board Fails To Decide On Yahoo
Microsoft's board met Wednesday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo over its $41.8 billion takeover bid, but failed to reach a decision on what to do next, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Xerox Shows Off Future Tech And Tries To Better Define Itself
Despite failed attempts to cash in, the company and its PARC subsidiary have several pillars of growth in mind to compete with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com.
Adobe Pushes Broader Mobile Strategy For Flash
Several of the moves will further open access to Flash, including removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV file formats.
Google's New Mantra: Make Money Off YouTube
CEO Eric Schmidt hints at "participative" products and other new products coming out later this year aimed at generating advertising revenue.
Akamai: Web Growth Trumps Economy Woes
The company said it plans to capitalize on growing online video services, particularly high-definition content, for growth.
Judge Rejects RIAA's Music Copyright Infringement, Distribution Claims
Merely making copies of music available does not equal distribution, or primary copyright infringement, the judge said.
Interop: Oracle Looks Beyond ERP
The company announced at Interop that it will follow the money by emphasizing line-of-business applications embedded with Web 2.0 features.
SAP Scales Back SaaS Product Plans
Technical issues and profit-bleeding implementations prompt SAP to move more slowly with its ambitious Business ByDesign on-demand software service.
Google Warns Users About Phishing
In advising users to be wary of clicking on links in e-mail messages or responding to requests for personal information, Google is trying to protect its own business.
Nokia Confident Of Profit From Music Downloads
Offering unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will be a profitable business for Nokia as well as for record labels, the handset maker said, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense of profits.
Interop: Broadcom Says 40 Gbps Ethernet Coming Soon
Broadcom expects to ship 40-Gbps network switches and controllers by late 2009, before a final standard is approved in 2010.
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