Google Accused of Going Evil, Google Employee Responds by Sidestepping the Issue
Blake Ross, cofounder of Firefox, spent part of his Christmas explaining his dissatisfaction with Google due to its latest move: displaying “tips�Read More…
Month: December 2006
AT&T Killing the Cingular Name & Avoiding Net Neutrality
The FCC approved AT&T’s $85.8 billion takeover of BellSouth. Not surprisingly, the deal is the largest ever in U.S. telecommunications history. Read More…
RSS Going Mainstream 2007: New York Times & Washington Post Have Big Plans
For those unfamiliar, RSS is generally thought to stand for “Really Simple Syndication,” a name that’s almost as useless as the acronym in explaRead More…
Hollywood Wins Latest Case in the Hollywood vs. China Movie Piracy Saga
It looks as if China wants to be taken seriously in its ability to enforce intellectual property rights. Sohu.com, the very popular Chinese InternetRead More…
Online Ad Wars: Who will win in 2007? Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft?
Here it is the day after Christmas and major publications plus the blogosphere are already making predications as to the state of online advertising iRead More…
Apple Stock Near Record High: iPod Cellphone Rumors Trump Flawed iTunes Stats
A cellphone that doesn’t yet exist has never been so popular. For the past few months, rumors have been flying about Apple’s entrance into the mRead More…
Case Study: Google Services Too Good, Making IT Departments Shrink
So the latest Economist article (subscription required) discusses how Arizona State University made the switch to using Google Apps for Your Domain. ARead More…
Amazon Soon Opening DRM-free MP3 Store
Looks like rumors are afloat that Amazon is planning on a late first quarter 2007 launch of a new music download store. In an already crowded music doRead More…
Sony’s Latest Hope: Offer Movie Downloads
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and the Financial Times report that Sony may introduce a video download service as soon as the first pRead More…
Digg Adds New Features, Removes One, and Entices YouTubers
Our favorite social news site, Digg, today released a whole slew of new features while silently removing at least one. I say silently because no one sRead More…