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Consumers Convince Wal-Mart to Keep DRM Servers
Wal-Mart has changed course and decided to keep its DRM servers up and running, according to an e-mail posted at Engadget. The company had announced late last month that it would shut the servers down...
Nielsen Online enters China to measure Internet usage and growth
Nielsen Online and Beijing Zhongqian Wangrun Information Technology Co., Ltd., the operator of ChinaRank, has entered into a joint venture to develop and deliver Internet measurement and analysis serv...
Google employee is asking you to name his baby
You can never be trusting online. Really. So, why would you trust people lurking online to choose a name for your baby? Jason Morrison and his wife Ann are asking Internet users to choose the name for...
Google Maps gets contextual text advertising
Google has quietly added contextual based text advertising to Google Maps. The ads appear at the base of the map after a search. CNet explains: Some searches, such as those for taxi, restaurant, or ho...
Ze Frank is back…maybe
Popular online video celebrity Ze Frank is back, staring in the pilot episode of a new web series being considered by NBC Universal. Ze Frank stars alongside Justine Bateman, Michael Cassidy, Ben Falc...
Focusing your blog content in a storm
No one can escape the economic bad news sweeping the world at the moment….or can they? Blogs will likely fare well no matter what the economic downturn delivers to the broader market: advertisi...
Soldier’s Pillow Talk Getting NSA Hot
Even though I might not be an American and my point of view just a tad bias I have never believed that the Patriot Act would do anything to really make the country - or its people - any safer. The abi...
Apple Announces iPhone Tech Talk Tour
It’s an Apple-filled kind of day — news of an $800 laptop, new Brick images, and new iPhone rumors — and now, Apple’s announcing a series of free worldwide “tech talks...
Apple Everywhere: New Brick Images, New iPhone Rumors
Amidst this morning’s news of an $800 Apple laptop, reported first here at The Inquisitr, come a couple more bits of Apple-related gossip. First, the new images: An Apple.pro blog has posted thr...
MapQuest Fights Back with Local Features
MapQuest is fighting to gain ground in its market with the launch of some new information integration features. Through a partnership with Yelp, a four-year-old startup in Silicon Valley, the compan...
New Firefox 3.1 Details Emerge
Mozilla is revealing new details about features in the works and targeted release dates for the upcoming Firefox 3.1. Beta 1, the company says, is on track to launch next week. It’ll include n...
American Airlines is not your airline of choice for porn in the sky
American Airlines is giving way to feedback from its customers and employees. The company announced that they are working with Aircell towards implementing a filter on pornographic content. In Septemb...
IT’S OVER! POP GOES THE BUBBLE.
We posted late yesterday that Sequoia Capital had called a crisis meeting of its portfolio companies. It gets worse: Valley A-List VC Ron Conway did a similar exercise, although without the in person ...
Selling your blog or small startup [blogging 101]
This is part of our occasional series of posts covering the aspects of starting and running a blog. See Blogging 101 for the full list. We’re hitting serious turbulence in the economy, and over ...
TechCrunch sued by Earthcomber, ethical questions
Earthcomber, a location focused applications provider has filed suit against TechCrunch, Interserve and Loopt over patent infringement. The core of the complaint started with a charge against Loopt ov...
Now is the time to start panicking: Sequoia
Sequoia Capital, arguably Silicon Valley’s most prestigious VC firm (they were the first investors in both Yahoo and Google) called a crisis meeting today of its portfolio companies, preaching t...
Hey, Yahoo: Follow the Leader a Little Less Slowly
Is it just me, or does today seem like “Launch Services Our Competitors Created Two Years Ago” day for Yahoo? First came news of Yahoo’s new Web 2.0-enabled online calendar. The com...
Election 2008: Who’s Winning The Great Spam Race?
Some new numbers are in about the Obama-McCain matchup — and we’re not talking last night’s debate. Research from Secure Computing shows spammers are using Barack Obama’s nam...
Teen Social Network To Get Label-Supported Streaming
A major record label has struck a new social networking deal — with a teen-targeting twist. Universal Music Group (UMG) is partnering with teen-friendly site Kiwibox to create a new streaming s...
Lijit launches advertising network
Social search service Lijit has launched the Lijit Ad Network, bringing revenue opportunities to Lijit users. Lijit offers a search facility for blogs (we’re currently using them) that includes ...
Google Adsense for Games
Google has entered the game advertising space launching Google Adsense for Games. With the new service, game creators can display video ads, image ads, or text ads within games to earn revenue. Sites...
YouTube’s new revenue model: affiliate links?
YouTube has announced Click-to-Buy on YouTube, a new service that allows users to buy songs or related content they hear or see in YouTube clips. Click-to-buy links are placed on the viewing page ben...
Update: Mozilla Mobile To Hit Alpha Within Weeks
Mozilla’s mobile browser, long-under-development with the codename Fennec, should be available in alpha release within a matter of weeks. Engineers released Milestone 8 of the tool at the end o...
“Mail Goggles” Fights Embarrassing E-Mail Decisions
Ever “drunk e-mailed” an old flame, then regretted it the next morning? In what may be its most amusing feature yet, Google Labs has come up with a way to keep you from sending late-night...
CollegeWikis Wants to Revolutionize Scholastic Communication
A wiki-style information site geared specifically toward college students is working to change the face of education communication — and now, it has extra cash to make it happen. CollegeWikis a...
Hulu’s georetardation policies now officially beyond a joke
Hulu is to enter the live streaming space for the first time, offering the remaining two Presidential debates live as part of its new Hulu Election ‘08 portal. The new portal features clips and full...
Acid found to be drug of choice among Flickr staff
Welcome to the latest service from Flickr, Flickr Explore, where 500 of the best pictures uploaded to Flickr each day are rotated through a rainbow spewing from the mouth of a Panda. And no, I’...
Amuso: Host your own hot or not and make moneey
Amuso is pitched as a self hosted “game show” site that allows users to win and make money. Up front, it’s a hot or not clone, with video supported as well. Users set up a contest ba...
Could some newspapers be saved by specialization?
We know that newspapers are dying. It’s popular in new media circles to talk about the extinction of newspapers altogether, but as I’ve argued here before, that presumption ignores the spl...
Microsoft’s Seinfeld Spots Smash “I’m a PC” For Viral Viewing
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, it looks like Bill and Jerry’s short-lived Microsoft ad campaign made more of a dent than the current crop of “I’m a PC” spots — at leas...