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Pay to Play: Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews
If you can’t pitch the press, pay them. That’s the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers.
Chad Hurley Made $334 Million From Sale Of YouTube
You can learn all sorts of interesting tidbits from legal documents. For instance, in one of the legal briefs unsealed today in the YouTube-Viacom dispute, such as the amount of money YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley made from the $1.65 billion sale of the company to Google in 2006.
Jewish Org Says: No Facebook, Digg for 24hrs
Starting Friday evening, a campaign largely spread via Twitter, Facebook, and all things new media wants you to do something counter-intuitive. It wants you to log off from Twitter, Facebook, and all things new media.
How America Became a Surveillance State
Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more in the face of growing terrorist threats. He pays particular attention to Total Information Awareness, a post-9/11 research project spearheaded by John Poindexter, once President Reagan's national security advisor.
Inside Microsoft's Internet Explorer Testing Lab
As part of a briefing on IE9 at Microsoft's Redmond campus, visitors toured the company's Internet Explorer testing lab. Here's what they saw.
Nokia 3310: The Most Popular Mobile Phone in the History
Mobile phones industry is developing with gigantic paces: now we are surrounded by such a variety of models that it is easy to get lost in them
Smoking guns, dark secrets spilled in YouTube-Viacom filings
It can't be good news for YouTube's $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit when plaintiff Viacom unearthed one YouTube founder telling another: "'jawed, please stop putting stolen videos on the site." But YouTube says that Viacom itself paid 18 different marketers to upload material to YouTube... and from Kinko's, no less.
5 Reasons I'm Still Not Paying for a Music Subscription Svc
After taking several different subscription services for a test-drive, however, I found that they provide a good — but still very flawed — experience. Here are five reasons why:
Apple Pays Tribute to Board Member Jerome B. York
Apple Board member, and president and CEO of Harwinton Capital, Jerome B. York has passed away at the age of 71.
All Giz Wants: A Google Set Top Box That Doesn't Suck
Google's upcoming set top box has great pedigree: It's Android-based OS, Sony and Intel are building the guts and design and Logitech doing what Logitech does best (input devices). So please, please, please don't screw this up.
Evolution of the iPod: 2001 to Present
In this retrospective feature, we attempt to make sense of all the iPods and place them in a concise timeline. From the original iPod in 2001 to the d...
Police Shut Down ‘Russian Rapidshare’
Russian police have raided a datacenter hosting iFolder.ru, a huge Rapidshare-like site. Their paperwork allowed them to search and gather evidence against a user who uploaded illegal material to the site. Although staff offered 100% co-operation, the police cut the power and sealed the servers in the datacenter, putting iFolder completely out of o
Court says NO to child porn charges over 'Sexting'
A Pennsylvania appellate court upheld a preliminary injunction on Wednesday barring local prosecutors from filing felony child porn charges against a teenage girl who took a partially nude photo of herself with her cell phone.
"Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders
The term "pirates," meant to convey evil and mayhem, instead conjures up visions of a swashbuckling Johnny Depp, says an actors' group. Rupert Murdoch's son has an idea for a less-sexy word: thieves. Hasn't he seen "Ocean's 11"?
Rube Goldberg competition gets teens excited about STEM
In recent years the US has begun to lag in education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and a number of efforts are underway to address this issue. We know that giving kids hands-on experience is one of the best ways to spark and keep their interest in STEM-related fields
Introducing Google Buzz widget for Android
Google announces the release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap.