Thursday - August 28, 2008
No one can say what 27-year-old Kevin Cogill expected when he apparently posted nine songs from an unreleased and long-awaited Guns N' Roses album called "Chinese Democracy" to his Web site earlier this summer. It could have been anything from monetary gain to a desire to be the first to distribute the long-anticipated songs. However, he likely didn't expect to find the FBI at his door with an arrest warrant. That's exactly what happened at the behest of the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Thursday - August 28, 2008
A federal judge in San Jose, Calif., has thrown out a copyright infringement lawsuit launched by Io Group against Veoh Networks. Io Group, which also does business under the name Titan Media, produces adult video content. Veoh is a site similar to YouTube where users can upload and watch user-generated videos as well as television show and movie clips.
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Thursday - August 28, 2008
TiVo managed consecutive quarters of profitability for the first time ever despite eroding subscriptions, demonstrating that the pioneer in digital video recorders is on track in reducing marketing expenses and subsidies. Yet Wall Street remained cautious on whether TiVo could keep having solid quarters.
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Thursday - August 28, 2008
Why sell somebody else's product line when you can do a better job offering your own? That was the question that ultimately pushed Jan Hichert, CEO of Astaro, and two other cofounders to develop their own Internet security solutions for a market they viewed as needy of attention -- the small- to medium-sized business segment.
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Wednesday - August 27, 2008
Qik, a company that has developed live video streaming services for certain smartphones, has received a boost in its financial backing from Netscape veterans Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The duo, which have made a "significant investment" in the company, are also joining Qik's board of advisors. Bhaskar Roy, cofounder of Qik, declined to disclose the exact amount.
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Wednesday - August 27, 2008
Microsoft will receive nearly $21 million from Immersion, a company that develops "tactile-feedback" technology, after the two companies agreed to settle a lawsuit. San Jose, Calif.-based Immersion has developed tactile feedback technology, which makes video game controllers vibrate when there is an explosion or some other game action event.
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Wednesday - August 27, 2008
Broadcom cofounder Henry Samueli has apologized for lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission during its probe of stock options backdating at the chip maker. Samueli's two-page written apology, filed Monday with U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, stands as the first public comment on the case by the billionaire philanthropist and owner of the NHL's Anaheim Ducks.
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Wednesday - August 27, 2008
Who would like to bid the highest amount for the exclusive global rights to the new domain suffix, .dubai, under ICANN's latest policy? Such a suffix will create a powerful domain root that will corner some 180 services underneath it, like go.dubai, hotel.dubai, job.dubai, cars.dubai or fly.dubai. Who would be the next global cyber-branding leader of this new millennium?
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Wednesday - August 27, 2008
Congress has become increasingly interested in the privacy implications of behavioral marketing. This summer, the Senate has held hearings, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce has followed the charge by seeking more information from Internet service providers and technology companies regarding their privacy policies and targeted advertising.
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Tuesday - August 26, 2008
Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 8 will offer a new set of privacy features designed to give users more control over personal information, the company has revealed. The "InPrivate" feature will build in options for turning off history and cookie collection and will also allow users to see what external sites could access that data -- and then disable them from doing so.
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Tuesday - August 26, 2008
The 2008 Summer Games will not go down in history as a watershed online event, even though it drew a record number of viewers on the Web. That's because NBC could have gone further, putting content on more devices, making it easier to access and providing more live coverage. That's the view of several executives from content and technology companies whom I asked to comment on NBC's online coverage.
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Tuesday - August 26, 2008
China Unicom, the smaller of the country's two mobile operators, beat forecasts with a sharp rise in quarterly earnings on Monday as a result of improved margins at its GSM-standard network and Internet businesses. The company is set to take over the fixed-line operator China Netcom.
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