19 hours ago

Submitted by Spuds: A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company conspired with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records.The suit, filed by Cathryn Harris in U.S. District Court in Dallas, accuses Facebook of working with Blockbuster in violation of the Video Privacy Pro (Read More)

20 hours ago

TechCrunch The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona. Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he’s made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player (Read More)

1 day ago

paidContent.org Cyworld, the Korean social giant that could, finally couldn’t. At least not in U.S. It is shutting down its U.S. service, after three years of trying, according to a notice on its site. It will shut down in entirety on Nov 23. The service, owned by SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM), the (Read More)

2 days ago

Apple Section - Ars Technica Apple CEO Steve Jobs is no stranger to accolades. At the ripe old age of 30, he—along with Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak—won the first National Medal of Technology. Most recently, he was named the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers. He is admired by geeks and businessmen (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Scbalazs: Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that his company is unlikely to hit its June deadline for putting up paywalls around its newspaper websites.Murdoch also seemed to confirm that the move to charging for online content would not be made by News Corp alone but with several major publishers acting together (not as a cartel, of cour (Read More)

1 day ago

Mashable! Move over, Verizon Droid, there’s a new handset moonwalking into town. You may have to shield your eyes from the glare, because much like its namesake this phone is blindingly larger-than-life.Manufactured by one of the many Chinese imitation goods businesses referred to collectively as shanzai, this bling-bedecked mobile i (Read More)

3 days ago

Features A defunct navigation company called WebMap Technologies is suing 15 different major companies in what might be the most bloated and fatuous IP lawsuit in recent memory. And it just might pay off.WebMap's principals are claiming that all 15 companies--Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Travelocity, CitySea (Read More)

3 days ago

webmonkey SANTA CLARA, California — The man credited with founding the world wide web is both excited and cautious about its future.Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who first designed the way web servers deliver pages to web browsers nearly 19 years ago, sees great promise in HTML5, the planned and much-anticipated rewrite (Read More)

3 days ago

ReadWriteWeb Second Life is introducing a behind the firewall service for enterprise customers, another sign that the very definition of collaboration is changing as more companies seek ways to do their work in virtual environments.In addition, Second Life will unveil a marketplace in the first quarter of 2010 where people may purchase (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Spuds: What do you do if you want to vote today but have a fervent opposition to using a computer?You get screwed, that's what.Rad Rich, who pretty much founded the punk scene in town in many ways, went to vote today. He then concisely described his experience for Hands Up Houston's message board: "I was told I cant vote because I (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Spuds from Twitter: Is an Internet connection a right or a privilege? http://bit.ly/1P8LUb. (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Spuds: On October 30, 2009 the Internet hit a milestone; it’s forty year birthday. Within a rapidly changing globally interconnected society, user connectivity is often taken for granted in our day-to-day life; when polled, some of the most technology savvy individuals were left without words while questioned as to how the Interne (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Spuds from Twitter: News flash.....The internet is filled with Spam http://bit.ly/2Zgtt1. (Read More)

4 days ago

mashable As the electronic book reader market heats up with a number of new offerings coming up, this was an unexpected flare up: Spring Design, makers of the Alex dual-screen eReader, are suing Barnes & Noble over their Nook eBook reader, another dual-screen device announced the day after the Alex.The lawsuit claims that Barnes & N (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Spuds: It is official, there is now an official Twitter gadget. Yippee, I am so excited. Actually I’m not really, I can Twitter from my mobile so not sure why I would need a specific Twitter gadget. Anyway there is a gadget and it’s called the TwitterPeek. It is a partnership between Twitter and some company called Peek. (Read More)

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