Submitted by sarahcrisman:
Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless ind (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
During the FCC's December meeting, chair Kevin Martin plans to push for a free, but porn-free Internet service that would be available to all Americans. Reports the Wall Street Journal:The proposal to allow a no-smut, free wi (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
There is no joy at Yahoo, for mighty Jerry has struck out.This week Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang announced he was stepping down after 17 turbulent months as CEO of the big Internet portal -- a time in which the company rebuffed (Read More)
contentSutra.com:
Picsquare CEO Manish Agrawal has confirmed the deal with Ahmedabad-based Infibeam to VCCircle.Bangalore based photo printing portal Picsqure has been sold to Indian online retail firm Infibeam. Picsquare CEO Manish Agrawal ha (Read More)
Valleywag:
Dreamily inventive billionaire Bill Joy, the cofounder of Sun Microsystems, has predicted doom for the human race in the pages of Wired. He has a new reason for pessimism: A Manhattan condo he put on the market for $40 millio (Read More)
Valleywag:
Those who fund young, growing companies love to tout their industry's role in job creation. Jobs — we could use some of those now, right? But with venture-capital firms like Sequoia Capital insisting on across-the-board (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Zynga, a social gaming network whose backers include Kleiner Perkins, has released a new multiplayer Poker game on the iPhone that will likely leave its competitors in the dust. The application, called Live Poker, taps into (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
Can the iPhone eventually replace handheld gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS and Sony's Playstation Portable? Laying out the case for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the WSJ.com notes the two devices, with their big scree (Read More)
GigaOM:
At last week’s Web 2.0 Summit — the annual convention that has come to represent the new web boom –- a leading web industry journalist asked me if green technology was here to stay, or if it is just another fad th (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We’re hearing that a funding rumor going around about used textbook site Chegg isn’t quite right. It sounds like Chegg has some new venture backing, but the details of TechCrunch’s story reporting that Chegg (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Five year old textbook rental startup Chegg is really starting to ramp up sales, we’ve heard. The average college student, they say, spends $900 per year on textbooks. Chegg saves them 70-80% of that by renting them the books (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
This week the ReadWriteWeb team was in force at the Web 2.0 Summit, an annual event that covers the state of the Web industry. This year's theme was 'Web meets world'. ReadWriteWeb had exclusive access to video coverage of th (Read More)