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Viacom vs. Google: The Battle for Youtube
“YouTube was intentionally built on infringement," wrote Viacom in a statement released this week. Yesterday, the media giant made public 108 pages of documents detailing its $1 billion suit against YouTube owner Googlethe latest move in a battle that has been raging for roughly three years. You could consider this new four-paragraph public statement to be ...
Breathtaking 'Hubble 3D' IMAX Film Opens Friday
Take a number of the Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning images, give them a 3D look, and display them on an IMAX screen--what's not to love? Yet Hubble 3D, an IMAX and Warner Brothers film made in cooperation with NASA, manages to go far beyond that. Much of the film focuses on last May's mission of ...
Canon to Buy '.Canon' in New Domain-Name Land Rush
We're entering a brave new era in the world of domain acquisition. After decades of hampering the creation of new top-level domains, the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international body that governs such things, opted to loosen restrictions. Thus it has opened up the Web to a potential deluge of TLD registration ...
Spotify: The Savior, or the Destroyer of Music?
Daniel Ek, chief executive of the music streaming service Spotify, spoke to a crowd of 2,000 SXSW attendees on Tuesday - virtually none of whom are legally allowed to use his service. Until it successfully navigates the lions den of U.S. licensing laws, the largest music market in the world will be closed to Spotify. Judging ...
Tech Industry Cheers for FCC Broadband Plan
The FCC's national broadband plan has arrived. After 36 public workshops, nine field hearings, 31 public notices that produced 75,000 pages of public comments, 131 blog posts, and 335,000 Twitter followers, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday finally released its 376-page plan for providing the country with broadband service. The document--which was mandated by last year's ...
'Dot Com' Domain Celebrates 25th Birthday
Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the .com domain, according to VeriSign. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics.com was the first domain to register via a “.com" address. Though it took another decade for .com to really catch on, there are now 80 million .com Web sites, including 11.9 million e-commerce and online business sites, 1.8 million ...
Who Hates the National Broadband Plan?
Are you ready for more Internet? That's the question that U.S. regulators will soon be asking, as Reuters is reporting that the Federal Communications Commission is set to reveal the National Broadband Plan on March 16. While some details of the plan remain to be seen, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has already mentioned a few of ...
Twitter Wants to Know Where You Are
Facebook may not be quite ready to commit to location-based services (at least not until April), but Twitter is making no bones about jumping onto the super-hot trend. The site today added another question to its long-standing “What's Happening" prompt: “Where Are You?" Twitter today rolled out the feature for number of users. Logging onto the ...
MySpace Redesign May Be Its Last Gasp
How will MySpace regain its footing in the social networking space? A month after ditching Owen Van Natta as chief executive in favor of two co-presidents, the News Corp.-owned site announced Wednesday that its new focus will be on gaming. “Just as music was our springboard for revitalizing our platform, we're taking a similar approach to ...
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