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Cablevision Rolls out Free Wi-Fi in NY
operator Cablevision Systems Corp has started rolling out a free Wi-Fi network for subscribers who want to access the Web via laptops and other wireless devices. Cablevision on Thursday said the Optimum Wi-Fi is free for existing subscribers to its Optimum home Internet service. It said the service is already activated in commercial and high-traffic areas ...
Who Needs a TV? Web Video Viewing Doubles
Online TV viewership has doubled since 2006, according to a Thursday study from market research firms the Conference Board and TNS. In a survey of 10,000 households during the third quarter of 2008, approximately one-fifth of respondents with Internet access reported watching TV online, more than double the number reported two years ago. Content is most ...
Google's Chrome Tops Opera in Market Share
You work a decade to build a trendsetting browser, even the first with tabs, and what happens? In two days you're kicked aside for a Johnny-come-lately that doesn't even have a sidebar, let alone one with more options than any other browser. I'm talking about the much-loved but little-used Opera, which already has taken a backseat ...
Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari Shared Vulnerability
Google's new browser, Chrome, has quite a few security-related features: Site blacklists to protect against malware and phishing A privacy mode (Incognito) to erase tracks of user activity. A thorough Clear Browsing Data dialog box. But the really innovative feature in Chrome is the way Google has built the browser's rendering engine to run in a ...
Google, Criticized for Harsh Chrome EULA, Backs Down
They've already issued an “Our Bad" and retracted the offending language, but Google's initial EULA (End User License Agreement) for their Chrome browser was seriously offensive. The original language went like so: 11. Content licence from you 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post ...
Mozilla Chief Welcomes Google Chrome to Market
Will Google Chrome sink Firefox? Not exactly, according to Mozilla chief executive John Lilly. “More smart people thinking about ways to make the Web good for normal human beings is good, absolutely," Lilly wrote in a blog post. “Competition often results in innovation I'd expect that to continue now that Google has thrown their hat in ...
MySpace to Launch 'Musical' School Spirit Contest
MySpace plans to launch a contest on Tuesday to market the latest in Walt Disney Co's blockbuster franchise “High School Musical 3" in what the News Corp Internet social network called its biggest film campaign to date. Disney is hoping to build interest in the third movie in its hit television films series, and the first ...
Google to Release Open-Source 'Chrome' Browser
Are Internet Explorer and Firefox ready to do battle with Chrome? Google announced Monday that it has been hard at work on an open-source browser known as Chrome, a beta version of which will be released in 100 countries on Tuesday. New features will included “isolated" tabs designed to prevent browser crashes and a more powerful ...
Google Moving Forward with Yahoo Ad Deal
Google Inc., facing a U.S. Justice Department probe of its search-advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc., will proceed with the agreement by early October, Bloomberg said. “We are going to move forward," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday in Denver. “We are in the process of talking to the ...
Man Arrested for Posting Guns 'N' Roses Songs
LOS ANGELES - Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of violating copyright laws for placing songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by rock band Guns N' Roses. Kevin Cogill, 27, who has no known direct affiliation with Guns N' Roses, posted nine tracks from the band's upcoming album “Chinese Democracy" on ...
