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Earliest Signature of Renaissance Artist Found
Hidden beneath arabesque decorations, art experts have found what they believe is the earliest signature placed on a painting by the Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520), who at the time was a 16-year-old boy. Featuring the words “RAPHAEL SANT" Santi was Raphael's real surname the signature has been detected in an obscure painting that has been kept ...
Viacom Says YouTube Ignored Copyrights
Pointing to internal YouTube e-mail messages, Viacom said in a court filing that the video sites founders turned a blind eye when users uploaded copyrighted clips so they could amass a big audience and sell the company quickly. The charge was one of many made by Viacom in filings unsealed on Thursday in its three-year-old copyright ...
Where Are Twitter Users Going?
As most Twitter users know, a significant portion of the social network's value comes from all the interesting links that send users from one part of the Web to another. Market-research firm Hitwise recently decided to see where all those Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.com. The firm found that most folks go to entertainment ...
Is Apple Developing a Social Networking App for iPhone?
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent that describes a location-based social-networking application for the iPhone. The patent, discovered by Apple blog Patently Apple, describes a location-based app, called iGroups, that would enable users to form a social network with others around them. The main focus is to deliver a social-networking-like service, ...
Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker
Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night. [T]he sentences would be the longest ever imposed in an identity theft ...
Whose on Your Email List? Flowtown Will Tell You.
You've got hundreds, even thousands of emails on your mailing list. But who are they? Many email programs use ISP addresses to pinpoint with some accuracy the email address owners location to about the zip code level. But Flowtown goes farther. The new service trolls the web and can often also find out the name, age, ...
Youtube Adds Paid Partner Program for Indie Bands
YouTube is using the SXSW 2010 spotlight to expand itsYouTube Partner Program to more indie musicians with a Musicians Wanted campaign. Not every artist will be accepted to the program, but starting today YouTube staffers are on the lookout for more d.i.y. and indie artists for the Partner Program so they can profit from what they've ...
Canon First in Line for Its Own Top-Level Domain, .Canon
Canon announced Wednesday it intends to be the first company to say goodbye to .com and buy its own top-level domain, taking advantage of ICANNs decision to broadly widen the number of top-level names. If or rather when this starts happening, web address conventions may never be the same. If successful, the global electronics giant, perhaps ...
Outgoing FTC Commissioner Dings Google, Internet Companies on Privacy
Actor Marlon Brando once said: “Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite." He probably would not have appreciated how the Internet is peeling away the last vestiges of privacy. And neither apparently does outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, who said Wednesday that Google, Facebook and other major U.S. ...
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 ...
