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Facebook Passes Myspace in UA and Worldwide
New data from ComScore shows Facebook passing MySpace in total unique US visitors for the first time in May. Facebook had 70.28 million U.S. users in May beating MySpace's 70.26 million. According to ComScore, Facebook users almost doubled from last year while MySpace lost 5%. The story is much the same worldwide ...
Obama's FCC Pick Touts Broadband, Competition
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must have a strong focus on broadband development, competition, and advancements in mobile technology, Julius Genachowski, President Obama's pick for FCC chairman, told the Senate Commerce Committee. “In the 21st century, communications has the potential to unleash new waves of innovation: increasing opportunity and prosperity, driving American competitiveness and leadership, connecting ...
Adobe Launches Online Spreadsheet, Web Collaboration
With Google Wave's recent attempt to move business people to a new hosted paradigm for collaboration, Adobe has its own ideas about moving workgroups and documents to the cloud. The San Jose-based company today took its Web-based productivity suite, Acrobat.com, out of beta and added a beta version of its new online spreadsheet, Tables, joining Adobe's ...
Virgin to Launch Unlimited Download MP3 Service
operator Virgin Media is to launch an unlimited music download subscription service through a partnership with the world's largest music company, Universal. The music industry has been desperate to boost digital sales in recent years to overcome online piracy, and the agreement comes a day before a British report sets out how the creative and telecoms ...
Pirate Bay Launches VPN Service
The operators of The Pirate Bay launched a long-awaited VPN service Monday, promising to make file sharers and other internet users more anonymous online. The IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service, at about $7 monthly, is named for Swedens IPRED law that went into force in April. That law empowers copyright owners to acquire data from ISPs identifying ...
Major Layoffs Coming to Myspace. Could Hit 25%
Layoff described by one source as “massive" are coming to MySpace although there is no official word yet from the company. MySpace shed 5% of its staff a year ago and laid of as many as 45 more last month. But these cuts will go far deeper, according to TechCrunch and could hit several hundred. Management ...
New Apple Safari Browser Wins Fans
t may have been buried in the deluge of iPhone and Macbook announcements during the Apple WWDC keynote earlier this week, but when Apple talked Safari 4, people listened. The company is reporting today that the browser has been downloaded more than 11 million times in the three days since launch. Perhaps most interesting is the ...
U.S Online Video Views Jump 16% to 16.8 Billion
April 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix showed that U.S. net users viewed 16.8 billion online videos during the month, a 16% increase over March. A significant increase at YouTube contributed to the gains.YouTube Accounts for 40% In April, Google sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with 6.8 billion ...
PBS' "Music Instinct: Science and Song" Launches Second Contest with Indaba Music - Collaborate with Bobby McFerrin, Gino Stitson and More
THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG has partnered with Indaba Music, the leading global online music collaboration web application, to enable artists worldwide to create a theme together online based around tracks provided by musicians, many of whom appear in the upcoming documentary Music Instinct: Science and Song. The two-hour special premieres nationally on Wednesday, June 24, ...
Apple Debuts Aggressively Priced iPhone 3GS, Macbooks
Apple on Monday delivered several major announcements at rapid fire, including iPhone and MacBook upgrades, significant price cuts and an in-depth look at its next-generation operating system. The most anticipated announcement was that of the iPhone 3GS smartphone, the successor to Apples popular iPhone 3G. The S stands for speed, referring to the performance boost of ...
