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Final Chrome Version Boosts Speed, Compatibility
PC Magazine has performed follow-up tests of Google Chrome to see how much progress the browser has made since coming out of beta. The results show that its already fast JavaScript performance on the respected Sunspider benchmark has gotten even faster and compatibility with popular sites such as Facebook has improved. The retest shows a 24 ...
Sony Music Illegally Collected Data on Children
The FTC says the operator of more than 1,100 music-related websites accumulated personal information on more than 30,000 users under age 13 without informing their parents. Sony BMG Music Entertainment was sued by the U.S. on Wednesday for collecting and disclosing personal data about 30,000 children without informing their parents. The Federal Trade Commission filed the ...
Bush Opposes Free Wireless Broadband
In a letter to the FCC, the Bush Administration has said that it opposes the agency's plan to create free nationwide wireless broadband using unused DTV spectrum. In a Dec. 10 letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez urged Martin to reconsider the proposal in light of the Bush administration's position that ...
Google Releases Top Searches of 2008
In the wake of similar lists from Yahoo and Ask.com, Google has released its Zeitgeist 2008, a comprehensive look at the top searches of 2008. Unlike the other lists, Zeitgest doesn't focus on the most popular searches, at least not in the United States. Instead the results are listed as “Fastest Rising," meaning that the popularity ...
EMI Artists Join iPhone Apps Game
You've played the iPhone app. Now get the soundtrack. EMI Music has become the first major label to line up multiple artists for an edition of Tapulous' popular iPhone game application Tap Tap Revenge. The new version of the rhythm game, called Tap Tap Dance, features songs by five EMI acts—Moby, the Chemical Brothers, Digitalism, Daft ...
Obama: Broadband Essential for Economic Recovery
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his call for nationwide broadband access as well as more connected schools, libraries, and hospitals. “It is unacceptable that the United States ranks fifteenth in the world in broadband adoption," Obama said during his weekly address, which was posted to YouTube. “Here, in the country that invented the Internet, every ...
Youtube, Rumblefish Sign Music Licensing Deal
YouTube is awash in homemade videos featuring copyrighted music, and while much of that content is protected by fair use or is so infrequently viewed that it flies under the radar of copyright holders, some uses have resulted in legal action. Want to focus more on your video skills than crafting a defense of fair use? ...
RealNetworks' Rhapsody Cuts 130 Jobs
Streaming media company RealNetworks on Thursday eliminated 130 jobs, or 7.5 percent of its global staff. The layoffs, not surprisingly, are being chalked up to the floundering global economy. Still, Real insists that it has not been as hard hit as other companies. “The layoffs, in addition to other cost cutting measures, are part of a ...
Pandora Tops iPhone App Store with 2m Users
Since its launch earlier this year, the iTunes App Store has boasted all manner of success stories, but none come close to that of Internet radio generator Pandora. While the Web-based version of the site has, by some accounts, fallen behind more feature-rich sites such as Last.fm and Slacker, Pandora's iPhone counterpart, which lets users stream ...
