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Can Internet Activity Ever Be Truly Anonymous?
How much information should Internet companies be able to collect about your Web activity in order to serve you more relevant and targeted advertising? An IP address? Search queries? Your system settings and browser of choice? For most companies like Google and Microsoft, the collection of that type of data is de rigeuer. Though it is ...
ask.com Search Boxes to Pop up on Photobucket
On the heels of a matchup between Getty Images and Yahoo-owned Flickr, Ask.com on Thursday announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with photo Web site Photobucket. The Ask.com search box will now be featured throughout Photobucket.com, allowing Photobucket users to do searches within the Web site. Display ads and sponsored listings will also be ...
Pandora Brings Free Streaming Music to iPhone 3g
An app from online radio station Pandora will be among the hundreds of offerings available Friday when Apple officially unveils its long-awaited Apps Store alongside the iPhone 3G. There's a decent chance that Pandora will be overlooked, at least initially, among the deluge of third-party apps being released (500 to be exact!), but based on the ...
FCC White Spaces Tour Hits the Road
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going on tour. The agency's lineup might not be as exciting as any of the summer concert tours to which you may have procured tickets, but for Internet companies like Google and Microsoft, the FCC's upcoming white spaces field tests could have a major impact on their ability to provide ...
Apple's New Online App Store
Apple will open App Store, the online retailer's debut coincides with the launch of the newest version of the device. The company will offer such programs as language translators and tip calculators. One program allows you to create music on the iPhone. Press G when you park your car, it gives you map to return to ...
Getty Images Will Troll Flickr for Usable Shots
You know all those “artsy" photos of your cat or the MySpace-esque bathroom self-portraits littering your Flickr account? They might actually be worth something. Getty Images will be trolling the online photo site in order to find shots worthy of a commercial licensing deal. In the next few months, Getty will extend invites to Flickr members, ...
Penn Museum to Share Cultural Treasures Online
PHILADELPHIA - The Richard Hodges, is to open up its dazzling collection of artifacts to scholars, researchers, and the general public around the world who have been unable to access it either because they are not in Philadelphia or because 95 percent of the objects are in storage. The creation of an internet catalogue will provide ...
Is Apple Ready to Bust a Blu-Ray Move?
Will Apple Deliver new Mac Pro's with Blu-ray Drives Soon? Apple has never been big on alliances, coalitions or other formal industry-wide groupings. Case in point: The company joined the Blu-ray Disc Association in 2005 promising to help promote the high-definition format and then did pretty much nothing (at least in a commercial sense) for close ...
Big Daddy Corporations Watching You Watch YouTube
File Under HEAVY Viacom's big daddy lawsuit aims to prove that YouTube is little more than a beehive of copyright infringement. In the latest development, YouTube must turn over 12 terabytes of user history logs, a massive trove of demographic and behavioral data around the size of the entire printed works of the Library ...
Judge Kills Privacy Rights for YouTube Users
Google Must Hand Over YouTube Data, Judge Rules Raising major concerns among privacy advocates, a federal judge has ordered Google to hand over details about the viewing habits of YouTube users to media giant Viacom. The ruling came as part of a $1-billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Viacom in March 2007 against YouTube and its ...
