Google Aims to Crack China With Music Push
Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in significant part ...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/06/2008 | Digital Media

Wireless Auction: Google Likely Out, And Happy
After dominating the U.S. wireless spectrum auction for months, from influencing the terms of the auction to bidding, it looks like Google is off the hook.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/06/2008 | Digital Media

Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent
The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest ...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/06/2008 | Digital Media

Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod Touch Models
Apple today added new models of the iPhone and iPod touch which have double the memory, doubling the amount of music, photos and videos that customers can carry...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/05/2008 | Digital Media

Sweden Warns Kids Against The Pirate Bay
The majority of Swedish children between the ages of 8 and 14, admit that they download copyrighted music and videos on a regular basis.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/03/2008 | Digital Media

TV Stations Seek Shows to Put Online
This year at the biggest conference in television syndication, the hottest topic was syndicated online content.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 | Digital Media

Anonymous Hackers Track Saboteur, Find and Punish the Wrong Guy
Anti-Scientology agitators have repeatedly harassed and threatened violence against a 59-year-old PG&E worker and his wife, who were mistakenly flagged as...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/01/2008 | Digital Media

Open Access for All: Prime 700MHz Block C Hits Reserve Price
After 17 rounds, the 700MHz spectrum auction has finally hit its one of its most closely watched targets: bidding on Block C has surpassed the Federal Communications...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Digital Media

Internet Failure Hits Two Continents
Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Digital Media

Pirate Bay Hit with Legal Action
Four men who run one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in Sweden.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Digital Media

Rumor: Dell to Reveal Android-based Handset Next Month?
Dell has long been rumored to be working on a handset, and the latest speculation is that Google will be part of those plans.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/31/2008 | Digital Media

Sprint-Clearwire: Will 3rd Pipe Dreams Come True?
Sprint, after breaking up with Clearwire last November and walking away from the proposed WiMAX joint venture, is rethinking its position, according to the Wall Street Journal.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Digital Media

U2 Manager Urges ISPs to Help Fight Web Piracy
The music industry should shift the focus of its battle with internet piracy towards the technological industries which have “built multibillion dollar industries...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Digital Media

Windows 7 Isn't Headed for 2009, Says Microsoft. More Like 2011.
Hey, it's not Microsoft's fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it's certainly a long ways away any way you slice it.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Digital Media

Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat?
The music industry in Germany has secured a legal victory over the hugely popular file-hosting service, Rapidshare.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Digital Media

Google Docs Offline Access
After playing around with one of Google’s not-so-private experimental sites, I can confirm that offline access is currently being tested.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Digital Media

US Internet Users Are Glued to Video
Young men are the most frequent online video viewers, but US Internet users of all ages are getting into the act.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/28/2008 | Digital Media

The Pirate Bay Now Tracks 1 Million Torrents, 10 Million Peers
Today, The Pirate Bay reached another milestone, as they broke the 1 million torrents and 10 million peers barrier.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/27/2008 | Digital Media

Freed From the Page, but a Book Nonetheless
PRINTED books provide pleasures no device created by an electrical engineer can match. The sweet smell of a brand-new book. The tactile pleasures of turning a page.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/27/2008 | Digital Media

Belt-Tightening, but No Collapse, Is Forecast in Tech Spending
The outlook for growth in technology spending is encouraging, according to corporate technology buyers and industry analysts.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/26/2008 | Digital Media

Apple's iPhone Numbers Do Not Add Up
Analysts looking at both Apple's results and those posted by AT&T - Apple's iPhone partner in the US - have noticed a large discrepancy in the figures.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Digital Media

Digital Dreamers
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner is helping propel the book-publishing industry into the digital age. In a first-of-its-kind collaboration...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Digital Media

AT&T's Proposed Filtering Policy is Bad News
Joel Johnson, gadgets editor for the tech/science site boing boing, pulled a Harvey Pekar during his recent guest appearance on the online AT&T Tech Channel’s...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Digital Media

Warner Bros. Sues SeeqPod For Infringement
Warner Bros. is suing music search engine SeeqPod accusing the company of profiting from "mass infringement" on its site.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Digital Media

Microsoft Bucks the Tech Trend
Pessimists expecting signs of a tech slowdown didn't find what they were looking for in Microsoft's strong second-quarter earnings.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Digital Media

Growth of Gaming in 2007 Far Outpaces Movies, Music
2007 was a banner year for video gaming, and the industry has the figures to prove it. The Entertainment Software Association announced today that total sales...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/25/2008 | Digital Media

YouTube On the Go
YouTube first dipped its toe in the mobile world in November of 2006 with a deal to deliver some video clips through the VCast service of Verizon Wireless.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Digital Media

Music Biz Pushes Piracy Blame To ISPs; Digital Sales Up 40 Percent
We said in December the music industry would this year start to shift blame for piracy on to ISPs. As of today - and buoyed by recent similar French moves...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Digital Media

Yahoo in Early Talks Over Possible Music Service
Yahoo Inc., is in early discussions with major record labels over offering unprotected MP3s either for sale or for free as part of an ad-supported service, two record...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | Digital Media

Last.fm Debuts Free Music Service
Social music site Last.fm has launched what it describes as the world's biggest free music service.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Digital Media

Cheer Up, Ben: Your Economy Isn't As Bad as This One
In the real world, banks are reeling from the subprime-mortgage mess. In the online game Second Life, a shutdown of the make-believe banking system is causing...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Digital Media

MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/23/2008 | Digital Media

Latest iPhone Firmware Unlocked
The latest version of the firmware for Apple's iPhone has fallen to hackers less than a week after its release.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | Digital Media

Vista Virtualization Move Opens Real Doors
Microsoft's decision to allow Home versions of Vista to run inside virtual machines may have far-reaching benefits in the coming years.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | Digital Media

It's Not TV, It's HBO — On Your Computer
HBO, one of the few remaining holdouts from online video, is jumping in and offering viewers Sopranos on the go. On Tuesday, the pay-cable network unveils ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Digital Media

NBC Chief Eyes TV Shake-Up
Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, is planning to seize on the writers’ strike to eliminate what he sees as extravagances in the way Hollywood makes...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Digital Media

iPhone Goes Corporate: AT&T Announces Business Plan
Without a 3G iPhone announcement at MacWorld, Apple remains focused on increasing the penetration of their generation-one handset. True to the rumors circulating...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Digital Media

Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal
Nokia and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Digital Media

The "Google Generation" Not So Hot at Googling, After All
A new UK report on the habits of the "Google Generation" finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Digital Media

Apple's Methodical Moves Show It Takes Time to Change The World
Up or down? That's what this week's Macworld show came down to for most news organizations. Would the new Apple products make the company's shares go up or down?
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Digital Media

Sprint to Cut 4,000 Jobs
Sprint Nextel , the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, said on Friday it will cut about 4,000 jobs and close about 8 percent of its stores, predicting further pressure...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Digital Media

Seesmic Killed The YouTube Star?
It's not often you are presented with a vision of the future of online video in a pub in London. But that's exactly what I was shown last night by celebrated French blogger...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Digital Media

Time Warner to Test Internet Billing Based on Usage
Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday it is planning a trial to bill high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee, ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Digital Media

Has AT&T Lost Its Mind?
Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Digital Media

Enhancing Its Hits, Apple Adds Movie Rentals, Ultralight Laptop
Apple’s Steven P. Jobs introduced an elegant new MacBook, and is betting he can mimic his digital music success with movies.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Digital Media

Robert Scoble to Launch Online Video Network At Fast Company
Robert Scoble, who pioneered tech videoblogging at Microsoft with Channel 9 and produced hundreds of segments during his tenure at PodTech, is launching a new...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Digital Media

Will Apple TV Take 2 Take Online Movie Rentals Mainstream?
An extraordinary thing happened today (well at least given who it was), Steve Jobs admitted that Apple had screwed up with its Apple TV product.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/16/2008 | Digital Media

Netflix Expands Internet Viewing Option
Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/14/2008 | Digital Media

Introducing The First Android Prototype
A small software developer on Monday plans to unveil a suite of applications — browser, camera, games and more — based on the new Google-endorsed operating ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/14/2008 | Digital Media