by Wendy Davis on Jan 22, 3:00 PM
Google's plan to acquire DoubleClick might have gotten the nod from the Federal Trade Commission, but European authorities seem troubled by the deal's implications for people's privacy.
by Wendy Davis on Jan 21, 1:45 PM
Starting tomorrow, Time Warner's HBO will make a slate of its programs available on broadband on a test basis in parts of Wisconsin. The service, HBO on Broadband, which will only be available to subscribers, is expected to offer around 600 titles each month, including some of the channel's most popular old shows like "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos."
by Wendy Davis on Jan 18, 2:15 PM
It's been one week since news first broke that Scrabble owner Hasbro was complaining to Facebook about Scrabulous, the online version of the game that's available as an application on the social networking site....
by Wendy Davis on Jan 17, 3:00 PM
Are Web users losing faith in search engines? A study released today by the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future suggests the answer may be yes.
by Wendy Davis on Jan 16, 2:15 PM
This week, just as an unauthorized new biography of Tom Cruise debuted, so did a video of the actor proclaiming the virtues of the Church of Scientology. After initially surfacing on Gawker's Defamer.com, YouTube and other sites, the video was briefly removed -- but then reappeared.
by Wendy Davis on Jan 15, 1:30 PM
After weathering years of accusations that sexual predators use MySpace to find young victims, the site has announced a purported safety agreement with 49 states. But some aspects of this agreement will be very difficult to implement. What's more, they raise significant First Amendment concerns.
by Wendy Davis on Jan 14, 2:45 PM
Netflix said today it's going to offer most subscribers the opportunity to stream as many videos as they want from its roster of 6,000 movies and television shows available for online viewing.
by Wendy Davis on Jan 11, 3:30 PM
In an interview set to air Sunday night, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told "60 Minutes" that Facebook's controversial Beacon program "is going to be a really good thing."
by Wendy Davis on Jan 10, 3:15 PM
About 28,000 people who downloaded "Niggy Tardust," the Saul Williams record produced by Trent Reznor, opted to pay $5 for the album, the Nine Inch Nails frontman said on his
site. The rest of the 154,000 downloaders took Williams and Reznor up on their offer to take the album for free.
by Wendy Davis on Jan 9, 2:15 PM
An AT&T exec said Tuesday that the company is still toying with the idea of implementing a filtering system that would potentially prevent people from accessing or sharing copyrighted material.