Friday, June 17, 2011

Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for now (AP)

Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for now (AP)

Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk — for now (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 02:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken June 15, 2011, Joe Kennedy, third from left, CEO & President, and Tim Westergren, fourth from left, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, of Pandora internet radio, ring the NYSE opening bell to celebrate their company's IPO at the New York Stock Exchange. Here’s something to keep in mind for those worried that we’re in another tech stock bubble: We’re still nowhere close to the giddy days of the late 1990s and early 2000 when investors bought stocks as impulsively as lottery tickets. Technology stocks are trading at their cheapest prices in more than nine years. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)AP - It's starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year.

Internet braces for '.Vegas' and other not-coms (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 03:38 PM PDT

Graphic shows the total number of Internet addressing domains such as .com, .info and .museum through Jan.AP - Coming soon to the Internet: website addresses that end in ".bank," ".Vegas" and ".Canon."

Beyond '.com,' names for Antarctica, Urdu and more (AP)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 02:23 PM PDT

AP - Unless you're a Luddite, you're bound to know of ".com," the Internet's most common address suffix.

Spam epidemic has reached ebooks, shocking no one (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:18 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - There are a lot of truly excellent books available on e-readers. From current best sellers to the classics, you can broaden your intellectual horizons, learn new things, enjoy brilliant literature… and slog through that bane of our online existence: spam. …

Are search engines a spy’s best friend? (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 02:28 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - A team of researchers at the Warsaw University of Technology have uncovered a way that spies (yes, actual spies) can communicate with one another using search engines like Yahoo and Google. And we're not talking about sending email messages back …

Revolutionary Mobile Search Queries Apps Instead of the Web (Mashable)

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:29 PM PDT

Mashable - Mobile search startup Do@ is changing how we hunt for information on our phones. Typically, if you want to find something while you're out and about, you turn to the mobile web and spend a few minutes on a search engine's mobile website. Or you launch one of a dozen or more apps to help you find the specific thing you want -- you turn to your Yelp app to find a good restaurant nearby, and you open Fandango to find a theater showing that movie you want to see.

Ceglia passed polygraph test in Facebook case: lawyers (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:41 PM PDT

Reuters - Paul Ceglia, who says a contract and emails entitle him to half of Facebook, has cleared a polygraph examination conducted to determine the veracity of the alleged contract with the online social network's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, his lawyers said in a court filing.

Netflix, Time Warner sued by deaf groups (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 03:38 PM PDT

Reuters - An advocacy group for deaf Americans sued Netflix on Friday for failing to provide closed captioning on its streaming online television and movies.

Spam storm clogs the Kindle self-publishing platform (Digital Trends)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:35 PM PDT

Digital Trends - The Kindle’s ebook store has become a new outlet for self-publishing spammers in the past few months, forcing users to wade through a growing number of low-value, subpar content to get to the titles they want. This recent trend may be damaging to Amazon’s push into self-publishing and may even dig into the Kindle’s reputation, hurting the 10 percent of business Citigroup analysts say the product will account for in 2012.

New Nexus Phone from Google Could Offer LTE (NewsFactor)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 01:58 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Google's latest attempt at its own branded hardware may be in the pipeline, and this time the device may be part of the vanguard of LTE devices. A report said the latest Nexus phone is likely to be 4G LTE compatible, but didn't specify a carrier or a manufacturer.

Police say Colorado mom on Facebook when toddler died (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 06:01 PM PDT

The Facebook logo is shown at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California May 26, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - A Colorado mother who told police she was surfing Facebook when her 22-month-old daughter was struck and killed by a van was arrested on suspicion of child abuse, police said on Friday.

Netflix temporarily loses rights to Sony movies (Digital Trends)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 04:03 PM PDT

Digital Trends - It’s tale as old as time â€" or close: Streaming service has content yanked by label because of largely unacknowledged legal holdups. Netflix has fallen victim to this dilemma before and now it will again as Starz has told Netflix to pull Sony movies while the subscription service works out a new deal with the label. The two upsides to the situation are that Netflix is only forbidden from Sony content for the week, and that Netflix and Sony aren’t the ones duking it out â€" because in those cases, the streaming service usually loses.

Photo apps finding plenty of competition from unlikely sources (Appolicious)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 02:00 PM PDT

Appolicious - Being the developer of a photo app for the iPhone has never been a particular easy fate. So much competition exists within the App Store it can be hard to stand out. But I suspect that developers from Instagram, Hipstamatic, Photogram, and others never expected to find competition from outside of the App Store.

Finding a photo-sharing platform for you (Digital Trends)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Digital Trends - The advent of a Facebook photo-sharing app (of some nature) is upon us. And while the service looks pretty impressive and undoubtedly has some considerable pull by being directly integrated with the social network titan, the field is rife with competition. It can be a confusing landscape to navigate depending on your level of interest and commitmentâ€"even if all you want is to fancy up your photos before sending them on their way to Twitter. Whatever you’re looking for, it’s probably there. Here are a handful of the best photo-sharing mobile platforms out there for your posting pleasure.

Spotify finally making US debut (Digital Trends)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Spotify is starting to look like the boy who cried wolf. After trying to introduce a US version for two years, and despite the months of “imminent US launch” whispers we’ve endured, it once again sounds like Spotify is about to arrive stateside. As usual, there is some pretty solid evidence to back this up: AllThingsD reports that the European music streaming phenom has just closed a $100 million round of fundraising (raising its valuation to approximately $1 billion) and is in talks with yet another big US record label, Warner Music Group. Capping that off is Spotify exec Jonathon Forster’s confirmation. “We’re signing the remaining deals as I speak. We won’t launch before July 5,” Forster said at an Omnicom conference in London earlier this week according to Silicon Valley Watcher.

Facebook Is Finally Preparing an App for Apple's iPad (NewsFactor)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 01:58 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Facebook is preparing to launch an iPad app -- finally. So says The New York Times, citing people briefed on Facebook's plans.

Oracle wants a big piece of Android’s ad revenue (Appolicious)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:15 AM PDT

Appolicious - Oracle (ORCL) is known for some epic lawsuits, often throwing its weight around in California courtrooms over software licensing and patents. Coming off a recent victory against SAP (SAP), Oracle's throwdown against Google (GOOG) is just getting warmed up, as the software maker seeks billions in damages over claims that Android software uses technology related to the Java programming language. It's a drama that's been building its plot since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, and Java along with it. ...

LulzSec Explains Itself, Sort Of (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 08:59 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - For the past month and a bit, we've been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.
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