A federal district court in New York ruled Thursday that the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is owed “reasonable license fees” by online media powerhouses AOL, RealNetworks, and Yahoo for the music streamed and distributed on their sites. Currently, music streamed by sites owned by the three …
Advertisers now can use Google TV Ads to, well, place ads on TV, Google said Wednesday. The service is out of its invitation-only beta program that began in June, the company said on its AdWords blog.
No doubt this service will get more interesting when the glorious future of integrated …
As the week drags on, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer under pressure to propose which option to take in his unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo, here are some stats to put in the spreadsheet.
But first, some background. Microsoft’s board, which reportedly met Wednesday, apparently came to no conclusion …
We’re constantly hearing that seamless integration of television and broadband video is fast approaching, but nobody’s gotten it right yet. That hasn’t stopped new companies from jumping into the mix.
Enter Sezmi, the latest start-up hoping to capture the market: on Thursday, the venture-backed company unveiled a …
New movie releases from a number of major and independent studios will be available on iTunes the same day they’re offered on DVD, Apple announced Thursday.
Starting this week, iTunes customers will be able to purchase movies just now being released on DVD, including American Gangster and The Diving …
Business software maker SAP on Wednesday reported a steeper-than-expected drop in its first-quarter profits, due mainly to acquisition costs and the slumping dollar.
The company said net income fell 22 percent to 242 million euros, or $376.7 million, from 310 million euros in the year-earlier quarter. The latest quarter …
Well, Microsoft has finally come clean about the real motivation behind Vista’s User Account Control feature. As Tom Espiner’s reports from the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft UAC Program Manager David Cross admits that UAC was designed to annoy users.
Espiner quotes Cross telling the security-conference …
The mystery over what prompted eBay to sue Craigslist last week appears to be solved.
Apparently eBay feels that its ownership stake in Craigslist was unfairly reduced following eBay’s launch of rival online classifieds service Kijiji, which went live overseas in 2005 and in the U.S. in 2007,
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Well, it took a few months, but Yahoo on Wednesday caught up to Firefox 3 with a beta plug-in for its Delicious bookmarking service.
The Firefox add-on for Delicious “now has full Firefox 3 support while retaining Firefox 2 compatibility,” said Nick Nguyen, senior product manager for Delicious, in a …
No doubt, Adobe System’s Flash is popular: it’s installed on 99 percent of all PCs, according to the company.
But when it comes to mobile devices and other non-PC platforms, Flash is an also-ran. One reason for that situation, according to Adobe, is the lack of good development …