New York based Gawker Media has sold three blogs from its impressively sized array of online publications, because Managing Editor, Nick Denton couldn’t care less about the subject matter, citing a failure to generate enough ad-revenue to make it worth the effort.
The three blogs being dropped are Gridskipper, Idolator and Wonkette, all of which are [...]
After a brief phonecall with a BT representative this morning (who at first, denied all knowledge of Phorm) they finally got tired of my incessant badgering and admitted trials had took place, and when asked when the scheme would be implemented fully, he had this to say…
“..It’s [Phorm] not going ahead apparently. I’m told by [...]
According to Ameibo, this service is the only website in the world that pays you cold hard cash when you legally share the movies you buy or rent from them, which should not only satisfy all the copyright nazis who are getting their knickers in a twist about illegal file sharing, but promises to fill [...]
After Microsoft recently threatened Yahoo! with a 3-week ultimatum to “accept our offer or else” (the ‘or else’ being a hostile take-over), Yahoo! have responded with a bewidlering tactic to try and gain leverage in the bitter talks. For two weeks, Yahoo! will be implementing Google Adsense into Yahoo! search.
The move is said by a [...]
After a long-running battle between social networking rivals, Facebook and ConnectU, the embarrasing episode may be coming to an end with Facebook (formerly ‘TheFacebook’) settling the case with ConnectU (formerly ‘Harvard Connection’) for an undisclosed amount.
The bitter row started after the founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders of stealing their lucrative idea [...]
If you’re reading this article from inside the UK (or soon, worldwide) there’s a good chance an advertising company called Phorm is watching your every move, and has been for some time. Three major ISP’s in the UK have been secretly selling your browsing habits to the company as part of a trial, which has [...]
A court has ruled that a lawsuit brought against Yahoo! owned Overture for displaying ads for competitors when a trademark was entered as a search-term is “totally without merit”.
The case was brought when the owner of a London based catering business, Victor Wilson, sued Yahoo! UK, and Overture for trademark infringement by placing sponsored links [...]
Google has responded to frequent speculation by news authors about how the service ranks news items for importance, and how timing, and the use of images affects the chances of being featured.
This unusually open response from the search giant differs from their one-size-fits-all response of “It’s all in the algorithm” they tend to dish-out to [...]
Not content with relying on government backed extortion in the form of TV-Licences to fund their corporation, the BBC is now eating away at your broadband speed with their latest weapon, the iPlayer.
ISP’s in the UK are unhappy with the 20% rise in streaming costs caused by the bandwidth-hungry iPlayer, and are having to absorb [...]
A wireless device submitted by Microsoft to the Federal Communications Commission for testing has been pulled after a disastrous failure. The prototype reportedly stopped working after tests by the FCC, which is the second such device submitted by the software giant, as part of the White Spaces Coalition, which involves a joint effort by Dell, [...]