Archive for July, 2007

Here’s a humorous bit of info to carry you into the weekend. A communications giant by the name of Telstra, based in Australia, has put in place an internal ban on Facebook. That’s right. 49,000 people whose task it is to keep fellow Aussies online and exchanging packets and dialogue and whatnot have been told [...]

Microsoft executives met with financial analysts yesterday, as they do regularly. They wanted let the market folk know after many seasons of shrugs and grumblings that they do in fact notice Google, among other competitors, making significant inroads to supply businesses and individual consumers alike with feature-rich Web-based products and that they intend to transition [...]

ThinkFree is the latest entry in the online office suite arena. With a product suite that already includes Server, Portable, and Desktop versions of their software, it's one of the first companies to embrace both the online and offline worlds of document sharing. Their products are Microsoft Office compatible, and for those of us who [...]

MySpace recently announced that it will be teaming up with the FOX television network and the Producers Guild of America to find television pilots. The “Storyteller Challenge,” beginning September 4, will be a contest in which MySpace will ask for 5-to 7-minute television pilots to be submitted and voted on by the other users of [...]

Malaysia isn’t the hottest spot on the Web. Naturally, that title is reserved for Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, the government of the Southeast Asian country is raising a fit over what it feels is a dangerous insurgency in the form of a blogger complex that is attacking the nation’s king and the religion of Islam. And [...]

The court hearing of ConnectU’s case against Facebook (more particularly, Facebook’s frontman, Mark Zuckerberg) went on as scheduled yesterday. Judge Douglas P Woodlock presided. And he laid a preliminary verdict out just as predicted here right here at Profy: He saw no solid evidence of illegalities concerning Facebook’s founding or its creator’s actions during establishment. [...]

Yesterday, MySpace announced that it had “detected and deleted” 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its social networking site. With over 100 million users, the solicitation of minors by adults has become a major problem on Myspace. The social network has been under a lot of pressure to relieve the problem and implement measures that would [...]

Joost, the P2P TV application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has now announced that more than one million users have signed up for its video service, which is still in beta testing and available by invitation only. Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and Joost co-founder, said at a recent Skype press event that the [...]

Today in court, two Internet-based companies – one incredibly popular and which continues to expand at a rapid rate; the other less so – will clash. Again. Let’s synopsize a bit. Facebook, a website created by Mark Zuckerberg with support from Andrew McCollum and Eduardo Saverin, who were later joined by Dustin Moskovitz to aid [...]