Posts Tagged with ‘AP’

Remember playing the "telephone game" as a child? You'd stand in a line or sit in a circle and pass messages from one person to the next, whispering into an ear. At the end of the line, the message was usually so garbled from the first person as to be unrecognizable from what it began as. So goes the tech blogosphere these days.
News moves at a fast and furious pace, with each blogger trying to jump on the latest news [...]

The AP isn't wrong.
For some odd reason, there is a viewpoint in Web 2.0 that as long as everyone seems to be doing it, the laws should be changed, or somehow re-interpreted. High on the list of those laws that the horde is clamoring to overturn are those dealing with copyright infringement and libel.
The issues regarding copyright and fair use rear their collective head fairly regularly when it comes to online content, with the music industry as well as the [...]

The Associated Press reported this week that Sony BMG “inked a licensing deal with Yahoo! Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company’s artists” to Yahoo!-owned sites.
The terms of the agreement stipulate that Yahoo! share revenue amassed through advertising associated with its current and future user-generated-media channel(s), as well as the distribution of strictly copyrighted material on the Internet giant’s pages as well as those of third [...]

VoIP has thus far only become a serious player in the wired telecommunications industry. When it comes to things wireless, VoIP has yet to gain much ground.
That may soon change, however. Deutsche Telekom AG, a German corporation, is now leading a group of investors of Jajah, a startup (which went live in early 2006) that promises to save users a good amount of coin, particularly in instances of international spread, by routing calls via inexpensive VoIP connections. The latest round [...]

A human rights group is suing Yahoo Inc. on the grounds that the company assisted China's communist government with torture and dropping dime on dissidents. The World Organization for Human Rights USA seeks unspecific damages and Yahoo's participation in securing the release of the dissidents. Just after I complimented them on being more internationally educated and more refined than Google too, it never fails.  
Yahoo! acknowledges turning over data to the Chinese government under penalty of law there according to an AP [...]

Mochila is about to unveil a cutting edge Multi-Media player to accentuate their already impressive suite of solutions for buyers, users and sellers of content. With the addition of AdMatch channels and their new player tomorrow, Mochila has positioned itself on the razor edge of Web 2.0 innovation in content syndication and marketing.
Profy received an invitation to attend a video conference with Mochila CEO Keith McAllister today to preview a unique and innovative addition to the Mochila arsenal of user [...]

I just finished an article at Yahoo! News by Michael Liedtke of AP. The article describes a new search engine designed to appeal to aging baby boomers. Cranky.com processes search requests from the point of view of older users. Basically, the new search engine provides fewer results so that older users will not be overwhelmed with all the data. Google and other advanced search engines really provide way too much data for older people to see and process. There is an aggravation aspect to this factor, [...]