Posts Tagged with ‘businessweek’

The news popped up on Twitter almost immediately; YouTube was down. After the Amazon S3 outage earlier this month, I'm sure everyone was wondering if YouTube was to blame or Google themselves had gone down. We now know what happened; in Pakistan's attempt to block the video-sharing site due to what it considered to be offensive material about Islam. In doing so, they hijacked some of the IP addresses directing traffic to YouTube, propagated the hijacking to other DNS [...]

In an article published this week, BusinessWeek covered a topic that is likely to strike a particular nerve in the minds of a great many Web users today. A topic that has to do with something so small, yet so unbelievably annoying, that it indeed triggers individuals reading material online to level curses at their LCDs and hurl exasperated insults at invisible webmasters and Internet marketing companies the world over.
What is this infuriating item we speak of? It is invention [...]

Mobile phones can do anything today that your PC could do last week. It’s smooth sailing for Moore and his law, and it can be extraordinarily difficult to find anything resembling a “basic” phone for sale now – that is, the kind of basic that we grew to know and love back before the tech rocket crashed right when the market looked skyward to greet the new millennium.
So it comes as no surprise to find that these pocketable lifesavers are [...]

Some months ago I caught wind of a tightly locked venture called The Venice Project, spearheaded by the individuals responsible for unleashing the most downloaded P2P file-sharing software, Kazaa, in the world, and giving millions the opportunity to snub the world’s phone companies, offering free VOIP to anyone with a PC-compatible microphone and a broadband connection. Janus Friis, Niklas Zennstrom and gang even gave Skype users in the US and Canada free calling to mobile and land-line phone subscribers for [...]

It’s not the Google owned YouTube that has been sued, but instead, the Google branded Google Video! After all my speculation last week about possible people who might try and sue YouTube, Google have been caught unawared and slapped on the bum with a fat fine.
BusinessWeek reports that, without providing any further details, other than the nature of the case, Google disclosed the video copyright lawsuit in a filing, just the other day with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The [...]