Facebook, the holiday card slayer?
Though initially I’d argue that it was e-mail, not social media that has discontinued our Hallmark holiday traditions, this week Slate is pointing a convincing finger at Facebook. “Now, with Facebook so thoroughly insinuated into our lives, we already know where our friends (and our “friends”) …
This is a definition of pro-active that I’ve never seen before: In preparation for being the subject of a future round of WikiLeaks, Bank of America has been buying up domain names that insult its CEO, Brian Moynihan. So far, URLs registered include BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and …
The Wikileaks saga for freedom of the press will continue now that Apple has banned the Wikileaks App from their store. Apple claims that the app violated the law and could potentially put some people at risk. Here’s the cache since the App Store site is no longer available.
“We removed the WikiLeaks app from the App Store because …
The argument between Netflix partner Level 3 and Comcast over carriage fees looks set to get a lot uglier with the news that Level 3 has asked the FCC to step in and put conditions on Comcast’s merger with NBC Universal. The company is asking the FCC to enforce on Comcast a five year period where interconnection agreements would be made …
There’s almost something inspirational about the determination of FilmOn.com founder Aiki David and his determination not to give up in the face of either the law or common sense when it comes to defending his company. Having been blocked from streaming content from ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox by a temporary restraining order last month, …
Whither the financial future of Hulu? With the idea of issuing an IPO being said to be off the table at least for now, the video-on-demand company co-owned by News Corp., NBC Universal and Walt Disney Co. is having to consider other ways of raising the money it needs to expand. The problem with going public, apparently, was that Hulu …
Windows Phone 7 owners who run WordPress blogs now have an official app for their phones. The free WordPress for Windows Phone 7 works with both wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.org accounts, providing quick access to posts, comments and stats.
Post creation provides basic features such as rich text formatting, media uploads, …
It’s been a superb year for graphic novels–the shortlist of English-language books I’ve waved at someone at one point or another and said “you have to read this!” has about 30 titles on it. Nonetheless, end-of-year conventions demand narrowing it down to ten.
Note that this selection doesn’t include books that were mostly or entirely …
It’s the legal battle that sounds as if it’s been planned by children: Eastman Kodak is suing Shutterfly, alleging that the site is infringing on Kodak patents in its manufacture and sale of photo-based products. In response, Shutterfly is countersuing, arguing that not only is the company not infringing on any patents, but that Kodak is …
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
When you think “online clothing outlets,” eBay may not be the first place that springs to mind, but if the San Jose-based company has anything to say about it, that’ll soon change. The company announced this morning that it had acquired the European company brands4friends, which describes itself as “Germany’s largest online shopping …
Movie studios and theater owners are said to be gearing up for a fight – but it’s not over the cost of movies or how many will require larger screens or special glasses. Instead, the battle is about the window between theater releases for movies and their video on demand debut. Studios are looking to shortening the window between theater …
