The Federal Trade Commission is very serious about pushing online advertisers and analytic companies to revise their privacy policies. In fact, it’s so serious that it’ll go to Congress to make it happen if necessary, if commissioner Julie Brill is to be believed.
Talking to a crowd of researchers at UC Berkeley recently, Brill said …
Can’t we all just get along?
While Verizon’s “Droid does” commercials that poked fun at the iPhone have officially been nullified in a sea of lovey-dovey iSmooches this morning, the Verizon-AT&T tussle is still going strong. It’s just one recent instance among many tech rivalries that have played out in front of consumers over the …
For a while TiVo was the device to rely on if you wanted to DVR a program. Now that so many other companies provide this service, a judge has ruled that Dish Network can reopen their 2005 case against TiVo regarding DVR patents.
“The patent in this case withstood two re-exam petitions by TiVo seeking to invalidate it. We look …
Today is the day you’ve been waiting for iPhone customers: AT&T is offering free mobile-to-mobile calls to qualifying customers. (Nothing is suspicious about the company launching this new plan today… nothing at all.)
“Mobile to Any Mobile is an exciting offer that will keep our customers connected to the people they want to talk …
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Some say the tech sector has no business trying to cultivate a lovey-dovey crowd; that heart-shaped USB drives and the like are little more than silly pandering to a savvy demographic of gadget lovers that see right through all the marketing hype. To them I say, maybe you’re right. But …
At long last, the day has come–the Verizon iPhone went on sale this morning at 7 a.m. at Verizon and Apple stores, Best Buy and their respective websites. It’s been a long road for Verizon to get here, but it’s finally happened. While you wait in line to get a shiny new iPhone, why not mull over the difference between the AT&T and …
Double down on what works; jettison anything with risk attached. That’s the message that came out of Activision’s fourth-quarter earnings call yesterday. What got jettisoned? The upcoming True Crime: Hong Kong, the future of the Guitar Hero franchise and 500 employees, or about seven percent of its work force. Reports are also saying …
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Nokia Said to Be Near Software Partnership With Microsoft
Link: Businessweek
Rumors of Nokia partnering with Microsoft to build Windows Phone 7 handsets are heating up. Nokia’s new CEO, Stephen
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In David Pogue’s NY Times article “It’s Not the Online Coupons. It’s the Psychology,” he argues that it’s the idea that you’ll save a bunch on things that you could potentially want more than the actual savings that makes social buying seem great. It’s what made Groupon the fastest-growing Internet company in history, gaining a $1.5 …
Before you use that copyrighted image on your blog you might want to think twice: It could cost you up to $150,000. Still, if you’re willing to take the risk because you think you won’t get caught since a lot of people are doing the same thing, one law firms is on to you. They know how the troll the web and are using the power of viral …
It’s been expected since the launch of The Daily, but now it seems that Apple’s plan to offer one-click magazine subscriptions may have hit an unexpected barrier: The magazine publishers themselves.
The problem is apparently where customers will be allowed to subscribe. Apple, obviously, is pushing iTunes, whereas publishers prefer …
It could be an off coincidence or some kind of weird trading karma, but AOL stock has fallen $315 million in value over the last five days – Exactly the same amount that the company paid to purchase the Huffington Post in the controversial deal closed on Superbowl Sunday.
That the stock was already falling before news of the sale may …