After the Cooks Source Magazine email that angered the entire Internet, we’ve wondered if editor Judith Griggs really had any right to claim that the Internet was a free-for-all for print publishers. But what does “public domain” really mean?
Items in the public domain are works that are no longer protected by intellectual property …
Monica Gaudio, who wrote a story about apple pies, is finding out that some people think that “public domain” means they can take your work and print it without your knowledge. No publication has the right to publish a blogger’s work without their consent and make a profit off it (at least according to the US government) – and she and an …
Foursquare just got Facebooked. And it’s more than just a poking. It might be a body blow to one of the location-based service’s killer features.
When I first covered Foursquare for TIME in January, I gave the (then) pint-sized start-up praise for having a path toward a revenue stream through the “deals” part of their platform, which …
Facebook launched a whole heaping helping of mobile stuff today. Fun fact: President Obama had the audacity to hold a live press conference at the same time. What’s with that guy?! And the Giants had their World Series parade at the same time. What’s with those guys?!
Here’s what’s coming from …
Get any interesting e-mails lately? If you’re a Gmail user, you should have gotten one directly from Google yesterday saying, “We’ve reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz.”
“Everyone in the U.S. who uses Gmail is included in the settlement,” says the e-mail. We won! What do we get? “Just to be clear, this is not a …
For anyone wondering how Twitter is planning to make money, we have our answer: Promoted Tweets. You may have noticed certain Promoted Tweets when using the search box on Twitter’s website, but the company is now rolling out Promoted Tweets directly in user timelines.
Twitter is taking a baby steps approach by partnering with …
We have some bad news, friends: Peter Ha has left the Techland family. We’d like to wish him good luck at his new position at News Corp, where he started today.
Peter arrived at Time.com as the new technology editor in September 2009 to help us jumpstart Techland. The site has come a long way since then and we’re grateful for all of …
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Earlier this week, Mozilla announced that it’s delaying the release of Firefox 4 until early next year. I doubt that anyone considers that to be fabulous news–except, maybe, for makers of other browsers–but it struck me as a sensible, responsible move given the state of the browser. It’s the best thing to do for Firefox users.
The …
After battling with the music industry in the US court system for almost half a decade, a federal court in New York finally shut down peer-to-peer file sharing website Limewire with a permanent injunction, saying the program caused a “massive scale of infringement.”
Since Napster eventually collapsed under the strain of its legal …
Long overdue for a graphical overhaul, MySpace will be rolling out a new design to members between now and the end of November.
According to MySpace CEO Mike Jones:
“The new Myspace is cleaner, with a new design that puts content center stage. It’s also smarter, providing you with a personalized experience by recommending content
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It may sound unbelievable that a Facebook group for young mothers would have a near constant volley of messages careening through the popular social network’s series of interconnected tubes, but it’s true! Apparently they like to chat with one another on the order of “35 to 40 messages within a 1.5- to 2-hour period,” according to PC …
“Social engineering,” the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology. We all know (right?) about the scam emails that inform you of a surprise inheritance or lottery win. Recently I came across a surprising variation: a scam that deliberately targets folks who …
