Apparently, the New York Times is still unsure whether its reporters should be allowed to Tweet or not. Intrigued by this tweet from writer and consultant Stowe Boyd, I registered for the New York Times’ Insight Lab, an online community / focus group made up of Times readers interested in providing the media company with Continue reading →

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The Laptop Company, operator of a web-based shopping platform through its BongoBing website, has filed a request for an extension of time to oppose Microsoft in its efforts to register a trademark for the name “Bing” with the USPTO. Furthermore, The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has effectively granted the extension request until October 28, Continue reading →

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I expect many of you already were aware of this, but I can imagine at least some of you aren’t yet, so here goes: apparently you can lift the usage restrictions from Adobe PDF files by simply forwarding them as attachments to your Gmail account and opening them in HTML mode right from your inbox. Continue reading →

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British hacker Gary McKinnon has finally lost his latest High Court bid to avoid extradition to the United States to face charges for breaking into US military and Nasa computers in 2001 and 2002. After his arrest, and without a lawyer present, McKinnon admitted to hacking, but denies it was malicious or that he caused Continue reading →

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I have loved the iPhone, but now I am quitting the iPhone. This is not an easy decision. I was there in January 2007 when it was announced and I bought the first iPhone as soon as it was available. I happily bought the iPhone 3G a year later. I’ve proudly yelled “I Am A Continue reading →

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Perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, firing Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom as CEO in 2007 and paying out only 1/3 of the potential earnout wasn’t the best idea. Zennstrom seems to be holding quite a grudge. eBay is developing new peer-to-peer software to run the Skype service, they revealed in a quarterly SEC statement. The Continue reading →

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In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Seeing Through Google’s Eyes: Yahoo Sneakers: Google Affiliate Network Summit Party: Google Neon Desk Sign: Ballmer Continue reading →

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Google Operating System spotted two new Google search options including custom date ranges web search and advanced image searches directly on the left side navigation. When Google first launched search refinements in the “search options” section, they did not allow you to add a custom date range. Now you can, here is a picture: It Continue reading →

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Google announced they have removed the beta label from the new AdWords interface. Google has been testing the new interface since November 2008. They continuously expanded the test to more and more advertisers over time and are now confident enough that it works right. Google added that along with removing the beta label, they will Continue reading →

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By Tim Conneally, Betanews Firefox total downloads: millions Firefox has hit its milestone billionth download of all time. To celebrate the occasion, Mozilla will be launching onebillionplusyou.com on Monday, a hub for information about the achievement, and a place for Firefox users to show their love for the browser by uploading pictures of themselves representing Continue reading →

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By Angela Gunn, Betanews A British hacker who broke into 97 military and NASA computer systems — looking, he claims, for evidence about UFOs — will be tried in America, where if convicted he may face a sentence of up to 70 years. Gary McKinnon has been appealing in the British judicial system to avoid Continue reading →

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By Angela Gunn, Betanews A Michigan teen has filed suit in Seattle against Amazon, maker of the Kindle eReader, for deleting a copy of 1984 on which he was keeping notes for his AP English coursework. Justin Gawronski is suing in order to impress on Amazon the importance of not simply deleting purchased texts — Continue reading →

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By Angela Gunn, Betanews Thursday was a far more lively day in the Joel Tenenbaum copyright infringement case, as the defendant admitted that he had downloaded — and that he had not been forthright in his written discovery responses about having done so. Mr. Tenenbaum also took responsibility for uploading and downloading from multiple peer-to-peer Continue reading →

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By Carmi Levy, Betanews It’s not nice to speak ill of the dead, even if they’re very much alive and only dead in the business sense of the word. But it’s super easy these days to look at Yahoo’s co-founder and ex-CEO Jerry Yang and laugh out loud at how he squandered tens of billions Continue reading →

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By Angela Gunn, Betanews January’s Consumer Electronics Show books up fast, as would-be congregants know well. But it seems that one potential attendee is still not committed as we roll into August — interesting, since the world already knows what the fellow won’t be attending in early 2010. The erstwhile guest is Steve Jobs, of Continue reading →

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