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EMI loses case against digital music pioneer

by Sue Walsh on Oct 2, 2008 at 11:28 AM

A New York District judge has dismissed EMI’s copyright infringement lawsuit against MP3Tunes CEO Michael Robertson.  In November, 2007 14 record labels affiliated with the EMI filed the suit, claiming MP3Tunes’s internet locker service encourages copyright infringement.  The service, which has 150,000 customers, provides personal, password protected accounts known as… Continue Reading »

Looks like eBay stumbled down with StumbleUpon

by Jodie Andrefski on Sep 19, 2008 at 04:44 PM

It appears the honeymoon is over. Purchased just a little over a year ago for about $75 million (yep, million), mega-giant eBay is already looking to sell off the recommendation site StumbleUpon. The function of the StumbleUpon site is to look at Web sites that people have hit and then… Continue Reading »

Cloud-based collaboration app ProofHQ moves to public beta

by Jodie Andrefski on Aug 27, 2008 at 06:44 AM

In private beta testing mode since January, the England-based ProofHQ has just opened it’s program up to the the public. What makes it so appealing to so many is the obvious allowance for collaboration. ProofHQ makes this simple with the use of several formats on the web. Blogs, social media… Continue Reading »

Shelfari is the latest member of the Amazon.com family

by Jodie Andrefski on Aug 26, 2008 at 08:38 PM

Amazon just announced the acquisition of the start-up book sharing company Shelfari. They are on a roll with literary-related purchases, as just earlier this month, they bought AbeBooks, an online seller of rare and used works.  Now, what makes this Shelfari purchase a tad more interesting is the fact that… Continue Reading »

Uh-Oh Google Gadget

by Jodie Andrefski on Aug 7, 2008 at 10:21 PM

It’s a veritable heyday for hackers. A playground for those bent on more nefarious purposes. Those nifty little Google gadgets available for users to download and add to their websites are a big part of the Web 2.0 trend, and a big back door that allows hackers to access information… Continue Reading »

Adobe breathes AIR into Linux Foundation

by Arnold Zafra on Apr 1, 2008 at 05:28 PM

Adobe is up and about this past few days. After launching Photoshop Express, here comes Adobe announcing that it’s AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), a cross operating system runtime used for developing various web applications that run both online and offline. Adobe AIR for Linux joins Windows and Mac in giving… Continue Reading »

Mozilla’s not-so-secret secret weapons will take over your desktop, promise

by David Gonzales on Mar 31, 2008 at 04:46 PM

If Apple, Microsoft, or Linux aren’t already shaking in their boots, somebody needs to tell them that they should. For don’t they know that a once fledgling little startup is slowly taking over the online world, one computer after another. And no, I’m not talking about another fast-spreading and destructive… Continue Reading »

MySpace Mobile goes to Verizon Wireless

by Arnold Zafra on Mar 31, 2008 at 01:18 PM

Verizon Wireless subscribers are now the latest to officially be able to access MySpace Mobile. To connect, users simply need to tap the connect category on the Mobile Web 2.0 screen and then tap the MySpace category, and they will be brought to the MySpace Mobile web site. With MySpace… Continue Reading »

If Cover Flow was a search engine, it would look like SearchMe

by David Gonzales on Mar 11, 2008 at 09:18 PM

Perhaps the biggest and most obvious flaw of today’s search engine’s is that they still require you to do multiple clicks (sometimes, even Google) in order to get to what you’re really looking for. And with the number of indexed SPAM sites steadily increasing everyday, the problem of having irrelevant… Continue Reading »

The 2007 Crunchies winner list

by Adam Berger on Jan 21, 2008 at 12:02 PM

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