[Software News] Going, going gone: JetBlue auctions flights on Web
[Software News] Esquire magazine unveils cover with electronic ink
NEW YORK - Although readers keep shifting to the Internet, Esquire magazine's editor is sure print isn't dying, and he aims to prove it Monday by unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink. "For the last couple of years I've been in search of ways to do something that shows that print is a particularly vital product," said Esquire magazine's editor-in-chief, David G...
[Software News] Zillow, newspapers start real estate ad network
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home price comparison website Zillow.com and 11 U.S. newspaper publishers are starting an online advertising network to help each capture real estate advertising dollars. The collaboration, which the companies expect to announce Monday, allows the publishers' and Zillow's sales teams to sell advertising space on each others' websites, making it easier f...
[Software News] Real-estate site expands ad deal with newspapers
NEW YORK - Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads. The new online advertising network, expected to be announced Monday, is the latest involving traditional media companies seeking higher-priced ads for their We...
[Software News] Security firm spots Chrome 'SaveAs' flaw
It's been only a few days since Google released its Chrome browser, and security researchers are still digging into the software in search of the first few flaws. A company in Vietnam has turned up the latest vulnerability in Chrome, according to a story posted to Information Week's Web site. Bach Khoa Internet Security says that the Chrome 0.2.149.27 release is susceptible to a critical ...
[Software News] Michael Moore plans Net-only film premiere
Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to premiere his latest documentary exclusively on the Internet for free, forgoing the traditional theatrical release. Slacker Uprising , which documents Moore's 62-city tour through swing states during the 2004 U.S. presidential election to rally young voters, will be available for download for three weeks, beginning September 23. A DVD of the 97-minute film will...
[Software News] What you can--and can't--find about Palin on the Internet
John McCain's announcement last week that he has chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate left the public thirsting for information about the Alaska governor-- and inspired hundreds of commentators, entrepreneurs, and Palin imitators to try to fill in the gaps. A would-be Palin shares her inner-most thoughts on "The PalinDrome: Sarah Palin's Blog". A faux Levi Johnston (that&#...
[Software News] China's Hu and Wen get own "fan" website
BEIJING (Reuters) - Does Chinese President Hu Jintao give you goosebumps? Got the hots for Premier Wen Jiabao? Then Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily has the answer -- join their online fan club. While Chinese politicians are not normally known for star appeal -- drabness and formal handshakes are more their style -- the People's Daily is making a stab at changing all tha...
[Software News] Summary box: Google still feeling lucky at 10
HUMBLE START: Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google on Sept. 7, 1998, after unsuccessfully trying to sell their search engine for a couple of million dollars. They set up shop in their Stanford dorm rooms with just four computers before moving their headquarters to a garage owned by Brin's future sister-in-law. HUGE IMPACT: Google has become an indispensable tool for millions of people and ...
[Software News] Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion mark...
[Software News] Comcast Challenges FCC's Authority To Order Neutrality
Comcast fired back at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday in its long-running duel with the agency. The cable-TV and Internet service provider filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. The filing is the result of a FCC hearing last month in which Comcast was sanctioned for throttling back the broadband speed of customers using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sha...
[Software News] App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple
When Apple opened its iTunes App Store in July, the idea of a mass-market Web site that sells downloadable games, tools, and other applications for cell phones was a rarity. Handset owners could buy apps from their carriers or the occasional niche site. But these days, the app store concept is becoming commonplace. The question is, does the world need a warren of wireless app stores? In the co...
[Software News] Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk
SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday. Both Samsung and SanDisk neither confirmed nor denied the report. But SanDisk's shares climbed more than 31 percent Friday. "We are considering various opportunities regarding SanDisk but nothing has been decided," Samsung...
[Software News] Online TV Viewing Approaches the Mainstream
Nearly 20 percent of American households are tuning into TV over the Internet. That's twice the number from 2006, according to new research from The Conference Board Consumer Research Center and market-research firm TNS. The most popular destinations for online broadcasts? The official TV channel home page and YouTube.com. The growing movement toward watching TV online is attributable, in p...
[Software News] Start-up launches spectrum marketplace
A Web site for matching buyers and sellers of wireless spectrum went live on Friday. The site SpecEx.com, which is run by a start-up called Spectrum Bridge, is aiming to make sense of an existing secondary market for wireless licenses, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The Federal Communications Commission periodically auctions off wireless spectrum licenses. Most of the spectrum licenses ...
[Software News] Napster faces challenges within and without
DENVER (Billboard) - When Napster reported its fiscal first-quarter results in August, it tried to paint a positive picture to investors who were growing increasingly nervous about the company's future. Revenue had held steady from the previous quarter at around $30 million, the company was enjoying its fifth straight quarter of positive cash flow, and it had recently converted the ...
[Software News] "Twilight" author drops new book after Web leak
CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) - Stephenie Meyer, author of the best-selling young adult "Twilight" books, has put the fifth and final installment in the series on hold in protest after a partial draft was posted on the Internet. Meyer, the U.S. author of "Twilight" and its sequels "New Moon," "Eclipse" and "Breaking Dawn," said she had a good ...
[Software News] Asia leads mobile growth, but lags on Internet
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asia will continue to deliver strong growth in the mobile phone market due to sustained demand from China and India, the world's two biggest markets of such services, industry officials said. But, even if Asia is the world's largest broadband market in terms of absolute numbers, it lags the United States and Europe in overall penetration, with just 3.6 out of ever...
[Software News] Facebook to test New Jersey's Web safety icon
TRENTON, N.J. - The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to test replacing its own link for reporting abuse with a bigger one developed by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office. Under the agreement announced Wednesday, Facebook will display a "Report Abuse!" icon on a small fraction of its pages that display videos instead of its own link for reporting objectionable material. Us...
[Software News] Who Needs a TV? Web Video Viewing Doubles
Online TV viewership has doubled since 2006, according to a Thursday study from market research firms the Conference Board and TNS. In a survey of 10,000 households during the third quarter of 2008, approximately one-fifth of respondents with Internet access reported watching TV online, more than double the number reported two years ago. Content is most frequently accessed on the network Web s...