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25 July 2008, 1:25 pm
If you want to know where the mobile Web is going, join me here at 3PM PT for the live video stream of our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable The mobile Web is finally here and developers have to choose what platform they want to bet on. Do they go with Apple’s beautiful walled garden, wait for more ... read more
25 July 2008, 1:25 pm
Noted Computer Science professor Randy Pausch passed away today after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Pausch was a founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and worked on the Alice program, an animated educational system for high school and college stude... read more
25 July 2008, 1:24 pm
Google has announced that its search index, which chronicles the vast majority of the internet, has hit a major milestone: 1 trillion unique URLS. That’s 1,000,000,000,000 pages - more than twice as many as there are stars in the Milky Way. The index has grown exponentially since Google firs... read more
25 July 2008, 9:17 am
Redlasso, the video site that allows bloggers to post clips of television content, has shut down its beta in response to a recently filed lawsuit by Hulu-backers Fox and NBC. In May, Fox, CBS and NBC issued Cease and Desist notices to Redlasso for copyright violation, which the company largely igno... read more
25 July 2008, 1:38 am
Continuing the tradition of selling bad Web businesses for less than they were bought for (in the vein of Cnet selling Webshots for $45 million three years after paying $70 million for it), AOL is trying to unload online storage service Xdrive. Three years after buying Xdrive for a rumored $30 mill... read more
25 July 2008, 1:29 am
The as-yet unlaunched MySpace Music will likely partner with Amazon to handle all music ecommerce transactions, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Apple and Rhapsody are also bidding for the business, however, and one source says a final decision hasn’t yet been made. The project, which ... read more
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