The CD Can’t Be Dead! (Can It?)
Ever since I read last week about EMI CEO Alain Levy declaring, “the CD as it is right now is dead,” I’ve been trying to decide what I think about […]
The Music Industry Loves Text Messaging
Reuters reports that out of the United States 220 million cellphone users, approximately 88 million send text messages frequently and about 46 million have downloaded a ringtone. Accordingly, 65 billion […]
Get Paid for Your Videos: Google Video (not YouTube) Now Sharing Ad Revenue
The official Google blog today announced that it would release an exclusive video from the makers of the incredibly popular Diet Coke and Mentos act. Their new video is available […]
Cellular Banking: Cellphones Take Over for Banking in Certain Countries
The Economist has an article (subscription required) about South Africans using cellphones as banks. About half a million South Africans now use their mobile phones as a bank. Apparently, while […]
Hell.com Fails to Sell During Live Auction
Not surprisingly, Hell.com failed to have any bids placed above the $2.3 million reserve set by the seller at a live auction on Friday. Bids were apparently above $500,000 but […]
Domain Name Sales Making a Comeback? Hell.com vs. Heaven.com
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that Hell.com will go up for sale today, Friday, October 27, 2006. Through some sort of live auction format, the domain is expected […]
US Judge Ruling in Favor of Spamhaus is No Victory
If you’ve been following the e360 v. Spamhaus case, you’ve probably heard that the Judge refused to order Spamhaus’s domain name suspended. If you haven’t been following it, here’s a […]
ACLU v. Gonzalez: It’s not About Porn, it’s About Censorship
The ACLU filed a suit Monday, the latest in its ongoing challenge of COPA, the Child Online Protection Act. Frankly, I’m surprised at how little attention this is getting–particularly in […]
Google: “The Government of the Internet”?
Is Google the “government of the Internet?” So complains David Milman–chief executive of Rescuecom, a company that lost a lawsuit to Google over trademark and search terms–in this New York […]
Google’s Growth Forces Adjustment in Hiring Process
Google’s recruiting process is notoriously tedious. Experiences of job candidates range from those who had to pass through a dozen or more in-person interviews to those with years of work […]