Internet Pro News

[2005-04-30] Mac OS X Tiger: A Blogging Perspective
Last night I was in town and treated myself to the new OSX - Tiger. This afternoon I've installed it and have been playing around with it - asking myself how it will improve my blogging.

[2005-04-29] Will Paris' Podcast Have Character?
I've heard this already described as a 'character blog': Podcasting is hot. But it just got hotter. Paris Hilton invites you to join her on "The Paris Hilton Podcast -- Countdown to House of Wax," beginning on April 29.

[2005-04-29] Blogs Are Not Journalism
Dana Blankenhorn: "To say a blog is journalism is like saying web pages are journalism." ...

[2005-04-27] Podcasting, A New Fix For Info Junkies
While it's admittedly taken some time for podcasts to work their way into my daily info hunt, I'm finding that I'm now habitually plugging in whenever I have a moment.

[2005-04-22] What's Happening at Blognomics
Yesterday's Blognomics conference at the RAI conference center in Amsterdam was a terrific event. With about 85 participants, there were so many great people to meet.

[2005-04-18] Skype Soars with New Services
Skype International SA created excitement with the announcement two new services and two more coming based on voice over internet protocol technology or VOIP.

[2005-04-18] Wikis for Yahoo Users?
Swaroop wants to Wikify Yahoo! Notepad. Did you even know we had a Yahoo! Notepad? I bet many of you did not.

[2005-04-18] Verizon Strips Away For Stand Alone DSL
Verizon announced on Monday that customers would have access to DSL without a local calling plan. The new plan will be offered to its northeastern customers first and more will be added later.

[2005-04-16] Lawsuits Filed Against 405 College Students For File Sharing
405 college students have had copyright infringement lawsuits filed against them by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

[2005-04-16] Mozilla Updates For Security
To address security vulnerabilities, the Mozilla Foundation has put out new versions of Firefox and the Mozilla suite of programs.

[2005-04-16] Adobe To Purchase Macromedia
Adobe Systems is acquiring Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.

[2005-04-15] HP Completes Acquisition of Snapfish
HP today announced the completion of its acquisition of Snapfish, a leading online photo service. Effective today, Snapfish has joined HP's Consumer Imaging and Printing business led by Larry Lesley, senior vice president.

[2005-04-14] Firefox Experiences 237 Percent Growth
Ever since GetFirefox.com has met the minimum requirements to be monitored by Nielsen//NetRatings, which occurred in June of last year, the browser's site experienced a 237% spike of unique visitors.

[2005-04-14] New Yahoo Local Feature Provides Free Sites for Small Businesses
Yahoo announced a new feature on Yahoo Local that provides free Web sites for small businesses.

[2005-04-13] Intel Will Pay $10000 For Moore�s Law
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore once wrote an article for Electronics Magazine, delivering his ideas concerning the future of transistors in relation to computer processing technology. This article went on to be known as Moore's Law.

[2005-04-13] RIAA Targets Internet2 P2P Sharing
Although the Internet2 is not available to the public, a number of college students at different locations have certainly brought it to the forefront with their activities.

[2005-04-12] Microsoft: Eight Lawsuits In Seven States
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the filing of eight lawsuits in seven different states aimed at punishing resellers of counterfeit software.

[2005-04-12] Content Industry Outlook
Notes from an industry overview session at the Buying and Selling eContent conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.

[2005-04-12] RIAA Flexes Its Litigious Muscle Against 405 College Students
Today, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced they would be filing copyright infringement lawsuits against 405 college students at 18 different colleges across the country.

[2005-04-11] ICANN Officially Designates .jobs And .travel Domains
On Friday, ICANN announced the approval of two new Top-Level Domain designations: .jobs and .travel. This approval was done during the ICANN International conference, which is held in Argentina.

[2005-04-11] Map Wars heat up
There's a community being built around Google's Maps. ~~Very cool~~ I'm jealous. Now, I've seen Microsoft's future mapping strategy and I've been sworn to secrecy. Don't count us out yet. After all, we have TerraServer and a few other things that work well on maps.

[2005-04-11] EFF Issues Guide To Safe Blogging
I've been a fan of the Electronic Frontier Foundation since it started. I've paid dues, gone to fundraisers, attended rallies. The EFF's defense of people who can't afford to defend themselves for online activities that attract the ire of organizations that oppose would stifle the use of the Net for expression has earned my respect.

[2005-04-11] 4.5 Million MSN Spaces Created in Four Months
Congrats MSN Spaces on getting to 4.5 million. Funny, now other teams are asking me...

[2005-04-08] GM: Poster child for the executive blog
Since General Motors began the GM FastLane Blog in early January, it's attracted considerable attention from business communicators. That attention has been sparked by who the bloggers are - senior corporate executives, starting with GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.

[2005-04-07] AOL Introduces VOIP Service
America Online has decided to throw their hat into the voice-over IP industry by introducing an AOL-branded VOIP feature called AOL Internet Phone Service.

[2005-04-07] Mozilla Preparing Firefox 1.0.3 Update
In light of the discovery of new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser, the Mozilla developmental team is hard at work on an update to the blossoming and very popular web browser.

[2005-04-06] Yahoo Updates Toolbar For Firefox, Mac, Linux
Yahoo! has made one of its more popular toolbar features, Yahoo! Anti-Spy (Windows), available through its Toolbar for the Firefox browser. Additionally, the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox is now available for Mac and Linux operating systems.

[2005-04-06] Yahoo! 360 gets Parodied, Beautifully...
Yahoo! 360 the new blog meets social network service from Yahoo! get's sent up beautifully by SixFoo 660, in fact, it quite litterally had me laughing out loud.

[2005-04-05] Ask Jeeves Launches Ask Jeeves Espana
Ask Jeeves has announced the first of many new sites to be launched in Europe, Ask Jeeves Espana. Currently available at http://es.ask.com , the search service is expected to formally launch this summer at www.askjeeves.es.

[2005-04-04] Gmail Capacities Continue To Increase
Last Friday, Google revealed their intentions to increase the storage capacity of Gmail accounts, moving them past the 1-gigabyte mark.

[2005-04-04] When It Comes to Tagging, You're It
BusinessWeek takes a good look at tagging (sometimes called folksonomies) from an interesting perspective - the threat they pose to search engines...

[2005-04-02] Intel Introduces Software Network
Intel's Software and Solutions Group announced the creation of the Intel Software Network...

[2005-04-02] WordPress Accused of Spamming Search Engines
WordPress has been accused of spamming earch engines by hiding thousands of articles related to popular search terms from site visitors.

[2005-04-02] MSN Video Teams With Maxim
MSN Video and men's magazine Maxim are joining forces to deliver unprecedented Internet video access to Maxim events and content.

[2005-04-02] Sony To Be The iTunes of Film?
Sony wants to be for the downloadable movie industry what Apple is to the downloadable music industry.

[2005-04-01] Trademark Infringement Suit Against Google Goes Forward
Susan Kuchinskas has an update on the trademark infringement suit against Google by American Blind & Wallpaper Factory.

[2005-04-01] Mozilla Awards Bug Bounty Hunters
The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today demonstrated its commitment to preserving a safe and secure Internet experience by awarding "bug bounties" a cash prize for users who identify previously unknown security bugs in the open source software.