November 2008
Reminder: Lego Minifig Contest Ends Today [Contest... →
In case you missed it in our huge photographic timeline of the Lego minifig, today is the deadline for the Giz Lego Minifig video contest. We have got a ton of entries, some of them…
George Winston - Woods →
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Reminder: Lego Minifig Contest Ends Today [Contest... →
In case you missed it in our huge photographic timeline of the Lego minifig, today is the deadline for the Giz Lego Minifig video contest. We have got a ton of entries, some of them…
Apple redesigns its start page →
Filed under: Internet, Apple
Many Safari users will note that Apple’s Start Page (set as Safari’s default homepage) was redesigned today. This page is used by Apple to let…
Miyamoto Struggles to Sell Inscrutable 'Wii Music' →
Nintendo’s new music game isn’t the wildfire hit everybody expected. That’s because it’s nothing like Rock Band and Guitar Hero — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. …
October 2008
How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the... →
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A radical business plan for Facebook: Charge... →
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Report: Facebook looking to raise more money, fast →
Facebook’s growth to 110 million monthly active users worldwide has been so fast that costs have been increasing more than revenue. Now the company is scrambling to raise money to pay for its…
Gabor is looking for a technical cofounder →
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Snowball Gun Advances Winter Sports Arms-Race With... →
The worst bit of snowball-fighting has always been, to me, the massive pain caused as you over-chill your hands by frantically sculpting your 100’th snowball: something that’d not be a…
Selling Ads on Your Twitter Background? You'll... →
While Twitter has been less than forthcoming on how they plan to monetize their service, there is no shortage of ideas from third parties on ways to get paid for spending time with Twitter….
Pirate Bay Talk: How To Dismantle a Billion Dollar... →
Pirate Bay co-founders Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij gave a keynote speech at the Hack In The Box Security Conference 2008, entitled “How to dismantle a billion dollar industry - as a hobby.” The two…
Possibility GROWS that Beatles Will Go iTunes! →
Thursday marked an auspicious day for the music business, and maybe the first big hint that the Beatles may finally be on the way to Apple’s iTunes.
Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The... →
When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With…
First Look: Tap Tap Revenge Nine Inch Nails... →
Filed under: Gaming, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch
If you enjoy Tap Tap Revenge and you’re a fan of Nine Inch Nails, you’re in luck. Tapulous has released Tap Tap Revenge Nine…
Yahoo, AOL in due dilligence ahead of merger... →
Yahoo Inc and Time Warner Inc’s AOL unit are looking at each other’s books to figure out how much money they could make together and where costs can be saved, a person familiar with the talks said on…
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AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi to iPhone Owners (For... →
This past summer AT&T announced free Wi-Fi access for iPhone users, then pulled it—but now it’s back. Today they announce that iPhone owners can again get free wireless access from any of…
Protecting New Releases While Monetizing a Catalog →
More thoughts on the Datz Music Lounge and how labels are now taking a different approach to selling music. Unlike mobile subscriptions that wrap up files in DRM, the Datz service offers one year…
Hushie Finds, Plays, and Lets You Save Songs... →
Music search engine Hushie scours the web to find MP3s for your listening enjoyment. The search interface and results are similar to previously reviewed MixTurtle, but while you can’t…
Buy a LaCie Hard Drive, Get a Year of Free Backups... →
Windows only: The latest hard drives from LaCie will come packaged with an installer CD that includes a year of free backups with Carbonite — which normally costs $49.95. I’ve been a fan of…
Exclusive: The Lego Minifig Timeline [LEGO] →
Yes, our love for the Almighty Brick knows no limit, so we have worked with Lego to painstakingly collect and catalog almost every single minifig ever produced into a photographic…
Hard Times? Not for iPhone Developers →
Despite the economic downturn, demand for iPhone developers has increased 500 percent in the past six months.
iPhone Apps Are a Trojan Horse for Music Pricing →
Apple will let record labels sell songs through the iTunes music store at only one price: 99 cents. But when labels tack a game or graphics onto a song and sell as an iPhone app, they can circumvent…
Investigation: Hundreds accused wrongly of... →
Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed.
Hushie Finds, Plays, and Lets You Save Songs... →
Music search engine Hushie scours the web to find MP3s for your listening enjoyment. The search interface and results are similar to previously reviewed MixTurtle, but while you can’t…
The £99.99 Feeding Frenzy →
It looks like 2009 will be the year of download binging. Services providing either unlimited access (Comes With Music) or inexpensive, bulk downloads (music pre-loaded onto Dell computers) show…
The Beatles Take Video Game Plunge →
MTV Networks and Harmonix, the game developer behind the popular “Rock Band” franchise, together with the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd., are developing an entirely new interactive music game based solely…
Audacity 1.3.6 Beta for Mac released →
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Freeware, Open Source, Podcasting, Beta Beat
Our buddies over at sister blog Download Squad gave us a heads-up this morning about a new…
"Don’t listen to anybody. Nobody knows what’s... →
“Don’t listen to anybody. Nobody knows what’s going to happen next … Better to be contrarian in times like these than not.” - Max Levchin
VentureBeat downturn event: Tightening your belt isn’t…
Is Owen Van Natta The New CEO Of Project Playlist?... →
Project Playlist sure is on our radar lately. The service, which lets users search for music on the web and build embeddable playlists, has 9.3 million unique monthly visitors and a whopping…
Ultimate Security Proxy With Tor →
Nowadays,within the growing web 2.0 environment you may want to have some anonymity,and use other IP addresses than your own IP. Or, for some special purposes - a few IPs or more, frequently changed….
Beatles video unearthed after 44 years (+ video) →
The colour, but silent, film was recorded covertly at the concert in Kansas in 1964 and is believed to be the only recording of the 31 minute gig. Fan Drew Dimmel, who is now selling the roll of 8mm…
Ultimate Security Proxy With Tor →
Nowadays,within the growing web 2.0 environment you may want to have some anonymity,and use other IP addresses than your own IP. Or, for some special purposes - a few IPs or more, frequently changed….
Beatles video unearthed after 44 years (+ video) →
The colour, but silent, film was recorded covertly at the concert in Kansas in 1964 and is believed to be the only recording of the 31 minute gig. Fan Drew Dimmel, who is now selling the roll of 8mm…
Just Drag and Drop Audio Tracks With Sleek... →
What’s this? A non-iPhone multimedia phone with drag-and-drop ease that integrates beautifully with a Mac? Introducing the sequel to Sony’s slim W880i — the W890i.
Buy a LaCie Hard Drive, Get a Year of Free Backups... →
Windows only: The latest hard drives from LaCie will come packaged with an installer CD that includes a year of free backups with Carbonite — which normally costs $49.95. I’ve been a fan of…
10 iPhone Apps We Wish Existed →
Yo, Mama Automatically sends your mother a loving text message — right before she calls to ask why you never call. OhYeah? A microphone-based utility that instantly translates a flat one-liner…
MySpace Offers MTV Exec The MySpace Music CEO Job →
MySpace has offered MTV Networks’ EVP Digital Music and Media Courtney Holt the top job at the newly launched MySpace Music, CNET reports. We’ve confirmed this through our own sources, and we…
The Facebook Layoffs →
Publicly, Zuckerberg has talked about the company making growth its priority. But a $400 million a year ship can sink fast, especially if the advertising market faces a hard contraction and media…
AT&T Offers Free Wi-Fi to iPhone Owners (For... →
This past summer AT&T announced free Wi-Fi access for iPhone users, then pulled it—but now it’s back. Today they announce that iPhone owners can again get free wireless access from any of…
The Beatles set to please please Rock Band before... →
If you like rock and roll music, you probably like The Beatles. If you like The Beatles, you’ve probably noticed that their music is not exactly the most digital-friendly. Everyone has been…
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional →
dtjohnson writes “A Harvard law school professor has submitted arguments on behalf of Joel Tenenbaum in RIAA v. Tenenbaum in which Professor Charles Neeson claims that the underlying law that the…
Facebook Widens The Gap With MySpace... →
Facebook blew past MySpace in visitors from across the world back in April, but the global gap continues to widen. According to the latest figures from comScore, Facebook attracted 161.1…
Dave Matthews Band - Christmas Song →
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Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run →
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Radiohead - Faust Arp →
Radiohead - Faust Arp via Seeqpod