The Internet, YouTube, and Twitter have changed the way Americans consume media–and mean that the FCC’s restrictions on seven dirty words should no longer be constitutional, a federal appeals court says.
In an example of the Web’s instant ad power, the most up-voted tweets and Web posts to the Old Spice Man on Tuesday are immediately responded to via YouTube video.
The plaintiff in the suit, XPRT Ventures, claims that eBay filched trade secrets from XPRT patent applications that it then worked into PayPal technology.
As part of its new “Buy Anywhere, Listen Everywhere” campaign, music locker service MP3Tunes will let you upload songs from your Android phone.
When it comes to smartphones, Android vs. iPhone takes up where Windows vs. Mac left off as the fanboys from both camps face off in message boards across the blogosphere.
PC World – The Windows Phone 7 operating system won’t arrive for a few more months (expect a splashy debut as the holiday season nears) and Microsoft is using the extra time to dole out morsels of information about its upcoming mobile OS–one with the unfortunate task of competing with Apple’s iPhone and a bumper crop of Google Android-based phones.
A more likely resolution is that Apple would offer free rubber bumper cases to address antenna interference, according to Bernstein Research’s Toni Sacconaghi.
The chipmaker surges past analysts’ expectations for the second quarter for what it says was “the best quarter” in its 42-year history.
At MobileBeat 2010 conference, Facebook’s head of mobile products, Eric Tseng, shares Facebook’s plan to open its social-networking tools to mobile app developers.
NewsFactor – Microsoft has added Facebook and Windows Live Messenger to the Outlook Social Connector component built into Microsoft Office 2010, giving Outlook users the ability to connect the in-box with the two social networks. Additionally, the software giant unleashed Outlook Social Connector as a downloadable plug-in for the 2003 and 2007 editions of Microsoft Office.