Comcast Faces BitTorrent Interference Lawsuit
A California Comcast customer called the company’s claims of fast Internet connections fraudulent due to their use of traffic shaping technology that hinders torrents.
Google Has Controversy On Its Mind
Operating in over a hundred countries means Google has to juggle a lot of laws and cultural differences as they try to present information as openly as possible.
Obama To Unveil Plans At The Googleplex
Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama will be speaking at the Googleplex tonight to outline his plan to ensure not only an open Internet, but also an open government that utilizes technology to solve pressing national issues.
EU Lengthening Probe Into Google, DoubleClick
European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes isn’t quite ready to rubber-stamp Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick.
Rapleaf Looks At OpenSocial Members, Facebook
Whether it’s from reading reports or scoping out the sites ourselves, most of us have a pretty good feel for various social networks – how big they are, who’s joined them, and so on. New statistics from Rapleaf don’t really shake things up, but they do provide some interesting insights.
Edgar Jr. Gets Religion, Just Too Late
According to a post at MacUser, the chairman and co-owner of Warner Music Group — Montreal’s own Edgar Bronfman Jr. — made some comments at a recent mobile conference about how music companies spent too long pretending that the industry’s business model wasn’t being threatened, and “went to war with consumers.” Here’s the money quote:
Red Hat and Hyperic Finally Made Me Happy
I previously questioned Red Hat’s apparent lack of love for Hyperic. Today, Stacey Schneider, Senior Director of Marketing at Hyperic, tipped me off to a joint Hyperic & Red Hat announcement.
Recommended Online Marketing & PR Reading List
At ad:tech last week, fellow PR/new media marketing practitioner and blogger, Rohit Bhargava and I were talking about his new book, “Personality Not Included – Why Brands Lose Their Authenticity and How Great Companies Get it Back”, and he mentioned that I should send him a list of recommended reading for a new bookstore feature he’s adding to his blog.
Searches For Cheap Gas (Sort Of) Unite Society
Gas prices aren’t as bad now as they have been in the past, but they’re certainly not good. And as usual, search trends have mirrored real-life events, and queries for “cheap gas” and the like have skyrocketed.
UK’s First Site That Searches Both Google & Yahoo
Searchboth.co.uk is a new site that allows you to search both the Google and Yahoo search engine at the same time.