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Back in 1996, I was fortunate enough to be one of the first journalists to cover a national political convention online. This was the Democratic National Convention in Chicago -- where Bill Clinton was nominated for President for a second time. In those days, not so long ago, really, we were excited...
Yahoo on Wednesday introduced a public beta of its instant messaging suite with voice capabilities. Consumers can now get a local telephone number in their city of choice for just US$2.99 a month. Yahoo Messenger with Voice is going head to head with Skype with a monthly price tag that runs about $1...
Internet giant Google is teaming with athletic shoe titan Nike to prepare the field for soccer fans worldwide with a new multi-language site that coincides with this summer's World Cup competition in Germany. Dubbed "joga.com," joga being Portuguese for "play," the new site will allow players and fa...
Blogs are providing an unprecedented look inside organizations in the Internet age. Via blogs run by current and former employees and associates we can now see aspects of major technology companies that otherwise would only be visible to a few insiders. While it is fun to position these companies...
Unlimited, uncensored access to video featuring Howard Stern may or may not be the epitome of the new era of digital television. Nevertheless the pay television service "Howard TV" and similar offerings are emerging rapidly as the government's deadline requiring conversion from analog to digital TV ...
Blogging software and services provider Six Apart on Thursday said it received US$12 million in third round financing. The round was led by Focus Ventures. Intel Capital and prior round lead August Capital also participated in the funding. Founded in 2002 by husband-and-wife team Ben and Mena Trott,...
For more than a decade, marketers have promised that the Internet was going to be a key way that consumers would experience their brands -- someday. Someday has finally arrived. The potential of Internet advertising is truly starting to be realized, experts tell me. "The media landscape has clearly ...
Child pornography on the Internet is a growing problem for countries around the world, new research suggests. The Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland reported that consumers served by its members have expressed that they are fed up with the availability of child pornography online. The...
Cingular Wireless on Tuesday launched an on-demand streaming video service with a selection of content from providers including Fox and HBO. Consumers can now watch video clips of their favorite television shows, sports, news and weather, entertainment and premium content on their high-speed 3G-capa...
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Thursday unveiled new legislation that would ensure what he is calling "net neutrality," or equal delivery of content on the Internet for consumers and businesses. Under Wyden's bill, dubbed the "Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006," telephone and cable companie...
Some members of Congress want to tax the Internet, and they're trying to do it under the guise of "telecom reform." That's a trick Americans won't like. It's time to send Washington a message, loud and clear: hands off the Internet. During hearings on a government tax and welfare program called the...
Viacom is planning to get into the social networking game, the company announced this week, with CEO Tom Freston telling attendees at an industry event in New York that the company has designs on a portal of its own to compete with the likes of News Corp.-owned MySpace.com, the personal Web page ser...
Video game maker S2 Games is testing a new delivery system that is beginning to catch on with both independent computer game makers and industry giants: Web downloads. S2 Games plans to sell its new title "Savage 2: A Tortured Soul" exclusively online when it is released in October. High-speed Inter...
As an industry, delivery of television programming into the home over broadband connections is barely off the ground, but it's already showing signs of consolidation. A continuing series of acquisitions in the IP video market will ultimately result in a smaller number of vendors, according to a repo...
The Chinese government this week indicated it was tired of waiting for the U.S.-controlled International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to come up with Chinese character versions of .com and other top level domains and instead will create the domains on its own. News of the strategy was ...
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