Why Google's Nascent Plan to Nab Unlicensed Music on YouTube Won't Fly
Google has filed a patent to automate removing or replacing unlicensed audio tracks on video uploaded to YouTube.
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iTunes Fraud Shows that Apple Is an Unsuccessful Control Freak [Update]
Apple's rapid growth has outstripped the company's operations and its ability to keep the close control CEO Steve Jobs likes.
Dell Wants Everyone to Forget It Knowingly Saddled People With Bad PCs
Dell tries to explain away the high profile lawsuit over bad computers, but ends up blaming customers and suppliers, not itself.
Amazon Thinks You May Not Care When Your Package Arrives
Amazon (AMZN) is testing a gutsy new delivery option in Seattle called AmazonTote, which allows you to choose free shipping that arrives once a week. Your neighborhood's "Tote Day" also happens to be whatever day Amazon delivery people are nearby delivering food for AmazonFresh. In other words, Amaz...
iPhone Problems: Apple Brings Back Its Classic Reality Distortion Field [Update]
Apple issues a letter declaring that the iPhone 4 doesn't have any real reception problems. The only fault is the bar display -- and that mistakenly shows more signal than a phone gets. In other words, if you find problems with the iPhone 4, it's all in your head.
Google Sees Big Picture, Gladly Risks Anti-Trust Woes to Buy ITA
Google's purchase of ITA will incur anti-trust scrutiny, but pay off in the long term.
Google's Plans to TiVo YouTube Ads May Be Sign of Paid Subscriptions
Google will let users skip pre-roll video ads. It might be a step toward a paid subscription option.
Why Is Amazon Buying Woot? The Answer May Surprise You
Amazon (AMZN) has agreed to buy Woot, the clearance site that sells one item per day. But Amazon already has a similar last-chance feature on its own site, and it nearly always stocks the same items that Woot (albeit at a slightly higher price). So why buy Woot? The deal, which occurred on undisclo...
Yahoo to Spend $3B on Stock Buy-Back -- and Management Is Nuts.
Yahoo wants to buy back $3 billion in stock when for years it's never had over $4 billion in cash and short-term investments. How crazy is that?
Microsoft Kills the Kin and Won't Learn Anything Useful from It
Microsoft kills the Kin three-month-old social networking phone. It could learn some good lessons from the experience, but won't, because Microsoft doesn't want to change.
Why Microsoft's Kin Phone Was Destined To Fail
Microsoft's Kin phone was doomed to failure by bad pricing, poor features and lame marketing.
iPhone 4 Snafu Is the Latest Sign That Apple's Dysfunctional Customer Relations Will Be Its Downfall [Update]
Apple tries to pretend that there are no inherent iPhone 4 reception problems. That attitude is the company's Achilles' heel.
Dis-Kinect: Leaked Specs, Bad Strategy Show Microsoft Doesn't Know the XBox 360 Market Anymore
Microsoft (MSFT) was off to a great start with a nice XBox 360 Kinect showing at the E3 video game conference, but leaked specs and a contradictory strategy show that, come November, Microsoft may end up losing both the hardcore and the casual gamer. First, the leaked Kinect specs courtesy of Luke ...
Amidst Confusion Over Web Video, the Porn Industry Emerges as Canary in the Coalmine
Google's multi-pronged Web video strategy seems confused and inefficient compared to the agile movements of the porn industry.
Google Flash Internet Race Game Crashes Into a Brick Wall
Google celebrates adding Adobe Flash to its Chrome browser by hosting a Flash game that repeatedly crashes.
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FlyDubai co-pilot bashed women in thousands of "manosphere" X posts
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