“It is unfortunate that we have been compelled to go to court …YouTube and Google have put us in this position by continuing to defend their illegal and irresponsible conduct and profiting from copyright infringement, when they could be implementing the safe and legal user generated content experience they promise.”

The Court's recent decision has triggered concern about what information will be disclosed and how it will be used. Viacom has not asked for and will not be obtaining any personally identifiable information of any user. Any information that we…

OpenMoko today said that it will start selling the Neo FreeRunner to the US on July 4th, marking its first phone release in the country. The touchscreen device is positioned as an unusual competitor to the iPhone whose strength is in its open access: based on a strictly open-source version of Linux, the device includes j

SentrySafe offers fire-, water-proof 250GB hard drive…

Mozilla Labs has announced the availability of Weave 0.2, the third major release of its experimental Firefox synchronization add-on. This version brings a broader feature set, improved reliability, and streamlined notification support. Although it is still in the early testing stage, Weave is already effective and easy to use.

Despite its early stage of development, Weave shows a lot of promise. When I discussed future plans for the service with Mozilla Labs manager Chris Beard in March, he informed me that the eventual goal is to transform Weave into an entire…

“The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle.” - well this sucks.

I feel violated. I have enjoyed You Tube. I have infringed, yet those infringed upon get’s one of the world’s great value propositions, which is, acknowledgement and attention, and that ‘word of’ spreads…

This tutorial is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. You should already have set up a basic Ubuntu 8.04 server system, as described in the first eight chapters of this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts This howto is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds.

CREATE TABLE ftpquotalimits ( name varchar(30) default NULL, quota_type enum('user','group','class','all') NOT NULL default 'user', per_session…

A new collaborative study between Google, IBM, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology suggests that users are slower to move between product updates than they should be?especially those using Internet Explorer. The researchers believe that browsers could learn from the food industry, of all things.

The group of researchers includes several of their own suggestions for improving browser security. Firefox and Opera are both credited for including an auto-update feature, but the team notes that "Firefox’s auto-update…

ASUS’ Eee Monitor today has been captured in official photos that confirm the system to be the company’s direct answer to the iMac. The all-in-one computer confirms earlier teaser photos and reveals a cross between Apple’s Cinema Displays and the iMac, but with two big differences: the use of Linux and just a $500 price tag.

Intel disappointed with Apple over iPhone chip choice…

After months of promises (and third party tools), Digg finally announced that their recommendation engine is being released this week. Today, Digg has delivered the goods to private beta testers. Here are the first screenshots of the new digg recommendation engine features, along with a video guide.

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Exclusive_Look_Digg_Recommendation_Engine_Private_Beta';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';It is also important to note that the recommendation engine will be a boon to…

SaaS or Software as a Service, is what is generally thought of when you consider services like Google Apps or Salesforce.com. Let’s face it, from the end user and SOHO crowd, to big businesses that are making use of services like Salesforce, you can see the huge value in outsource certain applications, not only from a cost standpoint but for ease

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Digg has released some materials around their new Recommendation Engine, which we wrote about last night, and say that it will be released this week. Two overview videos are below, including an interview with Digg Lead Scientist Anton Kast. Weve also included the text of a white paper on the Recommendation Engine.

Digg is only analysing the 2D ranking user data (ie, a matrix of user-by-story ranking weights) but ignoring the content. If they want to analyse the content & rank at once, then they should use a 3D algorithm such as…

Great pictures of Firefox collected from all over the Internet. Enojoy and digg.

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A look back to when and why Yahoo rocked my (and other people’s) world.

In what I feel is a great example of the Yahoo approach to excel in user experience is their Search Assistant. As I enter my search into Yahoo Search they automatically provide me with suggested auto-complete phrases. When the search runs, I…

Theres one thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that its a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. It actually isnt a walled garden at all. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wan

Basically, get creative. Its almost silly how many cool things can be done here. Is there any way to leverage group, page, or event data? Check this out: http://bigsight.org/city/nashville_tn/events. This is a display of the events that I…

The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-Cert) said that the flaw lies in the way the browser handles attempted cross-site scripting attacks.
An attacker could execute a cross-domain scripting attack and steal cookies and security credentials without any warning to the user.

McAfee and US-Cert recommend that IE6 users upgrade to the latest version of the browser to avoid infection. Users who do not wish to upgrade are advised to disable scripting.