Stanford University, the birth place of Yahoo! and Google, has come up with a lucrative way to deal with DMCA complaints from the MPAA and RIAA against its students: Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Yahoo_s_New_Mission_It_s_About_the_People'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Google's mission statement has long been "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Last night, Continue reading »

Amazon announced today that they will begin selling DRM-free MP3 music downloads from over 12,000 labels, the largest being EMI. EMI, of course, was the first major record label to Continue reading »

Yahoo! announced two initiatives today to become, in their words, the "go-to resource for all topics green." That's green as in, environmentally friendly. The first is a competition called Continue reading »

Last May CBS launched Innertube, an online video site that would allow the network's viewers to watch popular television shows like "CSI" and "Survivor" online for free, as well as Continue reading »

Social network Facebook is set to launch a classified service to its users on Friday, according to the New York Times. The service will be free, though Facebook founder Mark Continue reading »

NewsGator announces user base milestones; Newsgator is something of a quiet revolution these days. It isn't announcing flashy features like Google Reader or Yahoo Pipes, but today it announced that Continue reading »

Written by Jay Fortner and edited by Richard MacManus In a big move for Web Office vendor Zimbra, Comcast has teamed up with Zimbra, Plaxo, and HP to announce the Continue reading »

Yahoo! is set to announce that it will close its online photosharing website Yahoo! Photos in favor of Flickr, the web 2.0 darling that it purchased two years ago. According Continue reading »

The announcement last night of iGoogle (the new name for Google Personalized Homepage), Gadget Maker and other localization features, shows that Google is ramping up its personalization efforts once again. Continue reading »