Verizon Wireless, America's #2 wireless carrier, announced today that it would open its network to non-Verizon phones and applications. That means any CDMA phone (i.e., even those purchased through rival Continue reading »

Reuters is reporting that Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said Monday that his company is in the discussion stages of creating an ad network, internally dubbed "FIM Serve," that Continue reading »

At the Reuters Media Summit today Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said that Fox is planning some additions to MySpace in the next few weeks aimed squarely at Facebook. Continue reading »

The New York Times is reporting that ABC News and Facebook have formed a partnership that will bring ABC political coverage to Facebook while lending social networking cred to the Continue reading »

So-called "Black Friday," the day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, is the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, and this year online retailers saw traffic surge with Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Spam_Will_Outnumber_Legit_Email_For_First_Time'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Reasearchers at IDC predict that this year the number of spam messages sent will eclipse the amount of legit email Continue reading »

The latest figures on the state of the US newspaper advertising industry indicate that print advertising sales have continued to plummet. Online ad sales, however, have risen significantly, though not Continue reading »

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Bill Clinton can rest easy knowing that he will soon have more verb options when updating his status on Continue reading »

Last night, Mozilla released the first public beta version of Firefox 3. You can grab version 3.01b from the beta download site. According to Mozilla, the new release has fixed Continue reading »

Just a couple of weeks ago, CNET's Don Reisinger wrote that Blockbuster was doomed. After posting a quarterly net loss of $35 million, closing 526 stores over the past year, Continue reading »