In a twin assault, the Web Sheriff anti-piracy outfit is looking to recruit Swedish group ABBA to fight against The (Evil) Pirate Bay, and at the same time launching legal action against on behalf of The Village People. Please note Mr Sheriff, they sang “In the Navy” - they don’t really have one.
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HD DVD fans, we hate to do this to you, but it’s time we called it. HD DVD is now officially on Engadget deathwatch. We haven’t put anything important on deathwatch since TiVo in 2005 (which, as you may recall, still stands); but just as then, we have to step back from our personal preferences […]
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On February 26, Yahoo plans to beta launch Yahoo Buzz as a competitor to Digg, and a tipster supplied Valleywag with screenshots. Buzz, built under the direction of VP Tapan Bhat, will begin with a limited number of publishers — about 100 — and will rank stories based on popular search results and user voting.
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ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization has proposed a new set of rules for generic top-level domains when the next round of applications opens later this year. Don’t think you’re suave by registering a .69 domain, thoughthose will likely be prohibited.
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Hell, I’ve never heard of some of them. SDL? JDS Uniphase? Veritas? Aspect Development? I have no idea what they do. But you don’t need to be a household name to be worth billions. Here are the 15 biggest tech deals since 1998.
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BitTorrent
s popularity is still growing, and new sites are launched every day. Unfortunately it is impossible to feature all the new sites here, so we decided to post a selection of BitTorrent sites that look promising, or offer something new
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A tipster is friends with Bill Gates’s Facebook profile — the one Gates claims to have stopped using. The skinny on the Microsoft cofounder: “The friends list is short (110 friends) and yes, there are a bunch of teenagers on it BUT all key internal people that I know work with him closely are friends […]
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With HD DVD, things are just going from bad, to really bad, to worse, to car-crash-you-can’t-stop-looking-at. You can file this one under that latter category, as Wal-Mart has officially announced its intentions to stop stocking HD DVD players and movies by June.
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A group of ISPs, Internet companies, retailers, and broadcasters have just told the Canadian government that they don’t want more copyright, they want balanced copyright. How does more fair use, no more copying levy, and reduced penalties for P2P sound?
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Evolution Pod Travels Through Land, Water and Air
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.