CNET News reported on Thursday that YouTube was preparing to launch a feature-film service after spending months smoothing over fractured relationships in Hollywood.

If Google wanted to duplicate Hulu’s success, it needed to make nice with film studios. So it did. YouTube has developed systems that help keep pirated clips off the site and is developing video players that present clearer images than the site’s standard player. When it comes to financial terms, Google has proven mu

Just my two cents. How ’bout yours?

Personally, I wasn’t too concerned about the fur she wanted to keep, but sick tech blogger that I am, all I could think about was whether she was going to get to hold on to her MacBook. Now, I’m not sure what’s inside that MacBook, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was a top-of-the-line model (when she bought it anyway).

Ruth Madoff may be innocent of conspiring to defraud people with her husband, but it’s a crime that she’s still a

Though the EU purports to be in tune with open source, its meddlesome muddling reveals a surprising ignorance of open source, and shows a complete disregard for MySQL’s true market opportunity.

In delaying the merger, the EU isn’t helping MySQL. It’s helping its competitors, including Drizzle, OurDelta, MariaDB (Monty Program’s fork), Percona, etc.

When asked in April if Oracle’s bid for Sun would end up hurting MySQL, Mickos responded: “MySQL works for Web-based

Sounds easy, right? Well, no, not if you’ve ever been involved in an open-source business. Building a great product is hard enough, but doing so in a transparent fashion while encouraging active adoption without appearing faux to your community…? That’s hard.

“If you don’t have the best product, you’re not going to make it in open-source,” unlike traditional enterprise software, where customers often flock to good-enough products.

(Credit:
Peter Fento

Updated 2.14pm PST with a correction from Profiles in History

For this serial number represents the bidding war that is sure to ensue when a certain Apple Macintosh Plus is offered to the public’s paddles.

There could be some high-pitched squealing and ethereally egregious excitement afoot when serial number F4200NUM0001 goes up for auction on October 8 and 9.

However, the price in those long-forgotten days was somewhere around $2,600. Now, th

The new Xbox 360 Games On Demand service is set to launch on Tuesday and will offer a library of downloadable older-title games. The big issue is not about consumer acceptance, but of disk space–as most players don’t have the available hard drive room to accommodate a huge number of new games.

But Nintendo’s pricing strategy won’t necessarily continue to work as consoles like the
Xbox 360 move heavily into digital distribution, allowing for on-demand, variable pri

At that point, with the HTV-1 in free drift, station flight engineer Nicole Stott will use the lab’s robot arm to lock onto a grapple fixture. Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk then will take over and guide the HTV-1 to a docking at the Harmony module’s nadir, or Earth-facing, port.

“The launch was beautiful,” Stephen Clark, a U.S. journalist representing Spaceflight Now, said in an instant message from Tanegashima. “The boosters lit with the typical orange glow a

Microsoft will be able to incorporate Yahoo’s search technology, including its Panama ad-selling tool, but the companies will use Microsoft’s AdCenter sales tool and Bing search engine to power both sites.

Editors’ note: The two companies had a conference call Wednesday morning to discuss the deal. Click here for our live-blog coverage of that event.

After months of fits and starts, Microsoft and Yahoo on Wednesday announced a 10-year search deal that will see the two co

“The issue is whether Veoh takes appropriate steps to deal with copyright infringement,” Matz wrote. He concluded that it had.

“(Hurley) said the company was still working on its filtering technology,” the Times wrote. “He said it had agreed to use it to identify and possibly remove copyrighted material from Warner Music, and it would discuss a similar arrangement with Viacom as part of a broader deal.”

The YouTube-Viacom suit is unlikely to go to trial before next ye

Yes, Craigslist is messy, annoying, contrarian, contradictory, arbitrary and just occasionally totally maddening. Somehow, people like that. Could it be because Craigslist is a little like us?

And yet there’s Google, whose sense of design might most politely be described as workmanlike. Although I have heard phrases such as “naive” or even “dull.”

Messy? Moi?

It’s ugly. It’s not proactive. It turns a deaf ear, a blind eye, and a snubb