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Zune of the future may come with copyright cop: Microsoft is "exploring" the possibility of building in copyright protection into the Zune player, Saul Hansell writes in the Times. The agreement is part of NBC Universal's deal to sell its programming for Zune. Microsoft is parsing this story very closely -- to Clintonian levels, in fact....; Tags: NBC, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Saul Hansell, Content Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Google bets billions to lock-in search dominance: If Google is to continue to be not only the darling of the search world, but the toast of Wall Street as well, it must withstand not only Yahoo and Microsoft head-on competitive search and search advertising initiatives, but up-start Goolge wannabes, to boot, claiming they are the next big thing...; Tags: Yahoo, Wall Street, Search Advertising, Search, Microsoft, Google, Copyright, Content, AdWords; Blog posts 2007-06-03

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Apple sets gag rule for iPhone app makers: A posting by Saul Hansell late last night on the New York Times Bits blog notes that Apple is forcing app makers to keep mum about their wares until noon EST today: The most interesting aspect of the launch of Apple's new iPhone 3g Friday is the beginning of...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., 3G, Internet, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-10
Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense: Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright." The problem with "clear...; Tags: Reproduction, Standards, A.P., Quality, Blogging, Channel Management, Business Operations, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell; Blog posts 2008-06-16
Even an unlocked 3G iPhone will still be an AT&T iPhone: Saul Hansell wrote up a good response to the $199 iPhone rumor. He stated that the report may actually mean that AT&T wants to lower the price of the iPhone and raise the price of data plans and/or Apple will start selling unlocked phones. However, even if the 3G iPhone...; Tags: Apple iPhone, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-04-30

Google to test video ads in search; Will there be a revolt?: Google is reportedly going to test visual ads in its search results instead of the usual small text ads. The big question is what the reaction will be? According to Saul Hansell at the New York Times' Bits blog, Google has begun experimenting with video ads on...; Tags: Google Inc., Video Advertisement, Advertisement, Video, Search Result, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-15
C block action continues, moves into Phase 2: Saul Hansell of the Times reports that big excitement happened in the C block auction Monday in the bidding for the super powerful spectrum that the TV broadcasters are abandoning. The bidding had appeared to be over with a $4.71 billion bid on Friday. That suggested to...; Tags: C, Fact, Spectrum, Auction, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-02-06
On key Internet digital content policing issue: Verizon good, AT&T bad: Saul Hansell, the thought-leader on the NY Times Bits blog, has a very interesting conversation with Tom Tauke, Verizon's executive veep for public affairs. Although Tauke doesn't specifically mention Verizon's largest direct telco competitor AT&T, he- unlike AT&T, isn't enthusiastic about doing the bidding of major digital...; Tags: Internet, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Digital Content, Networking, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-06
The implosion of music DRM: I certainly wouldn't have expected that, within a year, most digital music would be legally available, DRM-free, from online download sites. That seems on track to happen, however, as Sony just announced it would be releasing its music in DRM-free MP3 format. It helps, of course, that DRM-free music on...; Tags: CD, Digital-rights Management, Digital Music, Music, Radiohead, Trent Reznor, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-01-04
Latest 'The Group' podcast delves into Google Android, Yahoo's China syndrome, and Facebook gestures (again): Steve Gillmor's The Gang debuts its second coming for the second time. There's always good tibits and chunky nuggets in these roundtable gab-fests. As usual the topics straddle places more weight on the Web 2.0 side than the IT side, but I'm working on it. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Podcast, Yahoo! Inc., Steve, Web 2.0, Podcasts, Internet, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-11-16
Social networking: Quietly being subsumed by your everyday apps: The future of social networking is coming into focus and it looks like Facebook-ish features will be increasingly be integrated into your everyday applications. To wit: Yahoo and Google are looking to integrate social networking into their email applications, reports Saul Hansell at the...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-14
The new old social network: Directory services and widgets: Saul Hansell of the NYT has fleshed out a few threads on the expected strategy from Google and Yahoo on the social networking front. The two will take advantage of their massive numbers of email and personalized page users as a base for a social network. Instead...; Tags: Google Inc., Directory Service, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Newsfeed, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-13
Can Red Hat ever make open source advocates happy?: Red Hat has joined Sun's OpenJDK project, aligning its IcedTea project with it. (Should that now be IcedCoffee?) The reaction of open source bloggers to this news? Finally, wrote our own Stephen Shankland. What was the hold-up, asked EnterpriseLinux. What took you, asked Business Review Online. ...; Tags: Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-11-07
With Google, everyone is an armchair HR critic: The handwringing over Google's hiring practices is getting to be comical. Google hired 2,130 people in the third quarter and now employs almost 16,000. Oh no! News.com's Elinor Mills asks what these people do? Short answers: Sell ads, cook up new technology and add brainpower to the...; Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-10-19
Linkedin: Strictly for for business: Following on Chairman Reid Hoffman's talk at the Graphing Social Patterns conference, Linkedin CEO Dan Nye spoke with Saul Hansell of the NYT about the business social networks API plans. He said that Linkedin's platform will not enable Facebook-like virtual food fights or vampires, and he refuses to call Linkedin...; Tags: LinkedIn, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-12
Yahoo, WPP join Microsoft in questioning Google-DoubleClick merger: Microsoft isn't the only one questioning whether a Google-DoubleClick merger would be good for advertisers and consumers. During a panel on "The Changing Landscape" at the MiXX 2007 Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB conference in New York on September 24, Yahoo and WPP Plc representatives joined a Microsoft...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-09-24
Keep this post: here's the full text AND meat of Viacom's complaint against Google-YouTube: Most of the text, anyway.Ive skipped the more arcane legalese. Even so, this is a very long post. But this $1 billion tiff (argument, not the graphics format) is a major event in the history of the Web. This dispute will be with us for awhile, so I hope...; Tags: INTERNET, Intellectual property, Viacom Inc., Google Inc., YouTube Inc.; Blog posts 2007-03-15
Web 2.0's legacy: The startup Petri dish: The legacy of Web 2.0 is on parade in New York City--a never-ending stream of startups armed with PowerPoints, infomercials and terms like long tail, mashups and mindshare. One exec used four Web 2.0 buzzwords in a sentence. Bottom line: Its...; Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Petri, AlwaysOn; Blog posts 2007-01-31
Microsoft vs. Google: Who wins?: Can "underdog" $290 billion market cap Microsoft "win" against $148 billion market cap Google?Microsoft is already losing the PR battle, New York Times coverage illustrates, once again. An interview of Steve Berkowitz, online services group senior vice president, Microsoft, is headlined as an article about Google, with no reference to...; Tags: Steve Berkowitz, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Search, Advertising, Media; Blog posts 2006-12-09
Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?: As of the time that I started writing this blog post,its the top story on Techmeme right now. If youre reading this post to get some other insight into Jason Calacanis the man or AOL the company now that Calacanis (founder of Weblogs, Inc. which was eventually acquired by AOL)...; Tags: General, Calacanis; Blog posts 2006-11-17