Google's ever-expanding tentacles are now moving into the entertainment world with this week's launch of Google TV, a platform that purportedly combines "current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless entertainment experience."READ»
Stanford undergrads squeal with delight at the slightest college reference, while Aaron Sorkin denies charges of sensationalism at a question-and-answer session.READ»
Sean Parker is already famous in today's Web-connected tech world, mythical perhaps. But he's about to get even more famous thanks to a Vanity Fair profile and a movie that's indirectly about his life. READ»
ChatRoulette's parade of strangers, jokes, and horrifying male nudity made it the talk of the Internet for a good few weeks. Version 2.0 is coming soon, but do we care?READ»
Bits of Aaron Sorkin's script for the film about the founding of Facebook have bounced around the Internet for a while. We got our hands on what seems to be the almost final entire script.READ»
While American soccer fans toast their 1-1 win over England on Saturday night, innovation didn't really care, because it was inventing a new ballgame to be played in a new ballpark. With four-legged hairdroids.1. In advance of his ...READ»
Well, this is one way to increase the size of the iBookstore's catalog: throw open the doors to self-published writers. But will those writers choose the young iBookstore over competitors like Kindle and Barnes & Noble?READ»
First Twitter outgrew its nest, the one made popular by a flock of tech savants who, themselves, had outgrown their blogs. Only now, though, have the social media site's founders finally figured out how to shake the money from their ...READ»
Blockbuster announced this morning that it had signed a new deal with Warner Brothers to provide "immediate availability of new DVD and Blu-ray releases from the studio." But this isn't just your ordinary licensing wheeling and ...READ»
Congress has been briefed that highly-sensitive government and personal info was leaked into the public domain by unthinking use of file-sharing software. That's terrible. But why the hell aren't Governmental employees more net ...READ»
Hackers and Web nerds worldwide were distressed when torrent search engine The Pirate Bay announced last month that it had be sold into a legitimate channel of business. A company called Global Gaming Factory had a plan that would ...READ»
There's a delightful irony in this: Metallica, long-term DRM advocates, iTunes hold-outs, and MP3 haters, are releasing a branded jacket that includes Skullcandy speakers and--horror of horrors--an iPod dock connector.
The M4 jacket ...READ»
Legal music-sharing service Spotify just revealed that it's apparently five to six times more used than its nearest rivals. That's a pretty astonishing measure of success, and the site has big plans. In fact, it's likely to beat a ...READ»
Just like Napster, the music sharing site that was sold in the midst of its legal woes, Pirate Bay has just been bought by Global Gaming Factory for $7.8 million. So while its creators still face jail time, the Bay's about to go ...READ»
On the spectrum of menacing devices, the lowly server falls somewhere between a toaster and... an evil toaster. Which is to say that most people don't think the "clouds" that store so much of their email and files as being ...READ»
Napster, the original file-sharing site that set the digital music world into a tailspin, is making yet another phoenix-like return to life from the ashes of its former self. This time it's as a music streaming site, and it's got Best ...READ»
We've heard the story before: Brand wants to inspire user generated content. Brand inspires user generated content. Brand hires lawyers, and shuts down user generated content.
Think, record labels and Napster users. Think, ...READ»
Add another one to the annals of recent countercultural moments: Yesterday the Associated Press accused Shepard Fairey--the street artist who designed the most iconic user generated art to come out of the 2008 election--of copyright ...READ»
Prior to founding Consorte Media, Alicia Morga was an investment professional focused on U.S. venture opportunities in the technology sector for The Carlyle Group's U.S. Venture Fund. Prior to joining Carlyle, Morga was with Hummer ...READ»
