Nicholas Carlson

There are 4,313 applications available for your Facebook profile, a multitude of gadgets listed in the iGoogle directory, and Apple tallies 3,213 Dashboard widgets for download to your Mac OS desktop. But just in case that’s not enough gadgetry, widgetry and application for you, Amazon announced just what you need: more. Sixteen more, to be […]

In my vision, Rupert Murdoch ambles to the front of a stage. He’s wearing biblical robes. In each hand, he holds a stone tablet. Scratch that. He holds iPhones. And Apple’s Safari browser isn’t loaded with NYTimes.com like in the commercial. Instead, it’s WSJ.com. As the stage lights turn Murdoch’s face to wrinkle and shadow, […]

Maybe the big broadcasters are starting to get it. The Disney-ABC Television Group today announced a deal to provide full-length episodes of its primetime shows on AOL video beginning next week. Yesterday, NBC Universal made similar news when it announced it would allow users to download shows and watch them up to a week after […]

Branded mini-applications — call them apps, badges, widgets, gadgets or whatchamacallits — aren’t anything new. They’re all over social networks, portals and even desktops. And they’re still going. Google today announced Google Gadget Ads, non-traditional ad units with interactive, rich media capabilities. Individual advertisers and agencies alike can develop the ads using Flash, HTML or […]

NEW YORK — IBM took over the American Natural History Museum’s Hayden Planetarium here today for a chance to push not only its portfolio of collaboration software for the enterprise but also Microsoft. IBM Lotus Symphony is free suite of applications that includes Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. IBM also […]

Google takes a lot of heat from the European Union over its privacy standards. Now the company is taking its turn to speechify. This morning, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer took the stage at a European regional meeting on the “ethical dimensions of the information society,” organized by the French Commission of the UNESCO, […]

News Corp. and NBC Universal’s Web video joint venture Hulu is rumored to have acquired Mojiti LLC, a privately held company based in Beijing, China. The blog TechCrunch first broke the news, citing a source with knowledge of the deal. These sources suggest Mojiti’s price was in the “$10 million range.” Hulu spokeswoman Christina Lee […]

Fourteen months after re-launching Netscape as a Digg-like social news site, AOL announced on Sept. 6 that it would turn the site back into a “more traditional news experience.” But don’t stop the clocks or cut the telephone just yet. AOL’s Digg clone isn’t dead. It’s just getting a new brand. The latest is that […]

Even amid rising concerns over near-term economic growth and consumer spending, Internet display advertising expenditures from January to June this year grew to $5.6 million, up 17.7 percent from the same period a year ago, according to a report from TNS Media Intelligence. “For the first time since 2001, media advertising expenditures have declined for […]

Don’t say you weren’t warned about unlicensed personal-portable devices that might disrupt your television viewing. That’s the message this week behind the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Association for Maximum Service Television’s (MSTV) new advertising campaign. Of course, you also can’t say you weren’t warned to ignore the NAB and MSTV’s warning. Confused? […]

The following is an excerpt from a chat transcript posted to Perverted-Justice.org. The full transcript led to the conviction of a sex offender. fleet_captain_jaime_wolfe: You do know I am looking for a sex-slave, right? sadlilgrrl : yes fleet_captain_jaime_wolfe: Do you want to be that sex-slave? sadlilgrrl: yes fleet_captain_jaime_wolfe: Are you sure about that? sadlilgrrl: yes. […]

Brand advertisers don’t want to advertise next to Web video junk. Today, TimeWarner took steps it hopes will ensure its online advertising customers won’t have to. The media conglomerate announced its investment in ScanScout, a firm with an online video advertising technology called Brand Protector, which is supposed to be able to do just that. […]