In a move that may miff Comcast, Verizon and other pay TV providers, TiVo and Amazon.com plan to sell movies directly to TV viewers with TiVo receivers, starting Tuesday, the AP reported. The two companies partnered in March to deliver Amazon’s Unbox download service with Series2 or Series3 receivers to buy movies from Amazon to […]

Musicmatch, the first software that offered free MP3 ripping legally, including several other features that its loyal core of users clung to as others migrated to iTunes and elsewhere. That ended recently, as Yahoo has withdrawn its Musicmatch Jukebox software, and the associated services will dance off into the sunset on August 31. Yahoo has […]

Fans of the Foo fighters, Kings of Leon or Natasha Bedingfield will soon be able to listen to their music through the social music site Last.fm. New York — Last.fm, the online social music network, today announced it has reached a content deal with Sony BMG to offer the label’s extensive catalogue of recordings to […]

Data protection and data retention two different things, claims search giant. The retention of search engine query data is a security matter and not one for Europe’s data protection officials, according to Google’s global privacy chief. Peter Fleischer, Google’s top global privacy counsel, said data retention issues are of no concern to a European privacy […]

Apple’s iPhone may be big news, but in Silicon Valley all eyes are on Facebook. Plao Alto, Calif. — Given its roots as a college networking site, Facebook has historically shown very strong skews toward the 18-24 year old age segment. Facebook’s membership among the early adopters who are first to latch onto new technology […]

Microsoft’s $6 billion acquisition of online ad company aQuantive is moving closer to completion, having just cleared an antitrust regulatory hurdle. Washington, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has tacitly approved Microsoft’s $6 billion acquisition of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. by allowing its 30-day investigation period to pass without requesting further information, according […]

San Francisco — Google has updated its “Google Code Search” site for finding publicly available source code, adding greater coverage and improvements in ranking and access. Previously, the Code index only included code archives and repositories, but now it has been expanded to include individual code files and websites that have code samples as well. […]

Google Sued Over Defamatory Content On The Web The British owner of domain registrar “dotworlds” is suing Google for directing web searches to sites defaming him and his company. Google, the world’s biggest search engine, is being sued by a London businessman in a landmark legal action that could hold the US-based company liable for […]

eBay Toolbar Featuring Yahoo! has been released. eBay has launched a new version of its toolbar that combines the features from both eBay and Yahoo. Users of the new “eBay Toolbar Featuring Yahoo” can search for items on eBay and Half.com and conduct Yahoo searches. Advanced search includes Yahoo Local, Yahoo Video, Yahoo Answers and […]

Will the online auctioneer’s Kijiji.com be able to lure advertisers away from the popular local classified-ad site? Craigslist has some new competition in the online classifieds markets and it appears to be based in its own corporate boardroom. eBay, which owns a quarter of Craigslist, has become so enamored with online classifieds that it is […]