A recent article suggests that authors might "stop writing" unless book piracy on the Internet comes to a halt. We're far more optimistic.Read More...

Pinger already had voicemail “blast” options that allowed you to send a single voice message to a large group of friends, but now Pinger is looking to make that service…

Mobile media company Frengo has revealed its OpenSocial mobile Toolkit today, enabling developers to “share” their existing applications from other OpenSocial…

During his keynote at the CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he would recommend that the FCC deny Skype's request to open up cellular networks.…

No IPOs, and M&As look a little shaky, but there's plenty of money coming into startupland. One particularly hot sector: Any company that can plausibly call itself "open source".…

Yesterday, a federal court ruled in Elektra v. Barker that "an offer to distribute ... for the purpose of further distribution" may be enough to violate a copyright owner's…

We've argued in the past that Twitter can be a platform for serious discourse and our own Marshall Kirkpatrick famously stated last year that Twitter is even paying his rent (by…

THQ (NSDQ: THQI), the gaming company, has bought out online and casual games firm Elephant Entertainment, for an undisclosed amount. EE is based in Minneapolis, MN, and has games…

You're reading it here first: NPR's long time digital head Maria Thomas is leaving the company. She will be joining the happening e-commerce site Etsy, as the COO. The announcement…

Microsoft's Office Open XML format has achieved ISO approval after receiving support from 86 percent of the national bodies participating in the vote.Read More...

Take cover, hipsters! Tumblr, your favorite microblogging service, has been infiltrated by old people. Like this guy, a 59-year-old, married Chicagoan who's spent the last few days…

Outbrain has announced that the discovery portion of their ratings widget is now public and available for any blog to use. We have been running their widget on CN for about 60…

A year ago Second Life was the next big thing; by last summer even clueless marketers were shying away. Now Congress is eager to learn about this whole "virtual worlds" phenomenom,…

A recent survey of iPhone users put out by Rubicon Consulting entitled "The Apple iPhone: Successes and Challenges for the Mobile Industry," reveals some interesting…

Remember that ad recession that isn't affecting CBS? Try telling that to pink-slipped CBS employees. CBS News is axing just over 1% of its staff of 1,500 in editorial, technical…