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Look out Netflix, a new video service has swaggered into town. Rumored since December, Verizon's partnership with Coinstar, the parent company of Redbox video rental kiosks, became official on Monday. As with Netflix, customers will be able to choose between physical discs and streaming. The physical discs, however, will need to be picked up...

BitTorrent search engine BTJunkie has abruptly shut down its website, giving its users a short and sweet goodbye: "We've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on." It appears likely that the move was a defensive maneuver in response to law enforcement's takedown of the ...

Facebook is working on a system to put ads in its mobile services, the Financial Times has reported The news comes just days after the social networking giant filed for an initial public offering (IPO), hoping to raise US$5 billion....

Google has rejected the request of European regulators that it delay the implementation of its new privacy policies to give authorities time to review the changes and ensure that users' data will remain secure. The European Commission's Article 29 Working Party, an independent body of data privacy regulators, asked Google to hold off on launching ...

Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its forthcoming service update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, which will be released in Q2 2012. The service update will build on Microsoft's rollouts last year in such areas as social CRM and mobile, Craig Dewar, director of Microsoft Dynamics CRM's product management group, told CRM Buyer.

TeleTech, a provider of business processing outsourcing solutions, has been placed in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant: Customer Management Contact Center BPO, Worldwide, 2011. TeleTech's integrated product road map combines a data-driven strategy, technology and associated resources to help customers drive revenue growth, increa...

Last week was the coming-out party for AMD's new CEO, and his core message was that the market was undergoing a shift -- and when markets shift, leadership changes. His point was that Intel's leadership was at risk and that AMD was poised to take over that leadership. At the foundation of this argument is the nature of this change, which is m...

Google last week announced it's beefed up security at the Android Market with a malware sniffing system called "Bouncer." Bouncer analyzes new and existing apps, as well as developer accounts. Before apps are allowed to be sold in the market, they're analyzed to see if they contain any known malware, spyware or trojans....

Jerry Yang is no longer "Chief Yahoo." He left Yahoo after 17 years.That's the news most people read or hear. Most people don't know Jerry or his approach. Let me share a personal story In 1995, I first met Jerry at Yahoo. this was before the company waspublic and before anyone really cared much at all about "the Internet."First thing I noticed wer...

An in-depth look at Facebook user behavior reveals some interesting trends among this more than 800- million constituency: One, Facebook users tend to receive more from the Facebook friends than they give out; two, there is a solid core of users that are very active on the site. The Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project report o...

Microsoft is overhauling Windows Phone 8, which is still in development, to make it more competitive with market leaders iOS and Android, according to leaked information reported in PocketNow The mobile OS will add support for multicore processors, up to four new screen resolutions, and removable microSD card storage....

The hacker community Anonymous on Friday landed another blow in its war with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) It posted an internal memo from the law enforcement agency about an upcoming international call to discuss hackers. Anonymous also put up a recording of the call itself on YouTube....

Google announced a new layer of security for its Android Market on Thursday, unveiling a program called "Bouncer" that will automatically scan apps and developer accounts for malware Bouncer works by analyzing each app as it's uploaded to the Market, scanning for threats, spyware and trojans. It also takes a look at developer accounts to make sure ...

Verisign has alarmed the online security industry with its reluctant disclosure of repeated hack attacks on its network in 2010. The infrastructure company supports key servers of the Internet's backbone, serving as Top Level Domain host for .com, .org and .gov....

Content Intent, Part 1 It can be a little tricky talking about how and why media outlets allow, and indeed encourage, the diffusion of their content throughout the Web.

Salesforce.com unveiled a new customer service help desk tool this week. Desk.com works with customer requests delivered over a social network. ...

The recently announced Spark tablet might prove to be the first Linux-running open source tablet fully capable of being modded by users ...

Vizio has unveiled a 58-inch 3D widescreen HDTV with a 21:9 aspect ratio -- far more than the standard 16:9 ratio HDTVs use. Users can set the TV to upscale 16:9 content to fill the screen ...

A change to the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) recently sailed through the House of Representatives without a hitch. The bill would allow a provider of rental DVDs or videos to get consent to share their customers' title selections, as long as users were provided with an opportunity to withdraw that consent That smooth ride ended in the S...

Facebook has finally filed for its initial public offering. The social networking giant submitted an application to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It plans to raise up to US$5 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who cofounded the company in February 2004, currently holds a 28.4 percent stake. Details in the SEC document illuminated...