(ii) the consumer is afforded the opportunity to appear and contest the claim of the person seeking the disclosure. Today's court order made no finding that Viacom could not be accommodated by any other means, nor were the YouTube users provided with notice and an opportunity to contest the claim. Instead, the Court focused on some statements made by Google on its blog : We . . . are strong supporters of the idea that data protection laws should apply to any data that could identify you.

Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. ...

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.

Posted by Adam Connors, Software Engineer, Google mobile team We've just released in the US a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers. In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you're ...

Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services. ...

The Playstation Portable has been something of a failure for Sony so far. In every single territory around the world, it has been roundly beaten by the cheaper and more innovative Nintendo DS, although Japan continues to be Sony's strongest supporter. ...

Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won’t need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable â€" they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe. The openly ...

VANCOUVER - Emmy voters don't watch TV the way you do. You sample several series, settle on a favourite and then watch it religiously, from week to week, perhaps without missing an episode. When the Emmy nominations are announced on July 17, the list of nominees could feature even more headscratchers ...

The Los Angeles Times plans to cut 250 positions, including 150 jobs in the print and Web news departments, amid a continuing industrywide slump in ad sales, the paper's editor said in a memo Wednesday. Half a dozen major newspapers announced layoffs last week totaling about 900 jobs. The Los Angeles ...

We're excited to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Powerset , a San Francisco-based search and natural language company. Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact in San Francisco. ...

Crystal City Takes Flight, April 2008 Photographer: Kjersti Wasiak While you may notice most Photo of the Day posts feature photos taken by me, I encourage others to submit their photos to be featured in an upcoming Photo of the Day post. ...

Skyrocketing oil prices have led to new business for tech companies offering customers an alternative to corporate travel. Cisco Systems, which specializes in teleconferencing technology, said their integrated system of high-definition cameras and 65-inch screens over the Internet offer a groundbreaking ...

**UPDATE** BELOW FOLD It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. ...

Crystal City Takes Flight, April 2008 Photographer: Kjersti Wasiak While you may notice most Photo of the Day posts feature photos taken by me, I encourage others to submit their photos to be featured in an upcoming Photo of the Day post. ...

Metal fans should be happy with this week's Rock Band DLC. The songs come from the Motley Crue themed musicfest called Cruefest. The Cruefest Pack will cost $2.99 (240 Microsoft points). The songs in the pack are: ...

Ping, ping, ping! That's the sound made day and night by the new social media technologies rapidly proliferating around the web... and the machines are getting tired. Polling for updates to user data streams, wishing they spoke the same language and dreaming they knew which accounts belonged to the same ...

Advertising - Google and Creator of 'Family Guy' Strike a Deal - NYTimes.com LOS ANGELES - Google is experimenting with a new method of distributing original material on the Web, and some Hollywood film financiers are betting millions that the company will succeed. ...

The Firefox community is the proud new owner of a Guinness World Record -- each and every one of you! Mozilla today received confirmation from Guinness World Records that we've officially achieved the record for the "largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. ...

The first test flight is tentatively scheduled for September or October. 6 million)-to seven European countries in addition to South Africa and Malaysia. With twice the capacity and payload of the planes it will replace, the A400M will fulfill numerous roles from aerial refueling to dropping supplies ...

If there’s a technology firm everybody loves to hate, it’s Microsoft. But for a company that has attracted the opprobrium of rivals, from Red Hat to Sun Microsystems to Oracle, its founder Bill Gates is arguably the most reticent of his peers. If there’s a technology firm everybody loves to ...

Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.

Filed under: Displays , Misc. Gadgets There's always that guy (or girl) who dominates meetings, saying the same thing over and over again, or just repeats what others say. We all find it annoying, and we all wish there was some way to make that blabbermouth aware of his (or her) social transgressions. ...

"We are very pleased to have attracted someone of Greg O'Connor's calibre to Trigence. Greg is a seasoned software executive whose combined sales and technical background, leadership skills and customer focus will enable Trigence to capitalize on the company's growing market opportunity," said Trigence's ...

The former is picking up a 26 per cent stake in the new venture. With this, Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group-promoted Reliance Money claims to have become the first Indian corporate to start operations and offer financial services in Saudi Arabia -- the largest financial market in the Gulf and ...

Crystal City Takes Flight, April 2008 Photographer: Kjersti Wasiak While you may notice most Photo of the Day posts feature photos taken by me, I encourage others to submit their photos to be featured in an upcoming Photo of the Day post. ...

NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will "boost our economy and encourage job creation," has surfaced this week. An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), ...

With the blankest of blank expressions on their faces, these mysterious figures have been popping up in the most unlikely of places. But nobody knows who the faceless figures, who often appear as motionless couples are, or why they are turning up at high profile events. Speculation has even arisen that ...

I'm toying with some regular features for Frugal Mania and Mondays are going to be known from now on (I think) as "Frugal Menu Monday". My plan is to make sure that at least once every week I include information and instructions that will allow you to create at least four new complete frugal meals ...

For most people on the Web, if Google or Yahoo cannot find something, it doesn't exist. That has been one of the biggest drawbacks to creating a Website or application that displays itself as a Flash (SWF) file. Search engines could see the file, but they could not see what was in it. Until now. Adobe has come up with a way for the search engines to read SWF files and index all of the information they contain. That means any text or links in a Flash application can now be indexed. This is a huge step forward for Adobe and anyone who develops in Flash/Flex.

The fireworks will still go on, you may just have a slightly more difficult time getting to a great place to see them. Road construction in the area has caused several of the most popular sponsors and entertainers associated with the event to move to new locations for this year. ...

As you likely already know, many of the sites on the 451press network are down and have been down for some time (what seems like forever! There are problems at 451press headquarters right now involving the equipment and machines we use to keep the sites up and running. At this time, about half the sites ...

The Los Angeles Times today announced plans to cut 250 positions across the company, including 150 positions in editorial, in a new effort to bring expenses into line with declining revenue. In a further cost-cutting step, the paper will reduce the number of pages it publishes each week by 15%. "You ...

Twerdahl also says the Roku player won't be limited to Netflix. Later this year, a simple software update will allow the box to stream content from other "big name" providers. In addition to Roku, Netflix has also partnered with LG Electronics and two other suppliers of set-top boxes. Apparently consumers ...

It looks like J Allard has a new mission and new title to prove it. As of June 24, according to the Microsoft executive bio site, Allard is now "Chief Experience Officer" at Microsoft, as well as as y ...

People like the puppet more than you because he is more real than you are. You are an amateur Shel, an amateur, always remember that. Yet, I lack remorse, because thats what the internet is.

Much of my career has been spent in Fortune 500 companies in several big cities. Now it's time to make a change, but I'm interested in working for a small local company. You will overhear talk about small companies because that's where most people work.

A so-called ''blank check'' company, Sports Properties raised $216 million in an initial public offering of stock in January. According to its charter, Sports Properties seeks to make a purchase in the sports, leisure or entertainment industries. The person requested anonymity because the process is ...

AT&T retail stores will be open at 8AM local time on July 11th, so be "iReady!" Existing customers who don't qualify for an upgrade will have to shell out $399 and $499 for the corresponding iP3G model. ...

Hi again! It's great to see the positive reaction to the unveiling of system software update v2.40. We can't wait for you to finally go hands-on with XMB access in-game and the Trophy system - and it's less than 2 days away. ...

Marc Andreessen , founder of Netscape, Opsware and Ning and the former CTO of AOL, is adding a new notch in his belt: he has joined the board of directors of Facebook , two sources close to the company confirmed to us ( speculation about Andreessen possibly joining the Facebook board started last month ...

The BBC has recruited the unlikely pairing of Huw Edwards and Damon Albarn to help meet the "unique challenge" of covering this summer's Beijing Olympics as it attempts to walk an editorial tightrope between news and sport. As it geared up for the logistics of transmitting live round-the-clock coverage ...

A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. The gas, widely used in the manufacture of flat screen TVs, is estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide. A living room looks ...

A long time ago, it became fashionable, even recommended, to disable menu items when they could not be used. Don't do this. Users see the disabled menu item that they want to click on, and are left entirely without a clue of what they are supposed to do to get the menu item to work. ...

NBC is making more than 2,200 hours of live competition from Beijing available online, giving Olympic junkies more action than they could ever devour in a day.