http://joeybs.net İnternet Web Blogging Rss Sat, 31 May 2008 00:12:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reuters - Overstock.com said on Friday it filed a lawsuit to challenge a New York law requiring Internet retailers to collect and pay New York state taxes on sales to New York consumers even if the retailer does not have a physical presence in New York. http://joeybs.net/overstockcom-sues-new-york-over-internet-tax-law-reuters TechWeb - InformationWeek - The reason for RIM's success? It's been able to broaden the appeal of the BlackBerry to more than just professionals, an IDC report found. http://joeybs.net/blackberry-leads-iphone-follows-us-smartphone-sales-techweb AP - Amazon.com said Friday that publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. will make 5,000 more books available for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles users can download and read. http://joeybs.net/publisher-offers-5000-more-books-for-kindle-ap TechWeb - InformationWeek - New technologies and pricing due by the end of 2008 have the potential to eliminate the problems of embedded wireless 3G notebook purchases, Gartner now suggests. http://joeybs.net/laptop-embedded-wireless-broadband-closer-to-mainstream-techweb http://joeybs.net/myspace-music-to-stage-its-150th-secret-show-reuters TechWeb - InformationWeek - The satellite companies have asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent. http://joeybs.net/dish-echostar-sue-tivo-techweb Reuters - Legal pressure is mounting against U.S. wireless operators over their role in facilitating either false or misleading charges for mobile content -- primarily ringtones. http://joeybs.net/wireless-carriers-draw-fire-for-service-charges-reuters Reuters - It's the first time songs performed on "American Idol" have been made available for immediate download on iTunes -- and the audience's ability to make an instant-gratification purchase has paid off handsomely for winner David Cook. http://joeybs.net/idol-winner-cook-scores-digital-hit-with-life-reuters AP - Apple Inc.'s iPhone, a new model of which is widely expected this summer, took 19.2 percent of the U.S. market for "smart" phones in the first quarter of 2008, according to research firm IDC's vendor survey. http://joeybs.net/iphone-market-share-at-19-percent-in-1q-idc-says-ap PC World - The forthcoming version of the leading print publishing software adds Flash support, new tools, and an improved UI. http://joeybs.net/quarkxpress-8-takes-on-indesign-pc-world AP - Federal antitrust regulators have cleared activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn's purchase of another $1.5 billion of shares of Internet company Yahoo Inc. http://joeybs.net/ftc-clears-icahn-to-purchase-yahoo-shares-ap Reuters - DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp said on Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo Inc and asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent. http://joeybs.net/satellite-companies-dish-and-echostar-sue-tivo-reuters AFP - Two Internet sites were banned Friday by a French court from taking online bets in France on matches at the ongoing Roland-Garros tennis championship in Paris. http://joeybs.net/two-online-sites-fined-banned-over-roland-garros-betting-afp Reuters - Time Warner Cable Inc plans to offer subscribers an easier way to bring Internet video to their television screens as part of an overall home networking system, Chief Executive Glenn Britt said on Friday. http://joeybs.net/time-warner-cable-to-offer-web-to-tv-link-reuters PC World - The story "IBM will connect Jazz to Microsoft's Visual Studio," posted to the wire Friday, is under embargo until Monday, June... http://joeybs.net/ibm-will-connect-jazz-to-microsofts-visual-studio-pc-world PC World - IDC is forecasting robust growth for U.S. online advertising in the coming five years. http://joeybs.net/idc-us-internet-ad-spending-to-boom-pc-world Macworld.com - Griffin Technology has announced the availability of the PowerDock 2, a device that simultaneously charges an iPhone and an iPod. It costs $49.99. http://joeybs.net/powerdock-2-charges-ipod-iphone-macworldcom NewsFactor - Having successfully completed the much-publicized 700-MHz wireless spectrum auction, the Federal Communications Commission is now planning its next auctions. http://joeybs.net/fcc-considers-free-internet-revised-d-block-auction-newsfactor Yigg! nimmt als erste deutschsprachige Website am Adsense-Sharing Programm teil. Doch was machen die User daraus? Sinkt die Qualität der Inhalte und führt das zum Sterben der Plattform? http://joeybs.net/yigg-der-weg-zum-galgen AFP - US wireless technology titan Qualcomm is rolling a new-age version of old-time broadcast television onto what analysts say is an unpredictable but inevitable mobile TV landscape. http://joeybs.net/qualcomm-bets-on-mobile-new-age-version-of-old-time-tv-afp