Despite winning an important legal victory against Google last week, Viacom's public image is taking a beating.
Ever since Viacom, parent company of MTV and Paramount Pictures, filed a $1 billion copyright suit against Google's YouTube last year, Google has won kudos for championing the rights of Internet
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Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube's sensitive user data as a result of the copyright infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago.
The two companies are in the discovery part of the case and must make certain information available to each other. On Wednesday, a ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--What is Facebook really worth?
One of the burning questions in the technology business during the past year also played a major role in the dispute between social networks ConnectU and Facebook, according to documents obtained by CNET News.com.
Some interesting details about Facebook's valuation
... Comments (No responses yet)SAN JOSE, Calif.--The public will be allowed a peek at some of what was said last week during a settlement hearing in the long-running legal dispute between ConnectU and Facebook.
James Ware, a U.S. district court judge, barred reporters and the public from attending the June 23 hearing ...
Comments (No responses yet)With advertisers and marketers polluting the Web with scads of pseudo "viral videos" it's nice to see a legitimate one crop up.
In a lampoon of CNN and mainstream media, alternative news source The Onion informs us of an approaching disaster: "Entertainment Scientists Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted
... Comments (No responses yet)Warner Music Group, the third largest music label, will license music to Nokia's Comes With Music service, a Warner Music spokeswoman confirmed Monday.
Nokia now only lacks EMI's participation in the service, which offers unlimited free access to music for a full year.
During that time, users will ...
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To unseat iTunes as lord of digital music, challengers are falling over themselves to strip copy protections off music.
Apple's iTunes still wraps most of its music in digital rights management software, and the latest to try to exploit this perceived vulnerability is RealNetwork's Rhapsody. The music service, ...
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Harvey Levin, TMZ's managing editor, was among those at the company who recognized that the Web and digital technology could give it an advantage over rivals.
(Credit: Craig Mathews/Warner Bros.)Alec Baldwin, Lindsay Lohan, and Kramer from Seinfeld may despise TMZ.com, but that hasn't stopped
... Comments (No responses yet)Another prestigious school is embracing Amazon's Kindle e-reader.
Princeton University has announced that it will start printing Kindle-edition textbooks this fall, according to a story in The Christian Science Monitor.
Princeton follows Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley in creating textbooks for the Kindle. In the United States, there are ...
Comments (No responses yet)People aren't waiting for Microsoft to announce a deal with Netflix.
Someone has already figured out how to hack the Xbox 360 video game console and enable it to play Netflix streaming movies.
At Lifehacker.com, Adam Pash writes that all anyone needs is an Xbox 360, a Windows ...
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