Viral Video: Shatner and Web Singing Sensation Have a Total Eclipse of the Heart
Here is yet another classic talk-sing video of actor William Shatner. He’s in a duet with Taiwanese singer Lin Yu Chun, aired on the “Lopez Tonight” television show last night. Lin became well known...
View ArticleShunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback
One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry by privacy advocates in the U.S. and...
View ArticleAmazon: It Was Our Hardware, Not Hackers, That Brought Us Down
Amazon customers in the U.K., Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain lost access to the service for about 30 minutes Sunday. That in itself is rare enough an occurrence that when it happens, it usually...
View ArticleWill Oracle and Microsoft Bid on Autonomy?
There’s a sketchily sourced report in the U.K.’s Daily Mail this morning saying that the British software concern Autonomy may be the subject of a bidding war between Oracle and Microsoft after the...
View ArticleEnglish Courts Embrace Twitter, @judge Already Gone
It is not an institution known for embracing change–it took over a thousand years to be officially recognized as a fully independent branch of the government, but the British justice system has finally...
View ArticleIBM Offers Its Cloud To Watch The UK's Electrical Grid
Computing giant IBM and the British telecom concern Cable & Wireless say they’re collaborating to build a cloud computing system that would monitor the power usage of some 50 million smart...
View ArticleGod Save the Queen: The Arianna Invasion of Britain Begins!
The British version of the Huffington Post, which has been expected, went live today. It is the site’s first major international expansion beyond North America (Canada was first). While the content is...
View ArticleViral Video: Hugh Grant's New Starring Role in Britain's PhoneGate
For years now, it looked like the tousled adorkability and winsome charms of British movie star Hugh Grant were beginning to grow long in the tooth. That is, until the phone-hacking scandal in Britain...
View ArticleWho's to Blame for Yahoo's Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…
Yahoo turned in another weak performance in the second quarter, with yet another decline in revenue. This time it was five percent, compared to last quarter’s six percent. In other words, at least...
View ArticleU.K. Police Say This Is the Face of LulzSec Hacker Known as Topiary
According to police in the United Kingdom, the photo you are looking at depicts one of the members of the LulzSec hacking group that has been so active this summer. The photo, which appeared on the...
View ArticleHTC Tries British Accent in Apple Fight
HTC has opened up a new front in its patent battle with Apple: The United Kingdom. On Friday the company filed suit against Apple in Britain, on what grounds it’s not yet clear. The complaint comes two...
View ArticleTabloid's Pursuit of Missing Girl Led to Its Own Demise
LONDON—In April 2002, News Corp.’s News of the World tabloid scrambled at least eight reporters and photographers to an Epson ink-cartridge factory in Britain’s Midlands region, hoping to land a big...
View ArticleAutonomy: When All Else Fails, Blame the Bankers
Rule No. 1 when you find yourself in a public relations hole: Stop digging. Mike Lynch, the CEO of Autonomy, the software company being acquired by Hewlett-Packard in an $11.7 billion deal, seems not...
View ArticleBritain's First Software Billionaire Now Reports to HP CEO Meg Whitman
Hewlett-Packard just announced that it had closed its acquisition of the British software firm Autonomy. This is the company that HP decided to acquire under previous CEO Léo Apotheker on Aug. 18 for...
View ArticleiPhone 4S Surges in Battle of Britain
Pent-up demand for the iPhone 4S in Great Britain has carried the device straight to the top of the country’s sales charts. According to data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the iPhone captured nearly...
View ArticleWill That Be Sir Jonathan, or Sir Jony?
Apple design guru Jonathan “Jony” Ive has been awarded a second knighthood by the Queen of England as part of her annual list of honors. Ive has been named Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order...
View ArticleBritain Adds More Spectrum to Deal With Olympics-Related Wireless Crunch
Predicting massive demand related to the upcoming London Olympics, British regulators said Monday they are massively boosting available spectrum for the Games. The crunch will come from a variety of...
View ArticleGigaOM Buys paidContent (Like Peter Kafka Said)
GigaOM finally fessed up and said that it had bought tech and media news site paidContent, as AllThingsD.com media ninja Peter Kafka had reported earlier this week it would. The price is reportedly...
View ArticleHappy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing. Love, Silicon Valley.
Although the circumstances of his death — considered a suicide, due to persecution over his being gay, although that conclusion has recently been disputed — were tragic, there is no question that...
View ArticleExclusive: Synacor to Offer TV Everywhere Authentication Via Social IDs
Synacor, the behind-the-scenes tech company that provides authentication services to television companies, will be launching a new identification platform for pay-TV services that will allow users to...
View ArticleIn the Ever-Crowded Online Learning Space, TSL Education Aims at Teacher...
Last week, I had a very erudite meeting with Louise Rogers, who runs one of the fastest growing social networking sites for educators — first in Britain and now operating in about 197 countries...
View ArticleFive Startups for $16 Million: Yahoo's Mayer Is Buying Up Most Mobile App...
Because I get bored on Sunday nights, I opened up Yahoo’s recent regulatory filings for some light reading and, as usual, found some tasty information that the company had kindly dropped in for my...
View ArticleU.K. Committee Says Google Avoids Tax
Google Inc. has aggressively avoided paying corporation tax in Britain and its reputation won’t be restored until it begins to pay what is due, a U.K. parliamentary committee said Thursday, in the...
View ArticleKevin Spacey Goes All House-of-Cards on Hollywood (Video)
In case you missed this most excellent keynote speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival’s high-profile James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, actor Kevin Spacey gave what is perhaps the...
View ArticleCode Genius Alan Turing Gets Royal Pardon -- 60 Years Too Late
Alan Turing, one of computing’s most significant pioneers and a key codebreaker in World War II, was given a posthumous royal pardon in Britain for his 1952 conviction for homosexuality, after which he...
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