SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal appeals court affirmed on Thursday a contempt finding against Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp in their long-running patent case against digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc, sending TiVo shares soaring …

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) -- Yahoo's CEO, Carol Bartz, had words of thanks for the advertising industry as she spoke earlier this week at the 4A's Transformation Conference -- thanks for its support the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal that recentl…

Mentor Graphics (MENT), which sells chip design software, posted revenue for its fiscal fourth quarter ended January 31 of $237.1 million and non-GAAP profits of 30 cents a share, beating the Street at $230.1 million and 28 cents. However, the…

The Apple Press Release: We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/02patents.html Jobs not so long ago: "Good artists copy, great arti…

The Billboard 2010 Music & Money Symposium at the St. Regis in New York has wrapped.

RealNetworks has dropped its appeal and reached a settlement with movie studios over the copyright protection issues in its RealDVD technology; Thumbplay has launched an all-you-can-eat subscription service for Blackberry handsets; you may wan…

PC World - Google announced an experimental application for its Android mobile operating system, which allows you to search your phone using written gestures. Instead of bringing up the keyboard, users of the newer Android phones can just draw…

Mobile data is on fire. Despite a few false starts, we are now in the midst of a transformative "Open Mobile 3rd Wave" (remember WAP, and J2ME?). We are just in the early swell of the wave; the iPhone itself is not even three years old, and…

ABC has booked the return of two summer reality shows: Season 2 of "True Beauty" and Season 3 of "Wipeout."

Technology News: West and Zampella were dismissed earlier this week -- The ousted heads of the studio responsible for last year's bestselling videogame are firing back at Activision. Jason West and Vince Zampella have filed suit against the pu…

Technology News: 'Green Lantern,' 'Sucker Punch' added to growing list -- Warner Bros. is adding two more projects to its growing portfolio of 3D films -- "The Green Lantern" and Zach Snyder's "Sucker Punch."

A Flickr image of a dual-screen setup at a Superbowl party this year shows the game on the big screen and a second screen for the Twitter conversation. The headline: "This is the future."Now, let's look at the present: online media coverage of…

AFP - Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo said Thursday it would launch a paid news application for the Internet and smartphones like Apple's iPhone next week but would keep access to its website free.

What investors really want to know about Facebook is how much a slice of the social phenomenon is going to cost them in a potential IPO. And they are starting to come up with some bets.

The defunct technology confab is finding new life as a virtual event to take place November 16th and 17th of this year. …

LONDON (Reuters) - Microsoft is still seeing a lot of interest in its Windows 7 computer software launched last year and a new budget cycle will help a gradual recovery in business spending, its chief operating officer said.

The 52-week low search is a common tool used by value investors, momentum investors, growth investors, and traders in various price screens to help decide when to a buy or sell a stock. The 52-week lows in many sectors are exponentially lower …

Another step in the Huffington Post's relentless march toward world domination: The company served a staggering 40 million visitors in the last month.

In the world of rabid Apple fandom, even a hand-knit joke can cause (mild) controversy.

A lot of Web businesses struggle to boost their results in Google's search rankings. Turns out that Google apparently does too.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's Comedy Central is withdrawing its popular comedy shows "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" from online video service Hulu, a Hulu executive said on Tuesday.

Scotland's CereProc helped the famed film critic speak again. Engineer Chris Pidcock talks about creating electronic voices that sound just like the real pe…

Chrome is a great Web browser, but it has enough weaknesses that Lex Friedman put Safari back in his Dock instead.

A lot of time -- and money -- has gone into building your iTunes library. Christopher Breen helps you keep your investment safe with these tips and techniques.

Takes into account vagaries of screen resolution, screen size, and browser type that can push an ad placement out of view.

The companies will each tell the judge overseeing the $1 billion copyright suit that there's enough evidence to rule in their favor. Originally posted at Me…

There is something seriously peculiar going on today with a micro-cap stock called Zanett Inc. (ZANE). Yesterday, the company announced that it expects to receive a Nasdaq de-listing notice related to having a stock price trading under $1 for…

Instead of simply appropriating everything that we know about branding for digital media, it may be time to focus on how digital media change what we know about branding.

It's not news that Google lost some intellectual property in the highly publicized cyber attack that targeted the Internet giant and many other companies. What is more surprising, the security firm McAfee says, is how the others could have als…

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Last week Wieden & Kennedy's ad for Old Spice, "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like," made the chart for the first time, and we wondered if it would have staying power. This week, our answer: Yes, the video toppled Dorito…

Apple suddenly banned hotspot-sniffing applications from its App Store after a change in its policies regarding how apps leverage Wi-Fi. That's a dangerous move when mobile developers have an increasing number of attractive platforms on which …

One the interesting differences for startups on the east coast compared to the west coast is how much more compact the east coast is. For Silicon Valley, the nearest major metro cities are 400 to 800 miles away, which makes the San Francisco a…

KB Home (NYSE: KBH) is losing a very prestigious name on its Board of Directors. The company just announced that Ron Burkle will not stand for re-election to KBs Board of Directors at the next annual meeting of stockholders. That meeting is be…

Updated throughout the day. Updated: 11.32 AM Eastern: Vonage (VG) may be bought, by AT&T (T)? Redhat (RHT) may be bought by IBM (IBM). Cree (CREE) may buy Nanometrics (NANO) (Barron’s) Prudential plc is preparing to make cuts at the AIG…

Analyst Mike Hickey says the suspension is building for an announcement soon.

Cambridge UK startup Rapportive has released a Firefox and Chrome extension that will replace the ads in your Gmail with photos, biographic data and social media links, including a live display of recent Tweets, for whoever you're correspondin…

A campaign from Zappos features puppets, styled after actual company employees, interacting with customers and demonstrating their patience.

As the WSJ reported in a big page one story today, Facebook will probably go public in 2011, once it's had a year of $1+ billion in sales behind it. (The company expects to do between $1.2 billion and $2 billion in sales this year.) So what i…

Pro sports fans know the modern wonders of being able to track their favorite teams' stats and play-by-play online thanks to tools like ESPN's Gamecast and Yahoo's StatTracker. New York's Fungo Media is doing the same for Little League. With G…

OK Go's State Farm-sponsored video has quickly passed three million views, and embedding is totally enabled. The strong tall...

New commissioner, Julie Brill, has always made privacy protection a top priority throughout her career.

Pearl Research has examined the emerging games markets in India and Vietnam, which are being driven by rising incomes and bigger Internet penetration.

Home entertainment spending fell 5% in 2009 as the economy slacked off and DVD technology continued its decline. The bad news for Hollywood is that digital delivery and Blu-ray discs, while growing, aren't making up for DVD's fal…

Apple on Thursday dropped the price of becoming an official Mac Developer to $99 a year.

A recent survey of social media use by Liberty Mutual shows that men are more positive towards and use social networks more frequently than women, but this conclusion is the exact opposite of the gender breakdown that several other surveys bas…

Zynga, maker of the popular Facebook social game Farmville, has been hit with criticism on Twitter and elsewhere over allegations that it only sent half the money it raised for Haiti to that country. Zynga says this is based on a misunderstand…

Here we go again . . . Apple App Store Fail No. 5102928. A few weeks ago stealth Israeli startup Tawkon gave me a sneak-peak developer build of what I believe is the most important app on my iPhone. What does it do? It analyzes the cellular …

Sade is once against sitting atop the album charts for the third straight week, a success story that feels more like 2001 than ...

Atmosphir, a game platform and world by Minor Studios, was first unveiled to the world at TechCrunch50 in 2008. It's an ambitious project - users can create their own games, block by block, release them on the platform and then play and shar…

MashableIn a video interview with Mashable, Aaron Filner, an Adobe group product manager, talks about what he sees as misperceptions of the relationship between HTML5 and Flash. He says Flash and HTML5 are not mutually exclusive and that Adobe…

Also, the car combat game Scrap Metal sounds a bit too much like Twisted Metal to Jaffe.

EmailStatCenter.com found that in-house e-mail marketers managing large budgets and dedicated teams earn more than their agency counterparts.

Rambus (RMBS) shares are trading sharply higher after the company received a mixed ruling from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in its patent infringement case against Nvidia (NVDA) before the U.S. International Trader Commission. In Janua…

Scott Caan, co-star in the "Ocean's Eleven" movie franchise, has landed the role of Danny "Danno" Williams on CBS' updated version of "Hawaii Five-O."

"Rockford Files" and "Hawaii Five-O" are flying high, procedurals are hotter than ever before, multicamera comedies are staging a comeback and veteran sitcom directors James Burrows and Pamela Fryman are the most sought-a…

Billboard senior analyst Glenn Peoples looks at effective social media strategies.

Starbucks Coffee Company is to unveil a multi-million-pound ad campaign to support its Via Ready Brew instant coffee.

Orange has boosted its multimedia content for mobile users with basic devices by adding 200,000 widgets to its Orange Widgets platform.

In the next decade, we will see significant changes to the way that content is created, monetized and experienced. During the next few years, existing media players will begin to increasingly face the realities and challenges that those of us …