Google YouTube Settles With Music Publishers The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), a group that represents hundreds of songwriters and music publishers, has backed out of four-year-old litigation against YouTube after reaching a settlement with the video-hosting giant. The agreement, which the Google-owned video site struck with the NMPA and its subsidiary Harry Fox Agency, will… John Paul Titlow View comments
News Settlement with FTC in First Test of COPPA Law for Kids Online A maker of iPhone games targeted to kids has settled a case brought against it just last Friday by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The case concerned use of child players' personal information without parental consent. Broken Thumbs Apps is the maker of Emily's Girl World, and a series of spinoff games, primarily for the iOS platform, that… Mobile Scott M. Fulton View comments
Networking CEO Beckstrom to Leave ICANN in July Amid gTLD Controversy His vision was to internationalize the oversight body of the Internet naming system, to structure it less like a spider and more like a starfish. (A starfish, you see, can regrow lost limbs.) To some extent, the dashing security expert Rod Beckstrom has accomplished that as President and CEO of ICANN since mid-2009, most notably by removing the… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
Google Google Launches Photo-Sharing App Photovine, Google's answer to the mobile photo-sharing craze, went live in the iTunes App Store today. The app, which is only available on iOS to start, puts a somewhat unique spin on social photo publishing by grouping images into common themes, or "vines." Vine topics can be straight-forward, such as the currently popular "Cutest Dog" vine… John Paul Titlow View comments
APIs Final Specs for Browser-Neutral Web Performance Could Be Weeks Away Anyone who has had the task (or, perhaps more insanely, given himself the task) of measuring the relative performance of various Web browsers knows how impossible it is to convince everyone of the validity of his chosen metrics. (Guilty as charged.) Some folks settle for running a Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm in JavaScript; others will call up… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments