Macrovision is on the move. The company has changed its name to Rovi, unveiled a media guide called Liquid, and is partnering with Blockbuster OnDemand. Liquid seeks to solve the problem of digital-content overload. The media guide aims to connect consumers to entertainment content on the Internet and...

In what may be a sign of the economic times, low-cost netbooks continue to gain momentum in a struggling PC market. Nearly 33 million netbooks, also known as mini-notebooks, will ship this year as penetration into the PC market grows to 20 percent worldwide, according to NPD Group subsidiary DisplaySearch’s...

AT&T and Nokia on Monday announced the Nokia Surge. The companies are touting it as a socially supercharged smartphone empowered over AT&T’s 3G network. In stores on July 19, the Nokia Surge is aimed at consumers who want to stay connected via IM, text or e-mail; update social-network status;...

New York’s attorney general charged Thursday that Tagged.com stole the identities of more than 60 million Internet users worldwide — by sending e-mails that raided their private accounts. Andrew Cuomo said he plans to sue the social networking Web site for deceptive marketing and invasion...

Finnish startup Linkotec is close to debuting the public beta version of dazzboard , a browser-based media manager that it says has all the goodness of iTunes but without the disadvantages of Apple’s closed environment. Granted, we hear that a lot, but I’ve been invited to take an early...

Here it is. The final panel discussion of our Real-Time CrunchUp conference. Judging from the participants, it should be a good one. Here’s the roster: Iain Dodsworth , TweetDeck Nick Halstead , Tweetmeme David Hornik , August Capital Bret Taylor , Friendfeed George Zachary , Charles River Ventures...

Remember Philip Kaplan, better known as “Pud,” the guy who created FuckedCompany at the tail-end of the first Internet bubble? Yeah, him. He just joined Charles River Ventures this week as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. The EIR position is usually where venture firms park executives they...

I don’t know about you, but when I look at an online map and see outlines of buildings, I get a little frustrated. I want to be able to click somewhere, and find out exactly what’s there. And with a new feature in Google Maps , you can do just that. If you right-click somewhere on the map,...

This past Thursday, the GeeksOnAPlane group of traveling techies had the opportunity to attend Startonomics Beijing and learn about broad swaths of the Chinese web industry. The speakers, who represented companies such as Google China , Kong Zhong , Five Minutes and ChinaNetCloud , discussed topics...

Now this is the hack of the weekend or the hoax of the weekend. Some intrepid hackers have run what appears to be iPhone OS 2.x on a “multi-touch” monitor with accelerometer support. I’ve found a few examples of monitors that could potentially pull this off but I haven’t been...

A few months ago I was part of a team that was consulted upon to help launch a Philippines-based service that had “everything in a box” related to a particular telco’s property. Although the focus was with the blogs on my end, the bigger picture was with the actual portal itself. The...

Crisp, the online user-protection specialist, has confirmed a new partnership with the UK’s leading social media management and moderation experts, Tempero. Tempero moderate millions of messages every month in over 10 languages across user generated content platforms such as message boards, blogs,...