Steve Bryant

A Texas district court supoenaed Google and commanded the company to take down an unauthorized copy of the documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” from Google Video. Given all the hoopla surrounding copyright and video sites these days, I thought it would be worthwhile to point out that Google was supoenaed by a […]

Yahoo released its Q3 2006 results today, announcing that its profit dropped 37 percent for reasons including weak corporate advertising sales and competitive pressures, as well as costs to expense employee stock options, as the company cut its outlook for Q4 2006. Net income fell to $158.5 million, or 11 cents a share, from $253.8 […]

Prominent liberal blogger Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, who runs one of the most popular liberal and progressive blogs in the world, says Google News is becoming unusable. “They need some serious soul-searching about what they are and what their mission is,” wrote Moulitsas, better known as Kos. “A news operation needs to present news, and credible […]

Google plans to build a solar-powered electricity system at its headquarters that will be rank the Mountain View, Calif., complex as the largest solar-powered office complex in the United States, and possibly the world. The previous corporate office record was held by FedEx’s operating hub at Oakland International Airport. Google’s rooftop solar-powered generation system will […]

Google has hired Yahoo India’s chief technology officer, Prasad Bhaarat Ram, and placed him in charge of research and development in Bangalore. The high-profile recruitment comes less than two weeks after Google nabbed AOL’s top AIM developer. Google has also proven adept at poaching high-profile employees from Microsoft. What’s interesting to me about this hire […]

One week after Google announced it was buying YouTube, several media companies have banded together to investigate whether YouTube is vulnerable to legal action over copyrighted material on its site. According to the Wall Street Journal, lawyers from several media companies, including News Corp., NBC Universal and Viacom, say that YouTube could be liable up […]

What Google’s purchase of YouTube really does is begin to standardize how copyrighted video is made available online for free. So here we are. Less than four days after Google acquired YouTube, the CEO of Time Warner has publicly stated that his company is pursuing copyright negotiations with YouTube and hopes that discussion will be […]

Google today released a mobile version of Google Maps for Palm OS Treo smart phones. The free, downloadable application provides directions, local search, live traffic updates and satellite imagery. Google Maps for Treo offers real-time info for over 30 major U.S. cities and has been optimized for the Treo 680, 700p, 650 and 600. Earlier […]

A small airplane crashed into a 50-story residential building in Manhattan today, according to several news reports and the view out my window. Update: New York Yankees Manager Joe Torre told CNN that the plane that was a Cirrus SR-20 registered to team pitcher Cory Lidle. Here’s a now unfortunately-titled article from the NYT from […]

I feel like I’m stuck in Being John Malcovich. Except instead of saying my name over and over, I keep repeating “GooTube GooTube GooTube.” Safe HarborOver on John Battelle’s blog, The EFF’s Fred von Lohmann says YouTube is on relatively firm legal ground. According to Fred, YouTube works hard to stay within the safe harbor […]