Cody Taylor

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has insisted that YouTube will eventually become a ‘profitable and successful’ business, despite suggestions that it will lose hundreds of millions of dollars this year.

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set.

Microsoft says EU regulators will hand Google more dominance of the Internet search business if they go ahead with planned regulations on Microsoft’s Windows operating system, the Financial Times reported. The FT said on…

Firefox, the world’s second most used browser, by the looks of it will soon receive an update that will add multi-process support. By multi-process support we re talking about the similar feature seen in Google Chrome and IE8 that runs multiple, separate processes for each tab, which allows the browser to function without issues even when one tab

Schmidt says he recuses himself from board meetings when the iPhone comes up. That has to be nearly impossible to do. The iPhone is Apple’s biggest product right now and the company has to revolve around it. On the flip side, an Apple board member not knowing anything about iPhones wouldn’t be making informed decisions.

neurone333 sends along the cause célèbre of the moment in France: a Web executive working for TF1, Europe’s largest TV network, sends an email to his Member of Parliament opposing the government’s “three strikes and you’re out” proposal, known as Hadopi. His MP forwards the email to the minister backing Hadopi, who forwards it to TF1. The author of the email, Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim, is called into his boss’s office and shown an exact copy of his email. Soon he receives a letter saying he is fired for “strong differences with the [company’s] strategy” — in a private email sent from a private (gmail) address. French corporations and government are entangled in ways that Americans might find unfamiliar. Hit the link below for some background on the ties between TF1 and the Sarkozy government.

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theodp writes “Slate’s Farhad Manjoo feels the end of voice-mail is nigh, and it won’t be missed. Since March, he’s been using Google Voice to transcribe his voice-mail messages into text that he gets as skimmable e-mail. No more listening to at least a bit of each voice-mail message, hearing the same instructional prompts between each, and worrying about whether it’s 9-to-archive and 7-to-skip (or vice versa). Goodbye and good riddance, says Manjoo, to an ‘absurdly backward mode of human-computer interaction’ that he half-jokes must violate the Geneva Conventions.”

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An anonymous reader touts a blog posting up at PC World titled “Trademarks: The Hidden Menace.” Keir Thomas asks why open source advocates are keen to suggest patent and copyright reform, yet completely ignore the issue of trademarks, which can be just as corrosive to the freedom that open source projects strive to embody. “Even within the Linux community, trademarking can be used as obstructively as copyright and patenting to further business ends. … Is this how open source is supposed to work? Restricted redistribution? Tight control on who can compile software and still be able to call it by its proper name? … Trademarking is almost totally incompatible with the essential freedom offered by open source. Trademarking is a way of severely limiting all activity on a particular product to that which you approve of. … If an open source company embraces trademarks then it embraces this philosophy. On the one hand it advocates freedom, and [on] the other it takes it away.”

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