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Veoh Networks, one of the many video streaming portal clones to spring up in the wake of YouTube’s success has laid off all of its staff and is in the process of filing for Chapter 7 liquidation proceeedings after its venture capital partners (which included Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Adobe Systems Intel [...]

Following our previous coverage, 4chan has issued a statement on the heels of Verizon Wireless lifting their block (or, as Verizon argues, “protection”) against 4chan.
Verizon Wireless early today argued that the denial of access stemmed from a Distributed Denial of Service attack on the internet site 4chan.org. That’s about the end of where 4chan and [...]

Google has just announced its new microblogging service designed to compete with established services such as Twitter with Google Buzz.
Google Buzz will be integrated within GMail and will allow for automatic contact and friend lists by email correspondence, public/private sharing and inline inbox integration with real-time updates and multiple source browsing in a single feed [...]

As has been the case all weekend, Verizon Wireless is actively blocking the boards.4chan.org subdomain on port 80, which is where each individual image and discussion board is stored on the popular site, while allowing all other traffic free reign.  In related news, Comcast itself filtered access to the main page and boards domain for [...]

The Google Voice blog has confirmed that the Google Voice online portal now features SMS group messaging via the online portal. The service supports up to five recipients and will then be extended to the mobile version at a later date.

Novatel’s MiFi 2200 3G/Wi-Fi combo modem/router sold by Verizon and Sprint has been exploited and two major security vulnerabilities have been discovered.
The biggest vulnerabilities found are the silent remote activation of GPS functionality despite being turned off by the user, as well as the complete exposure of the Wi-Fi security key and device configuration [...]

After years of scrutiny and criticism from Chinese human rights advocates and governments around the world, Google has announced a new approach to its activities in China on the basis of its main corpoate tenets of unfiltered access to information.

Kicking off TechNews.biz, we wanted to pick up our CES badges early… and actually know where we were going. The CES Press Room doesn’t move from year to year very much, but we wanted to check.
So, we hopped on Google and searched for “ces press badge holder pickup” (sans quotes).
What did we find as [...]

Ebay is down.  When users try to search their query comes back with 0 results.  Ebay has posted the following message to users:
“Due to errors in some of our backend systems, members may be seeing different errors in Search. This could be that “We were unable to run the search results you entered. Please try [...]

MLB.tv is making a lot of money from users streaming out-of-market games to their PC. Of course, the only drawback to that for users is the fact it can only stream onto your PC.  Today, Roku announced a partnership with MLB.com that will allow users to stream over a 100 games per week.
In [...]