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Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM Project, an open, royalty-free codec that can run in HTML5 browsers without the need for Flash.Up till now, the battle between Flash and HTML5 vid

Yahoo Inc. is buying freelance news site Associated Content, which attracted more visitors than the NY Times website last month, in a deal that will add a more folksy touch to one of the world's biggest Web sites.

Revision3 might have finally found a star bigger than its own founder Kevin Rose (who co-hosts Revsion3's flagship show Diggnation). The Web video production house just signed magician/comedian Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller for a new show called Penn Point. The first episode will go up on May 24.The format will be a 3 to 7 minute rant by

While Global IP may not be a household name, you might be familiar with what they provide and to whom they provide it: the back-end VoIP engine used by the Yahoo!, AIM, WebEx, Baidu & Lotus chat systems. Google continues to bolster its portfolio of acquired companies that supplement its Google Voice and Google Talk services.

Google seeks to downplay privacy fears after it was revealed that its Street View cars had been harvesting data from private wi-fi networks.

New federal copyright infringement lawsuits plummeted to a six-year low in 2009, the year after the RIAA abandoned its litigation campaign against file sharers.

Facebook and Zynga have just announced a five year partnership. We originally reported Zynga’s earlier frustrations and reports that it was set to abandon Facebook all together.

Mobile music recognition and discovery startup Shazam this afternoon revealed that it has grown its user base from 50 million to 75 million.

MySpace took TechCrunch's advice. Today, co-president Mike Jones announced that MySpace will roll out new, simplified privacy settings. The options will be simplified to “public, friends only, or public to anyone 18 or over.” In a blog post Jones writes:

Beijing is pouring billions of dollars into solar, wind, and other projects. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke urged China on Sunday to remain open to U.S. and other foreign technology as it spends these billions.

The site that functions as one big popularity contest looks a little unpopular today. After a series of changes that eroded its users' privacy, Facebook has been getting smacked around in public.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences claims to have realized a 2Mbit per second internet connection that transmits data simply by modulating the flicker of the little diodes, and imperceptibly enough to have them serve as room lighting as well. Like Boston University before them, the Chinese scholars see short-range LED networks controlling appliances.

Microsoft is refreshing its e-mail service Hotmail in an attempt to give it an edge over rival offerings from Yahoo and Google.

The head of Sweden�s National IT Crime Unit says that following the introduction of IPRED anti-piracy legislation it has become more difficult to track down serious criminals. This unfortunate eventuality is a side-effect of ISPs throwing away logging data to protect the privacy of their customers. While this protects casual file-sharers, it

Searching the blogs, scanning the posts, feed-powered search: there used to be more startups offering blogsearch than there are characters in a Twitter message today. But no more. ...

Based on data gleaned from its Panopticlick experiment Web site, the Electronic Frontier Foundation today warned that more than 80 percent of browsers reveal identifiable “fingerprints” that could allow a user’s Web surfing to be tracked. The privacy watchdog urged greater attention be paid to this risk by users, browser makers and policy setters.

The Pirate Bay is suffering some temporary downtime as their bandwidth provider has stopped passing through traffic. A week ago, Hollywood got an injunction to effectively shut down the Pirate Bay by threatening its provider with huge fines. The Pirate Bay team is currently working on a solution.

If you get a posting on your Facebook wall telling you "this is without doubt the sexiest video ever! :P :P :P" which seems to be accompanied by a video titled "Candid Camera Prank [HQ]" then don't click on the video: it's a lead-in to malware.

A couple of handy new tools let you see what Facebook is really telling the world about you -- and about everyone else. Get ready to blush.

As a phone, the Nexus One wasn't a total loss -- but as a way to change our buying habits for smartphones, it's a lost cause.