- Sex.com Firesale Delayed as Creditors Bicker
published on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:40:00 GMT
The jinxed sex.com domain name is set to be auctioned off for more than a million bucks Thursday -- until creditors of the current, failed owner stop the sale with an odd emergency, forced-bankruptcy filing. The sordid t... - Lonely Classmates.com Users Get $9.5M in Lawsuit
published on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:42:00 GMT
Classmates.com is offering to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of falsely leading people to believe their old schoolmates wanted to contact them. A proposed settlement would give $3 each to more than 3 million payi... - NetFlix Cancels Recommendation Contest After Privacy Lawsuit
published on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:50:00 GMT
To settle a privacy lawsuit, Netflix is canceling a second round of its innovative contest to improve its movie recommendations. The lawsuit claims the anonymized user data given to outside researchers put users at risk ... - Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit
published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:30:00 GMT
Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?" ... - Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps
published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:30:00 GMT
App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools. ... - Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle
published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:25:00 GMT
Browsing the web on one of Amazon?s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It?s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be look... - Meet the Winners of Webmonkey's Google I/O Giveaway
published on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT
We're sending two talented monkeys to the Google I/O developer conference in May. We asked our readers to submit their web creations, and we picked the winners from the best of the submissions. ... - Download Mosaic and Browse 1993's Web
published on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:00 GMT
A few adventurous hackers have posted source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7 on the web. If you're running a modern Linux distro, you can download the web's first proper browser and go back to the days before the gold rush. ... - Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With IE 9
published on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:11:00 GMT
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day. ... - Win a Free Ticket to Google I/O 2010
published on Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMT
Webmonkey is giving away two free passes to Google's upcoming I/O developer event. Read the full details and enter to win on our blog. ...
