A full week has passed since the much-hyped trial of Hollywood PI Anthony Pellicano started, and, yet, we haven't written about it since describing the opening statements from last Thursday. Why? Well, nothing much has happened; even the trial's hometown paper is taking a pass. "It's kind of yesterday's news," [...]

[Video] Break Media unveils a new video ad unit today that expands across the screen and lets users view a high-resolution version of the clip. If that sounds like watching a movie trailer online, it comes as little surprise that the initial high-res ad on Break.com is a preview for [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Peer-to-peer file sharing, the primary vehicle for online piracy, has been as unpopular with Internet service providers as it has been popular with users. Providers have banned, blocked or slowed peer-to-peer traffic in their efforts to keep the flood of music, video, games and software from [...]

If this question interests you and you can be in Palo Alto next Tuesday evening, come to a MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) panel I'm moderating with VUDU CEO Mark Jung, Draper Richards VC Howard Hartenbaum, Microsoft TV director Ben Huang, and VUZE CEO Gilles BianRosa. We'll be talking about the [...]

When eBay first surprised plenty of folks by buying Skype in 2005, the company insisted that there were plenty of synergies between the two companies -- despite them being quite hard for anyone to see (and for eBay management to explain). They trotted out a couple of ideas that were [...]

Picking up from Liberty Media-IAC: Diller On The Stand Back at the Liberty Media-IAC (NSDQ: IACI) trial after recess and the questions are fast and furious about Barry Diller's reactions to negative comments by Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO Greg Maffei and Chairman John Malone, focusing especially, in part, on [...]