Katy Perry

Viral Video: The Mini-Warbler Steals the Movie

Kara Swisher in Media on August 15, 2011 at 12:30 am PT

The best part of the not-so-successful “Glee: The 3D Concert Movie” is this mini-Warbler, who sings his little heart out.

Get The Look–the Exact Look–With Stipple's In-Image Shopping Tools

Liz Gannes in Social on May 3, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Stipple today is launching a set of products to create a business around editorial photos that depict products, using its in-house image recognition technology and signed licenses with nine photo agencies, 50 brands, and 1,300 publishers.

Viral Video: "The Whipped Cream Situation" on TWiT

Kara Swisher in News on March 1, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

On Sunday, BoomTown tossed my mohawked dog Phineas in the Mini and motored up to lovely Petaluma to appear live and in studio on Leo Laporte’s fine “This Week in Tech” online show. It was a week full of news–from the about-to-launch Apple iPad to Google taking aim at content farms to the Oscars. And also whipped-cream bras.

Rejoice! Download Katy Perry From Amazon to Your BlackBerry Without Waiting!

Peter Kafka in Media on December 14, 2010 at 8:16 am PT

You know how everyone you know who owns a BlackBerry is always complaining that they can’t buy and download MP3s from Amazon directly to their phone? Problem solved!

Viral Video: 2010 As Told Through Google Products

Liz Gannes in Social on December 9, 2010 at 10:10 am PT

For 2010, Google dressed up its annual Zeitgeist list of fastest-rising search terms with nifty HTML5 data visualizations and a music video that sums up the year while demonstrating uses of all sorts of Google products.

Viral Video: Katy Perry Defiles Elmo

Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 12:14 am PT

Okay, it’s admittedly a very funny mock skit from this weekend’s season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” featuring singer Katy Perry and her problems related to a canceled appearance on “Sesame Street.” But must poor Elmo suffer? You’ll figure out why right away.

Voices

Record Labels Sue Over Use of Music on Adult Sites

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 14, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Singer Justin Timberlake might say he’s bringing sexy back, but a new lawsuit alleges online pornography companies are using his song to bring sexy a little too far. Eleven record labels including Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic Records have filed a copyright-infringement suit over the use of songs like Mr. Timberlake’s “SexyBack,” Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” and Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop (Til You Get Enough)” by adult Internet sites.

A Kick Start to the Sidekick’s Social Side

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on May 5, 2009 at 5:14 pm PT

The new Sidekick LX has a camera, 3G-connection and social-networking apps, but the absence of a touch screen is glaring for this expensive device.

Jill Sobule's Internet-Funded Album, "California Years," Debuts Tomorrow

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2009 at 12:01 am PT

We consider Jill Sobule to be the musical muse of ATD–which we desperately need since we are obviously way, way too jacked into the matrix. And, tomorrow, Sobule’s Internet-funded album, “California Years,” produced by the legendary Don Was, debuts. I urge everyone to click the link here and get a copy–online, of course. Let’s cheer on efforts like Sobule’s and hope for a hit. Because hers is indeed a small but mighty effort, as all kinds of content creators try to figure out businesses in the new digital age, unafraid of the changes inevitably coming (AP might want to take notes about this).

Video Scenes From YouTube Live: Obama Girl, Chad Hurley and Free Hugs

Kara Swisher in News on November 24, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Here’s a video I did while attending YouTube Live on Saturday–well, live–at the Herbst Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center, right on the San Francisco Bay. The last time I had attended a big tech industry event here, it was the launch of Windows 97 from Microsoft–which was quite a different scene than this entertaining but freaky show, in which online celebrities jumped a little shakily into the analog word.