Live from the Steve Jobs Keynote — "One more thing..."
"One more thing..." — The thinner all-in-one iMac. Ok, punks, it's the day we've been waiting for: in a few short minutes His Steveness will reveal exactly what it is they have cooking. Engadget be...
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MICROSOFT AND YAHOO! ANNOUNCE LANDMARK INTEROPERABILITY AGREEMENT TO CONNECT CONSUMER INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNITIES GLOBALLY — Consumers will be able to exchange instant messages, see presence, shar...
Microsoft, Yahoo to Link IM Networks
UPDATED Microsoft and Yahoo announced on Wednesday a blockbuster interoperability deal that will reshape the landscape of the fragmented instant messaging market. The companies will connect their IM ...
Students: Search Engines More Credible Than TV Ads
COLLEGE STUDENTS RELY ON SEARCH engines more than any other media—including magazines, newspapers, and television ads—according to a new study by Yahoo! Search Marketing. — For the study, Yahoo! and...
Study Says Software Makers Supply Tools to Censor Web
It should come as no surprise that the Internet in Myanmar, the southeast Asian state once known as Burma and in the iron grip of a military cabal for decades, is heavily filtered and carefully monito...
Welcome to Measure Map
Last week, my old friend Kevin Lynch from Macromedia stood on stage at the Web 2.0 conference and introduced the audience to Adaptive Path's first product, Measure Map. As he clicked around the appli...
Google lays out plan to change the world $1 billion budget to fund groups that fight social ills
Google Inc. hopes to eclipse its success as a company by committing nearly $1 billion to help solve problems including poverty and environmental destruction.
Google Wallet close to launch?
It's about time for that bi-weekly update that Google Wallet is about ready to launch (only half joking). This time there is news that Google's robots.txt file has been updated to reflect two new dir...
Dot Bomb All Over Again?
A lot of the recent news around Web 2.0 is starting to frighten me. There is just too much money flying around with too much hype and too little value. Take the Web 2.0 conference for example. This...
Rocky road for Xbox 360 launch
These are testing times for the team behind one of Microsoft's most ambitious product launches ever. — In just a few weeks' time, it will unleash its great white hope of gaming, the Xbox 360, across...
Palm unveils a $99 color PDA
Also new: an affordable device with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — If you're still using a paper day-at-a-glance planner, you're running out of excuses fast. Palm has been making great $99 electronic organi...
Apple Posts Best Earnings Ever
Fueled by record sales of its iPod players and strong back-to-school computer sales, Apple Computer said Tuesday its fourth-quarter net income surged more than 300 percent to $430 million, marking the...
Spyware
Over the last several years, a loosely defined collection of computer software known as "spyware" has become the subject of growing public alarm. Computer users are increasingly finding programs on t...
"Microsoft will acquire my company"
Entrepreneurs confidently tell Venture Capitalists "Microsoft will acquire my company". VCs roll their eyes...they have heard it a million times. But, Microsoft does have a rich tradition of acquisi...
About Google.org
When we told prospective shareholders about Google and how we wanted to do business, we said that we hoped our philanthropic efforts could some day have a greater impact than Google itself. We commit...
Google's Testing New Dictionary Feature
In the past year I have come to depend more and more on Google as a spell checker. Yesterday I was looking up the phone number to a café with Google and a new dictionary feature appeared Google is te...
Apple Hones 'One More Thing' Hype
It's the moment every Apple Computer nut lives for. CEO Steve Jobs is working through a presentation filled with recaps, market-share updates and some minor product announcements — and then he makes ...
Developers 'should be liable' for security holes
Software developers should be held personally accountable for the security …
Ottawa demands greater wiretap access
Ottawa — The federal government is demanding that the telecommunications industry build a wiretapping capacity into their networks that would allow authorities to conduct round-the-clock surveillance ...
Ten guidelines for B2B podcasts
In my "Writing for the Wired World" workshops, I begin by pointing out a fundamental difference between business websites and everything else on the web. When you build a family site (birthday party ...
Microsoft Has New Mission for Media Center
Microsoft Corp. is about to give Media Center PCs a new point of view. — The Redmond, Wash., software giant is expected to unveil on Friday an update for its Windows XP Media Center Edition operatin...