Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams
After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams. — On the company's web site, if you click on "Telegrams" in the left-side navigation bar, you're taken to a page that ends a tec...
Taking Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 preview through install and uninstall, step-by-step, with screenshots
Bittorrent and private beta testers aside, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but yesterday's release of the IE7 beta 2 for the general public is the very first opportunity to download …
Silicon Valley Shrugs Off Google Hiccup
Silicon Valley is leaving knee jerk reactions to Google's lukewarm quarter to the Wall Street crowd. That was the finding of my reporting yesterday after the search giant reported its earnings. I fi...
Newspapers want search engines to pay
The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these media are looking for ways to fight back. — Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo...
IE7 beta: Read the fine print
Now, we're all used to just clicking "next" when we install new software. — That's a bad idea in general. First, many software programs today have incredibly invasive default settings that give the...
Rival trashes Google's growth prospects
A Yahoo programmers says Google's numbers won't be enough to help it meet its revenue growth forecast of 30 percent. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.) - Granted, he works for the competition, but Amr Aw...
Could Newspaper Owners Really Be This Clueless?
Just as stories are hitting the press about slow-to-innovate newspapers finally embracing the internet comes the news that a bunch of newspapers are quite upset that Google drives more traffic to thei...
Subscriber credit data distributed by mistake
Globe, Worcester paper affected — Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T...
Politicos attack tech firms over China
Politicians on Wednesday attacked Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Yahoo for declining to appear at a briefing about China's Internet censorship and called for a new law to outlaw compliance with ...
On Being an Angel
In the last month or so I've received a number of links to Life With Alacrity as a venture capital blog, and to myself as a venture capitalist. — However, I don't consider myself a venture capitalis...
LEADING SPANISH PROVIDER, AWA, SELECTS MERU'S WLAN SYSTEM FOR FIXED MOBILE CONVERGENCE NETWORK IN EUROPE
Provider Will Offer Wireless Voice and Data Services to Business and Government Users in Spain — Meru Networks, the global leader in wireless VoIP infrastructure, today announced that AWA …
Turning Limitations into Innovation
When "balanced with a healthy disregard for the impossible," constraints can shape and focus problems, leading to truly creative solutions — As vice-president for search products and user experience...
Survey: Advertisers Say Search Ads On Google Better Than Yahoo, MSN
MARKETERS BELIEVE THAT SEARCH ADS on Google will yield better results than search ads on Yahoo, MSN, or other engines, according to a new study released Tuesday by research company Outsell.
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Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders
Over the past week, there has been some blog talk (Fred Wilson, TechCrunch, David Porter) comparing music-recommendation services Pandora and Last.fm. I've been using both for the past couple months,...
Imagining the Google Future
Top experts help us plot four scenarios that show where the company's geniuses may be leading it—and, perhaps, all of us. — (Business 2.0) - We all know that the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page f...
Microsoft's OneCare firewall draws fire
The firewall component in Microsoft's Windows OneCare security bundle has holes, experts have warned. — The security software, available in a public beta version, by default allows applications that...
AT&T chief says that people are only paying for half the Internet
AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has made a name for himself by making loud and repeated pronouncements about how people and companies are not paying enough for Internet access. First, there was the infamous "ou...
Google profit miss raises question of disclosure
What did Google know, when did it know it, and should its executives have said anything about it in the first place? — Google blamed a higher-than-expected tax rate for its earnings miss on Tuesday,...
Pheedo, PRWeb Put the News in RSS Ads
Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document. — Pheedo and PRWeb are working together to deliver content in an innovative new advertising format, expanding reach and exposure for PRWeb custo...
Google: Party over
Search engine leader's sales meet expectations but earnings miss targets; stock clobbered. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - It had to end some time. — Before Google, the iconic search engine, reported ...
Frequently Asked Questions for the IE7 Beta 2 Preview
Hi, I'm Al Billings. I'm a project manager on the Internet Explorer team. I haven't posted before but you have probably seen comments from me from time to time on the blog. I'm involved in the regu...
IE 7: THE GEEK RELEASE
Microsoft released a new Internet Explorer testing version today, so rad that it's special enough to be called a Beta Preview. Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview is the first widely available test bu...
You've Already Paid $2,000 For A Fiber Connection You'll Never Get
As the Baby Bells falsely complain about how people aren't paying them for the internet, or whine about how it's unfair to expect them to compete against muni-broadband, there's something important to...
Ask and you may receive (a mashup)
Wow. Yesterday, Berkman Center fellow David Isenberg publicized his request for a mashup that allows the public to create its own coverage map for the cellular services. He posted it on the Mashups ...
CW NEVIUS
Podcasts, blogs and Dave Barry — Dave Barry is one funny guy. His column, which has run in the Miami Herald for more than 20 years, has appeared in more than 500 newspapers. He's written more than...
Verizon Lays It on the Line
CEO Sticks By Costly Rollout of Fiber-Optic Network — His company's stock has sunk, its debt has been downgraded, and its investment in a new fiber-optic network is regarded by some as a pipe dream,...
GUN Misfires
Custer's Revenge hit retail shelves during the advent of console videogames in the 1980's. In the Atari 2600 videogame, the player takes the role of a pixilated, naked General George Armstrong Custer...
Google Growth to Come From Traditional Media
In its earnings conference call today, Google (Quote, Chart) laid out ambitious plans to create a unified advertising platform that could sell and deliver ads to print, radio, television and streaming...
CableCARD certification rules out home-built Windows MCE boxes, possibly other DIY solutions
If CES has left you salivating over Vista's upcoming support for CableCARD, pay attention, because important details are emerging—and they could well affect your purchasing decision.