Exclusive: New Yahoo! homepage
The world's most visited webpage, Yahoo.com, has just had a major re-design (available for now at yahoo.com/preview) and Read/WriteWeb has the inside story. As well as the first in-depth look at the ...
Google Notebook Launches: Ho-Hum
You no longer need to see the pre-release screenshots: Google Notebook is now live at google.com/notebook. — As I mentioned in my previous post, Google Notebook is a direct Del.icio.us competitor. ...
MTV Unveils Music-Download Service
We've been big proponents of the all-you-can download subscription plans being used by services like Napster, Rhapsody, and others. The latest, MTV's new Urge service, launches into public beta on We...
SONY DELIVERS WORLD'S FIRST FULL-FUNCTION POCKET-SIZED PC
New VAIO UX Model Combines Micro-Portable Design with Smooth Functionality — SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2006 - Sony Electronics today introduced the VAIO® UX Micro PC, placing full-size computer performance...
Baseball Is a Game of Numbers, but Whose Numbers Are They?
Like no other corner of American popular culture, baseball communicates in numbers. From .406 (Ted Williams's 1941 batting average) to 755 (Hank Aaron's record home run total) to countless digits ban...
[syndicate] Jeff Jarvis: The UnKeynote
"Conferences suck..." is Jeff's opening slide at his opening keynote at Syndicate. He's going to let us talk about what we want to talk about. But for this we have to figure out what we mean by "syn...
That "Guy" - he really is a Guy, and not a cab driver, either!
OK, reset everything you've heard about my appearance on the BBC: they've found the "taxi driver" and (as I have constantly tried to explain to everybody) he isn't a taxi driver. — His name is Guy G...
Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
"Connecting People, Process and Information" — SharePoint Conference 2006 — Bellevue, Washington — ANNOUNCER: Please welcome Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation, Bill Ga...
Apple launches MacBook: 13-in, Core Duo, black and white cases
As expected, Apple has launched its new consumer laptops, under the MacBook brand. The new models all share one case design, a 5.2-pound box available in black or white, with a 13.3-inch, 1280x800 di...
The Four Horsemen of Web 2.0
Cisco (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL), Sun (SUNW), and EMC (EMC) were the darlings of the internet boom and were referred to as the 'Four Horsemen'. Your broker was overheard in 2000 "Yes, things are in fact a...
Palm Announces Treo 700p
The new Palm OS smartphone will work on the Sprint and Verizon networks. — Palm announced the long-awaited Treo 700p smartphone today, a handheld that runs the easy-to-use Palm OS and takes advantag...
Supreme Court backs eBay on injunction issue
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to patent-reform advocates Monday, ruling that a small company whose patent was infringed by eBay Inc. was not automatically entitled to a ...
MSNBC.com News Search
On April 19th we released a new version of site search for MSNBC.com built entirely on the MSN Search platform. This is a great improvement from our previous site search solutions and one we think th...
J&J Shuns Upfront, Coke Also Holds Back
Health-Care Products Giant Moves to Calendar-Year Ad Buying — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Johnson & Johnson, one of the country's major advertisers, will not commit ad dollars during this year's upfront,...
NBC Looks Beyond TV for a Prime-Time Revival
NBC, eager to improve its ratings and advertising sales, is counting on digital media as much as television for a comeback in the 2006-7 season. — In a two-hour presentation yesterday to advertisers...