Google Properties - Understanding the Breakdown
Leveraging the custom category capability of Hitwise, I've created a category of the top 20 Google domains in order to understand the popularity of Google's varied services. The table below details t...
vpod.tv Raises $5.1 Million: First Look
I mentioned vpod.tv, a startup headquartered in Paris and Madrid, in my Innovate 2006 roundup. Today they are announcing a $5.1 million Series A round, led by Frédéric Humbert of Innovacom. — vpod ...
Not all Macs meet Vista requirements
Julio Ojeda-Zapata of the Pioneer Press points out the system requirements for Microsoft's [latest piece of vaporware] soon-to-be-released update to Windows, Vista. According to Microsoft, Vista may ...
Google, Yahoo! and MSN: Property Size-up
By popular demand, I've gone through several Hitwise categories to compile the table below that shows where Google, Yahoo! and MSN properties stack up in their respective categories. The percentages ...
Microsoft to Acquire Whale Communications, a Leading Provider of SSL VPN and Application Security Technologies
Acquisition will broaden Microsoft's secure access solution. — REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement …
The book is dead. Long live the book.
I have nothing against books. — But the book is an outmoded means of communicating information. And efforts to update it are hampered because, cuturally, we give undue reverence to the form for the...
Missed big HR meeting (MyMicrosoft is now improved)
Wow. I missed a HUGE [HR] townhall, er, employee meeting today (they announced new compensation and review changes). I just got the email from Lisa Brummel and, wow, wow, wow. — Is Lisa reading Mi...
Apple MacBook
Introduction — MacBook — Quick specs: Intel Core Duo T2500 CPU, 512MB RAM, 60GB hard drive, Intel GMA950 graphics — Price as configured: US$1,299 (shop for this item) — We all knew it was comi...
Time to hit the road
I had just finished up a panel where one of the smarter start up guys out there (Jason Fried of 37Signals) and I had a panel discussion about VCs and Start Ups. I made the point about Canada being an...
SAP boss names three potential US buyers
SAP, the world's biggest business software group, is open to an acquisition by US technology groups, according to its chairman. — Hasso Plattner, supervisory board chief at the German group, said in...
Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech
update Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its intellectual property and with violating a license related to data storage technology. — The suit, filed Thursday in ...
Joystiq Interview: Epic's Cliff Bleszinski
To help promote the MTV2 special on Gears of War airing tonight, Microsoft was facilitating some quick phone interviews with the game's lead designer, Cliff Bleszinski (aka CliffyB). We got his thoug...
How To: Create your own game company, Part Two
In part one I talked about a lot of the production tools: 3d apps, game engines, and so on. This time I want to tie that in to the business end. How do you run the company, and how do you make money...
You can now use Google Reader from your phone.
Google Reader can now be placed in your pocket, your handbag, your backpack, or thrown from person to person in a game of "keep away". We've just released a mobile-friendly interface for Google Reade...
Help Wanted
Starting immediately, Flickr is hiring for the positions below. You'll notice there are a lot of them! All of them are newly created positions and represent the first significant expansion of the Fl...
Politicos propose new action on Net neutrality
WASHINGTON—The push for new laws mandating Net neutrality principles appears to be gaining steam on Capitol Hill. — The leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee released a fi...
Great New GPS Gadgets
If you don't know where you are and you don't know where you're going, then you are, as they say, lost. — When thrust into the unknown without navigational aid, travelers quickly fall into a state o...