World Cup: Google Does The Logo Thing; Yahoo & Ask Have Smart Shortcuts
Google's sporting a special World Cup-version of its logo in honor of the start of the World Cup today, while Yahoo and Ask are offering special results that come up after World Cup-related searches. ...
.NET Framework 3.0
When speaking to developers about WinFX one question that repeatedly comes up is, "WinFX sounds great, but what happens to .NET?" . NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in...
Socialtext Partners with Dan Bricklin on wikiCalc
Socialtext partnered with Dan Bricklin (inventor of VisiCalc) to exclusively distribute, redistribute and co-develop wikiCalc — the social spreadsheet. Dan brings a rich understanding not just of spr...
MobilePro Pulls out of Sacramento
MobilePro, a leading broadband wireless services company, that won a competitive bid for Sacramento's city-wide wireless cloud, announced today it has elected to withdraw from the project. — After b...
House rejects Net neutrality rules
update The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged ...
Is Vonage the new MCI?
GigaOM readers in a poll earlier this month have spoken - Vonage stock is a sucker's bet and is headed down. The stock market seems to agree. The odds are against the company. Daniel Berninger, sen...
Google Research prototypes ambient audio contextual content
A team from Google Research has developed a prototype system that uses a home computer's internal microphone to listen to the ambient audio in a room, determine what is being watched on TV and offer w...
Apple Faces Fresh Legal Attacks in Europe
PARIS, June 8 — Apple's popular iTunes music-download service is facing fresh legal attacks in Europe. — Government consumer protection agencies in Norway and Sweden want Apple to remove restriction...
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites
"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption s...
Top 10 Strangest Clocks
Our editors have compiled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Clocks" for your enjoyment. Which ones are your favorites? — 10. Cathode Ray Tube Clock — As the name implies, this interesting clock — d...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification
As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggreg...
Google Browser Sync
You get the feeling that whenever you leave the house, when you return home there's a new Google product that just launched. Today's revelation is Google Browser Sync, a Firefox extension to save you...
BT exec pins Google as 'our biggest threat'
LISBON, Portugal—Google is becoming BT's biggest competitor—that's the surprise assessment coming from the telecom giant's chief information officer. — Speaking at the Gigaworld IT conference here, ...
Think has second thoughts about IceRocket
Update from Blake at IceRocket: "Our LOI with Think Partnership expired, which does not mean the acquisition is off. Their company is going through some changes and we are seeing how they play out. ...
Joe Barton, Fred Upton, Ed Markey and me
The House passed the telecommunications legislation of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, just past 10 p.m. on Thursday. The final vote tally on the bill was 321-101. Among Republicans, 215 supported it, wit...