Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
Posts Second Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings in Company's History — CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2006—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 third quarter ended July 1...
Gizmo Goes All Calls Free...Mostly
VoIPWatch has learned that tomorrow GizmoProject will introduce their "All Calls Free" program. According to the company the "new program gives active Gizmo Project users unlimited free calling to la...
Windows Principles
Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition — Microsoft Corp. recognizes the important role its Windows® desktop operating system products play in the information economy and the responsibilities that come...
Storytelling, not journalism, spurs most blogs
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many people see Web journals or "blogs" as alternatives to the mainstream media, but most Americans who run them do so as a hobby rather than a vocation, according to a report rel...
Google's unknown artist has huge following
(CNN) — Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world — his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times. — The 28-year-old webmast...
Temporary Storage Glitch
We've had a temporary storage failure affecting a sizable chunk of old Flickr photos and are moving about 20 terabytes of photos across a few thousand miles (between two of our data centers) to ensure...
Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music
You can buy a personalized version of the new Jessica Simpson song "A Public Affair" from Yahoo! Music's Web Site (Music.Yahoo.com) for $1.99, and it's an MP3. Dear digital consumer, even if you're n...
Hacked Ad Seen on MySpace Served Spyware to a Million
An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the s...
Jobster takes more money to spread social job search
Do job seekers and employers outside of Silicon Valley want user generated content, tagging and feeds in their employment services? The premise that they do will likely be put to the test on a global...
Finding Home Values in Web Search
With all the recent discussion on where home prices are heading, we saw a great opportunity to improve our home valuation product on Yahoo! Real Estate. We've integrated our product with Zillow.com t...
Weak Sales of Text Ads at Yahoo; Shares Dip
Shares of Yahoo fell to their lowest level in nearly two years in after-hours trading yesterday as it reported weak revenue from Internet search advertising in the second quarter and a delay in a crit...
All the Good Ones Have Been Taken — In Domain Names, Too
In Domain Names, Too — It's hardly secret knowledge, though perhaps only Dennis Forbes has seen it in all its glory. — There are roughly 47 million domain names that end with ".com," making that sp...
Four Big Ideas About Open Source
In my O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing next week at OSCON, I'm focusing on four big ideas about open source: — The architecture of participation beyond software. Software development was the canary...
No joy for Yahoo
World's No. 2 search engine reports results and guidance that disappoint investors; stock tumbles after-hours. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It looks like Yahoo! investors won't have any reason to yod...
Move Over Movielink: CinemaNow Launches Burn To DVD Service Today
Jeez, online movie sellers move FAST. Apparently, Movielink didn't move fast enough. On Monday, I reported that Movielink partnered with Sonic Solutions to offer on-demand DVD burning.
Microsoft vows to play fair
WASHINGTON—Microsoft pledged on Wednesday that all of its future operating systems, including Windows Vista, will abide by self-imposed rules aimed at bolstering choice and competition. — The volunt...
SONY UNVEILS FIRST BLU-RAY DISC DRIVE BURNER
Burns up to 50 GB of Data and Keeps Video in Native HDV 1080i — NEW YORK, July 18, 2006 -Sony Electronics today unveiled its first internal Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) rewritable drive for the computer after...
Wall Street Journal to Run Ads on Front Page
The Wall Street Journal calls it a "jewel box," but readers of its front page will know it by its common name: advertising. — The Journal today confirmed long-time speculation that it would open its...
SONY DELIVERS MUSIC WIRELESSLY THROUGHOUT THE HOME
New Streaming Audio System Plays Music Across a WiFi Home Network — NEW YORK, July 18, 2006 - Continuing to enhance the world of home audio, Sony Electronics today announced a wireless streaming mus...
Price of virtual living: Patience, privacy
(CNN) — The virtual worlds depicted in the movies "The Matrix" and "Minority Report" can often seem far too real in today's world of computers, e-mail, instant messaging, MP3 players, cell phones, lap...
Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way
Java virtual machine, runtime environment, and Web services stack given as examples of components that could be incrementally open sourced — Expect the open-sourcing of the Java programming language...
Dealplumber Launches - Free Coupons and Deals
Santa-Clara based Dealplumber, which went live yesterday, is a new service from the makers of iNods. The site has been in development for six months, and aims to make it easy to find and share deals ...
Image navigation, with a sci-fi touch
Taking a page out of a science-fiction novel, Microsoft's research labs have come up with a way for people to navigate computer images using their hands to change their point of view. — However, bor...
Jobster, the Web 2.0 company on steroids, brings total bounty to $50M
Seattle's Jobster, a site for job seekers and employers wanting to converse with them, has raised $18 million from investors. The private company is now valued above $100 million. — There's a big l...
Yahoo! Music to offer unrestricted MP3s?
Everyone who has been following the tech scene knows that the first company to offer mainstream music in unrestricted MP3 format will see a huge spike in their business and may garner lasting dominanc...