EXCLUSIVE: Leopard Feature Set Leaked
In advance of Monday's keynote address by Steve Jobs at WWDC The PowerPage has received a alleged copy of the features (and some screenies) from Apple's next generation operating system - Mac OS 10.5 ...
Apple defends iTunes-iPod compatibility
AUG. 2 7:01 P.M. ET Apple Computer Inc. has struck a defiant stance with Scandinavian regulators, staunchly defending its right to make its iPod the only portable music player compatible with songs pu...
Flickr working on geotagging functionality?
I noticed something interesting this morning while organizing some of my photos on Flickr. On the Organize page, I spotted an additional tab on the top labeled "ADMIN:DEV". Clicking on it opened a w...
What's cooking at del.icio.us
It's been a busy few months for the del.icio.us team — building new features, scaling-up our infrastructure to meet growing demand, and working with our Yahoo! and MyWeb colleagues to share ideas and ...
All Our N-gram are Belong to You
Posted by Alex Franz and Thorsten Brants, Google Machine Translation Team — Here at Google Research we have been using word n-gram models for a variety of R&D projects, such as statistical machine t...
AOL Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs, Some in Virginia
AOL said yesterday it planned to lay off more than a quarter of its workforce — including hundreds of employees in Northern Virginia — over the next six months as the company restructures its business...
Blog feeds may carry security risk
LAS VEGAS—Reading blogs via popular RSS or Atom feeds may expose computer users to hacker attacks, a security expert warns. — Attackers could insert malicious JavaScript in content that is transferr...
FINDING YOUR SEARCH BUDDIES
There's a new social service that pairs search users in part by their similar queries, as well as pages visited in web browsing and preferred interests. Others Online stands out from many social sit...
Market for Online Video To Increase 10-fold By 2010
THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR ONLINE video content will expand tenfold by 2010, topping 130 million households, according to a new report titled "Online Content Aggregators—AOL, Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Apple—Slo...
The Ad-Supported Operating System
Advertising is a very interesting thing. Whether you like it or not (probably not) it is a force to be reckoned with and has formed the backbone of today's media. While it can be annoying, advertisi...
Yahoo! Stealing Searching From Google
Did you know that when you search at Yahoo! for google.com or google you get a Yahoo! Shortcut telling you to search the web with Yahoo and not Google. — Now, if you do a search at Google for yahoo ...
What Constitutes a Click?
As part of an effort to combat advertising fraud, Google and other search engines are searching for a standard definition — Even the bitterest of enemies can find common ground when reputation is on...
Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu
I don't like writing controversial editorials. Controversy is an effective means to get a lot of accesses: most people seem to enjoy reading controversial articles, maybe because they like torturing ...
Apple Announces Update Regarding Stock Option Grants
As Apple® previously announced, an internal investigation discovered irregularities related to the issuance of certain stock option grants made between 1997 and 2001. A special committee of Apple's o...
Japanese Cos. Plan Web TV Joint Standard
TOKYO — Sony, Matsushita and three other Japanese electronics makers plan to develop a join standard for new Internet televisions that will make it easier for people to see video available on the Web,...
Trend Alert: The External Graphics Card
A few years ago, I proclaimed this the decade of the external device. Once it became easier to plug in an external hard drive (or three) and simply move your data to your next PC, it seemed inevitabl...
Is Sony fighting a losing battle?
Sony is facing a struggle over its PlayStation 3, with critics concerned about the processor and the price. Jack Schofield reports on the next stage in the console wars — At the E3 games trade show...
Google Hires Former 'Time' President Eileen Naughton
Search Giant Looks to Strengthen Ties With Madison Avenue — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google has named Eileen Naughton, the former president of Time magazine, as head of ad sales for the web giant's Ne...