EBay Gambles on Google Partnership for Success of Skype, the Internet Phone Service
EBay is hoping its new partnership with Google will help it find new ways to make money from Skype, its Internet calling service. But experts wonder if enough people are willing to make the switch …
Yahoo! Real Estate Adds More "Z"
In July we announced the first phase of our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate which exposes Zestimates and comparable homes to their broad audience. Today we are equally excited to announce the nex...
Intel to release 802.11n chip before final standard
Intel doesn't plan to wait for the Wi-Fi Alliance to certify the upcoming 802.11n standard before it releases an 802.11n chip for its Centrino package of chips next year, an executive said Monday. — ...
Leaving Search Engine Watch
After ten years, I'm leaving Search Engine Watch and almost certainly leaving the Search Engine Strategies conference series as well. My contracts with their owners Incisive Media are expiring, and w...
Wireless Providers Poised to Win Spectrum Licenses
When the government's multibillion-dollar auction of radio spectrum licenses began two weeks ago, it looked as if newcomers might get the chance to buy their way into the mobile phone business, leadin...
Japanese government prepares online lie-detector
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is, for reasons best known to it, earmarking Y300 mn in its 2007 budget to produce what the Asahi Shimbun terms a lie-detector for online inform...
GOOGLE APPS AND THE POWER OF EMBEDDED FUNCTIONALITY
There been a lot of talk today about Google releasing a suite of hosted applications, starting with basic communications (email, talk) running on your own domain and then more Office-like apps such as...
Parallel Worlds
"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. — "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're ALL mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." — "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. — "You ...
In Living Color: Photo of Philips Pronto Professional
Here it is folks. You no longer need to look at the artist renderings of the new Philips Pronto Professional 9600 expected to be announced at the CEDIA Expo in just a few weeks. — Now we have this ...
Can the PS3 Save Sony
Times Withholds Web Article in Britain
If Web readers in Britain were intrigued by the headline "Details Emerge in British Terror Case," which sat on top of The New York Times's home page much of yesterday, they would have been disappointe...
Foo Camp geek out
I spent last weekend at Foo Camp hosted at O'Reilly's headquarters in Sebastopol, about 60 miles north of San Francisco. The 200-person event was 3 days of non-stop conversations, sessions, and plann...
Singapore: One nation under Wi-Fi
By the end of the year, it will be possible to roam almost anywhere in Singapore and get a wireless signal. — As part of its Intelligent Nation 2015 program, the island nation will be able to boast ...
Personalized Homepage coming for new hosting service
With all the excitement over Google Apps for Your Domain, I thought I'd take a quick look around to see if I could find anything interesting. I think I did — it appears Google will offer a customized...
Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple's Board of Directors
CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple's board of directors at their meeting today.
Philips READUS E-Reader Scroll Prototype
You've heard of e-ink devices, like the Sony Librie, or e-reader, or whatever. But you've never seen a real working prototype of an electronic reader based on a flexible e-paper, that rolls up like a...
Wireless Providers Poised to Win Spectrum Licenses
When the government's multibillion-dollar auction of radio spectrum licenses began two weeks ago, it looked as if newcomers might get the chance to buy their way into the mobile phone business, leadin...
Wired Wiki
Attachments: — In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News is putting reporter Ryan Singel at your service. — This wiki began as an unedited 1,059 word article on the wiki phenomenon,...
Jeff's Guide to "TV Shows Only Available on the Internet"
Somewhere between the world of professionally "produced" TV shows and personal video blogs lies the world of what can be best described as "TV Shows Only Available on the Internet." — This summer th...
Internet, TV are no rivals: Google
The rise of the internet is as revolutionary as the invention of the printing press, a senior Google Inc. executive said on Saturday - but old media like television should not fear it. — Marissa May...
Site Mail comes to Netscape (or "on the 'death'of IM and MySpace page view goosing")
Update: My pal Sean Bonner rips on MySpace for page goosing nonsense. — Update2: Make sure you go vote this story on digg! http://digg.com/tech_news/Netscape_ Adds_in_Site_Mail
Universal backs free music rival to iTunes
Universal Music, the world's largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different busi...
Newsmaker: Can Linux save the Palm OS?
newsmakers Access is betting that the Palm community could use a little push from a penguin. — More than two years have passed since PalmSource—the Palm OS developer purchased by Access in 2005—rele...
QTFairUse6: is Hymn finally back to strip FairPlay on iTunes 6?
Remember Hymn? You should, back in the day (like, um, 2004) it allowed you to strip the FairPlay DRM right off iTunes Music Store bought files just like that; well, it's been a long time in coming, b...