Yahoo! stock plummets as CEO says ad sales are slowing
Yahoo! stock has dropped more than 13% today since CEO Terry Semel told investors that ad revenue is slowing in the automotive and financial sectors. The company's third quarter sales and profits wil...
MSN Launches Beta of Soapbox on MSN Video
MSN expands industry-leading MSN Video service by enabling people to actively participate in the MSN content experience. — MSN today announced the U.S. beta release of Soapbox on MSN® Video, a user-...
Disney Sells Films Through iTunes Store
Walt Disney Sells 125,000 Digital Copies of Films Through iTunes Store in Less Than a Week — LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. has sold 125,000 digital copies of films through Apple Computer In...
FCC Wireless Auction Could Open Up Airwaves
Cellphone customers should soon encounter fewer dead spots in their coverage areas and more easily use next-generation phones that play television-quality video and perform other high-tech tricks, tha...
Amazing X-Ray Glasses from Sprint!
Over the last six months, Sprint has been trying to get bloggers (like me) to write about their new Power Vision Network by sending us free phones and letting us download music and movies and use the ...
A Google Trial Ties Ad Position to User Behavior
A Google AdWords experiment that optimizes ads based on individual user behavior could raise rates for advertisers. Search marketing mavens have chattered about the premium listings changes, and now ...
Yahoo tests 'Right' to MP3 downloads
Netco puts McCartney album online — Yahoo! is looking to end Apple's and Microsoft's dominance of the technology behind online music. — In a first for mainstream pop music, Yahoo! will sell Jesse ...
Blogs About Business Travel Begin to Feel the Power
LIKE most other business travelers who publish blogs, Steve Broback discovered their power by accident. — He had reserved a room at the Muse Hotel near Times Square, with the understanding that the ...
Fuzzy Laws Come Into Play in the H.P. Pretexting Case
Despite the California attorney general's assertion that he has enough evidence to press charges against people inside and outside Hewlett-Packard, a criminal case may be hard to prosecute, legal spec...
Grazr 1.0 blasts off into the future of RSS
Grazr, the mini OPML browser that puts mortal widgets to shame, just launched version 1.0. The Grazr team is led by founder Michael Kowalchik and Adam Green - who as CTO at Andover.net, the parent of...
Bringing it Home - TGS and X'06 Style
I just saw this and wanted to post it before I jump on the plane for Tokyo: — After the success of the 'Bringing it home' campaign at E3 earlier this year...it's back for TGS and X'06! Of course th...
Apple to update MacBook lines in time for holidays
Apple Computer plans to update both its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines of Intel notebook computers in time for the holiday shopping season, but may take some time before it does so, AppleInsider has le...
Get your own tiny Flickr cards!
A few months ago I posted a picture of my new beautiful tiny little fun sort of business cards and since then I've been giving them out and every time I do so people sort of go, "Ooooh! Where can I g...
Why I Like Our Tremor Investment
Often in the past when I've been intimately involved with a new investment here at Masthead, I've written blog posts with my thoughts about it. (See previous posts on both NewsGator and Intercasting)...
In era of technology, face-to-face survives
Remember the good old days, when all you had to do to get on an airplane was empty the metal out of your pockets, take off your shoes and maybe submit to a pat-down? — Since Aug. 10, travelers in th...
The Social Bookmarking Faceoff
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. — The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including ...
Can YouTube Grow Up And Stay Cool?
The quick consensus on Monday's tie-up between Warner Music Group and YouTube: Finally, an old-media dinosaur gets it! By agreeing to license its artists' songs and videos to the video-sharing Web si...