Notes on Techmeme's new sponsorship model
There's a new area on the right side of Techmeme labelled "Techmeme Sponsor Posts". It shows the latest blog posts from three companies who have chosen to sponsor Techmeme for the next 30 days. — T...
Young Internet Producers, Bankrolled, Are Seeking Act II
Silicon Valley is awash in serial entrepreneurs, those who start a company, run it for a while, and then after success, failure or something in between, move on and start again. — Jay Adelson, 36, a...
Samsung Q1-SSD reviewed
We've just come across a complete review of Samsung's Q1-SSD UMPC, the first device in its class with a solid state NAND flash drive. Sammy's had some ups and downs with its Q1 devices over the last ...
Pluggd to make podcasts chunkier, searchable
Seattle based podcast discovery and management service Pluggd is unveiling a major new feature at DEMO this weekend that combines speech recognition and semantic analysis to let users search for and s...
Vista Build 5728 available to the public
During the weekend Microsoft released a new build of Windows Vista to the public. While initially only available to registered testers, the new post-RC1 build can now be downloaded by the general pub...
At Hewlett-Packard, a Chief Wounded by Divided Attention
Mark V. Hurd sat at the head of the table in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom, the room that had been the source of leaks and the starting point of a misguided and ultimately embarrassing attempt to plug...
'Payphone Warriors' call on New York streets
reporter's notebook NEW YORK—In this era of ubiquitous cell phones, I never imagined I'd be so excited about making a call from a pay phone. — But thanks to "Payphone Warriors," a game in the Come o...
Google is missing an important marketing angle: video demos
I was just over reading Steve Rubel's blog where he links to a BusinessWeek article about Google and its struggles to improve its business. I guess Google has noticed that most people only use one th...
If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP
Windows XP is turning five years old, but will anybody want to celebrate the occasion? — Microsoft's long-anticipated replacement for "Win 9x" — the series of releases that began with Windows 95 and...
MSFT Launching 'Digital Advertising Solutions'
At Advertising Week this week, Miscrosoft is announcing the launch of "Digital Advertising Solutions" and a media campaign to go with it. It's an effort to bring together Microsoft's various properti...
Do the Math: Will Sony Go Broke?
For video game players, the competition among the three game console manufacturers must seem like a Dead or Alive tournament. There's always a winner and a loser, but someone else is always lined up ...