Yahoo's Talks With Facebook Get Bogged Down
Days after Google Inc. announced a $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube Inc., rival Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to extend its Web reach through an acquisition of Facebook Inc. aren't making much progress, say p...
Xbox 360 granted Good Design Award
A truly international design wins over Japan's judges. — Japan's Good Design Awards are handed out each year to well-designed products across a wide range of industries. Past winners in the game in...
Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube?
I was reading Steve Ballmer scratching his head in BusinessWeek where he was wondering about the valuations that are getting paid out for companies like Skype and YouTube. — Good to hear that Ballme...
Microsoft and Adobe developer/designer death match
I was just adding stuff to my linkblog, cause we missed our plane to Greensboro (got another one that leaves at 1 p.m., we'll be spending the night in Chicago) and I saw a couple of things that got me...
Apple's missing "Home on iPod" feature resurfaces in filing
Apple Computer has been granted a patent for a pretermitted feature of Mac OS X that would have allowed users to sync their home directories to an iPod and then use the data stored on the player to se...
United States vs. Google
Every era of computing has its defining antitrust case. In 1969, at the height of the mainframe age's go-go years, the Justice Department filed its United States vs. IBM lawsuit, claiming that Big Bl...
Libyan pupils 'to have laptops'
The government of Libya is reported to have agreed to provide its 1.2m school children with a cheap durable laptop computer by June 2008. — The laptops offer internet access and are powered by a win...
Product placement — you can't escape it
you can't escape it — NEW YORK — To hype the fall TV season, CBS plastered pictures of its shows' stars on postage stamps and across the insides of elevator doors. It laser-coated its eye logo on mo...
Eight Social Networking Sites for Men Who Love Men
We were contacted today by the founder of the soon to launch social network for gay men BigJock.com. It lead us to take a look around the gay male online social networking space and write the followi...
With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again
For Jawed Karim, the $100,000 or so he would have to spend on a master's degree at Stanford was never daunting. He hit an Internet jackpot in 2002 when PayPal, the online payment company he had joine...
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee
Does information really want to be free? If so, how can traditional information publishers and aggregators deal with shifting value propositions and revenue models of premium content and survive in t...
Democrats On FCC Criticize Justice Dept.'s OK Of Merger
The FCC's two Democratic members harshly criticized the Justice Department for approving the $78 billion AT&T- BellSouth merger without conditions. — The department, however, said Wednesday that "th...
PS3 Bundled With Composite
Sony goes low tech with the wiring. — HDMI port, Blu-Ray drive, Cell processor — the PS3 will ship with everything needed for high definition playback. Everything except for high definition cables,...
SEAGATE STRENGTHENS ITS MAXTOR ONETOUCH AND MAXTOR SHARED STORAGE PRODUCT FAMILIES
Award-Winning Solutions Offer New Capacity Points and Simple Automatic Backup, Giving Consumers More Choices to Store, Share, Carry or Protect their Digital Life — Addressing the rising need for mor...