Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! Unite to Support Sitemaps
Today, we are excited to announce that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. The goal of this effort is to improve search results for customers around ...
Randy Falco Named Chairman and CEO of AOL LLC
NEW YORK - Randy Falco, President and COO of the NBC Universal Television Group, has been named Chairman and CEO of AOL LLC, it was announced today by Time Warner Inc.'s Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons ...
Japan to get 400,000 Wii units
Nintendo will offer four times as many machines as Sony when it launches its Wii console in Japan on 2 December. — The Japanese video game maker said it will ship almost 400,000 units of its Wii con...
Microsoft and Sprint Collaborate on Mobile Search
Sprint, Microsoft form strategic alliance to drive new services; first offering is Windows Live Search for mobile. — Microsoft Corp. and Sprint Corp. today announced a strategic alliance through whi...
Free AOL Stuff, Courtesy of Bubble 2.0
Don't look now, but the bubble is back. — Yes, it's 1999 all over again. Web start-ups are cropping up with names like Bebo, Squidoo and Moblabber. Start-ups like YouTube, less than a year old and...
Hon Hai Declines to Comment on IPod Phone Report (Update4)
Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, declined to confirm or deny a newspaper report that it will make mobile phones with iPod mu...
How do I get my blog to show up?
To the majority of my readers who aren't publishers, please excuse the interruption. — Selectivity is important for the four sites I run, namely Techmeme, memeorandum, WeSmirch, and Ballbug. Thousa...
Apple iPhones Get Call
Taiwanese contract manufacturer called on to build Apple cell phones, report says. — Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs may actually be able to pull off a splashy iPhone announcement at Macworld by Janua...
More Navigators at Netscape (or What our paid bookmarkers are really doing. Hint: it's not just bookmarking)
We've hired another bunch of great Navigators to work at Netscape. These are folks who are either experts in their field and/or the best social bookmarkers in the world.
Ross Levinsohn Leaves Fox Interactive
We just got a press release from Fox Interactive which says that Peter Levinsohn is the new president of Fox Interactive. FIM insiders tell us that Levinsohn has often described the current changes i...
Apple's iPhone to arrive in early 2007 with 2MP camera
Apple Computer's much anticipated iPod cell phone will include a 2.0-megapixel digital camera when it arrives late first quarter or early second quarter of next year, according to a new report out of ...
Mr. BlackFriday, Take Down Those Prices!
Best Buy has forced BlackFriday to take down information about its upcoming sale prices. I agree with Matt: … Best Buy (ab)used the DMCA's notice-and-takedown provisions to force the prices off the w...