Talking Linux IP with Bill Gates
If you could ask Bill Gates one question, what would you ask? I spent an hour today with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on the company's Redmond campus. I chose to ask Bill about Microsoft's intell...
First Look: StumbleUpon Announces New Video Surfing Site, StumbleVideo
If you're familiar with StumbleUpon, the web surfing toolbar, you've probably spent countless hours hitting the "stumble" button and discovering sites that are eerily tailored towards your taste.
Bill Gates On The Future Of DRM
Microsoft convened a small group of bloggers today at their Redmond headquarters to discuss the upcoming Mix Conference in Las Vegas. Highlights of the day included: — The receipt of a Zune as a gif...
AOL says has largely completed layoffs
Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX.N: Quote, Profile , Research) AOL said on Wednesday it has completed the bulk of a plan to reduce its work force by 5,000 employees, or 26 percent, as part of a wholesale restr...
Vista Wins on Looks. As for Lacks ...
Windows Vista and the secret of full disk encryption
When I talk to large enterprises, they tend to be either deploying or planning to deploy PC encryption tools, especially for laptops. This is no longer a "nice to have;" it has become a "gotta have."
New Virtual Earth release launches
Although its a minor point release, this build of Virtual Earth packs a few great new features. I mentioned a couple days ago that the Birds Eye navigation control was being replaced soon, and today ...
Rumor: Brutes are playable in Halo 3, video on Dec. 20th
We get tips from time to time, some of them small and some of them big. The tip we received this morning, however, is a doozy. Coming from the blog of YLA G — creator of the kickass Google applicati...
With Windows MultiPoint, Youths in Developing-World Classrooms Learn 21st-Century Skills
The solution underscores Microsoft's commitment to innovating ways to help people in emerging markets - especially children - realize educational opportunities through technology.
Craigslist Robs Food From the Mouths of Journalist's Babies
The latest "Craigslist vs. the Newspapers" incident is making the rounds. The cause: Yet another group of businessfolk (this time it was Wall Streeters at the UBS global media conference) heard compa...
Apple offers developers new build of Leopard operating system
Apple Computer on Tuesday evening released to developers a new pre-release build of its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, AppleInsider has learned. — The new distribution, labeled Mac OS X 10....
Online Influence Tied to Search, Social Media Use
According to a new research report, "Engaging Advocates through Search and Social Media," released today by Yahoo! and comScore Networks, not only is social networking's influence on marketing growing...
Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX
Yesterday's comScore Media Metrix report, exclaiming that estimates of page views for social networking site MySpace at 38.7 million for the month of November topped those for Yahoo by 600,000, came w...
Marrying the Cellphone to Cheap Internet Calling
MATTHEW MILLER wanted to cut the cost of his cellphone plan. He and his wife, Dayna, had regularly exceeded their 2,000-minute-per-month T-Mobile family plan, incurring extra-use charges that reached...
SKYPE GOES THE EXTRA MILE TO CONNECT ITS GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Extras and Public Chat features inspire more people to stay in touch with their friends and meet new ones along the way — Skype, the global Internet communications company, today announced Skype™ 3....
Start-up Jaxtr lets friends phone you on your blog
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Silicon Valley start-up is gearing up to embed free, Web-based telephone services on a variety of popular social networking and blogging services, including MySpace, Friend...
But How Will Mozart Have Incentive To Write New Music With All His Works Available For Free?
from the just-wondering dept — Last year, when the BBC decided to record and then give away free downloads of all nine of Beethoven's symphonies, some classical music record label execs complained …
MyBlogLog's Growth
I wrote in my Social Networking Interconnects post the other day: … Well maybe Eric read that. Or maybe not. But he wrote a post on the MyBlogLog blog yesterday outlining exactly how fast MyBlogLog ...
Why YHOO Will Outperform GOOG in 2007
I was on CNBC tonight making the bullish case for Yahoo: — Yahoo needs to grow earnings faster than Google to regain investor interest — It can do that by cutting costs, growing audience, acquisitio...
The growth of mashups continued throughout 2006
One of my favorite Internet stats to check out are the mashup and open API trendlines on the front page of Programmable Web. Consistently, month after month this year and right up until present day, ...
Microsoft Statement: More Information on Windows Vista Software Protection Policies
In advance of general availability of Windows Vista late in January, Microsoft offers important information to help customers protect themselves from the risks of counterfeit software.
Fear & Loathing at Le Web 3
I've been skirting on the edges of the Le Web controversy. To be honest, it was only in the last hour that I scanned through the nearly 2000 posts regarding what happened there. For those of you, wh...
SKYPE GOES THE EXTRA MILE TO CONNECT ITS GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Extras and Public Chat features inspire more people to stay in touch with their friends and meet new ones along the way — Skype, the global Internet communications company, today announced Skype™ 3....
Research Firm Clarifies: iTunes Sales Are Not Collapsing
Reporters misunderstood data released in a recent market report, Forrester Research says. — Media reports of plummeting sales on Apple Computer's iTunes music store are untrue and based on a misinte...