Google No Longer Linking To Yahoo, MapQuest Maps
Search Engine Land got an email this morning from Another Blogger alerting us to the apparent fact that Google had removed links to Yahoo and MapQuest maps. — Previously, a search for "541 Lexington...
AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison
A California man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out e-mail scams as well as related crimes. — Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was convicted Frid...
Beatles iTunes deal is reached, report claims
Will music from the Beatles soon be available on iTunes? — Jonny Evans — With the iPhone announced, the Mac news and rumour machine is taking new steps to get ahead of the curve. — This week's l...
'24' hitting the shelves in half that
The day-after release of the DVD underscores the speed at which studios must operate. — In one of the quickest turnarounds ever for a television show to appear on DVD, Twentieth Century Fox Televisi...
Sprint Joins Strength of Its Two Networks To Offer Customers Industry-First Phones, Power To Do More
Nextel's professional-grade walkie-talkie service and Sprint's voice and data service come together in a single handset giving customers the power to instantly communicate — Media Contact:
Singapore teen first to be sentenced for wireless piggybacking
SINGAPORE (AFP) - A Singapore teen has became the first in the city-state to be sentenced for piggybacking on someone else's wireless Internet connection. — Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, could have been se...
Has EMI Had A Change Of Heart In China?
from the if-you-can't-beat-em dept — Chinese search engine Baidu's been involved in an ongoing legal battle against major record labels, which assert its MP3 searching functionality represents copyr...
Why Competing Successfully Is About A Lot More Than Just Copying The Technology
from the not-quite-so-easy dept — Last week, we kicked off quite the discussion following my post suggesting that Apple's iPhone patents weren't necessary. One of the commonly used arguments …
Apple TV vs. Mac mini - Which one is right for you?
A Mac mini is more than double the price of an Apple TV - is it worth the money? Here's a handy table comparing the two products (information on the Apple TV was found at Ars Technica citing AppleIns...
Mashup University - Introducing Apollo
I presented Apollo at Mashup University at MIT today. I covered a mindmap that I made on Apollo, created simple apps in Flex and Apollo live, and ran some demos apps in 40 minutes. My presentation w...
Netflix Online: return to sender
Today just might be the happiest day for all my friends who worked for networking and telecom companies at the turn of the century, but lost their gigs thanks to the greedy machinations of Broadbandit...
TagWorld Rumors: Viacom Investment and Partnership
TagWorld, the social networking site that launched in late 2005, has been the subject of a lot of speculation lately. Valleywag speculated that the company was in trouble and pointed out that the man...
VC to Aspiring Entrepreneur: "Are You Sure You Want our Money?"
VC money doesn't make sense in every situation; start-ups are not "one size fits all" and nor should they be funded that way. Am I advocating entrepreneurs shouldn't drop by for a talk with VC's? Ha...
Local TV News Leaps to YouTube
KZSW, a local TV station in Temecula, Calif., has begun posting news and sports coverage to YouTube. The station started last month, and when we check there were 42 clips. That station has limited c...
Nimbuzz Talk Goes Live!
Nimbuzz, the mobile application funded by Mangrove Capital Partners(the same smart guys that provided the initial funding for Skype) has just launched their new "talk" application into beta. I'd prev...
NETFLIX OFFERS SUBSCRIBERS THE OPTION
OF INSTANTLY WATCHING MOVIES ON THEIR PCs … Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service, today introduced a new feature that allows people to immediately watch movies...
Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches
Palo Alto based startup SearchMe has kept a low profile since being founded in March 2005. The company, which has 17 employees and raised $5 million from Sequoia Capital over two rounds, will launch ...
H.P. to Report an Advance in Adaptable Circuitry
Hewlett-Packard researchers have developed a novel way to create flexible electronic circuits that could make it routine by the end of the decade to modify and upgrade the circuitry in computer-based ...
WordPress 2.0.7
Recently a bug in certain versions of PHP came to our attention that could cause a security vulnerability in your blog. We're able to work around it fairly easily, so we've decided to release 2.0.7 t...
Symantec Reports Preliminary Fiscal Third Quarter 2007 Results
Updates Fiscal Year Guidance — Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC - News) today announced preliminary financial results for the fiscal third quarter, ended Dec. 29, 2006. Symantec will release actual resu...
5 lessons learned from Footnote
After doing my fair share of preaching on this blog for the last five years, I (Chris) now have firsthand knowledge of at least one thing a few days after Footnote.com's launch: — On the web you don...
Yahoo's Acquisition Pattern: Smart and Cheap
Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus — Yahoo has had its problems lately. Bad financial results in the 3rd quarter of 2006 and the peanut butter manifesto of senior vice president...
Oodle Pushes on Featured Listings, Comparisons
Oodle, the listings aggregator service, is completing its transition from a Google -dependent site with the rollout today of a comparison feature for autos. Real estate and rentals will be rolled out...
Soft sell for open source apps
When vendors aren't counting licenses, they're free to concentrate on quality code — Enterprise software vendors that use open source business models may be few and far between, but they are out the...
Already sexy, TiVo brings fast forward ads back
There's nothing that DVR owners like more than a good commercial, so TiVo subscribers will be overjoyed to learn that the company has once again begun overlaying advertisements to entertain viewers du...
Microsoft Snags Don Ferguson, Former IBM Chief Architect - "Father of WebSphere"
Ferguson is now Microsoft Technical Fellow in Platforms and Strategy, in the Office of the CTO — Don Ferguson (pictured), who guided IBM's strategy and architecture for SOA and Web services …
Mobile firm 3 scraps roaming fees
Mobile phone network 3 has abolished roaming charges for its UK customers in seven nations including Italy, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. — Its users will no longer be charged extra for mak...