A look ahead at Google Video and YouTube
Posted by Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management — In November, we officially closed our acquisition of YouTube, and since then we've received a number of questions about what will happe...
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue
Quarter marks the successful business launches of Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Exchange Server 2007 — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Microsoft Corp. today announce...
Microsoft Vista to Cause Confusion for Korean Net Users
When Microsoft releases its next-generation Windows operating system in Korea next week, local Internet users will find that it doesn't work with many of their favorite Web sites. A Hangul version of...
Show us your university campus in 3D
Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Google SketchUp Education Program Coordinator — Today the Build Your Campus in 3D Competition begins. This spring, you and your (presumably equally artistic) friends can...
A Stream of Movies, Sort of Free
If there's one sure thing about the future, it's that it always takes longer to arrive than you think it will. — Here we are in 2007, and the interstellar space travel depicted in "2001" is still a ...
Norway declares Apple's iTunes illegal
By David Ibison in Stockholm, Emiko Terazono in London and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Apple was dealt a blow in Europe on Wednesday when Norway's powerful consumer ombudsman ruled that its iT...
Go Canada: iPhone Confirmed on Rogers Wireless
iPhone confirmed for Canada, by a customer service email. — Availability and pricing aren't set in stone, yet. But you can bet your buttocks it'll be after we get ours in the USA. Go USA! Thanks ...
Shifting out of print
While the story of magazines' ongoing battle to adapt to the web world is well-documented, the untold story is of Detroit's beleaguered carmakers, long pillars of print advertising, which are cutting ...
Gears Cracks Japanese Top Ten Sales Charts
This week's Japanese sales charts are frightening! I can't understand what's going on! There's an Xbox 360 game on the list, meaning this report must have come from the Bizarro World Branch of Media...
James Kim Memorial Fund Charity Raffle
Stephen (aka TiVoStephen, aka Director of TiVoCast Operations) and I were deeply moved by the Kim family ordeal and the tragic death of James while trying to find help for his wife and children. I th...
Free T-Mobile Hotspot for Vista Users
As part of its promotional efforts surrounding the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft said Wednesday that for 90 days after the debut of the next-generation operating system, customers would be able t...
Not All Traffic Is Created Equal
We all bow down to the gods of traffic, but the reality is that not all traffic is created equal. Perhaps if you're selling junk pages views to an ad network for rock-bottom prices, it's all the same...
Murdoch 2.0
MySpace was just the start. Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants are betting big on the Internet. — Amy Joan Borka is 24 years old, lives in Burnsville, Minn. and got married last fall. She is expec...
Skype had a better Q4-2006
Per the pre-conference call, Skype: — 164% YOY growth net revenues … 129% YOY growth registered users: More than 380 thousand new users every day in Q4. … Other highlights