Verizon rejected Apple iPhone deal
NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and othe...
LinkedIn raises $12.8M to build out professional network
LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals connect, has raised $12.8 million in venture funding. — The venture capitalists, Silicon Valley's Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders ...
Vista "upgrade" drops compliance checking, requires old OS to install
Microsoft's quest to closely control the way Windows Vista can be used on PCs has taken a turn for the worse as new information indicates that the company is breaking tradition when it comes to Window...
Adobe to send PDF to standards group
Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to detail plans to submit its Portable Document Format specifications to the International Organization for Standardization, a body of particular importance to gove...
27 TIPS FOR TELECONFERENCING
Whether you call them conference calls or telecons or excruciatingly dull time-wasters, multi-participant phone conversations are as important to most web workers as email. If you can't meet face to ...
YouTube Sharing Revenue With Users
Goo(g)d news. Soon you will start generating money on YouTube. — How soon? We don't know. But Chad Hurley announced at World Economic Forum, Davos on 27 Jan that they would reward users for self-...
Google TV Hoax - No DNS Information Found
Over the weekend, there were tons of buzz over a prank YouTube video that claims Google launched Google TV. The guy has two videos, taking you through him using Google TV. Here is the most recent on...
Wellsphere Launches Wellness 2.0
Wellshpere is launching an alpha version of their wellness community site tomorrow. It joins a host of other health related search, training, and Q&A sites we've covered. Wellsphere is concerned wit...
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the analysis. — Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet an...
Microsoft: Forget about PayPal; how about a MasterCard killer?
Ever since PayPal burst on to the scene, the Nostradamus types have been predicting one PayPal killer after another. First it was "e-gold," then Western Union, then C2IT (by Citibank), then Google.
Announcing the Media 2.0 Workgroup
Gizmo, now making browser based phone calls
SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo Project has introduced a new product, Gizmo Call that make is fairly simple to make VoIP calls from any browser that can support Adobe's Flash. — You can visit Giz...
OpenID, Get it from Yahoo! & Avoid Phishing
OpenID, the lightweight, decentralized identity system (Radar post) had an interesting weekend. There is now a method for using your Yahoo ID with OpenID (unofficial, but sanctioned) and there are ne...
Startups Take on Amazon Reviews
While low prices and huge inventory are the main attraction at Amazon.com, the site's reviews have emerged as an essential online resource. Now, a new generation of start-ups wants to take on the sho...
Microsoft Office 2007 Review Part 2: What's New?
In this part of the review, I'd like to discuss two major changes to Office 2007 that affect the most commonly-used applications in the suite: the new Ribbon user interface and the new XML-based docum...
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it
Michael Kölling is pretty ticked off right now. What would upset a mild mannered professor at the University of Kent? How about someone willfully using his work without attribution, and then filing ...