Cisco's wrong bet on Social Networks
A few months after switch-and-router maker Cisco Systems acquired a content-management start-up, Five Across, the San Jose giant is going to acquire the assets of Tribe.net, an early social network, r...
Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax
"The author of the Windows Vista keygen that was reported yesterday has admitted that the program does not actually work. Here is the initial announcement of the original release of the keygen, and h...
What Starbucks Can Learn From the Movie Palace
WI-FI service is quickly becoming the air-conditioning of the Internet age, enticing customers into restaurants and other public spaces in the same way that cold "advertising air" deliberately blasted...
Social Networking's Next Phase
Next week Cisco Systems, a Silicon Valley heavyweight, plans to announce one of its most unusual deals: it is buying the technology assets of Tribe.net, a mostly forgotten social networking site, acco...
Search engines emerge from Google's shadow
What do Hawaii, Hungary, Brazil, Egypt and the Philippines all have in common? They're each home to one of the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines to Google. The list of the best 100 alternative sear...
Facebook Extends Lead As Fave Young Adult Site
Where did college students spend winter break? — If they're like the rest of 17-to-25-year-olds surveyed by Youth Trends, they likely spent part of that time on Facebook. — The social networking s...
WORKSTREAMING: THE NEW FACE TIME
Face time: "Unproductive time spent at the office meant to project the image that you're a hardworking employee." — My favorite story of a face time trick is the attorney who would come to his offic...
Microsoft Hit By U.S. DOT Ban On Windows Vista, Explorer 7, and Office 2007
Tens of thousands of federal workers are prohibited from upgrading to the latest versions, according to memos seen by InformationWeek. — Citing concerns over cost and compatibility, the top technolo...
Disneyland intros roving animatronic Muppets; Mickey and friends fear pink slips
The happiest place on Earth (Disneyland, not Las Vegas during CES) just got a little happier this week, thanks to a new exhibit called the Muppet Mobile Laboratory that roams the park and delights vis...
What is Open Source? The Q&A
As justification for entries goes, "well, everyone else was doing it" probably isn't going to win me any prizes, but that's about the best I can do here. I've been assiduously avoiding the subject th...
Ten Sites for Free and Legal Torrents
Bittorrent downloads are either illegal or DRM-infected, right? Wrong. There are plenty of websites out there that offer free and legal Torrent downloads to save bandwidth and make file sharers happ...
YouTube Struggles Despite Dominance
Some Big Media Firms Take Videos Elsewhere — In the few months since Google paid $1.65 billion to acquire YouTube, both companies have tried to come up with a formula to turn the hugely popular onli...
Shock Waves: Microsoft To Move Bulk Of $1 Billion In U.S. Ad Spending To Digital
LAS VEGAS — NOT SURPRISINGLY for a tech behemoth, a top Microsoft executive said Thursday that in three years, the bulk of its nearly $1 billion in U.S. ad spending will be in the digital sphere.
Social Networking's Next Phase
Next week Cisco Systems, a Silicon Valley heavyweight, plans to announce one of its most unusual deals: it is buying the technology assets of Tribe.net, a mostly forgotten social networking site, acco...
Mac install base estimated at 22 million pre-Leopard
Apple Inc.'s install base of Mac OS X users will be approximately 22 million strong come the end of March, ahead of the company's next-generation Leopard operating system release, according to analyst...
New at RockYou: MySpace Countdowns, Corkboards, Musical Slide Shows
Other startups may betting on one great widget for success, but market leaders RockYou and Slide are diversifying rapidly. Today, for instance, RockYou notified users of the launch of three new featu...
Search Engine Wish Lists, Part 2
› › › Paid Search Strategies — Last week's search engine wish list ended with some video-related wishes. This week, I'll finish up the video wishes, then continue with both my wish list and wishes ...
Why Adobe is NOT the Next Microsoft
Ted Leung has posted blog entry provocatively titled : Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web and Scoble has picked up on it. — In Ted's post, he worries about the issues around Flash being sour...
Sun releases Java Enterprise System 5.0
Major update of Java ES subscription-based middleware is more modular — Sun Microsystems has released a new version of its Java Enterprise System (Java ES) set of subscription-based enterprise middl...