Microsoft to Acquire Tellme Networks
Combined expertise will bring the power of voice technology to everyday life. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will acquire Tellme Networks, Inc., a leading provider of voice services for everyd...
Games for Windows Live and Halo 2 hit Vista May 8th
While the editors of Games for Windows' official magazine may not be ready to drink the Vista-flavored Kool-Aid just yet, Microsoft is ready to give Vista early adopters a handful of reasons to pick u...
Viacom Sues Google Over Video Clips on Its Sharing Web Site
Since it bought YouTube last October, Google has been chasing deals that would give it the right to put mainstream video programming on the site. Just a few weeks ago, Google's chief executive, Eric ...
Microsoft Unites Xbox and PC Gamers With Debut of Games for Windows — LIVE
LIVE — Xbox LIVE extends to Windows Vista to create single online gaming service starting with "Halo 2" on May 8. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the extension of the Xbox LIVE® games and enterta...
Ask puts its foot in it
Lately these ads have started appearing on the London Underground: — They're also on stickers on lampposts, on posters, and generally dotted around London. It looks like a grassroots campaign - but...
Microsoft and Lenovo Connect Customers to Integrated Online Services
Lenovo to be first PC manufacturer to provide customers worldwide with a new seamless, customizable Web experience through Microsoft Live.com and Live Search. — REDMOND, Wash., and RESEARCH TRIANGLE...
The future of Twitter?
I was introduced to Twitter last summer at a dinner at Henrietta's Table in Cambridge by Ross Mayfield. I posted two or three notes using my Blackberry that evening and never did it again. I still r...
Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design
OJR's design experts review usability research and offer suggestions on how you can make your online articles better connect with readers. — When one of world's best-known usability experts, Jakob N...
The dirty little secrets about VCs, at TheFunded
TheFunded is a Web site that rates venture capitalists, giving entrepreneurs more information about whether or not to take money from a particular VC — This is a very useful service to have, because...
Reckoning Day For Venture Capitalists?
Some venture capitalists are known for making speedy decisions, communicating clearly, treating portfolio companies fairly, and guiding their startups to a win for all stakeholders. — Others, not so...
Pre-installing Linux
There's been a tremendous level of interest in the fact that pre-installed Linux (in the form of Ubuntu | OpenSuSE) is the #1 rated suggestion on Dell's IdeaStorm. On the face of it, there is little...
NBC Universal and MobiTV Announce First-Ever Wireless Deal for Full-Length Primetime on Demand Programming
Primetime Offer to Include 'Heroes,' 'Friday Night Lights,' 'The Office,' 'Monk,' 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Work Out' Additional NBCU Channels to Launch on MobiTV Include Bravo, SCI FI, USA, Telem...
A new wavelength for satellite radio
For a company calling itself Slacker, its business plan is awfully ambitious. — Debuting this week at the South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, Texas, Slacker is a distinctive new Web mu...
Gain control of those "Access Denied Folders"
This is a short guide to help gain ownership of a folder that give you those annoying "Access denied" messages on your own system. This will reassign the ownership of the blocked folder giving you co...
Awesome TIE Fighter Speakers Flew Out of Star Wars and Into Your Living Room
These TIE Fighter speakers come to us from a company called Question Mark Entertainment, and as far as their specs go, that company name is just about right. We have no idea what sort of drivers are ...
Cop: Wife googled 'How to commit murder'
At exactly 5:45:34 on April 18, 2004 a computer taken from the office of the attorney of Melanie McGuire, did a search on the words "How To Commit Murder." — That same day searches on Google and MSN...
EU consumer chief eschews another bite at Apple
The European Union's consumer chief soft-pedalled her views on Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday, backing off the line that its iTunes online music store must become more compati...
Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices
Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel — When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP address...
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones
If you have only one telephone with one phone number, this column won't be of any interest to you. Skip to another article, you eccentric you. — But first, count your blessings. Millions of people...
Microsoft suing to evict 'cybersquatters'
Microsoft will on Wednesday launch a series of lawsuits in the US and Europe against "cybersquatters", and will urge other companies to help tackle what it says is a growing problem on the internet. ...
Collections!
Today we launched what's probably the most requested feature over the last few years: a way to categorize and organize your photo sets! In the past this feature has been referred to as "sets of sets"...
The death of the 30-second TV commercial
Devices like the new Apple TV box and digital video recorders from TiVo, Motorola and Cisco could help bring an end to the traditional TV ad. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It has already revolutionize...
MyStrands Social Player
Download — Powerful music tool for the mobile — Browse and play your music by track, artist, album and playlist. — Get recommendations for great music. — Link to our extensive mobile web site for...
The Open Web and Its Adversaries
A small presentation I gave at SXSW asks what it means to be "Open" in the sense of open standards, open source, and a web whose major content formats are not controlled by a single vendor (I credited...
You Go Viacom !
Not a stretch where I would come out on this, but it never ceases to amaze and amuse me how liltle understanding of the content business, or the business world in general that many in the blogosphere ...
Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices
Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel — When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP address...
Broadband Instruments Slacker Offers Satellite, Wi-Fi Connectivity
I met with Broadband Instruments for some exclusive details on their Slacker music ecosystem, consisting of a service online service and a portable device that grabs new content from Wi-Fi networks an...
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones
If you have only one telephone with one phone number, this column won't be of any interest to you. Skip to another article, you eccentric you. — But first, count your blessings. Millions of people...
Last.fm puts video through the scrobbler
Last.fm, the popular music website, is to apply its social recommendation technology to video, as it prepares to do battle with Pandora for the internet radio station market. — Last.fm is working on...
SanDisk drops prices with new flash drive
SanDisk has released a new hard drive made of flash memory, and the price won't completely break the bank. — The flash memory maker's new flash drive sports 32GB of memory and is delivered in a pack...
How To Destroy Your Enemy: Demand a Video Apology
Click To Play — I think I'd rather fight the MPAA and RIAA than piss off the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They've absolutely destroyed Michael Crook, the man who placed a fake Craigslist sex ad ...
Google offers priority reporting to Indian police
Tool will help flag objectionable material on Orkut, will not affect user data, according to Google — Google has offered Indian police a special tool for priority reporting of objectionable material...
Report: Computer Games Magazine, Massive Shut Down
Independent sources, both via an un-named publisher dealing with the magazines and from industry messageboard QT3, have indicated to Gamasutra that U.S. print publication Computer Games Magazine and i...