Can PhotoBucket Survive Without MySpace?
There was a lot of fingerpointing, denials, and "he said, she said" going on today as everyone digested the news that MySpace had blocked PhotoBucket's 40 million members from embedding videos into th...
Apple Statement
CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple today released the following statement: — iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship ...
New Google Maps Feature - 2.5D Buildings
Google is yet again adding features to Google Maps which bring it closer to Google Earth. In February Google added building outlines to major cities when you zoom in close. Now Google has added 2.5D...
Now a Rolling Stone Social Network
New York-based media giants are suddenly getting jiggy with the new new Media. CBS announced its mega-digital media strategy, which means Quincy Smith, the CBS Interactive head-honcho is finally putt...
Vonage Speaks - Want to be Their CEO?
How's that for an opening to this morning's investor call??? — Vonage had three spokespeople this morning - CEO - then Chairman - now interim CEO Jeff Citron, Sharon O'Leary and John Rego. — Jeff ...
To the average Joe, blogs aren't cutting it
This month's state of the blogosphere survey by Technorati, the monitoring service, was greeted as if it were the online equivalent of the President's State of the Union address. It undoubtedly revea...
Windows XP to be phased out by year's end despite customer demand
Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems. — By early 2008, Microsof...
The Drive-In Without the Drive
FOR video razzle-dazzle, it's hard to beat the $5 million mansion of the Florida concrete multimillionaire Bill Williams, in Naples. The slickest piece of engineering in the home is most likely the 3...
Twitter trouble
Twitter is an amazing success story in terms of rapid user uptake and flattering press. I had a chance to speak with the team a while back about the wild ride they've been on. At that time they were...
EMI and Beatles settle royalty dispute
The company representing The Beatles has settled a 30 million-pound ($59 million) royalty dispute with EMI Group (EMI.L: Quote, Profile , Research), in a deal that could finally pave the way for the L...
The Death of UI Consistency
Yesterday, John Gruber posted a gripe about the new CS3 panels and palettes and how horrible it is that Adobe put the close box on the right side. To John, this seemed horribly un-Mac-like, and in tr...
How To Make Your Nokia N95 100 Percent
It seems some of the global mobile carriers in some parts of the world just can't let a great phone stay great. I'm referring to the Nokia N95 that has more bells and whistles than just about any mob...
Apple Tells Vloggers: "Fix Your Videos"
Apple is giving vloggers a few hints on how to optimize their videos for iTunes so that a single format will look ok on both an iPod as well as the new Apple TV, which is probably connected to a large...
Google's Acquisitions Chief Looking for `Crazy' Ideas (Update1)
Google Inc. looks for ideas that are ``really crazy'' when sizing up potential purchases, the Internet company's top dealmaker said. — ``We look at everything very carefully,'' Salman Ullah, Google'...
SAMSUNG Launches New Mobile WiMAX Devices in Korea
New products are available with expansion of WiBro services in Seoul — Seoul, Korea, April 12th, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider of telecommunication network systems and hand...
Braille converter eases web use
Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website — A free service that provides automatic Braille conversion is proving popular despite still being in test phase. — RoboBraille was started by a Da...
Sony Demos 9mm-thick High-Def OLED Displays
Look and yearn folks. This here is Sony's new OLED display. It's an obscene 9mm thick yet it packs a 1080p resolution along with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. Just as a recap, OLED displays are thi...