BlackBerry service back
Service problems disrupted e-mail traffic but the company says most service is restored. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A system failure knocked out BlackBerry service to millions of customers late Tue...
Yahoo! Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Terry Semel - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer — Susan Decker - Executive Vice President; Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group and Acting Chief Financial Officer — Analysts — C...
Google Phone launching end of 2007?
The on-again, off-again Google Phone rumors just got a healthy stir by Digitimes. The Taiwanese tech rag says that HTC is building the phone with initial shipments set to hit by the "end of 2007" — g...
Google Releases Improved Content Removal Tools
Google has rolled out new tools to help people quickly get content removed from its search engine. Those targeted at site owners allow for speedy removal of pages and cached copies of pages. Other t...
Collaboration is the Killer App
A bulk of what's happening on the Web right now can be characterized as retrofitting...remaking software to fit within the framework of the Web. And the framework of the Web is a network, and what pe...
No stay of execution for Internet radio
Sheila Lennon treats us to one of the most linkful and comprehensive explorations of Internet radio's scheduled May 15 execution by the Vogons at the Copyright Royalty Board, which decided on Tuesday ...
Virginia Tech: How Media Are Evolving
(Note: This will appear tomorrow as an op-ed piece in the Washington Examiner newspaper.) — Once again, horror has given us a glimpse of our media future: simultaneously conversational and distribut...
Testing a new look for Google?
Probably been seen before, but did a search in Google (in IE7 using the search box top right hand corner) and got a tasty new look. — Search results (top half) - click for full pic — Search result...
How to make a pie
Posted by: Yoah Bar-David, Software Engineer, Google Tel-Aviv — I have a friend who is a great chef and owns a restaurant. A while ago he called and asked me in his mild French accent "how to make ...
Sony chief hails PS3's success in Europe
Sir Howard said Sony was close to selling 800,000 units in Europe.
Don't even leave a footprint
Jerry Yang and I just announced at our quarterly employee all-hands that Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year. Essentially, that means we're going to invest in greenhouse gas reduct...
The VoIP wars: air supply is an optional feature
Mobile carriers seek to choke new market — Truphone boss James Tagg says his fledgling company will ask Ofcom to intervene if mobile networks continue to cripple VoIP-capable handsets. — Another V...
Xbox 360 Laptop mk2
Behold, the Xbox 360 Laptop mk2! It may look a bit like its first generation sibling, but don't be fooled. This Xbox laptop is a bit thinner, significantly lighter, and has some essential upgrades i...
Verizon suspends push for Mass. TV franchises
Firm criticizes licensing process — After spending an average of 15 months in each of 45 communities to win approval to offer television service, Verizon Communications Inc. has had enough for now: ...
Google announces new AJAX Feed API
The Google AJAX API team has announced a genuinely useful Feed API that gives an Ajax developer the ability to access feeds, cached in the fast Google edge cache where appropriate, from across the web...
Top Ten VC Lies
From a recent (highly playful) presentation of mine, here is my list of the top ten lies venture capitalists tell. Imagine it being read in reverse order, from 10 to 1, a la Letterman:
Web counting tools 'need change'
The way web audiences are measured could be ripe for an overhaul, according to two reports out this week. — Measurements based on page-views and cookies (small text files which track net use) could ...
SAY GOODBYE TO THE PAGE VIEW AS AN AD METRIC
If your web advertising strategy is built around page views, you're going to have to find another way to sell. We've been saying this day would come for a long time, and today, The Wall St. Journal i...
Testing a new look for Google?
Probably been seen before, but did a search in Google (in IE7 using the search box top right hand corner) and got a tasty new look. — Search results (top half) - click for full pic — Search result...
Multiplayer: Virginia Tech Teacher Builds Memorial Wall In Virtual World
'The wall is just my contribution,' 'Second Life' regular says. — The virtual world of "Second Life" isn't a video game, but I didn't feel much like playing games on Tuesday (April 17).
Mashable.com Banned in Thailand
I have the dubious honor of announcing that Mashable.com has been banned in Thailand, due to our reporting of the YouTube ban, continued reports and posting of the clips that had offended the Thai gov...
Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft'
Two people have been cautioned for using people's wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission. — Neighbours in Redditch, Worcestershire, contacted police on Saturday after seeing a man i...
FCC to Investigate Broadband Deployment
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission has begun action on two items involving broadband deployment in the United States. The first is a Notice of Inquiry into whether broadband services ar...
Google treads on PowerPoint turf
SAN FRANCISCO—Google is adding a feature to its Docs & Spreadsheets Web-hosted software that will enable people to create presentations and slide shows, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Tuesda...
Sprint: Say Bon Voyage to Vonage
Although acquiring the Web-phone services provider could hold some advantages for the telco giant, analysts say it should stay focused on core operations — Sprint Nextel, beset by customer losses an...
GameFile: 'Super Paper Mario' Vs. 'Renaissance.Nerds'; 'Halo 3' And More
Plus: 'Pokémon' scavenger hunt; Blizzon is back. — If you take games a little too seriously, then the newest Nintendo-made Wii game, "Super Paper Mario," is making fun of you.
More People Realizing That Giving Stuff Away Can Increase Revenue
from the about-time dept — When we discuss the importance of understanding economics when scarcity is removed, one of the key points we've tried to make (though we don't always succeed) is that when...