Microsoft Reports Record Profits
Robust demand for Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system drives 72% growth in earnings per share — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $...
WSJ censoring Vonage's Ads?
When we looked at the back page of Friday's Marketplace section of the Wall Street Journal, it looked like the delivery person had perhaps taken offense with the Vonage ad campaign about its patent ca...
'$100 laptop' to cost $175
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now c...
Wakoopa: Last.fm For Desktop Applications
Last.fm does for music what Dutch startup Wakoopa wants to do for your desktop applications. Like Last.fm, Wakoopa uses a downloaded tracker, except if follows how often you use applications instead ...
Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com
Your next eBay purchase could arrive at your door in a brown Amazon.com box. — Amazon.com, the online retailer, is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers to use its network of dis...
Idea: Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey
There's an article on-line from Money Magazine called "50 Bulls**t Jobs." That's right. Bulls**t. With those two asterisks in there. Come on. We know what word they mean. So why not just say it?...
Barbie® Revolutionizes the Way Girls Play
Groundbreaking Barbie Girls™ Platform Provides Hybrid Play Experience With Fashion, Music and Online Virtual World — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Today, Mattel unveiled the next generation of fashion do...
The Perfect DB Storage Array
I've long known that YouTube had a secret weapon in their datacenter by the codename 'Colin', but yesterday at the MySQL Conference, I met three more secret weapons - codename 'Paul' and his team (sor...
PlayStation Creator Resigns As Chief of Sony Unit
TOKYO — Ken Kutaragi, who created Sony Corp.'s PlayStation videogame business, resigned yesterday, giving up his leadership role at the company at a time when his biggest technological gamble to date ...
BLOGGING: Expanding no more
It's the web media equivalent of the central cosmological constant: does the universe of personal sites expand ad infinitum, or else collapse under its own weight? And we may finally have an answer. ...
Akamai Releases FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent Add-on
Red Swoosh (acquired by Akamai for $15 million earlier this month) released v1.0 of FoxTorrent today. This is a fully functional BitTorrent client for Firefox that works cross platform (Windows, Mac,...
Office 2003 to get security upgrade
Microsoft plans to make some of the security improvements and features it built into Office 2007 available for Office 2003, a company representative said Thursday. — Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 w...
Q&A With Google Personalization Gurus Sep Kamvar and Marissa Mayer
Last week I had the chance to talk to Marissa Mayer, Google VP, Search Products & User Experience, and Sep Kamvar, engineering lead for personalization at Google, about the inclusion of Web History in...
Nokia N75 now available on AT&T
Well, would ya just look at that? The long-awaited Nokia handset, the N75, is now up on AT&T's website. They're charging $199.99 for a 2 year service agreement, and $399 for the retail price. Not b...