Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide
Built from the ground up, the new Windows Live Hotmail is now safer, more powerful and available virtually anywhere. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to M...
Switching Back
I have been using Mac OSX as my primary OS for almost a year now, but last night I switched back. What spurred it is that my Mac OSX partition crashed and it wouldn't boot back into the OS - I used r...
Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don't.
Superman has the power to leap tall buildings. But leaping onto a cellphone screen is proving a little trickier. — Warner Brothers recently created a six-episode series of short videos for mobile d...
Do standalone boxes have a chance?
Akimbo, the San Mateo, Calif.-based start-up, was one of the first to develop a new Internet video on demand box, betting that is content package service will benefit from the integrated hardware+serv...
Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite
Comcast plans to launch SmartZone, a major replacement for its current and uninspired consumer email service. At the core of SmartZone is a new version of Zimbra's open source, brower-based collabora...
America: The Growing Digital Divide
A new study (pdf) published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that there is a growing digital divide across America. — John B. Horrigan's analysis of America's use of Web 2. and ...
LGiLab invests in OutBrain and Timeless Cities
Today we are announcing two new investments with the Internet Lab of LightSpeed and Gemini. Number 3 and Number 4. — The news just broke on TheMarker by Raphael Fogel (website and newspaper). — U...
Fear of Google
Yesterday, during his speech at the Forbes shindig I attended, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer's funniest remark was when he told us that the "Fear of Google" was so prevelent that it even had a three-...
Wireless: For the rural poor, cellphones come calling
MUNDAWAR, Rajasthan: Camel-drawn carts, tractors and brightly clad women carrying shallow bowls of fuel and food on their heads usually dominate traffic in this northern Indian village. — But on Fri...
Silverlight Poll Results: Majority Impressed, But Not a Flash Killer Yet
Last week's Read/WriteWeb poll asked what you thought of Silverlight, Microsoft's newly improved rich internet app plug-in that was launched to (unusually) rave blog reviews at MIX on Monday.
Tech Investors Cull Start-Ups for Pentagon
The nation's military, in its search for the next surveillance system, bioterror vaccine or robot warrior, has decided to take a peek into the garage. — Through a program that recently emerged from ...
Name and shame offensive bloggers
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Fred Khumalo and I should feel very flattered indeed. — Every day there are 120000 new blog sites registered — a staggering 43 million a year. Ac...
Sphere focuses search on time and connections
You may have noticed we have a Sphere link for every ZDNet blog post, which brings up a widget (below) that offers up related blogs posts and other articles. It's part of our ongoing effort to surfac...
Attack of the Advertising Widgets
Widgets are being turned into advertising delivery systems. Their nature - rich media applicatons that are easy to build, customize and add to a site - also make them an attractive way to add adverti...
Exclusive: Photobucket goes to Myspace
Like a squabbling couple finally realizing they can't live without eachother — or a parasite fusing with its host — Photobucket has concluded terms of a sale to Myspace, News Corporation's social netw...
NBC Universal sides against YouTube in piracy suit
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - NBC Universal is taking sides with fellow media conglomerate Viacom Inc. over a piracy lawsuit filed against Google Inc.'s online video sharing site YouTube, according to pap...
Dell signs on with Microsoft, Novell
Dell Inc. has agreed to work with Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. under an alliance the rival software makers formed last year to make it easier for the Windows operating system and the increasingly p...
Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don't.
Superman has the power to leap tall buildings. But leaping onto a cellphone screen is proving a little trickier. — Warner Brothers recently created a six-episode series of short videos for mobile d...
OpenID at Work
On both the Internet and behind the firewall, the identity problem gets uglier every year. How many passwords do you have? If you're in IT, how much pain do you go through getting your all your apps...
Book Not Ready for Print? You Can Whip Up an Audiobook for a Podcast for Now
When you are a budding author and you appear on television, it is sure to enhance book sales. — But what do you do if your book is not even written, never mind in stores? — For Mignon Fogarty …
Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC Specs and Pricing
Warner posted a link to Samsung's press release regarding the Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC. Here are specs, pricing, and anticipated dates for ordering. More pictures below ( click to see large scale image...
Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty
PASADENA, Calif. — Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll ...
A Reality Check for Newspapers
In Pursuing Google, Belgian Publishing Group — Dreams of Vanished Past for Content Creators — An association of Belgian newspaper publishers is at war with Google over the search-engine giant's li...
About.com Buys ConsumerSearch.com
About.com, a Web information service owned by The New York Times Company, plans to announce today that it has bought ConsumerSearch.com, a Web site that compiles reviews of consumer products, for $33 ...