Exclusive: Natalie Portman's lifecast
Natalie Portman, the actress who played Queen Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars saga, is touring around Silicon Valley in search of funding for a new project. The winsome movie star, who came to public ...
You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well
Abigail L. Garvey Wilson — Emerges From Obscurity; — Millions of John Smiths — Before Abigail Garvey got married in 2000, anyone could easily Google her. Then she swapped her maiden name for he...
Warners cuts promo screenings over movie piracy worries
TENILLE BONOGUORE — TORONTO — One of America's biggest film companies has cancelled all promotional movie screenings north of the border because they claim there is no other way to stop Canadian mov...
Sun goes after Adobe Apollo, Ajax, Silverlight
The dust has hardly settled after Microsoft's unveiling of its Silverlight beta, or Sun Microsystems is making a plunge into the rich internet application market. — The server vendor on Tuesday will...
HP Lifts Guidance for Second Quarter Earnings, Revenue
PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced that it has raised its financial guidance for the fiscal second quarter ended April 30. — Based on preliminary data, HP expects...
First Look - Google Analytics Launches New Interface and Reporting
Since Google acquired Urchin's popular web analytics technology in 2005, re-branding as Google Analytics, the service has become a popular choice among marketers looking to understand their web site's...
Google launches Google Reader for the Wii
Google quietly launched Google Reader specifically designed for the Wii last night — the new interface even makes use of the buttons found on your Wiimote. On my initial digging, I cannot find a simi...
Yet Another Newspaper Publisher Blames Internet For His Own Failure To Adapt To The Times
Okay, this is really beginning to get tiresome. We thought that the newspaper industry had figured out that it needed to adapt to the times a few years ago when they finally started ditching subscrip...
Screen Shot of Truemors: Guy Kawasaki's Rumor Service
We mentioned Guy Kawasaki's newest venture, Truemors, last week along with some early comments we got from the private beta testers ("rumor reporting bulletin board with twitter-like capabilities"). ...
First 1 trillion-pixel image
Medical imaging specialists Aperio have broken the 4GB file size limit on the TIFF image format by creating their own format called BigTIFF and offering the format into the public domain (an amazing f...
Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger
Further update: The Twitter data is bad, bad, bad, rendering Andy's post and most of this here post useless. Both jumps in Twitter activity in Nov 2006 and March 2007 are artificial in nature. See h...
Why Wall St. Journal Editors Held News of Murdoch Bid
One of the trickiest things for a news organization to do is cover itself. — That was the situation some editors at The Wall Street Journal found themselves in last month when they learned that Rupe...
Mac share of surfers doubles in 8 months
Apple is eroding Microsoft's online market share, says analyst — The portion of people surfing the Web using a Mac has doubled in the past eight months, an Internet metrics analyst said today, and r...
Google preparing to police web
Increasingly worried by the use of conventional web sites to distribute the viruses that turn innocent PCs into botnet "zombies," Google appears to be readying a plan to police the web. If the plan g...
Is Big Software Now Like Big Pharma?
Fascinating discussion today at the venture capital panel at the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara. The panel included Bob Lisbonne of Matrix Partners, Ravi Mohan of Shasta Ventures, and Ted Sc...
Sun tries again with consumer-flavored Java
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday will introduce a friendlier way to write Java applications for consumer devices, an attempt to fulfill Java's potential and stake a greater claim in the next generation of ...
MySpace/Photobucket: User Overlap Is Nearly 100%
NewsCorp plans to pay half as much for Photobucket as they did for MySpace. Photobucket is going for $300 million with the earnout (a steal compared to Google/YouTube), and MySpace was acquired for $...
Linux evolves for mobile phones
A version of the increasingly popular Linux operating system Ubuntu will be developed for use on net-enabled phones and devices. — The Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project aims to create the open sour...
Is the Web half full or half empty?
Lots of chat out there about the latest Pew study into how people use the Interweb. These studies are useful in part because the Pew Internet & American Life Project does such a thorough job with the...
Ad-Supported VOD From ABC/ESPN Launching on Cox; Ad Skipping Disabled
Also to be announced at the Cable Show on Tuesday: Disney's two big TV networks, ABC and ESPN, are launching free, ad-supported VOD of hit shows and football games on cable operator Cox Communications...
Hot or Not Tears Itself Apart, Reinvents
When James Hong and Jim Young founded HotorNot in October, 2000, they had no real plans for the service to be anything other than a fun site for a few friends. They turned a free low end computer the...
Me.com Launches A Ning Competitor
me.com is a service that lets you essentially build your own MySpace. They're launching their SNAPP program today, which will power their online communities. — me.com has been around for a couple o...
A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write
While most newspapers are trying to stake bigger claims online, one new publication is pulling material off the Internet to be printed in ink. — John Wilpers, editor in chief of BostonNow, a free we...
Top 15 Web 2.0 Startups in Europe?
Here is the list of the top 15 European Web 2.0 projects, which will be presented next Thursday in Madrid. The information below was provided to me by the organizers: — Panoramio.com (http://www.pa...
ShareOffice Launches - Open Standards Based Web Office Suite
At the Software 2007 conference on Tuesday in San Jose CA, on-demand document management provider ShareMethods will announce the launch of an open standards Web Office suite called ShareOffice. The c...
Production cost of PS3 could be cut by US$100
As blue-laser pick-up heads (PUHs) for use in the PlayStation 3 (PS3) are expected to increase in supply and decrease in price, the production cost of the game console could be reduced by as much as U...