CBS Acquires Wallstrip - You Can Make Money From Blogging!!!
One of the most exciting days of my life for sure. — Today, CBS has acquired Wallstrip . — Lot's of people to thank. The biggest sacrifices have come from my wife Ellen and my sweet kids Rachel a...
Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right About Now
Silicon Valley is paradise for geeks, and people flock here from all over the world to be part of something very special. When I speak at events here one thing I often do is ask people in the audienc...
Microsoft will not sue over Linux patents
Microsoft has said it has no immediate plans to sue after alleging patent infringements by open-source vendors. — In an official statement emailed to ZDNet UK, Microsoft confirmed that it would not ...
The man who owns the Internet
Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Kevin...
Microsoft funds questionable study attacking GPL 3 draft process
A study (PDF) funded by Microsoft and carried out by Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack aims to determine what kind of features and protections developers want in version 3 of the widel...
Legless Chihuahuas Prove Google Hot Trends Not So Hot
Google has launched a new addition to its growing lineup of...well everything, Google Hot Trends. — Google Trends takes the idea behind Google Zeitgeist to the next level. Instead of providing week...
What's hot today?
For more than six years, we have compiled a regular list of popular searches called the Google Zeitgeist. This has been our way to highlight the sorts of queries people type into the Google search bo...
Where to Buy
The Wing is the follow-up to the popular but now aging T-Mobile MDA that was released in February 2006. Keeping the same basic design with QWERTY side-slideout keyboard that made the MDA so popular, ...
Google Proposes Innovation in Radio Spectrum Auction
Google filed a proposal on Monday with the Federal Communications Commission calling on the agency to let companies allocate radio spectrum using the same kind of real-time auction that the search eng...
Google Meme: Hot Trends Added To Google Trends
Google has launched a meme-like feature to Google Trends. The Google Trends home page now has a section named "Hot Trends," which shows the hottest queries for the day. You can also look back histor...
Michigan man arrested for using cafe's free WiFi from his car
A Michigan man is being prosecuted for using a cafe's free WiFi... from his car. Sam Peterson was arrested under a Michigan law barring access to anyone else's network without authorization, accordin...
The Future of Ask.com: Search? How About Advertising
Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has an interesting post today about Ask.com, in which he lays out his strategy for getting the search engine back on track. That caught my eye because last night wh...
Google's goal to organise your daily life
Google's ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their day...
Ask.com goes "all in"... and my strategy suggestions to help them fight the beast
Update: Josh at Read/WriteWeb dives into my suggestions and offers up some of his own. — Also, let me make one thing clear... Ask spending $100 million on this stupid "xxxx hates the algorithm" ad c...
New Microsoft-funded study finds developers don't want GPL to cover patent deals
Microsoft is expending an awful lot of time and energy to try to derail the next version of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License (GPL). — On May 22, yet another in a long line …
Music industry offers deal to small Webcasters
Facing an outcry over imminent royalty fee increases for Internet radio operators, the music industry body that lobbied for the changes has attempted a peace offering. — SoundExchange, the nonprofit...
Dell's Linux hardware support plans good news for desktop Linux
In a blog entry today, Dell has revealed new technical details that provide insight into the company's Ubuntu Linux preinstallation plans. Dell will offer a default Ubuntu installation on select syst...
Apple iPhone to be available for prepaid users?
One thing we know about the Apple iPhone launch, is that we don't really know much. Today we received a few screen shots that shed some light on one of the major questions regarding the sales of the ...
AT&T eager to wield its iWeapon
The Apple iPhone, due out next month, has been breathlessly hailed as offering consumers the ultimate wireless experience. — It also could give AT&T, its exclusive U.S. distributor, the ultimate exp...
Pandora Goes Mobile, and Sonos, and More
Music streaming service Pandora has had its ups and downs over the last two years since launching. People love to listen to their personalized radio stations that get more and more tailored as you te...
Limelight Prices IPO
Akamai rival wants to raise as much as $198 million. — Limelight Networks on Monday priced its proposed initial public offering in hopes of raising as much as $198.7 million. — Tempe, Arizona-base...
The 3D air-mouse you wear as a ring
The computer mouse and flat "desktop" themed operating systems have hardly evolved since their inception. But the recent creation of a genuine, working 3D mouse system that you wear as a ring on one ...
Microsoft Security Advisory (937696)
Release of Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) and File Block Functionality for Microsoft Office — Today we are announcing the availability of the Microsoft Office Isolated Conv...
Justin.TV Network Launches: More Shows to Come
24/7 reality online TV show Justin.tv has has turned into a bit of a mini-phenomenon since launching just two months ago. Their apartment was raided by the police, and they were later evicted by thei...
Message to Michael: Just Say, Well, No.
In what I can only describe as a sentimental-veering-toward-weepy riff on the ongoing saga of "Silicon Valley Bubble: The Sequel," TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington waxes on about the need for a do...
Limited Edition for Creed
Ubisoft's Assassin gets the special treatment. — IGN has learned that Ubisoft will announce tomorrow the release of an all-new "limited edition" version of Assassin's Creed. Scheduled for shipment ...
'Electric Slide' creator backs down from DMCA claim
The man who claims to have created the famed Electric Slide has backed down from a legal claim against an engineer who posted a YouTube video of people doing the dance, the Electronic Frontier Foundat...
Sharing the Widget Wealth
Widgets jazz up profiles and boost traffic, but eat into social networks' ad revenue. Facebook and others ponder a remedy — Call them Web page bling. They're widgets, the shareable programs that l...
Are Facebook widgets on the way?
Facebook, which says it's making a big announcement this week, is trying to keep details under wraps. But that hasn't stopped the Internet's rabid gossip mill. — Last month, word began to circulate...
Zoho Notebook looks good
Zoho, the online competitor to Microsoft office, releases its Zoho Notebook application later this evening, and it looks very good. — It edges Microsoft's competing product OneNote, and Google's Not...
Top Directors See the Future, and They Say It's in 3-D
If some prominent Hollywood directors and an Irish rock band have their way, moviegoers en masse will soon be heading back to the future, wearing newfangled 3-D glasses. — Last week the next phase i...
House passes more tech-friendly antispyware bill
In their third effort to enact a federal law targeting spyware, members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved criminal penalties aimed at anyone implanting certain ty...
CNN to Deliver More Local News On Its Web Site
Content-Swap Deal — Will Raise User Traffic; — A Push for Ad Revenue — In a strategy shift, CNN, known primarily for national and international news, is expected to announce a deal that will all...
Crave Talk: Channel 4's 4oD hamstrung by UK ISPs
Channel 4's new video on-demand service — 4oD — is a breakthrough service for the UK that allows you to freely catch up on the station's TV programming from the comfort of your desk or armchair. But ...
Tesla Motors to sell batteries in $43 million deal with Think
SAN CARLOS START-UP EYES RISING MARKET — Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric car start-up, intends to announce today that it has created a new division to sell batteries, and that it has taken...
'Electric Slide' Creator Calls Off Online Takedown Campaign
Agreement Ends Copyright Threats Over Non-Commercial Use of Popular Dance — San Francisco - The man who claims to have created "The Electric Slide" has agreed to call off his online video takedown c...
ARIN: It's time to migrate to IPv6
Today, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) published a resolution its Board of Trustees had passed on IP number availability. In short, the resolution says that since IPv4 addresses are...
Hack Attack: Automatically upload a folder's photos to Flickr
I love Flickr, but I'm terrible at uploading pics to my Flickr account. It's not that there aren't already a lot of great tools for getting photos into Flickr (there are); but I need a way to monitor...
Nortel Strong Arms Open Source Vendor
What happens when a VoIP blog (yours truly) writes about the fact that a former Nortel subsidiary (Blade Network Technologies) went looking for a new phone system, chose an open-source Asterisk-based ...
Google Made 23andMe Do It
One downside of taking venture capital from a public company is that the deal can wind up in an 8-K filing. At that point, startups have two basic choices: Ignore the filing and hope nobody notices, ...
Second Life gets a Bay State boost
Virtual world taps local technology — Second Life will soon be getting a second wind, with the help of some Bay State-bred technology. — Linden Lab, the San Francisco firm that created the popular...
LinkedIn for Good Lets You Rally for Your Cause
LinkedIn, the online social network for professionals, will announce tomorrow its new LinkedIn for Good, which is a philanthropic initiative for raising awareness and raising funds for nonprofits arou...
Google's goal to organise your daily life
Google's ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their day...
Study: Developers Do Not Want GPL 3 to Police Patents
A new Microsoft-funded study has found that open-source developers do not believe that licenses such as the upcoming GNU General Public License 3.0 should enforce software patents or prevent deals lik...
Change.org 2.0: Harass Politicians and Fund Their Opponents
We covered the social activist community Change.org when they first launched back in February. The site is one of a few philanthropic startups tailoring the latest web features for non-profits and po...
Qwest's Quest: Making Believe DSL is Faster
After spending hard time covering last year's net neutrality battles, it's easy to get used to hearing telephone companies saying up is really down, and black is really white. That's why we're not go...