Come check out the refreshed www.technorati.com!
I've got some wonderful news, six month's hard work of our entire team has just gone out the door. http://www.technorati.com/ — We just launched a major refresh to www.technorati.com. Some of the c...
Sprint to offer Pandora streaming radio
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sprint Nextel Corp. has teamed with Pandora Media Inc., a popular online music service, to deliver personalized streaming radio to its mobile phone users. — Pandora is a free Inte...
Search without boundaries
Posted by Franz Och, Research Scientist; Maureen Heymans, Software Engineer; and Jeff Chin, International Product Manager — One of our goals at Google is to provide access to all the world's informa...
Prototype Of Pandora Wifi Device Shown Tonight In San Francisco
Pandora made a number of announcements tonight at a press/user event at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, which we covered earlier. Deals with Sonos and Sprint were announced that bring Pand...
Sony handheld to offer net calls
Owners of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld console will soon be able to make voice and video calls over a wireless internet connection. — Using a soon-to be-released camera and microphone,...
Google is failing the Microsoft litmus test
If you want to evaluate the "evil" quotient of any company's strategy/behavior, consider how you'd feel about it if it were Microsoft in the driver seat. — Robert McLaws of Windows-Now.com fame remi...
$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed
Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal...
No FFXIII This Year
Just in case you were still hoping. — Did that updated Final Fantasy XIII trailer (you know, the one you weren't able to see because filming was not allowed) from the Square Enix Party get you even ...
AdSense coming to a video near you
You've heard the expression "Content is king." We completely agree, and we also realize that these days website content is much more than just text — it's also video. That's why we're excited to ann...
Google turns the page... in a bad way.
This is a long post but it's worth the read. In short, Google and Dell have teamed up to install some software on Dell computers that borders on being spyware. I say spyware because it's hard to fig...
Nintendo Targets 35 Million Wii Console Sales in U.S. (Update3)
Nintendo Co., the world's largest maker of handheld game players, expects to sell as many as 35 million Wii consoles in the U.S. and approach the record 38.2 million PlayStation 2s sold by Sony Corp. ...
U.S. may get 80GB PlayStation 3
Sony said Wednesday that it is considering putting out a new version of its struggling PlayStation 3 video game console in the United States with an 80GB hard drive. That's the storage capacity that ...
Proof-of-concept virus gives insight into OpenOffice.org security failings
A group of malware developers have produced a proof-of-concept virus that uses OpenOffice macros. The virus, which is embedded in a specially crafted OpenOffice Draw document, can execute scripts wit...
Pageflakes Targets Groups With Pagecasts
Personalized desktop startup Pageflakes has long offered collaborative desktop sharing, allowing users to share pages within a private group, edited by multiple people, or published to the world. Fro...
Global Voices wins Knight Foundation News Challenge
I'm at the Editor and Publisher and Adweek "Interactive Media" conference today because the Knight Foundation is announcing its News Challenge winners this morning at the conference. Global Voices ha...
New Version of BlueOrganizer Launched - Semantic Web In Action?
Today AdaptiveBlue released a new version of its BlueOrganizer product, a Firefox extension that aims to provide extra contextual information to you while browsing the Web. Basically after you instal...
Knight Foundation grant
I'm thrilled to announce some huge news: I've been awarded a grant by the Knight Foundation, as part of the Knight News Challenge program. — I'll be founding a Web startup, EveryBlock, that focuses ...
Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB
Gmail upgraded the maximum attachment size from 10 MB to 20 MB. Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases, but now it's possible to send at least 20 MB in one message...
Google Can't Google?
Last year Google tried to convince me to join their ranks. I had a nice trip to Mountain View, a pleasant day of interviews, and a glimpse inside of their campus. All pretty cool. I ended up shutti...
POD IT AWAY!
COMPUTER giants Apple are really worked up—over an Ann Summers sex toy that hooks up to your iPod. — Women all over Britain are saying yes, yes, yes to the £30 iGasm that plugs into a music player a...
Vista no panacea for PC sales
Although Microsoft has characterized itself as happy with Vista adoption so far—and Bill Gates said last week at WinHEC that Microsoft had shipped 40 million copies—the release of the new operating sy...
Skype Worm Variant Targets Other Instant Messaging Clients
Background: In recent months, there have been a number of so-called "Skype Worms" that have been spread in a similar fashion as an Instant Messaging infection - user is sent malicious link, user click...
Google Investing in Company Started by Co-Founder's Wife
In Silicon Valley's version of "The Bachelor," Anne Wojcicki not only landed one of America's richest men, Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, but she also got her husband's company to finance her st...
GPL author: Google must share code
(InfoWorld) - Companies like Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said...
Tribler is BitTorrent for the LongTail
Denmark-based Tribler is a BitTorrent client that works on a recommendation system similar to Last.fm for finding new media based on your downloading history. The non-profit group has caught the eye ...
Is the Google Video PlusBox Fair?
There's an interesting imbalance being created by Google's recent integration of videos right into their search results in the form of a PlusBox. For instance, when I search for finger flip flop vide...
State of the Art: How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry
When you whip out a BlackBerry or a Treo in public, what does it say about you? — You might think that it says: "I'm an important person who can't afford to be out of touch. I can do e-mail all day...
European Police Probe Sex-Abuse Allegations in 'Second Life'
A Web site in which users travel through a virtual world in the guise of an invented character is under police investigation over claims of online sexual abuse. — Police in Britain, Belgium and the ...
EQO Mobile Launches, Giving You a New Mobile VoIP Solution
We go hands-on with EQO Mobile's mobile VoIP and instant-messaging functions. — If making VoIP (Voice over the Internet) calls from your home was the buzz of yesterday, making VoIP calls from your c...
New superfast wireless broadband device prototype submitted to FCC
While the Federal Communications Commission moves ahead with planning for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, the White Space Coalition has submitted a second prototype white space wireless broadban...
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES GROW 35% IN '06, HITTING A RECORD CLOSE TO $17 BILLION
Fourth Quarter '06 Revenues Total $4.8 Billion, Marking Highest Revenue Quarter Ever — New York, NY May 23, 2007 - The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) …
Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact
SAN FRANCISCO—Novell will share details of its patent pact with Microsoft this month in a regulatory filing that had been delayed by a stock option investigation. — Novell plans to reveal the detail...
Microsoft Focuses on Interoperability for the Identity Metasystem
Leading an industrywide effort to develop increased identity assurances online, Microsoft announces the development of several projects. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a series of offerings that ...
The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
Hasan Elahi whips out his Samsung Pocket PC phone and shows me how he's keeping himself out of Guantanamo. He swivels the camera lens around and snaps a picture of the Manhattan Starbucks where we're...
Firmware 1.80 to include 1080p upscaling for games and movies
Sony has officially unveiled plans for PS3 firmware 1.80. This update looks to be the most significant yet. Here's a breakdown of what to expect: — Full 1080p upscaling for DVDs, PS2 and PS1 games.
Newspapers want Google News' quarter
For years now, newspapers have quietly watched Google index their headlines and offer users a synopsis of their stories without paying them a dime. — Google is supposed to make it easier for newspap...
Apple will be bigger than IBM
Arguably two of America's best run companies are Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM). Both have achieved high levels of success and shareholders have been rewarde...
Wikipedia for Data - Freebase
Want to know how many dentists are in one mile vicinity, if they are next to tube stop and are specialists in teeth whitening? Freebase say they can not only give you this information, but that the d...
Rooftop Media raises $2.5M for "middle tail" comedy video site
Rooftop Media is a company that publishes video video of stand-up comedy performances in clubs around the nation, featuring artists who may not make it to the big leagues of Comedy Central. — The Sa...
Internet tax ban meets resistance in Senate
(InfoWorld) - Several U.S. senators questioned whether to extend a ban on access and other Internet-only taxes, at least in their current form, during a hearing Wednesday. — The current moratorium o...
PlentyOfFish Owner Has the Perfect Bait For a Huge Success
The headquarters of what may be, on a per-capita basis, the busiest, most profitable site on the entire World Wide Web is on the 16th floor of a brand-new Vancouver building with panoramic views of th...
CNN's online Pipeline will stream for free
The free-lunch-on-the-Internet crowd has won another round. — CNN is giving up on the idea of charging for CNN Pipeline, launched in late 2005 as a $25-a-year service providing four "streams" of vid...
BT and Sony to offer advanced communications for the PSP
BT and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) have signed a groundbreaking deal to transform the PSP (PlayStation®Portable) gaming device by adding wireless broadband communications functions, incl...
Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB
Gmail upgraded the maximum attachment size from 10 MB to 20 MB. Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases, but now it's possible to send at least 20 MB in one message...