Media Alert: New York, New York, in 3-D — Seeing Is Believing
Seeing Is Believing — Live Search Maps launches photo-realistic 3-D imagery of New York City, several other cities. — Have you always wanted to visit New York City, but never had the chance to make...
Google Acquires GreenBorder - First Step Towards Google Antivirus?
Google's acquisition spree shows no signs of stopping: now the company has acquired Mountain View-based GreenBorder, which creates security software. It's an interesting idea: the software creates a ...
More Bandwidth Than You Can Use?
Companies such as Verizon are starting to offer Internet connection speeds that are 5 to 30 times faster than standard cable or DSL lines — From the moment the first phone-line modems squawked to li...
Where 2.0: Google Launches Streetside View with Tech from ImmersiveMedia
This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition. Its a street-view, that in certain cities, will let you get a street side view of the area you are currently in. This is not ...
The Buffett mystery
Are Jimmy and Warren related? And how did Google co-founder Sergey Brin's wife get involved? Fortune's Matthew Boyle reports on the resolution of a mystery. — (Fortune Magazine) — Did you hear the...
Did Quanta just confirm a second-gen iPhone?
Rumors, reports and now a seeming confirmation that Quanta will also be building the Apple iPhone sees Quanta's statement point to a second generation model, which another report suggests could come w...
The Slurpr WiFi aggregator promises "free" broadband — and jail time
and jail time — Oh my, the 5-0 won't like this one bit. Meet The Slurpr, a WiFi access point which aggregates up to six "available" (read: unprotected) 54Mbps WiFi channels into one bigazz, "free" c...
VeriSign Board of Directors Elects William A. Roper, Jr. as Chief Executive Officer and Edward A. Mueller as Chairman
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—(MARKET WIRE)—May 29, 2007 — VeriSign, Inc. (NasdaqGS:VRSN - News) — Stratton D. Sclavos Steps Down as Chief Executive Officer and member
Selling Web Advertising Space Like Pork Bellies
Exchanges That Pair Buyers, — Sellers for Available Ad Slots — Attract Internet Giants — The next big Internet race might turn the buying and selling of advertising space on Web sites into the o...
TV under pressure in online shift, says Sorrell
Television broadcasters face "severe pressure" as advertisers abandon traditional media in favour of the internet, Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, the world's second-biggest advertising company, told...
DIY PR
My buddy, Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, had a strong reaction to last week's post about PR by Marge Zable Fisher. So much so that he penned an alternate solution to the challenge of a good client-...
At Some Schools, Facebook Evolves From Time Waster to Academic Study
As recent graduates, several of Hung Truong's classmates will be headed for typical next steps in their technology careers: working as programmers or pursuing master's degrees in computer science.
Microsoft's Zune: Still Shy of 1 Million Sales
The San Francisco Chronicle generated a lot of buzz for Microsoft (MSFT) yesterday by printing a claim that the software giant had already sold more than a million Zunes — which would put it ahead of ...
Cyberattack in Estonia—what it really means
what it really means — newsmaker When it comes to denial-of-service attacks, Jose Nazario has seen just about everything. — As senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, Nazario closely monitors...