The State of Search Engine Safety
Overall, 4.0% of search results link to risky Web sites, which marks an improvement from 5.0% in May 2006. Dangerous sites are found in search results of all 5 of the top US search engines (represent...
Launch date for iPhone revealed
Apple has confirmed that its much-anticipated iPhone product will launch on 29 June in the US. — The date was given in a series of TV adverts broadcast on Sunday, and was later confirmed by a spokes...
Bono and Rubinstein plan to shake Palm
Palm sells 25 per cent stake to Bono's Elevation Partners and invites key former iPod chief to shake up the Treo maker — Palm has sold a 25 per cent stake to a private equity partner in a move that ...
Yahoo opens Panama search ad platform
Yahoo announced Monday that its Panama search advertising platform is now open to third parties. — Under Panama, which was launched in February, sponsored search results are based on items such as r...
Palm to Sell 25% Stake, Overhaul Board
Palm Inc., facing mounting competition in the smart-phone market, is selling a 25% stake to a private-equity partner that will bring former Apple Inc. executives to the maker of hand-held electronic d...
Sony price cut for Blu-ray player
Sony has cut $100 (£50) off the price of its new next-generation DVD player as it tries to get ahead in the market. — The BDP-S300 now costs $499 - half what the firm's first Blu-ray player cost at ...
Microsoft, Xandros Broad Collaboration Agreement Extends Bridge Between Commercial Open Source and Microsoft Software
REDMOND, Washington, and NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire/ — Agreement enhances mixed-source customer choice and features business, technical and IP collaboration.
Apple iPhone details a plenty
Now that we all know when the iPhone is dropping, some further details about Apple's upcoming wireless Coup de'Tat are in order. Here's a short rundown for your viewing pleasure: — 1. The iPhone wi...
Microsoft teams with Linux distributor Xandros
Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Monday a technical and legal collaboration, the latest step in the software giant's ongoing program to partner with open-source companies. — Over...
Sony cuts price on new Blu-ray player
NEW YORK - With dominance of the market for high-definition movie discs still up in the air, Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). said Monday it is including a small surprise with the new Blu-ray disc player ...
A Start-Up's Risky Niche: Movie-Based Videogames
LOS ANGELES — For decades, videogame companies have drawn inspiration from Hollywood, borrowing movie characters, settings and story lines for game titles. But the results have been decidedly mixed, ...
Some VERY Interesting iPhone Developments
More info from around the proverbial "industry water cooler" has come out today on the iPhone. Some interesting tidbits are starting to put the puzzle pieces together on how the iPhone will operate w...
A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today
A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today — Your Click Charges to be Based on Quality of Traffic — Yahoo! Search Marketing is rolling out a new feature that we think will help enhance the quality, poten...
By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0
Because of Truemors, I've learned a lot about launching a company in these "Web 2.0" times. Here's quick overview "by the numbers." — 0. I wrote 0 business plans for it.
Hearst-Argyle, YouTube to Share Revenue From TV Video Clips
Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., one of the nation's largest operators of local TV stations, will distribute news, weather and entertainment video to Google Inc.'s YouTube in a revenue-sharing agreement...
Google As Terror Tool?
One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted faci...
Microsoft Details Dynamic IT Strategy at Tech •Ed 2007
Bob Muglia demonstrates new technology innovations designed to help IT professionals and developers evolve their organizations. — ORLANDO, Fla. — June 4, 2007 — Bob Muglia, senior vice president of ...
FSF says GPLv3 means Microsoft patent protection for all
Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3 users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux distribution, acc...
Ex-Cisco Executive to Lead Joost, Internet TV Provider
Michelangelo Volpi spent 5 of his 13 years at Cisco Systems selling networking equipment to the companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable that bring television into living rooms. — Now he is tryi...
Specialized Software Maker Is Said to Be in Buyout Talks
Cadence Design Systems, one of the largest makers of the software used to design computer chips, is in talks with at least two buyout firms about a possible sale of the company, two people close to th...
Launching US Ghosty
So we gone dun it. The event I briefly alluded to in a post on Friday happened: we unleashed our Ghost Detector on America! — This was a really really big deal for us, for lots of reasons. We've b...
Rocketboom Sponsorship Launch
Tomorrow on Monday we will be launching a new sponsorship model on Rocketboom! — Just over a year ago, we ran out money for Rocketboom. … The plan had materialized months prior but I never wanted to...
Microsoft: Silicon Valley Team Building Stealth Search Engine
Microsoft has gathered a team of twenty or more "rock star" developers who've been tasked at building their next generation search engine, a source has told us. The team, which supposedly came togeth...
Dell XPS m1330 performance ultraportable revealed
We've got the scoop on some early marketing materials / renders for Dell XPS m1330, and we have to say, this is as impressed as we've ever been with a Dell laptop. Check it out: — 13.3-inch screen, ...
N.Y.-based IAC to open Bay Area venture
FIRM'S STYLE ALARMS SOME AREA START-UPS — IAC/InterActive Corp., the New York-based media and e-commerce conglomerate run by former Hollywood mogul Barry Diller, already has pieced together an empir...
Brits Drop 850,000 Phones Down the Toilet - Each Year
If you've ever found yourself trying to fish your mobile out of the toilet, you're not alone. A staggering 855,000 handsets are flushed away every year in the UK - that's roughly £342 million we're '...
Baidu bowls Google a fastball
Baidu.com, China's largest internet search engine, is understood to be planning to take on Google by expanding into Europe. — Baidu.com, China's largest internet search engine, is understood to be p...