Introducing Ask3D - A Truly New Way to Search
For the past several years, we have been innovating furiously to provide people with a faster, easier, and richer search experience. We've created products that go some way towards this - Smart Answe...
Hop on the bus, Gus. Or the train. Or the subway.
For some time now we have been "painting" icons for transit stops into our maps. While it was helpful to be able to see where to catch a train or bus, it left a lot of people wishing they could click...
Movable Type 4 Beta: We're On A Mission
If you're reading this blog, you probably know a lot about Movable Type. It's the power bloggers' tool, made by people who just wanted to make a good, flexible blogging application. Over half a deca...
Web Server Software and Malware
In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads. —...
Salesforce.com and Google Form Strategic Global Alliance
Two industry leading platforms come together to allow companies to acquire customers, run more efficiently and thrive — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand busi...
Apple Updates MacBook Pro
Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line — Apple® today updated its MacBook® Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo proces...
Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy
Exclusive Google has stunned the server world by acquiring superstar start-up PeakStream, The Register can confirm. — PeakStream's website and phone lines mysteriously crashed yesterday, indicating ...
Movable Type 4.0 Beta Launches, Platform To Be Open Sourced
SixApart have released a new beta version of popular blogging content management system Movable Type. — Moveable Type 4. is the first major release of Movable Type since MT 3. in 2004 and comes comp...
WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown
Movable Type has just released version 4.0 and reversed a decision that nearly killed MT 3.0 and led to the rise of WordPress — MT 4.0, currently in beta, will be released in open source later this ye...
Salesforce.com, Google release first joint product
(InfoWorld) - Salesforce.com Inc. and Google Inc. announced a strategic global partnership Tuesday, but it wasn't the widely expected tight integration between Google Apps and Salesforce.com's hosted ...
HTC Touch™ Delivers New Touch Screen Experience
HTC Device Signals New Direction In Finger Touch Navigation — HTC Corp. (TAIEX:2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Microsoft® Windows Mobile®-based smart devices, today announced the globa...
Camino 1.5 Release Notes
After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.5. This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all us...
Intel readies new chipsets
Intel is set to take the wraps off its latest chipsets and a new low-cost laptop. — Sean Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's sales and marketing group, plans to unveil t...
Apple Interview: Details on the New LED Macbook Pro
Apple's elves gave me more details about the Santa Rosa Macbook Pro. Here's some stuff you don't know about the revision. — How much battery life does the LED Backlighting save? — 30 minutes to a...
Camino 1.5
Mac users have a dizzying array of web broswers to choose from, which makes finding a favorite a tricky thing. My browser of choice has been Camino for a long, long time. It just looks like a Mac ap...
Policy updates — and it's not even Thursday!
and it's not even Thursday! — After our many weeks of policy posts on Thursdays, you're probably intimately familiar with all of our program policies. So we can imagine your surprise when you woke u...
Exclusive: iPhone Data to be Boosted by AT&T's Operation "Fine Edge"
An AT&T employee who works on Operations tells us that the carrier ordered a last-minute beefing up of its EDGE throughput, latency and coverage in anticipation of the iPhone. The operation, internal...
Movable Type 4.0 Announced - Becomes Social Media Platform
Six Apart is announcing today the beta release of Movable Type 4, a much anticipated upgrade to a blog platform that has two distinct user bases nowadays - consumer base (like R/WW, which uses MT) and...
Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional
Who said you could improve our software? — What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? — Lon...
VIA intros NanoBook Ultra Mobile Device - $600 ultraportable laptop
Uh, Palm, the Foleo just got shown up. VIA just announced the NanoBook Ultra Mobile Device, a reference design for a new ultraportable laptop which just happens to be lighter and smaller than the Fol...
Last.fm's legal trouble?
Also: Warner Music partners with Lala.com | It's bound to happen. You make a mint, and old friends come out of the woodwork. In the case of Last.fm, it's an old colleague who claims he was unfairly...
June 5, 1977: From a Little Apple a Mighty Industry Grows
1977: The Apple II, the world's first "practical" personal computer, goes on sale. — The Apple II is the computer that made Apple a driving force in a new industry. The company's original computer ...
Google and Salesforce Tightly Integrate Adwords Products
There's been a lot of speculation about Salesforce and Google lately. Tomorrow the two companies will announce a marketing and distribution alliance that will tightly bind Google Adwords to existing ...
Lawyer ratings site not without objections
A venture-capital backed Web site called Avvo.com that launches Tuesday claims to offer a "game-changing" alternative to the Yellow Pages for anyone interested in hiring a lawyer. — Avvo's plan is a...
Melodeo plans music service from iTunes playlists
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Melodeo Inc. said on Tuesday it plans to help music fans expand use of their iTunes digital music collections beyond their desktop computer and iPod by streaming songs in personal...
Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 presented
Stephane Bret, director of Porsche Design Mobile Group, holds a Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 in Essen June 4, 2007. The Porsche Design Group and Sagem Communication are presenting the first Por...
The Top 100 Alt Search Engines, June 2007
I assume that most of AltSearchEngine's readers are familiar with the Top 100 list. Here is the June Top 100 (attached spreadsheet), which we will discuss in detail below. — For those who are new, ...
Search Illustrated: Tagging Explained
Tagging is the Web 2.0 version of adding metadata to web content, but with an interesting user-generated twist that the earliest forms of metadata lacked. — A W3C recommendation document defined a s...
Intel, Asus Announce $199 'Eee PC'
TAIPEI — Asus and Intel have teamed up to develop a $199 notebook PC, the companies announced here on Tuesday. — In a keynote address given by Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel and ...
Xandros deal is Microsoft water torture strategy
Long-time readers of this blog may remember how two years ago I sat down to lunch with Marc Fleury, then running JBoss. — Fleury was celebrating because he'd signed a re-sale agreement with Microsof...
Why there's no such thing as Web 2.0
Proposed: There's no such thing as Web 2.0. — Well, that's not actually true. — Let me back up. — Here's what I think happened. — In the beginning, Web 2.0 was a conference. — As conferences...
Cellphone users try to wrest some of carriers' control
Behind rows of cellphone chargers and Bluetooth headsets at a kiosk in the Shops at the Prudential Center, Evan Silbert is quietly loosening the grip that major telecommunications companies have on th...
Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card
As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we've been migrating our crawler, Yahoo! Slurp, over to the new domain at crawl.yahoo.net. As of today, the transition is complete and all machines crawling as Slurp ...
RESIDENT EVIL 5 RELEASED BY MARCH 2008?
Capcom's president hints at a possible timetable. — We haven't heard anything about Resident Evil 5 since Capcom originally announced the game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Who knows if the compa...
Talking paper made by scientists
Digital paper that can speak to you has been created by scientists. — Researchers from Mid Sweden University have constructed an interactive paper billboard that emits recorded sound in response to ...
Intel updates compilers for multicore era
Intel has announced major updates for its C++ and Fortran tools, updates that are aimed at making it easier for programmers to exploit thread-level and data-level parallelism in multicore processors. ...
Listen to Music Free, but Pay to Carry
The music industry is so desperate for new ways to make money that a Silicon Valley start-up is trying a counterintuitive approach: giving the music away as a way to jump-start sales. — Starting tod...
Microsoft to unify MSN, Xbox and Zune with Ignition music platform
Once upon a time, Microsoft proposed a huge network of media, music and gaming that would span multiple devices: Windows computers, Xbox game consoles, and even Zune media players. It was quite the p...
Hop on the bus, Gus. Or the train. Or the subway.
For some time now we have been "painting" icons for transit stops into our maps. While it was helpful to be able to see where to catch a train or bus, it left a lot of people wishing they could click...
Warner Group in Deal to Offer Free Music via Internet Site
Major labels have fought several legal battles to try to keep fans from listening to music without paying for it. Now one label, the Warner Music Group, has made a deal with an Internet start-up, Lal...
Exclusive: iPhone Data to be Boosted by AT&T's Operation "Fine Edge"
An AT&T employee who works on Operations tells us that the carrier ordered a last-minute beefing up of its EDGE throughput, latency and coverage in anticipation of the iPhone. The operation, internal...
Rockstar Dismisses Talk of GTA IV Delay
Analyst speculation turns out to be ... speculation. — Two of of the biggest games due in 2007 are Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV. As luck would have it, they're coming out within a couple weeks of...