Google Frames a Video Search Engine
Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result. The frame lets you rate the video, share it, and watch related videos. ...
Microsoft and Linspire Collaboration Promotes Interoperability and Customer Choice
Broad agreement will facilitate interoperability between Windows and Linux, provide intellectual property assurance. — Today Microsoft Corp. and Linux desktop provider Linspire Inc. announced a broa...
Housekeeping: Owen Thomas is the Valleywag
Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor whom we've lured to run Valleywag, is all smiles. But don't be deceived. This Silicon Valley gossip rag, after he takes over in July as managing editor, will rem...
Google Gives Up on Competing With eBay's Big Boston Party
It had all the appearances of a marketing stunt gone awry, the Internet industry's version of a wily playground taunt that quickly escalated into a tense standoff, until the taunter — Google, in this ...
Sprint Explores Options for WiMax
Sprint Nextel Corp. is exploring new options for financing its ambitious plan to build a wireless broadband network known as WiMax, including forming a partnership or joint venture with cellphone pion...
Veoh Hosts $26 Million Round
Updated Veoh may no longer host popular adult videos, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from backing up the Brink's truck. peHUB has learned that the San Diego-based company recently raised ...
The CNN/YouTube debates
Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube — Back in March we kicked off our You Choose '08 program, a hub of political channels on YouTube designed to educate, empower, and connect v...
Sprint: Rethinking WiMAX?
Sprint, which broke away from the cellular camp, and bet big on WiMAX as its technology of choice for high-speed wireless connectivity, is apparently rethinking its strategy, mostly under pressure fro...
Taking a detailed look at Windows Vista DVD hologram
An astute Windows user was intrigued by the holographic image on the face of the Windows Vista Business DVD and decided to take a much closer look, discovering in the margin a microscopic photograph o...
SIA Forecast: Semiconductor Industry Sales Will Grow by 1.8 Percent in 2007
Declining Prices in Key Market Segments Result in Slower Growth — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sharp declines in average selling prices (ASPs) for microchips in several key market segments - mic...
YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation
The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format. — A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other people in suits. The voter is a fixture in the...
Facebook's Infrastructure Non Issues
A story in the Times of London asserts that the recent success of Facebook platform had the Palo Alto-based hot social environment scrambling for server space, and had to raise emergency cash in order...
Windows Ultimate Extras is a sham - where's the responsibility?
I was going to write about this on June 30, because that would have marked the half-year anniversary of Windows Vista, but since Josh Phillips has already started the conversation, I thought I should ...
New Pictures of 2nd GPU HeatSink on Xbox 360 - Update: Video
>> =Ikari= sent us these pictures of his Xbox360 he just got back from repair (after RoD problem) ... another confirmation of the new 2nd heatsink/pipe technology we talked about yesterday that Micros...
NBC Developing Web Site for Students
Imagine Tim Russert introducing a classroom history lesson about the Articles of Confederation, or Brian Williams describing the reverberations of the Stamp Act. — NBC News actually has, and in a fo...
A Picture's Worth 100M Users???
Steve Job's keynote at WWDC this year inspired some and was disappointing to others — but, as usual, it was interesting & entertaining. I've always liked Apple's products, and spend an embarrassing a...
Apple iPhone sighting?
Looks like they're out there, and no, we don't just mean in Walt and David's hands...we mean out there. Check out this flick of someone using what almost definitely appears to be an iPhone. He's all...
FBI tries to fight zombie hordes
The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals. — The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home comp...
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away?
How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own? Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long. Over the last couple of years...
Home Entertainment: Samsung 70-inch LCD TV Has Local LED Backlighting
The Samsung Intergalactic Empire keeps presenting hot models left and right. And some LCD televisions too, like this 1080p 70-inch model they introduced today in Korea, the first commercial Full HD T...
SOA - dead or alive?
Can it deliver on its promises? — Comment Service oriented architectures, or SOAs, have been positioned as the great leap forwards in how IT will finally come to be the major facilitator to the busi...
Safari 3.01 released
Apple has just released version 3.01 of their Safari web browser, together with some release notes on their Security-announce mailing list. As you can see from those release notes the vulnerability t...
The Tech Lab: Dave Winer
Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his personal view on technologies he would like to see in existence one day. — I'm a blogger, therefore...
Europe Unveils Space Plane for Tourist Market
PARIS - Europe's biggest aerospace company, EADS, has concluded that carrying wealthy tourists to 100 kilometers in altitude for several minutes of weightlessness could be a multibillion-dollar indust...
Safari for Windows Public Beta Downloads Top 1 Million in First 48 Hours
Apple® today announced that more than 1 million copies of Safari™ for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.
Mobile phone groups take on iPhone
The mobile phone industry will on Thursday launch a challenge to Apple's iPhone, by unveiling a low-cost, flat-rate music service that can be accessed on most handsets in Europe and Asia. — The Musi...
Founders sell as Codemasters is driven towards a flotation
Codemasters, the computer games developer behind the Colin McRae rally series, is preparing for a £200 million-plus flotation in the next year, after its principal investor completed the buyout of the...
The state of our video ID tools
Recent speculation and stories like this Wall Street Journal piece by Kevin Delaney, "YouTube to Test Software To Ease Licensing Fights," or this Reuters report on YouTube's use of video identificatio...
Apple releases Windows Safari 3.0.1, squishes security bugs
Looks like Apple's issued a new version of the public beta of Safari for Windows today — highest on the list of fixes were patches for thee three separate security vulnerabilities that cropped up mere...
Boston U student fights RIAA attempt to discover names behind IP addresses
As part of its stepped-up efforts against file-sharing on college campuses, the RIAA has begun filing lawsuits against college students who don't take advantage of the group's discounted settlement of...
FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions ...
a few changes
For the last two years, I have had a fantastic time helping to build Google Webmaster Central. I have loved working with the (ever-expanding!) team, writing about search on the blog and for the help ...
Microsoft Signs Another Linux Deal
Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it will license instant messaging and digital media technology to a small desktop Linux distributor, Linspire Inc., adding to a growing number of deals meant t...
Advertising Is Content... In The YouTube Era
For many years, we've been discussing that ads are content and that content are ads — and thinking that the two are somehow separate limits your business model options. A few weeks back, at the Mesh ...
Britannica Stirs the Pot
I love it when my predictions come true. Britannica is indeed using Gorman's gorp to stir the pot (or hold a "forum," as they think of it), as the following email that flew into my inbox this morning...
iPhone disappoints mobile developers
San Francisco (InfoWorld) - No one ever said Apple marketers weren't clever. So if they wanted to start a firestorm of ISVs developing applications for the iPhone, how better to do that than to make ...
We have just reached a new milestone, Release Candidate 1!
Welcome to the Windows Home Server page on Microsoft Connect - Microsoft's community destination for downloading beta products. — If you wish to participate in Windows Home Server evaluation program...
The state of our video ID tools
Recent speculation and stories like this Wall Street Journal article or this Reuters report on YouTube's use of video identification tools made us think it would be useful to clarify what we're doing....
Home Entertainment: Samsung 70-inch LCD TV Has Local LED Backlighting
The Samsung Intergalactic Empire keeps presenting hot models left and right. And some LCD televisions too, like this 1080p 70-inch model they introduced today in Korea, the first commercial Full HD T...
FTC Launches More Reviews Of Web Ad Deals
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating two more mergers in the fast-growing online-advertising industry. — The FTC is conducting antitrust reviews of Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion bid for aQua...