AT&T girds for iPhone launch on June 29
For consumers eager to get their hands on an Apple iPhone, here's the good news: It will be available in all 1,800 AT&T phone stores at 6 p.m. sharp on June 29. — The bad news? "We fully expect one...
Who should buy Yahoo? Handicapping 5 likely suitors
At least Yahoo can't complain this week about Google grabbing all the headlines. — While Google has been dishing out the usual morsels of news - tweaks to Google Video, YouTube and Google Office - e...
AT&T Hires 2,000 Extra Employees For iPhone Launch
Never again do I want to hear people complaining that they couldn't find a summer job. Seems AT&T is so confident that people will show up for the iPhone in droves, it has taken the liberty of hiring...
Internet radio to go silent on June 26?
If you depend on the sounds of Internet radio to get you through your workday, don't be surprised if your headphones pipe out little more than dead air next Tuesday. — In protest of the elevated roy...
CEO: Sony is shifting to recovery mode
TOKYO - Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer promised Thursday to shift the struggling electronics giant from recovery to growth and to make the PlayStation 3 a profit driver despite its bungled rollou...
Sony, Nintendo forbid AO-rated Manhunt 2
Console-makers confirm policies preventing licensed third parties from releasing Adults Only games on their systems, effectively banning the Rockstar title. — When Take-Two Interactive yesterday con...
The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Image Hosting
ImgBay is one of the many side-projects The Pirate Bay is working on at the moment. Last month we found out that the Pirate Bay has plans to compete with YouTube, and now it seems that they also want...
Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital
to Benchmark Capital — Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex — this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. — Bret Taylor (left) and Jim Norris (righ...
'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll
LONDON (AFP) - "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday. — EU body to e...
Tech blogs go from hobbies to businesses
ATHERTON, Calif. — "Om (Malik) and I love scotch," Michael Arrington says. "But we never drink anymore." — The two friends no longer have the time or energy, in part because they're too busy compet...
Danal, another mobile payments company, launches
Danal, a company that wants to let young people use cellphones to make payments without owning a credit card, is about to launch in the U.S. with a separate subsidiary, according to the WSJ. — It le...
Sony to boost PS3 software to reverse slump: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) expects a sharp increase in the number of games released for the PlayStation 3 this business year, in a move that should help the game c...
Simple Spark: A Catalog Of Web Applications
New York based Simple Spark aims to make finding web applications easy through an extensive catalog of online application sites. — Over 3000 web applications are tracked and categorized with screens...
Apple Suck-Up Watch
IT'S NOT JUST A NEW KIND OF CELL PHONE, IT'S A CULTURAL WATERSHED! — iPhone — The press corps' love for all things Apple routinely swells and bursts in a dewy explosion whenever the company readie...
A New Way to Pay - Google Expands Pay-Per-Action for Google AdWords™
Google announced today the worldwide expansion of its pay-per-action advertising beta. Pay-per-action is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when a pre-defined action is completed...
New N95 Firmware Coming
Seems everything's getting a nice little refresh lately, with the N73 and N80, and now I've gotten these screenshots showing the N95 with a fresh firmware (dated yesterday, no less!) I didn't get an ...
EU says Apple has responded to iTunes deadline; EU 'studying it carefully'
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said Apple Inc responded to a midnight deadline yesterday in relation to antitrust concerns over the pricing of songs on its iTunes online music ...
Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying
The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD Copy Control Associ...
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up?
Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing ...
BBC reporter tours Turkey in social media experiment
The BBC has dispatched reporter Ben Hammersley to spend two weeks using new social media web tools to cover the run-up to the July general election. — He will visit four cities and report for BBC Wo...
Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days
The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day —including weekends— to implemen...
The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround!
So you've been hired/promoted/brought out of retirement to become CEO of and turn around your NASDAQ/NYSE/LSE-listed 5,000+ employee software/semiconductor/media company that's recently been getting t...
Short Descriptions Now Live
Ad descriptions longer than 70 characters on Yahoo! in the U.S. will now be cut off — Starting today, ads that appear in U.S. Yahoo! Search results with descriptions longer than 70 characters will b...
Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report
I was somewhat surprised (but pleased) at the level of interest back when I published my Windows Vista - 90 Day Vulnerability Report. It was about the earliest span of time I thought might give us so...
Compiz-Fusion arrives
A new merged community around Compiz project would be known as Compiz-Fusion, details of the announcement here on Compiz Mailing List. — It is not just a new name, quitely behind the scenes develope...
Google says Vista search changes not enough
As we reported yesterday, Microsoft's "capitulation" to Google's antitrust complaint isn't as much a capitulation as the mainstream media was reporting. We inspected Microsoft's joint filing and foun...
The Pirate Bay Launches Image Hosting
Us pirates know that The Pirate Bay team has been working on several new projects, with one of them becoming a competitor to YouTube. For now though, we've been blessed with BayImg, a unique image ho...