AT&T and Apple Announce Simple, Affordable Service Plans for iPhone
All Plans Include Unlimited Data & Visual Voicemail — AT&T Inc. and Apple® today announced three simple, affordable service plans for iPhone™ which start at just $59.99 per month.
Web Radio Stations Hope Silence Speaks Volumes About Fee Hike
No, music fans, there isn't a problem with your Web connection — it's just that many Internet radio stations are deliberately offline today. — Many Web-based music services and some conventional rad...
The iPhone Is Breakthrough Handheld Computer
One of the most important trends in personal technology over the past few years has been the evolution of the humble cellphone into a true handheld computer, a device able to replicate many of the key...
Yahoo! Music goes radio silent
Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to free LAUNCHcast today. We're shutting down the Internet's #1 radio service for the day to draw attention to the outrageous rates recently set by the Co...
Sorry CNET, You've Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn
The blogosphere (but not CNET) seems to have moved on from this weekend's diversionary game of whack-a-blogger. Valleywag started the mud slinging by suggesting that a bunch of FM authors, including ...
The First Apple iPhone Display Goes Up In Seattle and No, It's Not The One You've Already Seen
Score one for my homies on the West Coast, the first iPhone kiosk has gone up in Seattle. The display is looping a video of the UI, docks to charge your iPod while you drool over the video and "alarm...
An entirely new way to stay organized
Posted by: Ron Schneider, Technical Lead, Google Docs & Spreadsheets — Today we introduced some exciting changes to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. — Here's what's new: — Looking pretty - The entire ...
Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search
Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query results via a live feed from Flickr; so once an image i...
Digitalsmiths's VideoSense gets $6 million
And the video advertising buildup continues. Latest to claim a share of the projected $4.8 billion video advertising market is the North Carolina based 9 year old company, Digitalsmiths Corporation. ...
Apple: iPhone Line Has Started...100-Hours Early
Two dudes are already waiting in line at the NYC 5th Avenue Apple flagship store. Even for the PS3, PS2, and Wii, I've never seen a 100-hour lead time on a gadget queue. I'm disgusted, but also kind...
GOOGLE EARTH ANNOUNCES FORMAL NONPROFIT INITIATIVE
At an event in Google's New York offices on Tuesday, the company unveiled a new initiative to make its Google Earth geography software a more accessible tool for nonprofit organizations. — "We're no...
Insanity: First iPhone line forms in Manhattan (four days early)
Two individuals can now flaunt the crown of "the very first iPhone line waiters", having camped out Monday morning on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk more than four days before the Apple device is due to...
Why we're buying DoubleClick
In April we announced that we're buying DoubleClick, a leading company in the ad serving business. When we made this announcement, we gave some of our reasons. But because online advertising is comp...
LinkedIn marks progress to IPO, hires ex-Tivo CFO
Armed with a bevy of new managers from top Silicon Valley firms and explosively growing revenues, business networking site LinkedIn Corp. is gearing up to become one of the first big post-dotcom Inter...
'Vista-Only' Titles Cracked
Hacking group warez has released a patch allowing gamers to run Halo 2 and Shadowrun, both released by Microsoft as Windows Vista-only titles, on the firm's older Windows XP operating system. — It h...
Digitalsmiths Gets $6M for Video Ads
Digitalsmiths, with $6 million in hand, is the latest company to enter the contextual video ad market. Just yesterday we had ribbed the video search engine blinkx for being relatively late to market....
AOL takes page from blogs, relaunches news
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. plans to launch a test of its overhauled news portal on Tuesday, drawing influences from the uncluttered design of popular Internet blogs. — The online division...
IBM turbo charges world's fastest supercomputer
Blue Gene has long division licked. Next: killer sudoku — IBM has unleashed a new iteration of its chess-playing powerhouse Blue Gene, which it also reckons is useful in academic and commercial fie...
Google calls for more limits on Microsoft
Google on Monday called on a judge to extend part of the US government's four-year antitrust scrutiny of Microsoft, intensifying a lobbying battle in which the arch-rivals have sought to limit each ot...
Day of silence for Net broadcasters
ACTION TO PROTEST SONG FEES STATIONS SAY COULD SHUT THEM DOWN — When 29 million music listeners turn to their favorite Internet radio stations today, many will be greeted with the sound of silence -...
Sun Supercomputer Waits on AMD Chips
As Sun Microsystems Inc. prepares to demonstrate a new high-performance computer Tuesday at a technology conference in Germany, it hopes that quad-core processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. that...
DON'T GET 'HUNG UP' ON BUYING AN IPHONE
TENS of thousands of people are expected to line up this Friday for themost hyped gadget of the decade - the iPhone. — Don't be one of them. — Oh, it's a technological marvel. But Apple's all-in-...
Shut Up About the iPhone, Already!
This is the last week of Apple iPhone hype, hyperbole, and hand-wringing. Oh wait, I mean the last week of pre-iPhone hype, hyperbole, and hand-wringing—we have a few more post-iPhone months left on ...
Dow Jones, News Corp. Agree On Set of Editorial Protections
Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. have agreed in principle on a set of editorial protections for Dow Jones, according to people familiar with the matter. — The two sides finalized the last points on th...
Modder faces jail time after raid turns up counterfeit games, mod chips
A San Diego-area man has been arrested and charged with 10 felonies relating to selling pirated games and modding consoles. Frederick Brown was taken into custody earlier this month after his home wa...
Topix Cracks the Top 20 & Gets a New Suit
For the first time, Topix hit the top 20 most visited news and info sites, according to Hitwise May 2007 data. I'm especially happy about this, since the other big news is that Rich is stepping up to...
We go round and round
As you'll recall, we recently introduced new formats for AdSense ads. This week, we've added a new dimension for publishers in customizing these ad formats. You've long been able to customize the si...
U.S. Net access not all that speedy
The USA trails other industrialized nations in high-speed Internet access and may never catch up unless quick action is taken by public-policymakers, a report commissioned by the Communications Worker...
Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook
Guest post: AccMan blogger and deep thinker on enterprise software Dennis Howlett, offers his take on Facebook as an enterprise, not just consumer, play and patches together opinions from the Enterpri...
Lijit raises $3.3M for intimate blog search
Lijit, a provider of a more extensive search service for blogs, has said it raised a $3.3M second round of funding. — Lijit, of Louisville, Colorado, doesn't limit readers to searching blog posts. ...
Closing Threadwatch This Friday
I hate to do this, but this Friday I am closing Threadwatch. I don't think the site died at any specific point, it has been more of a process, which I will outline below: — When the site was create...
Psion: the last computer
EC threat to BBC over downloads
The BBC has been accused of forcing people to use Microsoft operating systems and has been threatened with a complaint to the European Commission. — The charge concerns the use of Microsoft technolo...
M:METRICS REPORTS APRIL RANKINGS OF MOBILE WEB COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND UNITED KINGDOM
M:Metrics, the mobile market authority, today announced the rankings of the top mobile Web companies among smartphone users in the United States and the United Kingdom, for the month of April.
Spock - Vertical Search Done Right
There has been quite a lot of buzz lately around a vertical search engine for people, called Spock. While still in private beta, the engine has already impressed users with its rich feature set and s...
Another Facebook App Acquisition: Slide buys Favorite Peeps for $60k
Following on the heels of last week's acquisition of Extended Info by SideStep, I received a tip today that widget maker Slide has acquired Facebook application Favorite Peeps for a reported $60,000.
Dell colors its laptop world
SAN FRANCISCO — Business computer-maker Dell plans to start aggressively courting consumers Tuesday— in part with new laptops colored flamingo pink. — The No. 2 PC maker has always offered some cons...
Google calls for more limits on Microsoft
Google on Monday called on a judge to extend part of the US government's four-year antitrust scrutiny of Microsoft, intensifying a lobbying battle in which the arch-rivals have sought to limit each ot...
Apple: iPhone Line Has Started...100-Hours Early
Two dudes are already waiting in line at the NYC 5th Avenue Apple flagship store. Even for the PS3, PS2, and Wii, I've never seen a 100-hour lead time on a gadget queue. I'm disgusted, but also kind...