Windows Live Moves Into Next Phase with Renewed Focus on Software + Services
Q&A: Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management, discusses how a new Windows Live product suite planned for release in the coming months will help customers more...
MySpace, Chasing YouTube, Upgrades Its Offerings
Two years ago, millions of MySpace users began adding video clips to their profile pages, helping to give rise to YouTube, which Google bought last October for $1.65 billion. — This week, MySpace, a...
Put your photos on a map, and Picasa on your phone
Posted by Ping Chen and Joel Onofrio, Software Engineers — If you've ever seen a great picture and wondered where it was, wished you could visit that exact spot yourself, or found yourself itching t...
Critical Consensus: The iPhone scorecard
The iPhone scorecard — The first four hands-on reviews of Apple's new wonderphone came out yesterday. The critical consensus? Buy the amazing device, if you can afford it. We gave scores out of t...
Fixed Mobile Networks Converge, TMobile launches HotSpot@Home
Time to get rid of that landline, and say hello to Cellular-WiFi convergence. The much-talked-about dual mode T-Mobile USA wireless service, called HotSpot@Home, that uses both the cellular and WiFi ...
Google Gadget Ventures
By Tom Stocky, Google Developer Programs — Good news for Google Gadget developers. We've just launched Google Gadget Ventures, a new pilot program for distributing grants and seed investments to ga...
EXCLUSIVE: What is WiiWare? Level Up Gets the Scoop On Nintendo's Brand New Bag
Patience is a virtue, a wise man once said, and nowhere is this more true than the circumstances surrounding the story we're about to bring you right now. A month or so before the March Game Develope...
FTC Issues Staff Report on Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy
Report Urges Caution on Network Neutrality Regulation — The Federal Trade Commission's Internet Access Task Force today issued a report, "Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy," which summarizes...
T-Mobile introduces Hotspot@Home - First Take
One of the most exciting phones I have used recently doesn't look like much. When I use it in public, crowds don't gather to ogle it. Thanks to T-Mobile's Hotspot@Home offering, however, underneath ...
YouTube: 50% More Traffic than Other Video Sites Combined
YouTube's growth has not begun to slow yet this year. Hitwise traffic data shows that the market share of US visits to YouTube has increased by 70% when comparing January 2007 to May 2007 (this only ...
German Wikipedia receives state funding
For the first time, the German edition of the open Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia will be receiving state funding. Germany will be setting aside part of its budget to improve information about renew...
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World
In 1765, a 22-year-old British naval officer named James Rennell set out to map the entire Indian subcontinent. Traveling with a small party of soldiers, he used the advanced technologies of the day:...
BBC iPlayer to launch on 27 July
The BBC's on-demand TV service, BBC iPlayer, is to launch on 27 July, it was announced today by Ashley Highfield, Director of Future Media & Technology. — "BBC iPlayer is a free catch-up service for...
FLICKR PHOTOS INTEGRATED INTO YAHOO IMAGES
Yahoo has integrated Flickr, the photo sharing site Yahoo bought two years ago, into its image search engine. As you can see in the screenshot of this search, Flickr photos appear in results where re...
IBM, HP Share Bragging Rights on Supercomputer List
IBM Corp. still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard Co. has more of them in operation, according to a closely-watched global survey released Wednesday. — HP...
When You've Got To Go, Go To Mizpee.com
MizPee is a new service focused on delivering pertinent information regarding the location of nearby restrooms. — Using MizPee is as simple as surfing to mizpee.com via a mobile device browser. Use...
Microsoft Betas: Windows Live Photo Gallery; Microsoft Live Drive Here
Ever since Microsoft launched Live Search last year, they've been keeping a steady pace of new services integrations as they grow the Live Suite, specifically integration between interfaces for mobile...
Apple's iPhone dock includes Bluetooth headset charger — but is it free?
but is it free? — See that dock? Yeah, it's the first official confirmation of a rumored Bluetooth Headset port which allows the dock to simultaneously charge both your iPhone and Apple headset. It...
Raon Digital Everun. Exclusive preview video.
I feel very privileged to be able to air this introduction video of the Raon Digital Everun that will be on sale next month. Thanks to Raon Digital and a meeting schedule that took them through my ne...
Firmware 1.82 Coming Soon...
Microsoft entering the low-cost PC sales biz; first stop India
Microsoft will begin selling PCs in India next month as part of its "Unlimited Potential" program, an event that will mark the software giant's first entry into the PC sales business. Dubbed the IQ P...
Pownce Is Alive!
Today we're turning on the splash page of Pownce, a side project that I've been working on with some friends over weekends for the last few months. The site isn't quite open to the public yet, but if...
Google Gadget Ventures
By Tom Stocky, Google Developer Programs — Good news for Google Gadget developers. We've just launched Google Gadget Ventures, a new pilot program for distributing grants and seed investments to ga...
FTC Issues Staff Report on Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy
Report Urges Caution on Network Neutrality Regulation — The Federal Trade Commission's Internet Access Task Force today issued a report, "Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy," which summarizes...
Put your photos on a map, and Picasa on your phone
Posted by Ping Chen and Joel Onofrio, Software Engineers — If you've ever seen a great picture and wondered where it was, wished you could visit that exact spot yourself, or found yourself itching t...
T-Mobile Launches UMA Service - Save your minutes by using Wi-Fi....
Save your minutes by using Wi-Fi.... Posted 2007-06-27 09:32:11 by Karl — As had been leaked, T-Mobile today nationally launched their Hotspot@Home UMA service …
SUMMER'S HERE AND SO IS THE JUNE 2007 CTP
MSDN and TechNet subscribers - get your shorts on and your skateboards out!! Windows Server 2008 Technical Beta participants - slip into those bikinis and hit the pool!! That's right - the June 2007...
More Than Just Squatting (on Domain Names)
One of the less reputable sectors of the Internet economy that has been growing rapidly is domain name parking. Entrepreneurs register names that are either misspellings of common domains, like amazo...
Vodafone to be iPhone operator in Europe?
Vodafone is among the frontrunners to become the network operator for Apple's iPhone when it comes to Europe, according to investment bank Credit Suisse. — A recent Credit Suisse research note said ...
ISP as copyright cop: Aussie ISP kills all user multimedia files nightly
Envision a world where your ISP does the copyright policing at the behest of the movie studios, television networks, and music labels, where no copyrighted content stays up on a user's account for mor...