Gates no longer the richest man in the world?
Bill Gates appears to have been dethroned as the world's richest man. But based on his past comments, he probably isn't disappointed. — The Microsoft Corp. chairman and co-founder has been overtake...
FreeBurner for Everyone
One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, "more for free!" Beginning today, two of FeedBur...
eBay squares off with Craigslist, launches classified service
Auction giant eBay has launched an online classifieds service that will compete with the market's powerhouse, Craigslist. — Kijiji, a site eBay has operated overseas for two years, is now available ...
Zoho Meets Facebook: Match Made in Web Heaven?
Valentine's Day may be months away, but a celebration is underway for a match seemingly made in Web 2.0 heaven: Zoho Apps on Facebook! — Zoho's school play ground looking logo will fit right in with...
Four factors determine how much a Facebook app is worth
Many people have been asking what a facebook app is worth. — Andrew Chen at MDV says in an interview with Insidefacebook that a facebook app user is worth about 1% of a user on your website. — Rea...
LG To Develop YouTube Phone
Korean electronics giant LG has signed an agreement with Google to develop a YouTube focused mobile phone. — LG said the model would allow users to upload, view and share video clips without the nee...
Europe Steps Up Probe of New DVD Formats
Competition of Blu-ray, HD — To Secure Studios' Support — Arouses Antitrust Concerns — In a move that could be key to determining the future of home cinema, European antitrust regulators are ste...
Russian download site shut down
The controversial Russian music download site allofmp3.com has closed. — The service, which sold songs at a fraction of the cost of other sites, claimed to be the second biggest seller of music down...
Where TomorrowNow goes from here
Embroiled in controversy, SAP's third-party maintenance and support company TomorrowNow is facing challenging days ahead. — SAP disclosed late Monday that its TomorrowNow subsidiary had inappropriat...
SAP admits Oracle downloads
SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material. — Oracle is suing SAP, accusing it of hack...
SAP admits to corporate espionage against Oracle
Uh oh, we've got ourselves a true-blue corporate [competitive intelligence] espionage fiasco exploding on the international stage. Germany's SAP has admitted to "inappropriate downloads" from arch-ri...
SAP CEO is 'disappointed' Oracle did not go to him first before suing co UPDATE
WALLDORF, Germany (Thomson Financial) - SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) AG chief executive Henning Kagermann said he was personally 'surprised and disappointed' that Oracle Corp (nasdaq: ORCL - news ...
Nintendo Wii Outsells Sony PS3 6-to-1 In Japan - Publisher
TOKYO (AP)—Nintendo Co.'s (NTDOY) Wii video game console outsold Sony Corp's (SNE) PlayStation 3 by six to one in June in Japan, a Japanese publishing company said Monday. — Although the Wii has bee...
Apple denies big record label may quit iTunes
Universal reportedly won't sign a long-term contract for music — Apple Inc. denied reports Monday that record label Universal Music Group did not plan to renew its contract to sell songs on its onli...
Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand Free
Google is about making things accessible to everyone and one of the way to make this happen is to buy a service or software that used to cost money and release it for free. Google did this with Keyho...
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
In this post, I answer these questions: … The first question to ask is, what is the correct, or appropriate, amount of funding for a startup? — The answer to that question, in my view …
Youtube, SKorea's LG agree to develop mobile phone
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service. — ...
Farewells and Welcomes
In the life of companies, there are moments of welcoming and there are times when one must bid a fond farewell. For Technorati, at this moment, we must say a warm goodbye to our colleagues Adam Hertz...
Online software service owned by Oracle co-founder files IPO plans
Online business software provider NetSuite Inc. on Monday filed its long-awaited plans for an initial public offering of stock, paving the way for another big payday for its owner _ billionaire Larry ...
VC and Angel funding - How much is too much?
Marc Andreessen has a blog post about raising Venture Capital money, and the dangers of raising too little, or too much money. Marc believes you should raise as much money as you can, and then talk a...
Straight dope from Fake Steve Jobs
newsmaker For months now, one of the best-read blogs in technology circles has been the starkly funny, pull-no-punches Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. — Otherwise known as "Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ)," the a...
AllOfMP3.com down, but not out
After a long twilight struggle, AllOfMP3.com is no more (sort of). The Russian government has finally bowed to international pressure and shut the site down. The move came as a condition for Russia'...
HP Compaq 2710p tablet PC gets FCC approval
Just as we mentioned in May, the HP Compaq 2710p Tablet PC is definitely on its way, having just received FCC approval. The 3.6-pound, 12.1-inch tablet runs on an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV, features Bluet...
Engaging at Any Speed? Commercials Put to Test
In new experiments for NBC, people are hooked up to sensors as they watch television, and researchers observe changes in their heart rate, palm sweat, eye movement and breathing patterns. — But the ...
iPhone hackers disclose vulns and hunt for clues
The game is on for hackers trying to spot security vulnerabilities in Apple's iPhone and already they're scoring points. — Less than 72 hours after the iPhone's introduction, researchers have report...
iPhone shatters AT&T record, dwarfs RAZR [u]
Apple over the weekend sold more than 700,000 iPhones to rocket past analyst predictions and shatter AT&T's record by selling more iPhones in three days than Motorola's RAZR did in its first month. A...
Internet-Phone-Service Provider Drops a Fourth of Its Staff
Growth Slows at Vienna's SunRocket as It Competes With Cable Firms — SunRocket, an Internet-phone-service provider in Vienna, laid off about a quarter of its workforce — about 30 employees — on Frid...
Survey: Windows loses ground with developers
(InfoWorld) - Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America but still is the dominant platform, according to Evans Data survey results being r...
Finding cell phone signals with SignalMap
Cell phone signals are pretty easy to catch now. Major providers have boosted their signals, and troubleshooted hard to reach areas, but every once and a while we hit a dead spot and the dreaded "hel...
Tada! The 6th Gen contract-free WiFi-enabled iPod
Oh man, what a day. Earlier today, I got my prepaid iPhone activated after a long struggle, which you can read about here, along with an easy solution. After all that, what time was it? Time To Hac...
NetVibes, now with one less CEO
Netvibes, the Paris-based personalized page start-up, which till recently had to co-CEOs, Tariq Krim (also the founder) and Pierre Chappaz, now has one less CEO. Chappaz is leaving Netvibes and inste...
Fujitsu Rolls Out 300GB Mobile HDD
Fujitsu's new drive features a 300GB storage capacity, but only a 4200RPM spindle speed — The mobile storage wars are on and all of the top hard drive manufacturers are looking to one-up each other....
A conversation with Pablo Castro about Astoria's RESTful data services
In the latest episode of my Microsoft Conversations series I talked with Pablo Castro about Astoria, a layer of middleware that makes data readable and writeable by means of a RESTful interface.
Researchers demonstrate laser-based hard drive technology
Though we rely on them as a mainstay of modern computing, hard drives are really a mixed bag: part storage blessing and part performance albatross. The ongoing digital media revolution could never ha...
New Google filing presses for role in Microsoft case
Google isn't quietly dropping its dispute with Microsoft over Windows Vista's built-in desktop search tool, despite the appearance of a possible conclusion last week. — In a new court filing (PDF, 5...
ASUS announces plans to split company and brand
AsusTek Computer Inc. (known to most motherboard enthusiasts simply as ASUS), has announced its intention to split into three separate corporate holdings in order to maximize competitive performance a...
Is Google's Spam Fight a Sham?
Google may say it fights spam but I'm beginning to have my doubts. A recent post on Google's Webmaster Central blog offers advice on how to build "startpages." — What is a "startpage"? "Basically,...
Autonomy surges on $375m Zantaz acquisition
Stock soars 14 per cent as the search specialist buys into the US legal market and unveils an upbeat trading update — Autonomy, the British search technology specialist, bought its way into the fast...
EBAY SQUARES OFF WITH CRAIGSLIST, LAUNCHES CLASSIFIED SERVICE
Auction giant eBay has launched an online classifieds service that will compete with market pioneer, Craigslist. — Kijiji, a site eBay has operated overseas for two years, is now available in about ...
Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand Free
Google is about making things accessible to everyone and one of the way to make this happen is to buy a service or software that used to cost money and release it for free. Google did this with Keyho...
Zoho Launches Facebook Apps: Web Office Meets the Young
One of the web office suites I'm fond of is Zoho, which has been slowly building up its user base since day one. Today, Zoho announced three applications for Facebook — Writer, Sheet, and Show — whic...
Engaging at Any Speed? Commercials Put to Test
In new experiments for NBC, people are hooked up to sensors as they watch television, and researchers observe changes in their heart rate, palm sweat, eye movement and breathing patterns. — But the ...
Techdirt Will Pay Up To $1 Million For Proof Of BSA Million Dollar Pay Out
from the please-note-the-up-to-part dept — The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is no stranger to bogus numbers. It puts out its easily debunked (even by the firm that did the research) claims of "...
Russian Online Music Service Closes
AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere on the Internet, authorities said yesterday. — The Web site gained...
AMD Phenom X2 GE-Series Details Unveiled
AMD drops the Phenom X2 TDP to 45-watts — AMD plans to cut power consumption of its mainstream Phenom X2 processors with the Phenom X2 GE-series, according to the company's latest roadmap. The Phen...
Three Developments Driving Local.com Shares Into A Frenzy
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Yowza! Local.com (LOCM) has been, until recently, a sleepy stock, trading nearly by appointment, with a focus on operating a search engine intended to help people find...
Hollywood hates pirates, but can it use them?
news analysis Attorney Nancy Prager sees only thievery in file sharing. Don't even try to suggest anything otherwise to her. — Director Michael Moore's Sicko is coming off a glittering debut weeken...
Former FCC Chair: iPhone Hindered By Network Limitations
Reed Hundt notes that the iPhone's popularity underscores the need for ubiquitous high-speed wireless coverage in the United States. — Comparing the newly released iPhone to a Ferrari forced to driv...
British media organizations look to U.S. market and beyond
LONDON: An article about the ex-girlfriends of Fred Thompson, the former U.S. senator and likely Republican presidential candidate, last Monday drew 200,000 visitors to the Web site of the Times newsp...