Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage
Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will expand its global Xbox 360™ warranty coverage. Any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware ...
Twitter vs. Pownce
So, back to Nik's point that Twitter is better because of the API. — Absolutely correct. But when we were standing in line last week for our iPhones Pownce's lead developer, Leah Culver joined us a...
O2 'to get UK iPhone contract'
Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the sought-after deal to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK. — Press reports said that O2 is set to sign an exclusive contract shortly and should have the...
Microsoft Expanding Canadian Operations in Greater Vancouver Area
New software development center to be opened in fall 2007. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to expand its presence in Canada by opening a new software development center in the grea...
The house that helped build Google
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Susan Wojcicki is reminiscing about her old home in Menlo Park, Calif. — "It's a very humble house, less than 2,000 square feet," she recalls fondly. A cozy, four-bedroom ho...
Microsoft to launch Xbox 360 Elite in Japan in Oct
TOKYO, July 5 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it would launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox 360 Elite, on Oct. 11 in Japan, a ...
Steorn demonstrates free energy technology in public forum
Demonstration at Kinetica Museum, London, UK is world's first outing for Steorn's Orbo technology and will be streamed live around the world — London, 4th July 2007. Steorn, an Irish technology dev...
Universal confirms non-renewal of iTunes contract
Hot on the heels of the almost-ran reconciliation between Apple and the Universal Music Group, the music label has issued a statement saying definitively that it will not renew its long-term agreement...
IFPI hails court ruling that ISPs must stop copyright piracy on their networks
A court in Belgium has confirmed that an Internet Service Provider must take responsibility for stopping illegal file-sharing on its network. The ruling is the first of its kind in Europe and …
OLPC ASP to ultimately shrink to US$50
Notebooks under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) advocated "One Laptop Per Child" (OLPC) program are in a strong position to be the hottest PC for emerging markets and prices will shrin...
South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine
Park Hye Ran, a 15-year-old high school student, wanted to know the shortest route from a bus terminal in the southern port city of Busan to a fish market to the east. — That is precisely the kind o...
Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic
comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the visitation to Facebook.com …
A Deep And Flawed Misunderstanding of A-Lists, Blogs, And Social Networks
... is being propagated by Hugh McLeod, who, once again, has decided to raise the egalitarian "Es Gibt Keine Einliste" (Or, "There is no A-list", for our non-German reading readers).
MACWORLD MARKETPLACE
At Ciao you can read consumer reviews on computers and components for laptops, towers, PDAs and Compare prices of many more computer products. — zCover — zCover is a pioneer and trend-setter in th...
$50,000 Prize For Top Company At TechCrunch20
If you aren't one of the 200 companies who've submitted their application to launch at our upcoming TechCrunch20 conference, now's the time to do it. The deadline is tomorrow, July 6. We will begin ...
Good vibes power tiny generator
A tiny generator powered by natural vibrations could soon be helping keep heart pacemakers working. — Created by scientists at the University of Southampton, the generator has been developed to powe...
IPhone-Free Cellphone News
Man, oh man. How'd you like to have been a PR person making a cellphone announcement last week, just as the iPhone storm struck? You'd have had all the impact of a gnat in a hurricane. — But hard ...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2007
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: July 5, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: July 10, 2007 — This is an advance notification of six security bulletins that Mi...
eBay Brings Classifieds Site Kijiji To The U.S.
According to the Newspaper Association of America, U.S. print newspaper classified advertising was worth about $17 billion in 2006. The category has been under pressure for years from top online vert...
Google: Susan Wojcicki's big lie
Susan Wojcicki's big lie — Susan Wojcicki, an early Google employee and sister-in-law to founder Sergey Brin, is a liar. In a puff-piece profile of Wojcicki and her Menlo Park house, whose garage s...
Samsung Blu-ray + HD DVD Player to Support Both Formats' Special Features
As we approach the release of Samsung's BDP-UP5000 combination Blu-ray/HD DVD player, more and more details are finding their way to the Intertubes, or whatever funny word we're using to describe the ...
Apple's little problem with ripping off artists
We can appreciate the fact that Apple seems to draw a lot of inspiration from art — we really can. But we're noticing a pretty disconcerting trend taking shape: Cupertino's getting all Picasso on us ...
ATT Activates over 1 Million iPhones
According to reports leaked to waitingforiphone.com, ATT Mobility has fulfilled over 1 million iPhone activations since the device was launched in the US on June 29th. This news comes from a full-tim...
At I.B.M., a Smarter Way to Outsource
Jeffrey Taft is a road warrior in the global high-technology services economy, and his work shows why there are limits to the number of skilled jobs that can be shipped abroad in the Internet age. — ...
Local Community Network Backfence Closing Down All Sites
Backfence, the once-hyped citizen journalism startup, is closing all its 13 local sites, after a series of management troubles over the last year, and inability to get any local traction editorially.
The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 2: Retaining great people
This post is about retaining great people, particularly at big companies in industries like technology, where stock options matter and where people can relatively easily move from one company to anoth...
Chocolate Gets Even Sweeter The Second Time Around, Exclusively At Verizon Wireless
Slimmer and Lighter Than Ever, the Mouth-Watering Chocolate by LG Comes with New Features and Hot New Colors — BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and SAN DIEGO — The Chocolate by LG is back and sweeter than ever.
Spanish telco unapologetic on huge broadband anti-trust fine
Telefónica claims clear conscience — O2 parent company Telefónica has protested innocence after it was slammed by European anti-trust regulators for gaming the broadband market in its Spanish home t...
NBBC, We Hardly Knew Ye
THE NATIONAL BROADBAND COMPANY, THE unit created by NBC Universal last September to handle online video distribution, is being rolled into NewSite — the still-unnamed co-venture between NBC and News C...
Google cuts Founders' Awards
Interesting tidbit in a July 2007 Fortune article, "Close to the Vest", about retention at Google: … It is not surprising that the Founders' Awards would piss people off. No matter how it was done, I...
NBBC Joins The Deadpool
NBBC, a video aggregation service launched by NBC last September has joined the TechCrunch Deadpool. — The remains of NBBC will be merged into the NBC/ News Corp joint venture first announced in Mar...
The BBC should do less online video, says interactivity head
The head of BBC News Interactive wants the corporation to carry less online video and instead concentrate on improving the quality of its offering. — Speaking at the Future of News Conference in Lon...
Sprint breaks up with high-maintenance customers
The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. — At least not if the squeaky wheel is a Sprint Nextel customer. On June 29, 2007, Sprint sent letters notifying some customers that their service w...
Digital Purchases Rise as Album Sales Fall
Album sales have continued their downward slide this year, but sales of digital tracks are up almost 50 percent over this time last year. — A total of 229.8 million albums were sold in the United St...
History of the Compact Disc
The inventor of the compact disc, the most popular medium in the world for playing back and storing music, is often disputed as one individual did not invent every part of the compact disc. The most ...
eBay & Firefox Launch eBay Browser
eBay is getting busier and busier partnering with web applications and now has worked together with Firefox to produce an eBay Firefox browser. — Yesterday, Search Engine Journal's Arnold Zafra brok...
Irish technology claims energy breakthrough
Today, the public have been invited to come and observe Orbo technology, developed by Irish company Steorn, which produces a free, constant supply of energy that will change history if it does what it...
Questions About Apple's iPhone
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help. — This week, I was s...
Next iteration of iLife gone Golden Master, coming before Leopard?
On July 4th, 2007 06:38:21 PM JayM says: — Well great news, but I think I'll wait until October anyway, then I'll get a new iMac with Leopard and iLife 0? pre-loaded. :)
South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine
Park Hye Ran, a 15-year-old high school student, wanted to know the shortest route from a bus terminal in the southern port city of Busan to a fish market to the east. — That is precisely the kind o...
Is This The Twilight of Blogging?
There's a new (or old) meme that's brewing about the nature of popularity, A-lists, and blogging that's a brewing over in the technology side of the blogosphere. I had some strong words about it, but...