Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Prices as Many Xboxes Fail
Facing slower-than-expected sales of its PlayStation 3 video game system, Sony said it would announce Monday that it planned to lower the price of its console in the United States by $100, to $500, ef...
Improving Google's Social Network
Google already has a social network (orkut), but it's only popular in Brazil and India, doesn't have a Googlish interface and had a lot of security problems in the past. That's why last year Google s...
Ning news: new investment round
If you follow such things, you may have seen a report that my new Internet company, Ning, has just raised a new investment round. — To date, Ning has been mostly internally financed by me and a smal...
Google to Acquire Postini
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than...
Lexmark revises financial outlook
LEXINGTON, Ky., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK - News) today announced that financial results for its second quarter of 2007 will be lower than expected. — Al...
Facebook Names Ex-AOL Official Marketing Chief
Social-networking company Facebook Inc. has hired a young Web veteran to fill its top marketing role in a bid to bolster its management ranks and find new ways to make money. — Chamath Palihapitiya,...
Apple plans cheaper, Nano-based phone: JP Morgan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) plans to launch a cheaper version of the iPhone in the fourth quarter that could be based on the ultra-slim iPod Nano music player, according to a ...
Apple sneaks Java support onto the iPhone
Despite public comments by Steve Jobs that "Java's not worth building in [to the iPhone]", it turns out that Apple did just that by using an ARM-based CPU that supports Java natively. Programmers can...
EA Chief Cites Need For More Innovative Games
Electronic Arts Inc. became the world's biggest maker of videogames by relying on a formula now widespread in the industry: pumping out sequels of familiar game franchises, like Madden football, that ...
Microsoft's top designers leave to give away lovely flowers
This startup makes me sad. Not because it isn't doing beautiful stuff. They are. Maryam will smile when she gets her flowers delivered this morning. UPDATE: she laughed and said "you remembered I ...
Blyk's free mobile launch delayed
The planned launch of Britain's first mobile phone service that offers free calls and texts in return for users accepting adverts on their handsets has been delayed for several months. — Blyk, a sta...
US telecommunications company Verizon's copper cutoff traps customers, hampers rivals
PHILADELPHIA: When Henry Powderly II ordered Verizon Communications Inc.'s FiOS fiber-optic service, he knew he was about to be connected to the future of telecommunications. — He also got unplugged...
Fixing Typos by Web Users, Without Raising Hackles
David Ulevitch is trying to turn two numbers into a multimillion-dollar business. — The numbers — each composed of a quartet of digits — are just two of the more than four billion unique identifiers...
Wrong On Hyperlocal: Google And Web 1.0 Killed Backfence
There's been a lot of debate about what killed Backfence, the hyperlocal news site. Was it poor design? Lack of incentives for users to generate content? Bad business model? Maybe all of these con...
Google to Acquire Postini
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than...
Is your phone free?
OpenMoko sets Open source handset loose — The OpenMoko project has debuted what could be the ultimate geek handset: a Linux-based mobile phone, complete with an open-source operating system and appl...
Write Articles, Not Blog Postings
You probably already know my own Internet strategy …
Mosh, Yahoo's New Social Network Initiative
Here's a juicy tip - we've been hearing about a new Yahoo social network initiative called Mosh, which is at mosh.yahoo.com but can only be accessed from inside the Yahoo offices. If you happen to be...
Dow Jones Makes Late Push To Find Other Buyers
As negotiations with News Corp. continue, Dow Jones & Co. is making one last push to find other possible buyers for itself, according to people familiar with the matter. — The long-shot efforts by t...
Security Firm Auctions Bugs
A Swiss company has launched an eBay for details on unpatched security vulnerabilities. — Recommend this story? — Psst. Want to buy a zero-day? — A Swiss startup called WabiSabiLabi Ltd. has so...
Game world gets ready for E3 show
The video game world is gearing up for the E3 Expo - one of the biggest events in the gaming calendar. — Although smaller than in previous years the three-day event will be a showcase of the latest ...
Piper: Mac OS X-based iPods by January
Changes to the iPod may soon bring it in line with the iPhone, while avoiding cannibalized sales, according to a new outlook report. Analysts at the research firm Piper Jaffray suggest that as expect...