Google Maps Mashups 2.0
When we were building the original Google Maps site, we envisioned that it would eventually become a platform for navigating all kinds of location-based information, such as home listings and travel i...
Microsoft Plays Up Family Appeal of Xbox
As Microsoft executives played down the impact of an extensive repair program for defective Xbox 360 game machines, they announced several efforts to broaden the appeal of their machine to families. ...
MORE MASHING OF GOOGLE MAPS
Google Maps is launching a new feature Wednesday that enables people to create customized maps with content from multiple mashup Web sites. — For instance, I made my own map of San Francisco with an...
Introducing Google Mapplets, A Mashup of Mashups on Google Maps
I know that's a lot of "maps" there in the title. It's a bit of an exaggeration actually but that's how I see this new Google tool called mapplets. Now what are mapplets? From the Google Maps site ...
Motorola Provides Preliminary Estimates of Second Quarter 2007 Results
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced preliminary estimates of second quarter 2007 financial results. Although the company has not final...
Is Zillow building a ghost town?
I don't live in the U.S., so Zillow.com isn't much use to me as a real estate site, but from all I've heard it is a fantastic service backed by some smart guys, including several of my friend Stuart M...
Wintek to ship touch screen panels for new Apple iPods
Taiwan-based Wintek will be the panel supplier of Apple's new iPod video, according to sources at upstream suppliers. Apple is set to launch a next-generation iPod video in August with the new produc...
Infosys FY Q1 Beats Street; Solid Q2 Outlook; Ups '08 Est In Dollars, But Down In Rupees; Stock Slips
Infosys (INFY) this morning reported revenue for its fiscal first quarter ended June of $928 million, beating the Street consensus of $909 million. EPS of 46 cents topped the Street at 40 cents.
Digital Music Group Plans to Merge With the Orchard
The Orchard, a digital music company that has built a business distributing albums from independent labels to online stores like iTunes, plans to announce today that it will merge with Digital Music G...
Squidoo Slap!!
NewsFlash!: SQUIDOO SLAP!!! EDGE / SET MEMBERS STAND BY FOR DETAILS OF THIS BREAKING STORY! — The lab has been investigating the recent drop in ranking for Squidoo lenses in Google's search engine...
iPhoneDrive Released
Ecamm Network today announced the release of iPhoneDrive for Mac. — The new program allows iPhone owners to store files and data in the iPhone's flash memory. The iPhone can now be used for stora...
Facebook VC: We're Investing in Facebook Apps Too
For Facebook application developers, not all VCs are created equal...at least when it comes to the support they can lend your company if they also happen to, say, sit on the board of Facebook itself. ...
Belkin's New N1 Vision is the First Wireless Router with an Interactive Network Display
Did ya know? It's Fair Use Day: July 11, 2007
Get out your party hats and DeCSS coasters and t-shirts! — July 11, 2007, will mark the third-annual global "Fair Use Day," but chances are this is the first you've heard of it. Started back in 200...
Nielsen Alters Web Ratings, Favoring AOL Over Google
Nielsen/NetRatings has changed the way it rates Web sites and in the process has upended the rankings of the top online destinations, vaulting AOL and Yahoo over rival Google. — The research service...
Accuser Says Web Site Has X-Rated Link
Parents and child safety experts concerned about the online activities of teenagers have been particularly nervous about a Web site called Stickam, which allows its 600,000 registered users, age 14 an...
Microsoft Reader Optimized for Origami™ Is Finally Here!
Hi! I'm Christine from the Microsoft Reader team. Some of you may know me from some of the other device forums like PocketPCThoughts, Aximsite or the Microsoft.Public.Reader newsgroup under the name...
Potter Has Limited Effect on Reading Habits
Of all the magical powers wielded by Harry Potter, perhaps none has cast a stronger spell than his supposed ability to transform the reading habits of young people. In what has become near mythology ...
DX10 is do-able on Windows XP
Microsoft backpedals for Nvidia, you lose — EVER WONDER WHY MS refuses to release DX10 for XP, forcing users to Linux, and barring that, Vista - also known as Me II? It is easy, there was a technic...
Pay-for-blogging site raises questions
news analysis The controversy around a young Web site called Associated Content boils down to perspective. — Does it exist to game Google search results and generate revenue through Google's AdWords...
Is this the successor to the Nokia N800?
Just when we're in full-on video game mode, along comes a friendly tipster with some shots of the supposed successor to Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet that snap us out of our daze and remind us that the...
Broadband on the go: the ups and downs of Verizon's EV-DO network
A need for speed — How fast is 3G wireless? That's a tough question to answer, especially if you try to get your answer from one of the wireless providers. With its EV-DO BroadbandAccess, Verizon ...
Bay Partners Kicks Off AppFactory for Facebook Apps
As we've seen happening in the last few months, things like Google Gadgets, the Facebook Platform, and the iPhone have emerged for developers to build on — and perhaps even start a company for. We wr...
WHEN IN ROME, PRADA IS PLENTIFUL. BRINGSOME?
It's always those little things spotted in a foreign country that I wish I'd grabbed more of to bring back home, like $2 cartoon-print chopsticks from Tokyo, a $3 sack of paprika from Budapest, or $1 ...
Performance regressions lead Mozilla to delay Firefox 3 beta, change roadmap
As we have previously reported, the first official Firefox 3 beta release was tentatively scheduled for late July. The beta has now been pushed back due to performance regressions and the need for ex...
Zillow enters citizen journalism
On Monday, Zillow.com apologized for a company e-mail that inadvertently promoted a new neighborhood service that wasn't quite ready. — Now, after that minor dust-up, the mystery is over. The Seatt...
Kate Mitchell goes to Washington, to defend VCs from new tax
The Congressional debate about a new tax (see our coverage) on investors kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday) with U.S. Senate hearings. — Venture capitalists are represented by Kate Mitchell (pictured he...
Microsoft on your telly: a history of the company's Internet TV strategy
This is the first article by Mack D. Male, in a two part series, exploring Microsoft's Internet TV strategy. Mack is the author of Windows Media Blog and mastermaq. — Television over the Internet, ...
Casio cosies up to YouTube
Receive the day's biggest stories by email, sign up here — A tie-up between Casio and YouTube wouldn't have been our first guess for an expansion attempt by either of the two companies, but when you...
Will you return your iPhone?
If any of the thousands of people who waited in line two weeks ago at Apple and AT&T stores to purchase the iPhone have encountered buyer's remorse, Friday is deadline for a full refund. — Both Appl...
Murdoch Frustrated With Dow Jones Talks
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch Apparently Frustrated With State of Talks With Dow Jones — SUN VALLEY, Idaho (AP) — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch appeared frustrated Wednesday with the state...
My iPhone Confession; AT&T has more coming
So after all the ranting and raving about not buying the iPhone, I bought one. Okay there I said it. I admit! I am an iPhone-y! — A visit to the Apple store, and one glance at the shiny pretty th...
Goldman Adds Cisco, Intel To Top Five Tech Value Stock List
The tech analysts at Goldman Sachs on Tuesday shuffled the names on their lists of favorite and least favorite tech stocks. Actually, the firm has two lists of favorite stocks - value and growth name...
Hey, check it out — this one looks just like Richard Nixon
this one looks just like Richard Nixon — Looking for something other than Solitaire to fill those odd idle minutes? Do some quick space exploration instead. With huge astronomical mapping projects ...
Sony's new PSP is slimmer, includes video output
It's not quite the PSP 2 some might've hoped for, but Sony is giving its handheld console a serious refresh in the form of a slimmer, lighter and faster "updated" PSP. The new unit still includes the...
Military files left unprotected online
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Detailed schematics of a military detainee holding facility in southern Iraq. Geographical surveys and aerial photographs of two military airfields outside Baghdad. Plans for a ne...
British ISPs stand firm after file-sharing ruling
A group representing Internet service providers in the U.K. has reasserted that ISPs should not be responsible for illegal file-sharing that takes place over their networks. — Speaking Wednesday in ...
Ars at E3: Microsoft shows off games, touts Disney addition to Video Marketplace
Microsoft picked an odd place for its press conference: the Santa Monica High School amphitheater. The concrete risers meant that even with the squishy Microsoft-branded cushions provided for us, all...
Pay-for-blogging site raises questions
The controversy around a young website called Associated Content boils down to perspective. — Does it exist to game Google search results and generate revenue through Google's AdWords advertising se...
Revisiting the Oracle 11g upgrade decision (and 400 potential ROI cases)
Oracle has officially launched its 11g database and the software giant has taken an interesting approach with positioning-almost each feature can be aligned to an ROI case. — Earlier today I asked t...
Ultra-thin and ulra-light notebook coming before the end of the year - sources
On July 10th, 2007 06:48:45 PM minihan says: — i'm on the verge ... since i'm a writer and basically need only a writing machine when i'm travelling daily, away from my desktop …
The iPhone Nano Saga
What a merry ride JP Morgan — and a gullible media — took Apple (AAPL) investors on yesterday! — It started Monday afternoon when Reuters picked up a report from a Taiwan-based analyst for JP Morgan...