A Domain Name Worth $100 Million
The Answers Corporation, which runs Answers.com, just announced it has paid $100 million in cash to buy Lexico Publishing Group, a privately held California company whose main business is running the ...
A Sony Web Site to Offer Videos by Aspiring Filmmakers
Sony is trying to edge into Internet videos with a Web site to be introduced today called Crackle that will feature short segments by aspiring filmmakers, many of whom Sony paid for their productions.
Ship it!
Woo-hoo! We did it. Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing (RTM). We have finalized the software and now handing it off to our OEM partners. The evalua...
Backfence: Lessons Learned
There has been a lot of speculation about what went wrong at Backfence. To date, the company's investors and I have tried to stay out of the second-guessing in the blogosphere and the trade press, la...
Intel announces Extreme mobile CPU
Mobile gaming just got sweeter: Today Intel announced the Core 2 Extreme X7800, its first laptop CPU under the Extreme Edition brand. The 2.6GHz dual-core processor features 4MB of L2 cache and an 80...
Cookies: expiring sooner to improve privacy
We are committed to an ongoing process to improve our privacy practices, and have recently taken a closer look at the question of cookie privacy. How long should a web site "remember" cookie informat...
Vodafone's extraordinary $160bn Verizon plan
Mobile phone group Vodafone has been considering a $160bn takeover bid for its American peer and partner, Verizon Communications — a deal that, if consummated, would rival AOL's takeover of Time Warne...
Citizen Media: A Progress Report
In my keynote at last month's OhmyNews International Citizen Reporters' Forum in Seoul, I was asked to offer a year-on-year progress report on the state of citizen journalism. To sum up: — We've co...
Intel Leaks 45nm Xeon Clock Frequencies
Intel gears up for AMD's Barcelona launch with a slew of new quad-core CPUs — Hot on the heels of the second generation Intel Core 2 Duo launch, an internal memo began making the rounds with Intel's...
Goodbye LinkedIn. Hello Facebook.
This morning I made the decision to focus all of my professional business social networking contacts to be on Facebook. That means that I am no longer going to accept new LinkedIn requests. After sp...
The Facebook lawsuit that hasn't gone away
Before he launched Facebook at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg worked for two brothers on a project called HarvardConnect.com that also wanted to connect students and alumni. — Zuckerberg later left that p...
Answers.com To Acquire Lexico, Parent Of Dictionary.com, For $100 Million
We didn't see this one coming but it makes sense ... Answers Corp., the publicly traded parent of Answers.com, has an agreement to acquire Lexico Publishing Corp —Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, Refere...
comScore Releases June U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In June 2007, Google Sites mainta...
The Ghost Of Zuckerberg's Past May Haunt Facebook IPO
A long-standing dispute over the origin of Facebook looks set to haunt the growingly popular social networking service as it heads towards an IPO. — A lawsuit due to come before the US Federal Court...
In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com
The Washington Post Co. today is launching LoudounExtra.com, an aggressive online push into hyperlocal journalism, combining traditional reporters and photographers with bloggers, videographers and ex...
Lawsuit Alleges Facebook's Founder Built The Site With Stolen Code and Ideas
ScaredOfTheMan wrote in with the news that a lawsuit alleging Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the original code for the site is coming to a head. Zuckerberg worked as a programmer for another ...
Age of Conversation Launches
Sydney, Australia; Des Moines, Iowa, USA, July 16, 2007 — In what may be a first-of-its-kind collaboration via the internet, more than 100 marketing professionals have joined together online to write ...
Hello from Earth2Tech
So we're all aware that green-focused web sites are getting about as trendy as celebutante DUIs. There's been more than enough great new reads launched in the last few months, most of them focused on...
SunRocket is Toast, MEMO
All right people, its all over. SunRocket has hit the dirt. Check our this internal email which went out earlier today to the employees. Now it is hard to ascertain the authenticity of the email, i...
iPhone v1.0 Bugs
We have spent more than 40 hours tapping around the iPhone screens in an effort to find issues with the applications. This was not an easy task. The OS X graphical interface and applications are ext...
Intel announces Core 2 Extreme mobile, five new desktop processors.
Today Intel officially announced its first Core 2 Extreme mobile dual-core processor, the X7800. Also announced were five new desktop processors, with front side bus speeds of up to 1333MHz.
The Washington Post to Trade in Hyperlocal News on the Web
The Washington Post, well known for its detailed coverage of the White House and global affairs, will introduce a Web site today with news and other information for a rarefied group: people who live i...
The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped
On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog — or the chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. — Or so thought John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market, who used a fictional identity on ...
Google Plans Search Service for Mobile Content
Companies Featured in This Article: Google, AT&T, eBay, Apple, Yahoo, Vodafone Group, Time Warner, Medio Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Alltel, Microsoft — Google Inc. is developing a new search service...
IPhones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University
18,000 requests per second from iPhones knocking out dozens of access points at Duke University. — The Wi-Fi connection on Apple's recently released iPhone seems to be the source of a big headache f...
Paper gives away Prince CDs
Around three million copies of Prince's new album, Planet Earth, have been given away with the Mail On Sunday. — The promotion is believed to be worth about £250,000 to the musician, whose hits incl...
Intel Takes Popular Laptops to 'Extreme' with First-Ever Extreme Edition Mobile Processor; Adds New Desktop Chip
High-Performing Notebook and Desktop Processors Arrive Near First Anniversary of Award-Winning Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture — Addressing demand …
Unlock the cell phone? It's a high-stakes debate
news analysis Imagine a day when you can buy the newest, coolest phone you can get your hands on—and use it on any wireless carrier's network. — Right now that's almost impossible in the U.S. But if...
Truphone wins court injunction against T-Mobile blocking tactics
Judge instructs mobile operator to stop blocking calls to Truphone — Competition in the mobile telephony sector intensified today when a judge granted a mandatory injunction forcing T-Mobile (UK) Lt...
SoundExchange Wants DRM for Webcasts
As negotiations between webcasters and the SoundExchange royalty collection agency continue even on this, the day when payments under the new royalty rates are due, it's worth taking a closer look at ...
Inside Facebook, NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEO
Everybody with a website knows that Google owns two of their most important marketing channels: organic search (SEO) and paid search (SEM). In fact, entire cottage industries have developed around th...
Ask.com: Today's Google Free Alternative
Today's the day we're encouraging people to try Ask.com as part of our Google Free Fridays in July. But why is it happening on a Monday? Because I'm a day behind, as I explained last Friday. Shush,...
adCenter feature review: Get negative! It could have a positive impact on your campaigns.
As part of the adCenter upgrade on Saturday, we added the ability to work with negative keywords at the campaign level so they apply to all the ad groups in the campaign. Previously, this was only po...
London gets free Wi-Fi
A free metropolitan Wi-Fi network has been launched in London, continuing the gradual trend toward free public wireless Internet access in Europe and the United States. — The group behind Free-hotsp...
Mobile roaming. Do you care?
Or is it just a big business concern? — If there is one topic that is guaranteed to raise the blood pressure of the average corporate telecoms manager, it's mobile roaming charges. The level of fee...
Branica.com Launches Search Engine for Misspelled eBay Auctions
Branica's new misspelled eBay search engine service allows users to find misspelled eBay auctions of products they want. These auctions are harder to find so fewer bids are made and items are sold at...
MIT Project aims human buffer overflow at Secret Service
We've known for years that color laser printers can embed a series of tiny yellow dots on pages they print. The dots—almost invisible under normal circumstances—can be used to determine which particu...
OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US
On Friday July 13th, INCITS V1 met via teleconference for 3 hours but failed to reach a 2/3 consensus necessary to recommend an "Approval, with comments" position on Microsoft "Office Open XML" (OOXML...
FlickIM, a better chat for iPhone
FlickIM is a new lightweight chat feature designed specifically for the iPhone. — It's more nimble than competitors, and lets you exchange YouTube videos and Apple movie trailers. — More significa...
Dell says sorry for charging for free software
Usillybuntu — BOX SHIFTER, Dell has admitted overcharging punters for installing Ubuntu on their machines. — Linux fans were incandescent with rage when they noticed that Dell was charging users $...
How To Define Web 3.0
Over the last few months I have written a weekly piece on how the Web is evolving. Taking into account the current trends in technology, and the direction in which the web is developing I have tried ...
Second Life rival seeks €1bn UK listing
Virgin-backed start-up promises to become the 'iTunes for the games industry' — An internet start-up backed by Sir Richard Branson, that promises to transform the global computer games industry, is ...
SPI Labs advises avoiding iPhone feature
The Apple iPhone's Safari web browser has a special feature that allows the user to dial any phone number displayed on a web page simply by tapping the number. SPI Labs has discovered that this featu...
Networks Try 'Twittering' To Spread Their Message
Web Community's Users — Are Seen as Ideal Group — To Help Promote Shows — TV networks are all a-Twitter about the latest marketing play for their new TV shows. — NBC, CBS, ABC Family and MTV a...
GetLeaflets: Must-Have iPhone App
Mike Davidson, the CEO of Newsvine, and I were comparing iPhone stories over dinner and drinks tonight in Seattle. He showed me a beta version of GetLeaflets, a site launching today, and I was hooked...
Tech Boom, Media Bust
It was a slow Friday at Red Herring magazine. The receptionist at the Silicon Valley tech title had stepped away from her desk. So a messenger strolls in from the summer sunshine, finds a 20-somethi...
Internet Phone Company Halts Operations
SunRocket, an Internet telephone company, has ceased operations and is moving its customers to one or more other companies, according to a person briefed on its status. — A recording on SunRocket's ...