Microsoft and Ask.com Call on Industry to Join Together to Evolve Privacy Protections for Consumers
Companies announce commitment to develop privacy principles that will enhance protections and provide more control for consumers. — Building on their respective efforts to protect consumer privacy …
HP buys my company Opsware for more than $1.6 billion in cash
In September 1999, at the height of the dot com boom, a small group of colleagues and I started a new company, Loudcloud, based on the idea that the huge Internet infrastructure buildout then underway...
IPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says
A team of computer security consultants say they have found a flaw in Apple's wildly popular iPhone that allows them to take control of the device. — The researchers, working for Independent Securit...
SunRocket Leaves Void for Callers on Internet
Waiting for an important phone call can be stressful. As Marshel Emery can attest, it is doubly so when your phone company has just ceased to exist. — Mr. Emery, 33, low on funds and with three chi...
Acer: PC Industry 'Disappointed' with Vista
Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system. — Recommend this story? — Acer president Gianfranco...
Top social networks for engagement - some suprises!
Earlier today Om reported that Hi5 has raised $20m from Mohr Davidow. As Techcrunch points out, Hi5 is ranked by Alexa as 11th globally, higher than Facebook. Mashable notes that Hi5 claims 30 milli...
LATEST UNPOPULAR FACEBOOK MOVE IS APPARENTLY A GLITCH
If anyone's added you as a friend on Facebook recently, you may notice something different: previously, upon confirming a friend request, you were redirected to a separate page that asked you to check...
Culture matters: Why i-mode failed
Top execs get blinded by shiny technology too — Opinion M-commerce service i-mode has been dropped by UK operator O2 and Australia's Telstra. — So how did a service, which promised to bring mobile...
Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
It looked like a fine day for a sail. On Sunday, January 28, 2007, Microsoft researcher Jim Gray woke up on his boat, a red 40-foot fiberglass cruiser called Tenacious. The water in Gashouse Cove, a...
AT&T Video Share Service Now Live
You'll be able to stream bitchin' videos like this while on the phone with your buddies — If you're an AT&T user and are lucky enough to live in one of the 160 selected markets chosen as a test grou...
Link By Link: Crossing Out, for Emphasis
LOOKING at a copy of a manuscript of "A Christmas Carol," David Greetham, a distinguished professor at the CUNY Graduate School, made a perfectly sensible observation about Charles Dickens the editor:...