Ka-Ching!
Ever since the first Amazon Web Service was released in mid-2002, we have encouraged developers to use them to create new types of businesses. — This encouragement has taken many forms over the year...
Dateline Mole Allegedly at DefCon with Hidden Camera — Updated: Mole Caught on Tape
Updated: Mole Caught on Tape — DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers a...
Plaxo launching Pulse, its own social network
Plaxo, the online address book, will try to recreate itself as an open social network called "Pulse" beginning Monday. — In retrospect, you should have seen this coming. Plaxo is primed for this. ...
Breaking: First Third-party Native iPhone Application
Google Code has the first third-party native application ever for the iPhone. A real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. Yes, th...
Microsoft slashes Vista price in China
Microsoft has more than halved the retail price of its Vista operating system in China. — The Home Basic edition dropped from $201 (1,521 yuan) to $66, and the Home Premium package dropped from $238...
The Open Social Network
We've got social networks with lots of users, like MySpace, Beebo, Facebook, etc, and we've got open social networks like Marc Canter's People Aggregator and Marc Andreessen's Ning. But we really don...
Sony to Replace Casing on DSC-T5 Cameras (PC World)
Sony to Replace Casing on DSC-T5 Cameras — Sony Corp. is offering to replace part of the casing on some models of its DSC-T5 digital still camera because the metal coating may peel away and scratch ...
Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose?
Is there a new blogger scandal brewing? Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks seems to think so. Allen takes issue with the new video blog Webb Alert (which mentioned Read/WriteWeb today), saying that ...
Google sidesteps mobile reports
Google has refused to deny mounting speculation that it is working to produce its own brand mobile phone. — Reports suggest that the web giant is developing a "GPhone", centred on its mobile service...
Reconfirmation: Flickr To Add Video
In May Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield casually mentioned to me that they would be allowing users to upload video "soon" (see last sentence in this post). Yesterday Yahoo Video GM Mike Folgner r...
New Parallels Desktop beta starts today, and a friendly hello
In typical Parallels "how the heck did you do that so fast?" fashion, we're launching beta testing for the next update of Parallels Desktop for Mac. And, I'm happy to let you all know that we listene...
Warning of webmail wi-fi hijack
Using public wi-fi hotspots has got much riskier as security experts unveil tools that nab login data over the air. — Demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, the tools make it ...
Bear Stearns: Yahoo Must Form A Social Networking Strategy
There is a bit of buzz around the presentation Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck gave a couple of days ago. It recommends a broad strategy for Yahoo to get their act together in the social ne...
Lenovo targets rural China with basic PC
BEIJING - Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast but poor rural market and priced as low as $199. — Lenovo's announcement follows rival Dell Inc.'...
Warhawk Goes Gold
Hi Everyone - It's been a while since I've made a post, but since some of you guys posted comments wanting me to jump back on, *and* the very interesting pricing debate/discussion that has been going ...
Tech rags forced to face unpalatable facts
Analysis Online is the way, unless it isn't — WHAT TO make of the recent wave of high-profile defections, replacements and general crashes over in the SF tech press? Some might suggest it's the dea...
E-book site for students promises to save trees, money
Every June, I am as elated as the next student to have a three-month respite from the confines of school. But, come August, you can find me on Amazon.com, frantically buying an inordinate number of b...
Nokia to jump on music download bandwagon?
Nokia is on the verge of launching its own iTunes-like music downloads service, if rumours are correct. Online reports suggest the handset vendor is to unveil the service later this month, alongside ...
Apple iPhones Will Be Sold for 99¢
COMMERCE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—99¢ Only Stores® invites all to join in celebrating our 25th anniversary!
Twitter Is A Publication
Here's a theory that's emerged from my web communication experiment: Twitter isn't a communication tool, it's a publication. — That's not to say there isn't a strong communication element to it, jus...
XPS M1330: What's Going On?
Since my last post, many of you made it clear that you want us to share more details about what's going on with the XPS M1330. I want to apologize for the frustration that these delays are causing yo...
Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse
The brainchild of several ex-Netscape execs, the Mountain View start-up Multiverse, as the name suggests, isn't a single online world, but a platform for creating games and other 3D experiences with t...
Lawmaker wants Yahoo probe
WASHINGTON - Congressional investigators plan to look into whether Yahoo officials misrepresented the Internet company's role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist sentenced to a decade in jail. — H...
Yahoo to Revamp Video Site After Losing to YouTube
Aug. 2 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc., after losing out to Google Inc.'s YouTube, is revamping its video site by the end of the year to include more content from media companies and Internet users. — Mus...
Billboard Expands Hot 100 Chart To Include Streaming Media Data
Billboard is augmenting its ranking of digital music sales for its Hot 100 chart formula by including weekly streamed and on-demand music data from Yahoo and AOL Music. The magazine began factoring i...