Razr2 carriers announced
Motorola announced today that its second-generation Razr phone will be arriving at most major U.S. carriers by the end of the summer. The GSM Razr2 V9 will come to AT&T while the CDMA Razr2 V9m will ...
Yahoo Rumor Patrol: MySpace, Nope! Google? Maybe So.
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Things have quieted down at Yahoo of late-thankfully for new CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang, who seems to be doing a good job at calming the wat...
Google Shutting Down Paid Video
Google today emailed customers who had purchased videos from Google Video to let them know that the company will be discontinuing paid rentals and downloads five days from now. Not only will videos n...
Toshiba Recalls Notebook Computer Batteries Due to Fire Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop ...
edgeio Launches Paid Content System
Online classifieds startup edgeio has just launched a new paid content product, which will be of particular interest to online publishers and media producers. They're calling it "transactional classi...
Mahalo Follow: Toolbar Gives You Human-Powered Alternatives To Searching, Surfing
Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar that allows you to view Mahalo's human-powered search results next to the results from the major search engine of your choice or have them appear in response to pages yo...
The $200 Billion Rip-Off
This is part three of my explanation of how America went from having the fastest and cheapest Internet service in the world to what we have today — not very fast, not very cheap Internet service that ...
Man has thumbs altered to improve iPhone dexterity
This story isn't for the faint of heart. In fact, we wouldn't really recommend it for anybody, but we'll soldier on regardless. Thomas Martel hails from Colorado, and after upgrading to an iPhone, h...
Are You Ready To Bar Camp?
Bar Camp, an open multi-day event where people can share ideas and talk about just about anything they like, is a very important event for me. Two years ago I attended the first Bar Camp, which was h...
Investigator ridicules UK visa site
Security on websites used to apply for UK visas is utter crap, an independent investigator looking into the matter has concluded - in so many words. They should remain shuttered until a list of impro...
Excel geocoding adventures
As mentioned here, I've been working with a spreadsheet containing addresses that want to be geocoded. I've had lots of experience running batches of addresses through geocoding services, but in the ...
Novell Wins Right to Unix Copyrights
Novell today won a significant ruling in its lengthy battle with The SCO Group over ownership of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights. 10-Aug-2007 — Top Value Business Desktop PCs — These inexpensive...
Search In The Year 2010
If I ever had to build a search engine, or more precisely, the interface of a search engine, this would be the team I would want to bring together. When I came up with the idea of looking forward thr...
facebook data store api thoughts
On Monday, Facebook employee Haiping Zhao quietly published a Data Store API on the Facebook developer wiki. — It's preliminary, and still in closed beta, but it marks a milestone in the evolution o...
Comcast Launches Beta Version Of Its Fancast
Comcast (Nasdaq:CMCSK) has quietly launched a slow and slightly buggy version of its Fancast site, in beta. This site is supposed to be its ambitious online video guide and portal, marking its first ...
1-800 Pay-Per-Call: Marchex Buys VoiceStar, $4 billion Local Advertising Bonanza?
"Marchex adds call-based advertising services to local advertising platform with VoiceStar acquisition," so announces Marchex. — Marchex touts the "significant growth opportunities of the pay-per-ph...
Company bloggers can help put out fires
Dell manager's quick reaction won industry accolades — When Dell Computers started getting reports of laptops exploding in flames last summer, Lionel Menchaca took the heat - from his own legal team...
Symantec Products NavComUI ActiveX Control Code Execution
Critical: — Highly critical — Impact: — System access — Where: — From remote — Solution Status: — Vendor Patch — Software: — Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006 — Symantec Norton Intern...
Shipping "Dell-ays"
As students head back to school there might be something missing from their backpacks — the new Dell laptop they ordered weeks ago. Shipping delays on the new Dell Inspiron and XPS line of notebooks ...
MediaWhiz Latest Ad Network For Sale?
MediaWhiz, a holding company for a number of advertising networks, may be shopping itself to private equity firms. We are hearing that they are looking for $400- $450 million, which is 2.5 - 3 times ...
NBC "allows" bloggers to use debate footage
On Wednesday, NBC announced that it will join rivals CNN and ABC in making video footage of presidential debates aired on its networks freely available for non-commercial use. Under licensing terms p...
Beyond Brickbreaker
As Smart Phones Gain — In Popularity, Game Makers — Roll Out New Diversions — While running his education-related start-up, Ryan Thompson keeps up on his email by staying glued to his BlackBerry...
Stuck on the enterprise
As Jobs proudly reported this Tuesday, the Mac is doing well. Quibbling over exact numbers aside, the iPhone launch was also a success. Despite stagnating for a bit, design-wise, the iPod continues ...