Facebook *is* opening up
And it's starting to happen right now, today in fact. — I reported earlier on a new feed in Facebook, allowing notifications to be visible outside the wall. — It's getting reallll interesting — I'...
New Study Explores the Online Behaviors of U.S. Teens and 'Tweens
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — More Teens and 'Tweens Are Creating Content and Connecting Online — for Educational Benefits, Offering Schools New Opportunities to Use Technology — Reports New National ...
Lime Wire to Enter Music Download Market With New Digital Store and Inks Deals With Music Companies
Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store. — Initially the store will be a stand-alone website …
Introducing good bloggers and companies to hire them
Update: Response to this post has been extensive - it's going to take me some time to deal with all the replies! That's great. — I've been getting so many inquiries lately from companies looking to...
Adding a Google Map to your blog
Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video. No coding or programming ...
Yahoo edges Google in US user satisfaction survey
Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) may be struggling to convince Wall Street of its future prospects, but for the first time its users gave its services overall a better rating than what Goo...
Nokia announces product advisory for BL-5C battery
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. Th...
Dr. Google and Dr. Microsoft
In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their pla...
Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps
It'll be as simple as cutting and pasting a bit of HTML code into your website, just like a YouTube video.
Microsoft Unveils Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 in Technology Preview
New software builds on Exchange Server 2007's anywhere access* to information, operational efficiency and built-in protection. — Microsoft Corp. today announced Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (...
VMware prices IPO at $29; Virtualization hits Wall Street
Update: As of 11: 15 am. EDT, VMware shares were trading at $51, well above the $29 offering price. MarketWatch is reporting that VMware has the best opening of 2007-assuming the current price holds...
A notebook in miniature
You'd be forgiven for classifying Fujitsu's U810 notebook as a slightly clunky ultramobile PC. — After all, it weighs a pound and a half, has the Intel A110 processor used in Samsung's UMPC, and all...
AOL Launches Mobile Search
Google may have won the fixed line search sweepstakes, but mobile search remains an open territory, for anyone to conquer — countless start-ups, Yahoo, Nokia. Add AOL to the list, which is launching ...
John Lennon Solo Catalog Debuts on iTunes Store
Apple® today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). Sixteen of Lennon's solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starti...
BIOSHOCK: BREAKING THE MOLD
Way back when I was creating the BioShock Limited Edition, I took a poll for what you guys wanted to see in the box. And while we managed to put your top 3 choices in - the Making of DVD, Sountrack C...
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anon...
FREE Beta version of IM+ for Skype is available for iPhone
www.skypeforiphone.com — SHAPE Services is pleased to invite you to participate in a beta testing round. Please send your suggestions to betaskype.iphone@shapeservices.com.&nbs p; — Call Skype use...
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch
Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby. I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator...