What happened on August 16
On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the ...
Paramount adopts HD DVD, kicks Blu-ray to the curb
Just when many observers are beginning to believe that Blu-ray has the next-gen HD format wars all wrapped up, Paramount throws us a major curveball. The studio has announced that it is abandoning Bl...
WHO'S ZOOMING WHO
PowerShot SX100 IS Offers All the Zooming Power Consumers Could Ever Want — Canon U.S.A., Inc. today introduced a brand new PowerShot line - the SX series …
Steve Balmer Actually Gets A Word In With Charlie Rose
I'm sitting in the audience watching Microsoft chief executive Steve Balmer chat with Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers at the Mandarin Hotel in midtown Manhattan, hosted by Charlie Rose. T...
Google-powered Questions & Answers for China
Wenda (wen da meaning "ask and answer" in Chinese) is a new question & answers site in China... powered by Google, in cooperation with Tianya.cn, a popular net forum in China, as Googlfied reports. I...
The Ballmer and Chambers show-no fireworks
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers are holding court with interviewer Charlie Rose in New York City, discussing how they view the market transition, Google, coopetition and indust...
Hewlett Introduces a Web Feature to Make Document Printing Mobile
Hoping to alleviate a frustration of mobile computing, Hewlett-Packard has quietly introduced a free service designed to make it possible to print documents on any printer almost anywhere in the world...
iPod Nano Colors
Just a little tidbit for the weekend to munch on... Our sources in China have just confirmed an earlier inside Apple report that the new Nano colors will be: — The screen takes up about 1/2 the sur...
iProspect Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior Study
Background — In June 2007, iProspect partnered with JupiterResearch to develop and field a survey to U.S. search engine users (heretofore referred to as "online search users") to gain a better under...
Google reveals stake in Chinese social Web Tianya
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search lead...
ELPH ELEGANCE REIGNS SUPREME
Canon U.S.A., Inc. today introduced two new compact PowerShot Digital ELPH Cameras - the top-of-the line 12.1-megapixel PowerShot SD950 …
Facebook Messaging just got better...
there are some friends you can send a Facebook message, and others you have to email. Not anymore.
comScore Introduces Expanded U.S., Global Search Measurement And Methodology
The analytics firm is expanding its core search metrics product, qSearch, in a number of ways that the company says will make the measurement of search volumes and market share more accurate than it w...
Phone Number For Life? Not Quite
A few weeks after Google bought GrandCentral for many millions, there are some changes afoot at the service. There is word that some GrandCentral users who had signed up for a phone number for life a...
HandBrake 0.9.0 Released!
"But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" — We're proud to an...
Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags
Since Workday publicly appeared on the scene in January 2006, it has been self-described as a "revolutionary application platform and the next generation of business applications to drive your enterpr...
The Red Shift Theory
Red Shift Theory is Sun's thesis about the explosive growth in demand for raw computing power—but is it more than the utility computing model warmed over? — For nearly a decade as chief technology o...
CANON U.S.A.'S NEW POWERSHOT G9 CAMERA COMBINES CREATIVE CONTROL WITH COMPACT CONVENIENCE
New G-Series Camera Gives Serious Photo Enthusiasts the Power of a Professional Digital SLR in a Point-and-Shoot Package — Canon U.S.A., Inc. announced today that its acclaimed G-series has a new to...
A "sea change in the computing industry"
A new startup out of MIT emerged from stealth mode today to announce that they're shipping a 64-core processor for the embedded market. The company, called Tilera, was founded by Dr. Anat Agarwal, th...
US 3G version of Nokia N95 gets FCC approval
Busy day for Nokia on the FCC: another version of the N95 just got the nod from the feds. This version is a quad-band GSM phone which includes support for the US 3G bands. This means that it would w...
Black 8GB Nokia N95 hits FCC
Looks like a black version of the N95 just hit the FCC. We're really digging the black exterior, and they've added 8GB of internal memory under the hood. We also peeped a reference to Nokia's new mu...
Gmail driving Google Apps adoption at college
Google's plan for world domination includes convincing colleges and universities to adopt its Google Apps Education Edition suite, and it's showing signs of success thanks to the seemingly ubiquitous ...
Beware Google Lust on Campus: Gmail Fuels Student Frenzy
Google aims to usurp university email systems, I underscored in April. After all, what is missing from campuses today? Google Apps Education Edition, of course, according to the Google world view.
Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve
I bought a retail copy of Office 2007 today (I'm loading up the new laptop I got for the world tour, which is a Thinkpad X61s), and I must be a complete spaz, but I simply could not figure out how to ...
Ad Growth for AOL Called Vital to a Remake
Just over a year ago, AOL unveiled a radical plan to remake itself into a business built on advertising from one driven by Internet access subscriptions. — To a great extent, AOL had little choice i...
MTV, RealNetworks to Form Online Music Venture
In a bid to create a stronger competitor to Apple Inc.'s marketing-dominating iTunes Store, Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks is set to announce Tuesday that it is merging its online digital music offerings ...
The end of ERP?
As the founder and leader of PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield played a seminal role in establishing enterprise resource planning, or ERP, systems as the IT engines of big business. But then, in a hostile ta...
Trip down memory lane: Woz the car salesman
"It... is... AWESOME". - Steve Wozniak — Long before he dreamed of dating Kathy Griffin, Steve Wozniak was bitten by the show-biz bug and agreed to appear in the 2nd best Datsun 280Z commercial eve...
Meet Copowi, the world's first ISP to guarantee network neutrality
Copowi! Kablooey! An ISP dons superhero tights — How much would you pay for an Internet connection from an ISP that guarantees a neutral network, bills itself as a "social enterprise" instead of a...
Some thoughts on Mahalo
I was surprised (along with many others) that Jason chose to launch a "human powered search engine" as his next venture. More so at the reported funding of $20M. — I'm a fan of Jason's antics and h...
Google Disconnects Grand Central Customers
So much for Grand Central's "one number for life" promise. The company is turning off customer phone numbers and giving them new ones following their acquisition by Google last month. — Troy Schnei...
How using a beta web application can bite
No, this isn't about data loss, the obvious danger of using anything with "beta" stamped on it. — I love GrandCentral. When we left Vonage, I was able to get a phone number in the same area code as...
Samsung expects 3rd-quarter chip profit to gain on rising prices
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. expects third-quarter operating profit in its memory chip business to double or triple from the previous quarter, a company executive said Monday. — "The market...
Building B Builds A God Box For Internet Video
Building B became the latest startup to join the Internet video set-top box sweepstakes today with the Belmont, Calif.-based company's announcement that it has developed a video god box capable of mar...
Cisco, Microsoft: Cozy competitors
NEW YORK—Three years ago, when Cisco Systems and Microsoft launched competing security solutions, they looked to be on a collision course, but on Monday the companies' CEOs took the stage together to ...
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation Each Declare Exclusive Support for HD DVD
Movies Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment Including Paramount — Pictures, DreamWorks Animation SKG, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Vantage, — Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films to be Releas...
Three Strategies for Thriving on the Decentralized Web
As Long-form Content Becomes Bite-Size, Make Everything on Your Site Eembeddable — The Long Tail of content and increasing demands for our attention have created a perfect storm where traffic to bra...
Carl Malamud Takes on WestLaw
Carl Malamud has this funny idea that public domain information ought to be... well, public. He has a history of creating public access databases on the net when the provider of the data has failed t...
Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 prices in Europe
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is cutting the European price for its Xbox 360 video game console by 50 euros to 349.99 euros ($470), following a similar cut in the United States. — Th...
HandBrake v0.9.0 for Mac OS X
Back in April, HandBrake and MediaFork were merged into one terrific program for the legitimate transference of DVD video to other formats, and other things. Now, just 121 days after HandBrake V08.5b...
Your data's less safe today than two years ago
Crooks are outpacing prevention efforts; ID theft is up 50% since 2003 — Today's electronic world is a risky place for your personal data — and it's not getting any safer. More than 158 million dat...
Identity attack spreads; 1.6M records stolen from Monster.com
Convincing phishing mail seeds bank account-stealing Trojan and 'ransomware' — The 46,000 people reportedly infected by ads on job sites may be only a fraction of the victims of an ambitious, multi-...
Piece Of Cake: How To: Install Apps on Your iPhone Easily, No Hacking Skills Required
If you wanted to install third-party native software in your iPhone but you didn't had the necessary technical knowledge or courage, the newly updated iPhone Installer.app will make it so easy that it...
Facebook labelled a $5b waste of time
THE next time you see an employee hunched intently over the computer, don't imagine he or she is slaving over the office accounts or a report for the next shareholders meeting. — Employees are more ...
Exclusive: Adobe Media Player Launch Delayed Until Next Year
The introduction of the much anticipated Adobe Media Player (AMP), the desktop application that allows users to download and save Flash files, will launch in Beta this year but won't have a full intro...
Waiting for Zuckerberg
Much has been written lately about open standards and APIs for social networks, allowing users to sprinkled and manage their social graphs (circle of friends and business associates) across disparate ...
Apple trots out refurb iPhones, $100 off list price
If you want to run the risk of getting stuck with the iPhone we sent back because the proximity sensor crapped out (that's another story for another time), get ready to grab yourself a deal. Refurbis...
comScore Introduces Significant Enhancements to Search Measurement With comScore qSearch 2.0
RESTON, Va., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore qSearch 2.0, the second generation of search measurement.
Viacom And NBC Inject Themselves Into Online Video Litigation
Viacom and NBC aren't content with suing YouTube and other video sites for copyright infringement - they are also trying to inject their opinions into other lawsuits that they are not otherwise involv...
Microsoft deal may lead to free, but "watermarked" music
Microsoft has agreed to license its audio watermarking technology to Activated Content Corp. of Seattle. We all know watermarking's place as a part of the music industry's DRM toolbox, but Activated—...
Are Search Ads a Waste of Money?
NEW YORK New research by Microsoft suggests a big chunk of search ad spending is wasted because advertisers pay top dollar for high ad placements clicked by consumers who are en route to their sites a...