Sky: The final frontier
Since ancient times, people have looked at the sky and tried to find order in the chaos of stars and planets. Ancient sky maps and astronomical computers were created alongside maps of the earth. Wi...
Google Aims to Make YouTube Profitable With Ads
Ever since Google bought YouTube last November, it has avoided cluttering the site and the video clips themselves with ads, for fear of alienating its audience. — The strategy helped cement YouTube'...
VideoEgg Exec: YouTube's New Ads Are Just Like Ours
Earlier today, in our post regarding YouTube's new overlay advertising model, we mentioned that some YouTube critics felt the site's new ad model was a direct rip-off of video network competitor Video...
My, what a friendly ad
Is Larry Page now writing headlines for CNET? — Google's YouTube, copying the "ticker ad" concept that VideoEgg introduced nearly a year ago, yesterday announced that it is slapping advertisements a...
Hitchhikers Guide to Google Sky
Stardate 61105.2, planet Earth. I've booted up my computer and loaded Google Sky and ready to trek across the galaxy. — Today Google released a beta version of Google Earth (4.2.0180.1134 (beta))th...
AMD's Henri Richard to step down
Advanced Micro Devices will announce the imminent departure of Henri Richard, the company's chief sales officer, later this afternoon, CNET News.com has confirmed. — A source familiar with AMD's pla...
Microsoft and Nokia team up to offer Windows Live on S60 devices
Microsoft and Nokia are set to announce a new agreement that brings Windows Live services to selected Nokia S60 devices. From today, customers in 11 countries will be able to download the new Windows...
Windows Home Server system specs, prices, and launch date leaked
Details about the first OEM systems equipped with Windows Home Server are leaking out on to the 'Net, and it looks like HP is going to get the ball rolling with its MediaSmart Home Server. Prices for...
E-Trade and TD Ameritrade reportedly talk merger
LONDON (MarketWatch) — TD Ameritrade and E-Trade are discussing a merger that would create a dominant player in the online-brokerage industry and possibly prompt another industry shakeout, according t...
Windows Home Server
I am so loving this product. It's one of those things that you think you don't need until you start using and the more you use it, the more you wonder how you lived without it. The team over there a...
AMD VP Henri Richard resigns
printer friendly layout discuss in the forums email to a friend — We have it on good authority that AMD's chief sales and marketing officer Henri Richard has resigned and that his resign...
Google says mobile usage has surged this summer
SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - Google Inc has seen a spike in usage of its mobile services since May, partly offsetting the traditional summer slump in computer-based Web surfing for the first time,...
ES&S Gave California E-Voting Machines That Weren't Certified
Well, the hits keep for Election Systems & Software (ES&S). The company was already facing some controversy over the fact that its e-voting machines time stamped the ballots in a way that could revea...
Troubled times for home networks
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — There are many technologies that only prove how useful they are when you actually try them. — Take for instance, broadband. The high price may have in...
Turn PS3 into a digital personal video recorder and record programmes to watch anytime, anywhere
Leipzig, 22 August 2007. At Games Convention today, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced the introduction of PlayTV, a combined TV tuner and Personal Video Recorder (PVR) for PLAYSTATI...
Blogspot Down
Blogs hosted with Google's Blogger are down right now (like the official Google blog, for instance). A search for [site:blogspot.com] returns around 34.5 million blog pages, which all seem to be affe...
Eight great, simple ways to hack the Web
Free services from Google and other companies mix and mash nicely — You may not feel the urge to microblog your every thought using Twitter, and not every news story that tops the list at Digg.com a...
Already, Apple Sells Refurbished iPhones
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21 — Consumers looking for a deal on an iPhone may be able to knock $100 off the price of the smartphone by buying from an unexpected discount source: Apple Inc. — On Monday, the...
Conduit Labs: social networking through gaming
Conduit Labs is a secretive new company, not launched yet, but which says it wants to build a new social network: One built around virtual world gaming, but with networking components that reflect rea...
Apple's surprise weapon: Computers
The iPod and iPhone are hits, but they're not the company's hottest line, says Fortune's Brent Schlender. — (Fortune Magazine) — Last January, when Steve Jobs rechristened his company by ostentatiou...
Say Jambo to Tafiti!
If verticalized search is on your wish list check out this new way of doing it. It requires Silverlight and works in a variety web browsers. — Tafiti is built with Windows Live Search and SilverLig...
Nokia and Microsoft to Deliver Windows Live Services to Millions of Mobile Customers
Industry leaders join forces to bring Web services to Nokia devices. — Nokia, the world's largest mobile device manufacturer, and Microsoft Corp., a global leader in online communications and commun...
Google now zaps faces, license plates on Map Street View
Google has gotten a lot of flack from privacy advocates for photographing faces and license plate numbers and displaying them on the Street View in Google Maps. Originally, the company said only peop...
TD Ameritrade In Merger Talks With E*Trade
The online brokerage industry, which underwent a wave of consolidation after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, may be headed for another shakeout, with giants TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and E*Trade...
Reasons financial and technical lurk behind Paramount's HD DVD coup
Paramount's decision to abandon Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD has raised many, many questions, especially after it came to light that Paramount and Dreamworks received a combined $150 million as part of ...
Poll: Half of employers restrict Facebook
Half of businesses are restricting employees' access to social-networking site Facebook, due to concerns about productivity and security. — According to research by security company Sophos, 43 perce...
Laptops stolen from Apple Store
Apple software has a reputation for being hard to hack. But apparently the Apple Store at University Village is another matter, as burglars who gained entry through the ceiling found out this week. ...
Dell's Consumer Focus Hits Snags
Dell Inc.'s first attempt to rebuild its consumer personal-computer business since founder Michael Dell returned to lead the company is having trouble sticking. — Persistent delays in laptop shipmen...
Firms, investors tend to prosper with founders at the helm
Founders know best. — Like coddling parents guiding their kids as they grow, companies' founders have a gut instinct on how to best care for their babies. — Investors who've noticed the powerful l...
Surprise Surprise... TV Viewing Is Declining
Earlier this week I decided to cancel my Comcast subscriptions, switching instead to Covad's ADSL2 service which is faster for now. I didn't even think twice about switching off my cable service, bec...
Microsoft Announces New Hardcore Gaming Mouse
Microsoft's new SideWinder gaming mouse is not for the faint of heart. It's got on-the-fly DPI switching, its own LCD display (on the mouse itself), a cable anchor, quick launch Vista gaming button p...
Palm Sub-Laptop "Foleo" Delayed, Says Deutsche; Does Anyone Care?
Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg has a brief note out today saying the Palm's (PALM) forthcoming "Foleo" computer, a kind of stripped-down laptop computer for Web surfing and email, has hit som...
The Last Word (for Now) on Our RSS Feed: An Excruciatingly Long and Boring Post That Will Please Exactly No One
The post that follows isn't likely to make anyone happy. — It is our third recent post about Freakonomics.com's RSS feed. Here is No. 1 and here is No. 2.
Twitter goes to the MTV Video Music Awards
Could this finally be what breaks Twitter out of the early-adopter geek set and into the population at large? The microblogging service has partnered with the inarguably mainstream MTV for its upcomi...
Four charged over Panda cyber worm
Change font size: — FOUR men were charged in a people's court in Hubei Province yesterday for their alleged roles in creating and spreading the worst cyber worm in China's Internet history, known as...
T-Mobile, Orange and O2 land Europe iPhone deal
T-Mobile, Orange and O2 are to sell the iPhone in Germany, France, and the UK respectively, according to the Financial Times. The paper also reports that the operators have agreed to give Apple 10 pe...
Best SES Session - Are Paid Links Evil?
We're only half-way through SES San Jose but I think we've already seen the best panel discussion of the event. — "Are Paid Links Evil" saw Matt Cutts go head to head with Greg Boser, Michael Gray, ...
How Grey Is Your Valley: Making Money From Open Source
Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg has spoken out against a number of open source projects for profiteering from their code. — The two examples Mullenweg cites are the open source forum platform Vani...
PlayStation to record digital TV
PlayStation 3 (PS3) users in Europe will soon be able to record and playback digital TV on their console. — Sony has unveiled a TV tuner which plugs into the PS3 and turns it into a personal video r...
Small webcasters offered royalty deal
WASHINGTON - Some small Internet radio broadcasters are rejecting a new offer from a music industry group to pay discounted royalty rates for streaming music online through 2010. — SoundExchange, th...
DivX Acquires Technology for Enhanced Video Search and Discovery Services
SAN DIEGO & LAWRENCE, Kan.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX - News) announced today the acquisition of the assets of Veatros, L.L.C., a Kansas limited liability company. Veatros's technology ...
Schmidt: Google will 'Probably' Bid on Spectrum
ASPEN, Colo. — Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the search giant will "probably" bid in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auctions, telling an audience here Tuesday that Google "got the spirit of what we were...
Digital-Ad Firm Launches Buying Spree
AKQA Prepares to Join — Crowded Field for Slice — Of Search Marketing — San Francisco digital-ad firm AKQA has begun its much-anticipated shopping spree by acquiring search-marketing company Sea...
Facebook at Work - Slacking or Networking?
Earlier this week a Sydney Morning Herald article claimed that Facebook "may be costing Australian businesses $5 billion a year." The quote is from an analytics firm called SurfControl, in a report w...
Google Dance Party - A Different Perspective
It's that time of year again. San Jose plays hosts to the Search Engine Strategies (SES) Conference and Google plays party host to the hoards of search marketers and online advertising pros who flock...
Our New Webmaster Portal and an Invitation to the Private Beta
Shortly after that day in March when we had to take the "link:" operator offline, a small team was formed in Redmond. Its singular focus: to build the next-generation set of tools, content and resour...