Why Apple Can't Stop iPhone Hackers
AT&T and Apple may face an uphill battle prosecuting hackers that untether the iPhone from the AT&T wireless network — It sure sounds like a steal. On Aug. 31, George Hotz plans to trade in his iPh...
Change is Coming.
At Facebook we're focused on making Facebook Platform a better experience for both developers and users. To that end, we're working on some changes that we're planning to roll out within the coming w...
New Digg Home Page Live Today
Following up on Kevin's post from last week, we've gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page. We've gotten a lot of feedback that the vi...
CNN.com Inks Multi-Year Advertising Agreement with Google
Exclusive advertising deal connects CNN.com with hundreds of thousands of advertisers — CNN.com and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced an agreement today that enlists Google's AdSense™ advertising prog...
Social Networking Goes Professional
Doctors, Salesmen, Executives Turn to New Sites to Consult, — Commiserate With Peers; Weeding Out Impostors — When radiation oncologist Michael Tomblyn recently saw a 21-year-old patient whose eye...
Akamai Gets Ready for HD Video
Akamai (AKAM), under pricing pressure from upstart rivals such as Limelight Networks (LLNW), is upping the ante in the content delivery network wars. The company yesterday announced a new distributed...
The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect
Introduction — In the competitive x86 microprocessor market, there are always swings and shifts based on the latest introductions from the two main protagonists: Intel and AMD. The next anticipated...
BabyCenter Acquires Mom-Focused Social Network Maya's Mom; Launching Online Ad Network
You're reading it here first: The baby and mom-focused BabyCenter, owned by J&J, has made its first acquisition in its 10 years of existence: it has bought Maya's Mom, a Palo Alto-based social network...
NewsGator Launches Facebook App: NewsFriends
One of the leading RSS Aggregation startups, NewsGator Technologies, jumped on the Facebook bandwagon today with NewsFriends (add to Facebook here) - a social news application where Facebook users can...
Apple faces new class-action suit over locked iPhones
Apple Inc. is facing yet another class-action lawsuit over its iPhone, this time from a New York State resident who claims the company failed to adequately disclose to consumers that the handset is lo...
New Shop Promises Results Clients Can Gauge
STAN RAPP, a longtime direct marketer, is embarking on his third (at least) career, joining forces with a private equity fund to start an agency that intends to use the new media to help forge closer,...
Rootkit woes for Sony again?
Remember the hubbub over Sony BMG Music Entertainment's rootkit debacle, involving its CDs? — Well, another arm of Sony, this time Sony Electronics, may face a little of the brouhaha, as well. — A...
Internet groups brace for subprime fallout
Internet companies are bracing for a possible fall-off in one of their biggest sources of advertising following the meltdown in the subprime mortgage market. — Besides mortgage advertising specifica...