More on Yahoo Reorg: Sue Decker's Memo
We got the full internal memo Sue Decker sent this afternoon to the team, on Yahoo's (Nsdq: YHOO) reorg..the full memo is here. See our earlier post on the reorg. Salient points from the memo: — Je...
Announcing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
update @ 14:53 PDT: The exec closest to the development process, Core Operating System Division (COSD) Sr. VP Jon DeVaan, gives his personal take on Windows Vista SP1 over at Press Pass — check it ou...
Hulu Translates To "Cease" and "Desist" in Swahili. Oops.
Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March. CEO Jason Kilar says the name "captures the spirit of the...
A Shift to Engagement.
As we indicated earlier, today we are introducing new guidelines that will change how applications are ranked in the application directory. Currently, the focus is on total number of users, but going...
The Next iPod
Don't even think about buying an iPod between now and Sept. 5. Apple has invited the press to a "special event" next week in San Francisco. And as usual, Apple won't say what it plans to announce. ...
GTD for Bloggers: The Art of Stress-free Blogging
The ever-popular productivity book Getting Things Done, by David Allen, caught on fire within the last few years through the power of blogs. And while many a blogger has fallen in love with GTD, and ...
Speculation: Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn?
We knew it would happen, we just didn't know it might happen this soon. — I just received a tip from top application developer Trey Philips that Facebook has added two new undocumented functions …
In-car Google Local Search with BMW ConnectedDrive
In March, BMW introduced Google Maps Send to Car in Germany. As of today, we've expanded this service to all of our European BMW Assist customers. In addition to Google Maps Deutschland, you can now...
Nokia's iPhone — no, seriously
no, seriously — Oh come on, what the hell is that? A Nokia branded iPhone? It was presented during Nokia's GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse of what's coming with Nokia interface design. Oh, ...
Worm In The Apple
Apple Chief Steve Jobs' not-so-secret plan to take over the world is going well. On the desktop, Apple's Macs are chewing away at Dell and Gateway's market share. The iPod has squashed Microsoft's Z...
HP Virtus revealed
We don't yet know a lot about this happening new HP desktop, except that it's been dubbed the Virtus and it's got some fairly slick design. We'll hit you up with more as we get it — for now, bask in ...
A Camera for Generation Z
For the first decade of the digital camera revolution, most manufacturers used only one carrot to dangle in front of prospective buyers: more megapixels. You felt inferior if your camera took three-m...
Mitt Romney - Jumpcut Candidate Remix
Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has teamed with Yahoo on an ad-creation contest for his campaign. — Jumpcut, the video editing site Yahoo picked up last September, will host the Team M...
The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules
Note: Gphone concept sketches by Lorin Wood. — If done right, the Gphone and not the iPhone will be the one to change the face of the wireless industry. — Apple's iPhone, at least in its initial r...
New DVD-sized disc to hold 1 to 5 terabytes of data
The optical disc revolution started with CDs and then moved on to DVDs, and we're in the midst of the next-gen battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray. Since the birth of the CD 25 years ago, we've gone fr...
Source: iPod shuffle refresh to go (RED)
With much of the excitement lately surrounding anticipated evolutions of Apple's video iPod and iPod nano families, little has been said about an upcoming refresh to the company's diminutive iPod shuf...
Monster says millions of users' data may be stolen
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - The theft of contact information for job seekers in the database of Monster Worldwide Inc (MNST.O: Quote, Profile, Research) may have been much greater than the 1.3 million...
Nokia Goes Web2ish, Launches 4 New Phones, Services
Nokia (NOK) is making a splash today with the launch of four new mobile phones, the Nokia music store, a Nokia N-Gage gaming site, and a web services portal called Ovi. The company announced these ne...
Apple confirms "Special Event" on September 5th
Apple Inc. will use a special media event on September 5th to introduce a new array of digital media offerings, according to digital invitations issued to analysts and members of the media Tuesday aft...
NewCo finally gets a name: Hulu
News Corp. and NBC Universal have finally announced the name for their much talked about NewCo online video effort: Hulu. CEO Jason Kilar explains the reasons why they picked the name. … The company ...
Zoho Launches Application Start Page
Online office tools provider Zoho today released a beta version of Zoho Start, a launch pad for Zoho's suite of office applications. Zoho currently offers a suite of 16 separate apps and utilities, a...
Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
TOKYO — Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it. — Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper. Japan h...
Sad day
Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very...
Some Social Networks May Never Support Brand Advertising, IDC Finds
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., August 28, 2007 -Hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers have adopted social networking services as a tool to manage their social networks and express themselves. Spreading like wil...
Google Web Toolkit jumps out of beta
Google's previously developed in house Web Toolkit, has been taken out of beta mode and released into the wild for JAVA developers to pounce on and enjoy. — The new release is GWT 1.4, and if you ar...
Inside DCSNet, the FBI's Nationwide Eavesdropping Network
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted do...
How Docs & Spreadsheets grew at Google
When we first launched Docs & Spreadsheets last fall, we brainstormed different ways to drive awareness and adoption inside of Google. Should we hold a contest? Put up posters? But before we knew i...
So what happened?
Now that we have had time to dive into the details more on what happened that caused the temporary problems last weekend, I want to share what we found so far. We still have more work to do, but we n...