Apple and T-Mobile Announce Exclusive Partnership for iPhone in Germany
Apple® and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile, the leading network operator in Germany, will be the exclusive German carrier of Apple's revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in Germany …
NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu?
What about Hulu? — NBC will offer its top television shows as ad-supported downloads for up to a week after broadcast on a new service called "NBC Direct" that will launch this fall, the network is a...
Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket
San Francisco—The next big thing for Intel is little. The company has used its Developer Forum, here, to extol the virtues of its forthcoming handheld device platforms for allowing consumers to conne...
Laptop vendors to offer Centrino with WiMax next year
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Several laptop vendors plan to announce support for an upcoming version of Intel's Centrino platform that uses WiMax wide-area networking technology — but Hewlett-Packard, Dell...
Google Gphone still on the way, say sources
Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners, according to sources at Taiwan handset maker...
First Look: Go, Go, Google Gadget Ads!
Google has just announced the limited launch of Google Gadget Ads, a new interactive ad format that will run on their content network. Unlike Google AdWords' existing array of text, video and graphic...
Who's Afraid of Online Advertising?
A new McKinsey & Co. report called " How Companies Are Marketing Online" draws the astonishing conclusion that many advertisers are reluctant to shift dollars online — despite the massive shift of con...
Digg Goes Deeper with Social Networking
With its audience expanding and interests diversifying, the popular site is launching new features to help users find like-minded friends — When Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose launched Digg three years ...
CNBC (GE) Gets Break: Fox (NWS) Aims At Wrong Audience
News Corp's Murdoch said yesterday that the new Fox Business network will be aimed at Main Street, not Wall Street. Murdoch is too smart for this to be a long-term strategy, but GE's CNBC must be bre...
Murdoch's Choice: Paid or Free for WSJ.com?
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch hasn't completed his purchase of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, but already Mr. Murdoch and Dow Jones executives are debating a key strategic...
Netscape's Propeller is Changing More Than You Might Think
AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be much more going on undernea...
Industry Leaders Develop Superspeed USB Interconnect
Popular USB Computer Connection Technology Expands performance with Proposed USB 3.0 Specification — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007 - Intel Corporation and other industry leade...
DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch
The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year. — We've completely revamped our profiles from the ground up - maki...
Announcing SoftTech VC's $12M seed fund - the Return to the Dark Side
After 3 years of angel investing in 20+ Consumer Internet startups (and profitably selling 5 of them), I am very excited, and humbled, to announce the launch of my very own VC fund, SoftTech VC II …
SAP Business ByDesign: first analysis
SAP's new A1S offering, formally called Business ByDesign, is intended for companies between 100-500 employees, which do not have deep vertical market software requirements. SAP believes this $15 bil...
Yahoo Image Search Loves Flickr
Search Yahoo Images for [google], and 70% (14 of 20) of the results are from Yahoo-owned Flickr*. Search for [google reader], and 100% of results are from Flickr. [horse], 25%. [matt cutts], 70%. ...
Time for Apple to face the music?
Columnist Bill Thompson asks whether the time has come for Apple to be put under the EU microscope in the same way as Microsoft has. — Microsoft was humiliated by the European Union's Court of First...
Zune 2 "source" leaks launch date and specs
Heads up, Zune fans — some new product is heading your way sooner rather than later, and we suspect there's more than a couple of things to get jazzed about. According to reports from a "source" insi...
Apple: iPhone GPS Hack Works!
Whoa, the iPhone just got GPS. Well, assisted GPS, but still. It actually works. This morning, the Navizon GPS app showed up in Installer.app. After creating a username and login (get this: email ...
HP plans solid-state drives in future business laptops
(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard plans to offer solid-state drives (SSDs) as an option in all professional series laptop PCs starting from next month because the drives operate faster, conserve battery l...
Ooma starts selling a land-line phone with unique features
Landline phones haven't changed much in decades. But Palo Alto-based ooma has created what it calls a true next-generation voice-over-Internet protocol phone. It has applied some clever technology t...
Google Uses Outdoor Billboards To Promote Goog411
Photo by Mike Blumenthal. Used with permission. — Mike Blumenthal took a picture of a billboard ad in upstate New York for Google's free directory assistance alternative, Goog411. This is interest...
Websites that may merit a low landing page quality score
Our landing page quality guidelines have always stressed the importance of directing users to easily navigable landing pages that are transparent about the advertiser's business and that contain relev...
AT&T Brings Out The BlackBerry 8820
Look at what the cat dragged in. It's the BlackBerry I've been waiting for, the 8820. GPS and Wi-Fi. Can it get any better? Once it moves over to T-Mobile, then yes. Specs here, but I'm sure you ...
Strategy Letter VI
IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they're probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original...
Web host breach may have exposed passwords for 6,000 clients
Names, addresses and phone numbers also at risk — Layered Technologies has been targeted by malicious hackers who may have stolen passwords and other personal details on as many as 6,000 of its clie...
Ogilvy New York Co-President Andy Berndt Goes to Google
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Andy Berndt, co-president of Ogilvy & Mather's New York office, has left his post at the agency to go to Google, where he will helm a new global unit dedicated to collaborating ...
Goog-411 rolls out bill boards in the hinterlands?
I drive 8 miles to work along NYS Route 16, down the hill known as Rock City, and past some incrediblly picturesque scenes as I head to my office in downtown Olean. The drive is rural and while Olean...
iPod games must be repurchased for new iPods
It looks like those hoping to port their collection of iPod games over to their shiny new iPod nano or iPod classic are going to be out of luck, unless they fork over the cash for new "reformatted" ve...
OS X version of OpenOffice slated for next September
Aqua developer porting force (back) on the case — A version of the free OpenOffice.org productivity suite that will work natively on the OS X operating system may finally be ready in September 2008.
DigiTimes: Google will definitely launch its own branded handset
Citing sources at "Taiwan handset makers," DigiTimes is reporting that "Google will definitely launch its own branded handset." However, the Googlephone's OS, hardware specs, production contractor an...
P2P sites ridicule MediaDefender takedown notices in wake of e-mail leak
Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender has sent a flurry of takedown notices and legal threats to P2P web sites that are facilitating the propagation of a 700MB archive of internal MediaDe...
Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You's!
Now that the first TechCrunch40 conference is complete, this post will serve as my final conference review and recap. Some of the startups asked me about full, in-depth reviews. I am going to do my ...
The Death Of Moore's Law Is Greatly Exaggerated
Every so often, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore shows up for an interview, and it's only a matter of time before someone asks him about Moore's Law, and he says something along the lines of how shrinkin...
Cyber-threats outpace security measures, says McAfee CEO
McAfee CEO David DeWalt says cyber-crime has become a US$105 billion business that now surpasses the value of the illegal drug trade worldwide. — Despite the increase in government compliance requir...
Apple's fight against iPhone unlocks may result in expensive bricks
Apple will actively work against any SIM unlocks of the iPhone, says Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The Jobs made the comments during a Q&A session that took place after yesterday's press event in London anno...
Digging Deeper:: Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes
Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — When the dot-com boom fizzled, the business magazines that covered that huge story similarly flamed out. The Industry Standard closed, Red He...
Big trend coming out of TechCrunch40: data normalization services
Big trend coming out of TechCrunch40: data normalization services like Mint, Cake, TripIt, and Clickable. — DMS is a new category (I think I just named it) in which companies pull in data from 3rd p...
Always wait for something better. ALWAYS.
ZDNet's David Borlind has a bug up his butt about 3G. … Aarrrrrgh! — And that's not the Macalope talking like a pirate! It's him wanting to stick pointy objects in his eyes to gouge out the offendi...
Why a Recession Will Help Google Rule The World
As start-ups and investors pee in their britches over the thought that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession, Google and other cash rich companies are sitting pretty. Why? Because a recession w...
Brussels deploys Galileo rescue plan
Farmers won't miss €2.2bn, say officials — The European Union (EU) central bureaucracy has today announced its plan to save Galileo, the troubled European sat nav project. Brussels officials believ...
Silicon Valley throwing in towel on pan-WiFi project?
Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, the project that once proposed an ambitious region-wide WiFi network, now says it may not happen. — "Now, I just don't know," says Russell Hancock, chief execu...
iPhone v1.1.1 Feature Breakdown
Apple recently held their "Mum is longer the word" event in London. Nothing too crazy, basically just announcing that O2 will be their UK carrier for the iPhone. Of interest to me was the fact that ...
WorldView-1 Satellite Launches Into Orbit
New satellite from DigitalGlobe will provide images for Google Earth — The WorldView-1 space satellite successfully lifted into orbit on top of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched from...