Google plans new undersea "Unity" cable across Pacific
Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day has learned. — The Unity cable has been under development for several...
Virgin sued for using teen's photo
The photo of Alison Chang (left) from Justin Ho-Wee Wong's Flickr photo-sharing web page. The photo was used by Virgin Mobile in an advertising campaign. — A Texas family has sued Australia's Virgi...
Fox tries new lure for iPod crowd
The network and Apple will offer premieres of seven shows for free. — Beginning this week, season premiere episodes of seven Fox Broadcasting programs will be made available for free through Apple's...
Firefox memory usage and memory leak news
Many Mozilla community members, including both volunteers and Mozilla Corporation employees, have been helping to reduce Firefox's memory usage and fix memory leak bugs lately. Hopefully, the result ...
The XP alternative for Vista PCs
update While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch...
The week that Big Software shattered
For the last decade or so, the world of enterprise software, which I'll define as the programs that larger companies use to automate their basic processes, has been fairly monolithic and fairly predic...
The Forbes 400
ONE BILLION DOLLARS IS NO LONGER ENOUGH. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year. The collective net worth of ...
TPB files charges against media companies
Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteu...
Internet Celebrity Doesn't Translate: Amanda Congdon Let Go By ABC
Amanda Congdon, best known as the original host of Rocketboom, has been let go by ABCNews.com. — ABCNews.com said in a statement: … During her time at ABCNews.com Congdon did a number of projects, i...
Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5
Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly confidential meeting at Google's headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company's upcoming plans to address the "F...
comScore Releases August U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in August 2007, Goog...
Slim Aluminum MacBooks Coming Soon from Apple
We have received some information about some upcoming Apple laptops - we think they are MacBooks but aren't 100 percent sure they aren't the fabled Pro slim line. — What we know: — Black aluminum a...
Google sees Web search less exposed to mortgage woes
NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage lenders are cutting advertising budgets due to a global credit squeeze, but they are not likely to reduce Internet search marketing anytime soon, executives...
Google to Envelope All Knowledge on November 5th, 2007
Michael Arrington has convinced several high level sources to disclose discussion at a top secret Google meeting where the company discussed plans to release on November 5th a new set of APIs. Those ...
Google plans move into UK mobile and broadband market
Google is considering a move into the UK wireless market after the regulator Ofcom yesterday proposed grabbing back more than a third of the mobile phone spectrum that Vodafone and O2 have been using ...
SK Telecom handing over $270 million (more) to Helio
As if receiving $200 million from SK Telecom and EarthLink back in July wasn't enough, Helio is now set to accept (up to) a $270 million check from SK Telecom. According to EarthLink, SK Telecom will...
Where Is Your Social Graph?
I know that I wrote not too long ago that I didn't like the term "social graph" but the comments I got to that post educated me to the reasons why it's a good term. So I am using it now. — But wher...
The open source advantage: Firefox's leaky dam gets more fingers, yours could be one.
Yesterday, among other things, I ranted about how my Firefox was grinding to a halt. About the only pattern I noticed is that I can some times revive my system if I close the instance of Firefox …
Citigroup Customer Data Leaked on LimeWire
Citgroup has confirmed that it's investigating a data breach involving the names, Social Security numbers and credit information of 5,208 customers leaked by an employee of its ABN Amro Mortgage Group...
Amanda Congdon Gone From ABCNews.com
Tipped off by our friends from FishbowlLA, TVNewser can confirm that Amanda Congdon and ABC News are parting company. Congdon shot to web stardom on Rocketboom and has been working for the network fo...
Facebook Reloads fbFund (Wisely)
Just a bit of a disclaimer: as an executive/blogger, I frequently get information way before many in the media do (not bragging, just stating common sense), but for obvious reasons I sometimes step aw...
Customers Ask: Is Apple Going Rotten?
Karma. Doing the "right thing." Thinking different. Apple's enlightened approach to building customer loyalty is now famous, generating big headlines every time CEO Steve Jobs takes on Hollywood or...
Clicks That Count
Depending on whom you ask, click fraud is either an unsolvable quagmire threatening the online ad industry or, as Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said last year, "immaterial." — That disconnect ...
The Forbes 400
One billion dollars is no longer enough. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year. The collective net worth of ...
MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with "fake bomb"
Short version: it wasn't a "fake bomb" at all, it was a wearable tech jacket on the body of a friendly young technologist who would have been *way* better off wearing something else to the airport tod...
First U.S. GPL lawsuit filed
For the first time in the U.S., a company and software vendor, Monsoon Multimedia, is being taken to court for a GPL violation. Previously, alleged GPL violations have all been settled by letters fro...
Usability test: Does iPhone match the hype?
Users try out the iPhone, HTC Touch and the Nokia N95 — We all know that in the technology world, the hype about new products often doesn't match reality. So it's fair to ask: Is the iPhone as good...
ABC to Offer Free Shows Online Via AOL
ABC tries to steal NBC's thunder with its own announcement. — As reported at DailyTech, NBC Universal announced this week that it would be launching a direct download service to allow viewers to dow...
Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI exposed: shame on you J. Wong
Ok Meizu, seriously, with your M7 announced a week after the iPod touch and your CEO J.Wong just posting these new interface shots of the M8 to your user forum, how can we or any straight taking rag n...
DEMOfall 07 Conference Releases List of Participating Demonstrators
DEMOfall 07 Logo. Event produced by Network World Events & Executive Forums. (PRNewsFoto/NETWORK WORLD EVENTS) — SOUTHBOROUGH, MA UNITED STATES — 69 Innovations to Debut at Conference
Remote Vietnamese Village Gets Internet Access Via WiMax
WiMax and a satellite connection are bringing broadband Internet access to a remote Vietnamese village, part of a collaboration between the public and private sector to narrow the digital divide in ru...
Venture Capital: Snapvine turns up the volume a notch
WHAT DO 50 CENT, Enrique Iglesias and Vanessa Hudgens have in common? They are among the millions of people using an online voice player from Seattle's Snapvine, a service that allows them to add and...
Stealthy Startup Mixx Launches Into Private Beta
Mixx is a startup we've been watching for the last few weeks. They've been extremely quiet about their service until very recently. And since they are located well outside of Silicon Valley, in Virg...
Copier translates languages on the fly
OK, so maybe wood engraving isn't exactly the kind of advancement in desktop printers that we've all been waiting for. This one is esoteric as well, but there are probably a few more people who will ...
Blaupunkt dumps CDs in new car stereo
It was bound to happen eventually and, in fact, it's surprising that we haven't seen this sooner. — Blaupunkt's "Melbourne SD27" is the first car stereo that shuns CDs, according to SCI FI Tech, ins...
Open source impossible to avoid, Gartner says
By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain open source code, analysts predict — You can try to avoid open source, but it's probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether. B...
Office staff lose their jobs after bosses catch them trading on eBay
Nine office workers employed by a Labour-run local authority have lost their jobs after it was discovered that they were spending up to two hours a day on the internet auction site eBay.
Mortgage data leaked over file network
NEW YORK - Three spreadsheets containing more than 5,000 Social Security numbers and other personal details about customers of ABN Amro Mortgage Group were inadvertently leaked over an online file-sha...
Apple blacklisting hacked iPhones?
I received the following email from a colleague: … So while he eventually got Apple to return the iPhone (after paying the restocking fee, that is), the lesson here is to do a restore of your iPhone a...
No more buys from Acer
Acer has pulled itself off the acquisition trail for the foreseeable future and will spend the next couple of years digesting Gateway and Packard Bell. — Acer reckons its integration plan for Gatewa...
Google's stock price soars to new high
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s stock reached a new high Friday, reflecting Wall Street's renewed faith in the Internet search leader as it introduces new ways for advertisers to reach its steadily expa...
Sling Scores a Touchdown with NFL/DirectTV
Updated: Sling Media, the early leaders in place-shifting technology have scored a touchdown - they are working with DirecTV on a new offering called SuperCast. — As part of this deal, viewers can g...
Kraft Group investing $10m in a Net start-up, Matchmine
Firm aims to track users' tastes, help ads be more on target — NEEDHAM - The Kraft Group, best known for its investments in projects like Gillette Stadium and the New England Patriots, is sinking $1...
PirateBay Fires a Broadside of Complaints to Police
A blog post on the site by administrator brokep states that they have been going through the emails from the recent MediaDefender leak, and have obtained proof, from them, that they are being targeted...
Microsoft leaks its own search plans
A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event next week where the company was slated to unveil the changes to reporters. — The changes t...
Presenting: µBitTorrent
If you use torrents frequently, then you'll remember December 7, 2006, as a day that will live on in infamy, a day that teh Interwebs broke in half—just a little. That was the day that BitTorrent, Br...
GPL Finally Goes to Court in US
For the first time in the U.S., a company and software vendor, Monsoon Multimedia, is being taken to court for a GPL violation. Previously, alleged GPL violations have all been settled by letters fro...
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$130 Zunes — $10 Woot credit mocks Apple
$10 Woot credit mocks Apple — If the $150 white Zune was too rich to Woot, then how does 30GB for $130 sound Zune boy? Yup, $129.99 to be precise, which leaves you with half of the 2 cents required ...
Will Steve Jobs Plead the Fifth?
Before Karen Gullo and David Scheer broke the story yesterday for Bloomberg News, Apple (AAPL) managed to keep secret for five weeks the fact that Steve Jobs was subpoenaed by the SEC on Aug. 16 to te...