It's Finally Official: eBay's Skype Has Bombed
eBay has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to the rest of the world for at least three quarters: the Skype acquisition gamble has failed. Among the news today: — Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom ...
Techmeme Leaderboard is live
The Techmeme Leaderboard, that much-leaked list of Techmeme's top 100 sources, including blogs, non-blogs, and everything in between, is now up. It ranks sites, every 20 minutes, simply by the amount...
A new top 100?
Like almost everyone else, I keep track of who's pointing to me in Technorati, a service that was created in a Thanksgiving programming binge by David Sifry, based on the output of (my own labor of lo...
Radiohead Fans to Name Their Price for New Album
In an unusual test for the music industry's transition to digital sales, the superstar British rock band Radiohead said its much anticipated new album will initially be available only as a digital dow...
Adobe Raises The Stakes For Web Documents With Buzzword and Share
The list of companies offering free, Web-based word processors just got longer. Today, Adobe is entering the Webtop game (watch out, Microsoft Office) with its announcement that it will purchase Bost...
Microsoft finally unveils its answer to Google Docs
After months of speculation about what it would do to stave off potential encroachments on its Office turf by Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Microsoft has spelled out its strategy: Office Live Workspace....
Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ
The combined entity would create a leading global player in the fast growing location based services market — NAVTEQ to support existing customers as before — Espoo, Finland - Nokia and NAVTEQ toda...
Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday
Microsoft will hold a event on Tuesday in Redmond to herald the second generation of Zune music players, BetaNews has learned. — According to sources close to the situation, both Microsoft chairman ...
AT&T Censors Customers' Negative Opinions
Don't respond to this post if you want to keep your AT&T connection — Most people don't read the fine print in their consumer contracts but those who do have noticed something about AT&T's new terms...
Radiohead's New/Old Business Model: Free Music
Alterna-band Radiohead will give away its new album via digital download. The band is ostensibly giving fans the chance to pay what they think "In Rainbows" is worth; in practice that means they're w...
Nokia Buys Software Maker for $8.1 Billion
Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said today that it had agreed to pay $8.1 billion for Navteq, the maker of digital mapping and navigational software based in Chicago, as it seeks to migrat...
The Barbarians Are At The Gate, But Microsoft Moves To Protect Office Revenues
The barbarians are at the gate, a new horde is on the way, but no one seems to be defending the castle. Instead, the Microsoft Office warriors are rebranding, repackaging and relaunching old products...
Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati's Last Stronghold
Blog search engine Technorati's founding CEO is gone, its traffic party has ended and its core search functionality is under long term fire from competitors like Google Blog Search, Ask.com and Sphere...
IPhone: Unbricked iPhones Now Fully Working, Calls Included
Yesterday we reported how to unbrick an unlocked iPhone. Today we have discovered that you can send and receive calls, SMS and mails too, as well as surf the Web with it. You just have to use a Turb...
Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors
Well, we'd heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units — everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photosho...
Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries
Four software designers who were instrumental in the creation of Google's popular e-mail and mapping services have founded a new company with the intent of making it easy for people to find out what W...
IPhone: Unbricked iPhones Now Fully Working, Calls Included (UPDATED: Works with Both Paid Software Unlock and TurboSIM)
Last Saturday we reported on how to unbrick an unlocked iPhone. Today we have discovered that you can send and receive calls, SMS and mails too, as well as surf the web with it.
Steve Ballmer stirs the technology pay row
The Microsoft chief executive has questioned the mammoth $74m pay-package taken home last year by Oracle's Larry Ellison — Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, waded into the debate over ex...
Think Different: Think Again, Apple
I shed a tear while watching the video after the jump. Watch ^ first then the subsequent one. Awesome. — This entry was posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 10:26 pm and is filed under Tags: ...
Hello Public
Big day for us at Joost — today Joost is drawing back the curtain and steppin' out. — Haven't been able to score an invite? Now it doesn't matter! Everyone can enjoy a ballooning selection of come...
Radiohead Says: Pay What You Want
Roughly 12,000 albums are released in an average year, so the announcement late Sunday night that the new Radiohead record, In Rainbows, will be out Oct. 10 is not itself big news. Sure, Radiohead is...
AT&T threatens to disconnect subscribers who criticize the company
AT&T has rolled out new Terms of Service for its DSL service that leave plenty of room for interpretation. From our reading of it, in concert with several others, what we see is a ToS that attempts t...
Joost Launches: Video Interview With Mike Volpi
Joost, the impeccably pedigreed, funded, and hyped Internet TV platform is releasing its software to the general public on Monday. For those of you beta testers (like us) who've griped about the reli...
Day 76: The Yahoo Revival Meeting (Starring His Digital Holiness Steve Jobs)!
What do you do when you want to inject a little inspiration into a company that needs a lot of it? — Do you hold an all-day meeting of top execs where you actually outline specific goals and exhibit...
Facebook banned in United Arab Emirates?
Users of Facebook in the United Arab Emirates have been left wondering if their access to the site will continue after major telco Etisalat appeared to have blocked the site today. Many Web sites are...
Bungie Leaving Microsoft!! You heard it here first folks
A friend of mine who has someone close that works at Bungie has just been dying to tell me a secret about their future. Since the NDA officially expire today the sent me and email with the details. ...
Deceptive EULA, spyware bring down the wrath of the FTC
The Federal Trade Commission has ended its war against the makers of Media Motor, a company that purported to offer free screensavers and videos for Windows users but secretly installed spyware onto t...
Google's Friends And Family Plan
The drumbeat has started in Silicon Valley: Google phones are coming. — It's no secret that Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is keen to become a pivotal player in the mobile phone world. And ...
HTC's HSDPA toting S730 QWERTY and P6500 GPS phones get official
That was quick. Just a few hours after peeping their S730 in the wild, HTC has upped and made it official. They also pushed out the P6500 enterprise phone to keep it safe and feeling protected.
The Sony Drive XEL-1 OLED TV: 1,000,000:1 contrast starting December 1st
It's here friends, Sony's Drive teaser is none other than their 3-mm thin, 1,000,000:1 OLED TV, just announced official with a December 1st Japanese retail date. The 11-inch SonyDrive XEL-1 set featu...
At Starbucks, Songs of Instant Gratification
Like that song you hear playing at Starbucks, but just cannot wait until you get to a computer to download the song? — Starting tomorrow at certain Starbucks stores, a person with an iPhone or iTune...
Microsoft's MSN: Still Sucking Wind After All These Years
Microsoft's Internet business (MSFT) got some good press this summer, when MSN's share of search queries briefly jumped (before dropping again), and the division's ad revenue continued to accelerate. ...
Adobe Launches Flash Lite 3
For immediate release — Flash Player for Mobile Devices Delivers High-Impact Video and Dynamic Web Content — ADOBE MAX 2007, CHICAGO - October 1, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) t...
HTC unveils Q4 2007 device line-up
Demonstrates breadth of capability and innovation with launch of three new smart devices — HTC Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Windows Mobile®-based smart devices and com...
Nokia unlocks anti-Apple campaign
The quartet of posters above was photographed in New York city over the weekend by a MacRumors forum jockey. Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen Nokia pounce on Apple foibles, and it cert...
A day on the Surface: a hands-on look at Microsoft's new computing platform
New paradigms — It's not often that one gets a chance to attend a demonstration of a new method of human-computer interaction. Having been too young to witness the development of the command line i...
Niklas Zennstrom Steps Down as CEO of Skype
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News) today announced that Niklas Zennstrom has stepped down as CEO of Skype. Zennstrom, who co-founded Skype in 2003, will become non-execut...