From "To Do" to "Done" in One Search
That sums up Yahoo! Search in a nutshell; the whole point is we want to get you from "to do" to "done." Whatever it is you want to do: research a topic, find a website, plan a vacation, research a me...
Microsoft's new Zunes: officially in 80, 8, and 4GB sizes
We love a good non-mystery around here, and Microsoft's new Zunes are about as un-mysterious as they get. But we also love a good product refresh, and now that the cat's officially out of the bag we ...
Ballmer: Facebook risks being 'a fad'
The Microsoft chief says that Facebook's appeal could fade - after being linked to an investment that would value the site at $10 billion — Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, believes tha...
Adobe expands online services, woos designers with Thermo
Attendees at Adobe's Max developer conference check out Thermo, the code name for a design tool that enables designers to construct Web applications without writing code. — (Credit: Martin LaMonica/...
Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery
Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavo...
Steve Ballmer still doesn't understand social networking
A few years ago I wrote to Microsoft's leadership and asked them why they weren't involved in the new Web 2.0 space. I got an answer back that was about 2,000 words long and included the words "busin...
Tom Thinks that he doesn't know what an iPhone Extreme is...
Microsoft: Yep, New Zunes. And DRM-Free Music?
Our spy in Seattle (actually, 20 minutes or so out of Bellevue) tells us that Microsoft did indeed show off three new Zunes today - a $149, 4 gig version and a $199, 8 gig model, both of which use fla...
Google to $2,000 a Share?
A reader complained that we've been nothing but negative of late—recession, Microsoft, Yahoo, newspapers, music, dying TV ads, etc.—so we'll brighten your afternoon with some rip-roaring positivity. ...
Redmond Install Fair later this month
The Windows Vista SP1 Deployment Team wanted me to pass along notice of an upcoming Install Fair being held here in Redmond at month's end; we've held events like this before and they've always been w...
Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com
We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comp...
First RIAA trial gets under way with jury selection, opening statements
Duluth, Minnesota — Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas (the name of the suit changed after the RIAA dropped the sole Virgin recording from the case) got under way this morning in Courtroom One of...
You Don't Create A Silicon Valley By Government Fiat
from the takes-a-bit-more-than-that dept — Two separate articles came out in two separate newspapers based 3,000 miles away from each other this past weekend — but together they demonstrate exactly ...
Amazon Makes You Lie to Log Off
Are e-commerce websites making it harder and harder for users to log off? That's certainly a trend one reader has seen evidence of, including confirmation from Amazon that the best way to sign out fr...
Google To $2000/Share? Somebody Muzzle Blodget
Henry Blodget made his name by predicting outlandish price increases for Internet stocks in the late nineties. A lot of people lost a lot of money (or, all their money) by listening to his recommenda...
Sony's $399 PS3 confirmed by Best Buy?
Thanks to a helpful tipster, we have a couple of Best Buy documents showing a $399 Playstation 3 with 40GB disk and Spiderman 3 (yes, Blu-ray) bundle with an "In Stock Date" of October 28. However, t...
eBay replaces Skype CEO, writes off $1.43 billion
Plus: Nokia buys Navteq; Dow sets record; Palm hit by first loss in 3 years — The Skype is falling at eBay: Online auction giant eBay admitted today that it paid too much when it bought Net phone se...
The stupidest idea ever?
VENTURE CAPITALIST WAS DISSATISFIED WORKING ON SMART IDEAS, SO HE WENT THE OTHER WAY — As managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki funded all the really smart ideas he could fin...
Microsoft to Increase Ad Business
Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, vowing that the company's $6 billion plunge into the ad business two months ago was not just an experiment, said today that advertising would become 25...
CBSNews.com Chief to Lead a News and Blogs Site
The Huffington Post, a news Web site, plans to announce today the appointment of a new chief executive, Betsy Morgan, who will leave her job as the general manager of CBSNews.com. — Ms. Morgan will ...
Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter
Yahoo is adding some major features to its search engine today. For instance, images from Flickr and playable videos are now embedded in the main results page. A search for a major rock band like U2...
Interface the way you want with WindowBlinds
If you've been dying to give your Windows XP machine a Windows Vista makeover without the pain of upgrading, WindowBlinds' latest offering will probably seem like a gift from the interface fashion god...
AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network
The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL business units over the...
V-Moda earphones meld phone, music
V-Moda has always been able to combine quality with high fashion, not an easy feat considering the limited canvas afforded by something as small as an earbud. And now it's managed to cram a key new f...
How to Quit Facebook
Maybe your affinity for Facebook began with a simple desire to keep in touch with your friends, or make new ones online. Or perhaps you were just bored. But now Facebook is the thorn in your side, a...
For eBay, Is It Skype — or Jajah?
or Jajah? — Yesterday, eBay recorded a huge, $1.4 billion impairment charge related to its Web-calling subsidiary, Skype, to indicate that that business is no longer worth anywhere near $2.6 billion ...
Facebook.fr: someone is looking for trouble (or money)
It is very likely that sometime soon facebook will launch a localized French version (and other languages too) just like MySpace did about a year ago. Actually Facebook is starting to be quite popula...
BoingBoing.net bounces into TV territory
The arty blog adds a video component to its eclectic mix. — BoingBoing.net, the popular everything blog that now gets 7.5 million page views a month, today will launch a daily online TV show. — Fi...
America's techiest cities: Silicon Valley No. 1, but who's No. 2?
Hint: It's not Boston or Seattle, according to Census Bureau stats — The highest concentration of IT professionals in the U.S. is — you guessed it — in Silicon Valley. But naming the No 2 spot isn'...
Your Take Roundup:: People Will Pay for Niche Content, Ad-Free Newspaper Sites
People Will Pay for Niche Content, Ad-Free Newspaper Sites — With the end of the TimesSelect pay service for New York Times editorialists and archives — and the possible end of the Wall Street Journ...
Microsoft powers up for change
Chief executive says free software, downloadable online, is on the horizon for consumers. Josephine Moulds reports — Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, yesterday signalled another step to...
Apple kicks off Leopard month with Boot Camp warning
Don't expect a separate Boot Camp for Tiger, says analyst — Apple Inc. kicked off the month in which it plans to launch its new Mac OS X 10.5, "Leopard," OS by reminding users that the beta license ...
Bubblewatch: The Industry Standard is Coming Back
As if we needed any more evidence that the bubble is back in Silicon Valley, technology media company IDG plans to revive that hallmark publication of the dot.com era, the Industry Standard. — I hea...
EBay says it paid almost $1bn too much for Skype
Graeme Wearden — Dotcom giant eBay has admitted it paid far too much when it bought internet telephony company Skype for $2.6bn (£1.28bn) in 2005. — The web auction company said it was writing dow...
How to Quit Facebook
Maybe your affinity for Facebook began with a simple desire to keep in touch with your friends, or make new ones online. Or perhaps you were just bored. But now Facebook is the thorn in your side, a...