Graphing social patterns with Linkedin's Reid Hoffman
Speaking the Graphing Social Patterns conference (covering the business and technology of Facebook) in San Jose today, Linkedin founder and chairman Reid Hoffman poured cold water on the notion that a...
Alltel Wireless Launches New Wi-Fi Solution
Alltel introduces Wi-Fi to provide customers with access to thousands of hotspots — LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Whether staying in a hotel, waiting for a flight or drinking a latte at the loca...
Forsee Steps Down As Chairman, CEO of Sprint Nextel
James Hance, Jr. to serve as acting chairman; Paul Saleh named acting CEO —Company conducting outside search for new CEO —Company updates 2007 financial guidance — Contacts: — Media Relations —...
Facebook Flyer test results
I was preparing for my Graphing Social Patterns speech on Facebook marketing last night and decided to try out Facebook Flyers, which allows members to create their own little display ads that shows u...
Alltel dives into WiFi, offers up variety of plans
Based on a new section of Alltel's website, it seems pretty safe to say that the carrier is jumping head first into the WiFi arena. Apparently, Alltel customers can now sign up for a variety of WiFi ...
For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together
For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. As word about their efforts has trickled out, expectations in the tech world for wh...
YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie
I'm a big YouTube fan. — We can thank YouTube for cutting the gordian knot of video codecs. Instead of futzing around with codecs and media players, YouTube's universal, Flash-based web video "just...
Facebook's fbFund Takes a Mulligan - Requires All Applications to be Resubmitted
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his new application developer grant program, fbFund, at TechCrunch40, everyone clapped (including me). I did have some concerns immediately and one of them...
Announcing a preliminary iPhone 1.1.1 Jailbreak
The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1. Right now, they're nowhere near releasing a general-use tool but the first steps have been mad...
Digital Democracy Director Slams Google's Greed
At the moment, Google's stock is slightly above $600, and the company has a market cap of $187.42 billion. Given this evidence, it would be hard to say that Google doesn't like money. But one onlook...
Microsoft's Ballmer: Google Reads Your Mail
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a knock at one of his chief rivals during a speech to an audience in the U.K., saying Google reads customer email as part of a failed bid to drive ad-based revenue. —...
Google and I.B.M. Join in 'Cloud Computing' Research
Even the nation's elite universities do not provide the technical training needed for the kind of powerful and highly complex computing Google is famous for, say computer scientists. So Google and I....
SAP's Business Intelligence Leap
To expand in one of business software's hottest sectors, the German giant detours from its organic growth plan and agrees to buy Business Objects for $6.8 billion — In the rapidly consolidating busi...
With 'phone' project, Google has mobile ad dollars in its sights
SAN FRANCISCO: For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. As leaks about their efforts have trickled out, expectations in the ...
Vonage settles patent case with Sprint
Internet telephony provider Vonage said Monday that is has settled its patent dispute with Sprint Nextel. — The two companies have entered into a licensing arrangement that allows Vonage to use pate...
Yahoo! Forms Strategic Partnership with Consortium of More Than 150 Newspapers Across the U.S.
Unique Relationship Creates Valuable Advertising Network Plan to Integrate Search, Content, Local Tools, and Recruitment Begins with Yahoo! HotJobs — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 20, 2006 …
Champagne at the Googleplex: GOOG Above $600/share
Google gained 15.57 today to close at $609.62/share today, breaking the 600 point barrier for the first time. That puts the company's market cap at over $190 billion, and means Google is worth more o...
Twitter Prepping its Mobile Ad Units? It was bound to happen eventually...
Google to show YouTube videos on other websites
Decrease Increase - — Submit comment: — GOOGLE will begin showing YouTube videos on thousands of other websites, hoping to profit from ads attached to the clips. — The expansion, to be announced...
Loic Le Meur's New Startup Launches: Seesmic
The rumors were correct. Loic Le Meur, a well known European entrepreneur that recently relocated to San Francisco, will unveil his new video startup, Seesmic, this morning into a closed beta. — Th...
A Few Important Concerns From the Facebook App O'Reilly Report
This past weekend Tim O'Reilly released a report that showed a curve in the number of users of Facebook apps. Today, Erick brought Tim's post back with his own discussion about the chart and included...
Mixx launching public beta, rolling out content partnerships on Tuesday
Mixx, a social news site that Webware covered last month, is poised to launch its public beta on Tuesday along with the first of a number of content partnerships with news outlets. The site has been ...
Toyota's Latest Commercial Is Not on TV. Try the Xbox Console.
AMONG other new features, the new Toyota Yaris has a giant tentacle that reaches out of its roof to shoot enemies as it races through a futuristic tunnel, sometimes within inches of soaring fireballs.
Happy 10th Birthday, Yahoo! Mail
Today marks a special milestone for Yahoo!. Ten years ago today, Yahoo! Mail was born. It's hard to imagine that just a decade ago, the idea of free email accessible from anywhere was a novelty. — ...
Web companies eye market for local ads
Online players are courting mom-and-pop businesses as consumers turn to the Internet to find services in their neighborhoods. — SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to finding local products and services, ...
Why I Won't Buy an iPhone
Apple has abandoned its founding ethos of creativity and innovation by hanging up on third-party software developers — I don't own an iPhone, and I don't think I ever will. That may come as a surpr...
My first take on Seesmic
CONVENIENCE WINS, HUBRIS LOSES AND CONTENT VS. CONTEXT, A PRESENTATION FOR SOME MUSIC INDUSTRY FRIENDS
Yesterday was a crazy day. — In the morning I found myself car-less and skateboarding to Santa Monica High School in a suitcoat and wool Vans with my computer in a leather satchel over my shoulder …
Is The Online Ad Industry Partying Like It's 1999?
Online advertising spending is healthy, and most people in the industry seem to believe that the industry faces nothing more challenging than a few speed bumps on its way to inevitable dominance of ad...
ETEN Glofiish M800 - TyTN II Contender?
In the US, we are all excited about the at&t coming of the HTC TyTN II, the at&t Tilt. Well, Pocketinfo.nl has the word on the ETEN Contender, The Glofiish M800. — Some specifications: — 500 MHz S...
How the RIAA tasted victory: a perfect storm which might not be repeated
Willful infringement comes with a steep price — Last week, a federal jury took less than four hours to find Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old single mother from Brainerd, MN, liable for willful copyright...
Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW
Tomorrow, Intel is launching a Web site that lets people rank the most compelling software business ideas. — Called CoolSW (it stands for "cool software"), the site looks much like Digg, the popular...
Seagate Formally Launches Hybrid Hard Drives
Seagate has begun shipping its first hybrid hard drives, more than a year after the company first announced plans to enter the market. — The Momentus 5400 PSD 2.5-inch hybrid drive has begun shippin...
Google: How High Can It Go?
Google (GOOG) crossed the $600-a-share threshold today, giving it a market capitalization of around $188.1 billion. The big questions is, how high can it go? $750, $1,000 or (shudder) $2,000 a share...
Holiday Consoles Include Two Free Games
Xbox® is rewarding holiday console buyers this season with two free games! Hot on the heels of a price reduction for all Xbox 360™ consoles, Microsoft is now giving holiday buyers even more value by ...
Hacker breaks into eBay server, locks out users
(InfoWorld) - A malicious hacker broke into an eBay server on Friday and temporarily suspended the accounts of a "very small" number of members, the company said. — "We were able to block the frauds...
The Facebook revolution
The Internet megahit may be growing into the biggest, most valuable database in the world. — When I first met Mark Zuckerberg, he seemed as much a visitor to his surroundings as I was. It was earli...
Vuze opens up platform; claims 10 million "viewers"
Azureus announced today that it has opened up its online video distribution platform, Vuze (see our earlier review), offering content producers, big and small, the chance to distribute and monetize th...
Google's Orkut: A World of Ambition
Seizing on Orkut's momentum in Asia and Latin America, Google moves to revamp its social networking site and take aim at Facebook and MySpace — If it's not about MySpace and Facebook, then the breat...
The iPod moment is here — on the iPod
on the iPod — My Guardian column this week argues that the iPod moment for newspapers has arrived — and it's the iPod: — In these pages, internet parent Vint Cerf wondered when television would rea...
McAfee to buy SafeBoot for $350M
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Security software vendor McAfee will acquire SafeBoot for $350 million in an effort to expand its large-business product line, the company announced Monday. — The acquisition...
Gateway plans to acquire Packard Bell
Gateway announced Monday that it has agreed to take over the controlling stake in Paris-based PC vendor Packard Bell. — Gateway has exercised its right of first refusal to purchase all of the shares...
McDonald's offers free wi-fi Internet service in 1,200 U.K. outlets
LONDON (MarketWatch) — McDonald's Corp. (MCD:, , ) said at the weekend that it would offer high-speed wireless Internet services to customers for free in 1,200 of its U.K. fast food outlets.
Info chief shrugs off Bluetooth regulation
The Information Commissioner will no longer regulate the use of Bluetooth mobile technology, prompting fears of a wave of "Bluetooth spam". — The commissioner no longer considers the wireless connec...