Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can't be real?
comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip. See the little decline on the red line...
Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth
I love watching videos on YouTube. Every once in a while I'll see something so good that it makes me stop and wonder where it was recorded or how I can find more videos from that particular location....
Facebook Reality Check: It's not worth $100B, and it won't crush MySpace or Google (but it does rock)
At the Social Graphing conference on Tuesday our industry went in full-blown madness. A panel filled with Facebook fans (and some investors) got so worked up they claimed—among other things—that:
Electronic Arts pays $860 million for BioWare, Pandemic Studios
Video game mega-publisher Electronic Arts has agreed to pay $860 million to purchase VG Holdings, the parent company of video game companies BioWare and Pandemic Studios. — This deal, expected to cl...
Microsoft 'Live Events' targets Evite, others
Microsoft is launching a Web-based service for organizing events and remembering them afterward - trying to move further into the highly competitive areas of social networking and online photo sharing...
Comcast rollout of TiVo box begins
SAN JOSE, Calif. - After more than two years of promises and delays, Comcast Corp. has finally begun the commercial rollout of its first cable set-top boxes that run TiVo's digital video recording tec...
Outlook + Twitter = OutTwit
If you are an Outlook user, you probably have it open all the time. Now you can update your Twitter status and follow your friends without having to open any other applications. OutTwit seamlessly i...
Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life
In the past we've posted communications whenever someone has threatened to sue us. I think it's entertaining, and it hopefully makes people think twice before firing up the legal machine with ridicul...
Prediction: Starbucks Wi-Fi will soon be free
The for-pay Wi-Fi model at Starbucks feels old and stale, says Mike Elgan — Editor's note: This article headlines our TechGear section and newsletter. … Starbucks, the giant coffee chain with 13,168...
Confirmed: Yahoo expanding to Microsoft's backyard
It looks like Microsoft employees driving past downtown Bellevue to Redmond will soon be able to gaze upon a big "Yahoo!" sign, if they're so inclined. Yahoo has signed a lease for 115,000 square fee...
Google Founders Pick Up Another Big Plane
Google's billionaire founders, owners of a Boeing 767 that has been the talk of Silicon Valley, are apparently adding another unusually large private jet to their fleet: a Boeing 757. — Like the Boe...
T-Mobile's First 3G Phone On Sale
The Samsung T639, a quad-band GSM/EDGE and WCDMA 1700 clamshell, is on sale at select T-Mobile stores in New York City. The T639 was given 3G approval by the FCC in July and is the first phone to be ...
Court Clears Way for Mobile-Phone-Unlocking Lawsuit Against T-Mobile
Wireless-carrier T-Mobile USA lost a California Supreme Court bid Wednesday to kill a lawsuit challenging the company's early-termination fees and its practice of locking down phones to work only on T...
Report: Apple Gains 29% Share of $$$ Notebooks
Drilling down into Apple's (AAPL) recent string of boffo quarterly reports, analyst Toni Sacconaghi Jr. of Bernstein Research finds both strength and vulnerability in Steve Jobs' relentless pursuit of...
TiVo HD Lifetime Transfer Arrives
In time for the holidays (yet prior to the real shopping season), TiVo pulls the trigger on a promotion many folks have been eagerly awaiting: Transfer Lifetime Service onto a TiVo HD... for $199. At...
Facebook Funding: A Yahoo Bovine Update?
"Why," said a sharp Silicon Valley figure to me last night, "would Facebook give away the cow for a price of quart of milk?" — Why, indeed, although it would be a $15 billion quart of milk. — But ...
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry
Since reporting Monday that Nine Inch Nails had dumped its record label and was to offer future albums direct to the public, Oasis and Jamiroquai have also joined the move away from the record industr...
Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth
I love watching videos on YouTube. Every once in a while I'll see something so good that it makes me stop and wonder where it was recorded or how I can find more videos from that particular location....
iPod touch now running Mail, Google Maps, and more
We're not looking at general availability yet, but those happy hacking cats unravelling the iPod touch have decrypted the ramdisk and are now busy installing applications. Already, Mail, Maps, and ot...
CBS Buys 10-Month Old Celebrity Gossip Blog Dotspotter; Price Around $10 Million
CBS (NYSE: CBS) has bought 10-month-old celebrity gossip blog Dotspotter, for a price of around $10 million. The rumor was first reported on Valleywag, and has also been confirmed to us by sources.
iPhone unbricking now available from IPhoneSimFree
Hacked your iPhone did ya? Now, after the 1.1.1 update, you're looking at a non-functioning paperweight? Well, we've got good news for you just as long as you're willing to pay. Not only does the 1...
Plasma TVs may be banned
Most plasma television sets are in danger of being banned from sale in Australia if a proposed energy-efficiency rating system is adopted. — A report commissioned by the Federal Government says ther...
PS3 to Debut as IPTV Set-Top Box
KT, Korea's dominant telecom operator, and Sony Computer Entertainment Korea (SCEK) will launch an Internet-based TV service in November that runs on the PlayStation 3 game console, the companies said...
Apple Nearing iPhone Third-Party Developer Announcement
Several sources tell me that Apple is nearing an announcement of some sort regarding third-party development on the iPhone. The bits and pieces I've heard are maddeningly non-specific: I don't know, ...
Facebook Vs ConnectU: "Facebook Makes Untrue Assertions" Claims ConnectU
The long running saga of claims and counter claims between Facebook and ConnectU hit court today with an initial setback for ConnectU. — The case before the San Jose Federal Court was not the allega...
LED Light Show In Water
This artsy design project by Seung-Jin Lee calls for a series of tubes embedded with LEDS floating right on the water's surface. A computer controller experience then creates magical patterns of ligh...
Latest Walkman® and Cyber-shot™ phones
With Christmas sales fast approaching, Sony Ericsson today announces that its latest Walkman® and Cyber-shot™ phones, the W910 and the K850, will be available in stores across selected markets from th...