Yahoo! Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results
Revenues - $1,768 Million — Operating Income - $150 Million — Operating Income Before Depreciation, Amortization and Stock-Based Compensation Expense - $466 Million — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS...
Apple to Ship Mac OS X Leopard on October 26
Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pr...
Microsoft Releases New Search Services for Internet and Mobile Customers
Latest releases complete fall updates for Live Search service, including voice search and location-aware technology. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the final updates to the fall release of its Li...
Intel Posts Record Third-Quarter Revenue
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intel Corporation today announced third-quarter revenue of $10.1 billion, operating income of $2.2 billion, net income of $1.9 billion and earnings per share (EPS) ...
MYSPACE, SKYPE TO PARTNER FOR VOICE FUNCTION ON IM CLIENT
MySpace and Skype are set to announce on Wednesday that the eBay-owned telephony client will be providing voice chat services for the News Corp.-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpac...
AOL Layoffs Memo: BoomTown Decodes the Memo, So You Don't Have To!
Yesterday, BoomTown broke the official news that 2,000 employees (out of 10,000 worldwide) would be made redundant at AOL. — Sure, we've asked for the obligatory on-the-record interview with CEO Ran...
Jobs confirms iTunes Plus price drop across the board
Not a full day after our initial report that Apple planned to drop the price of all its iTunes Plus tracks (as well as add a number of indie labels to the mix), many users started seeing the changes s...
Ubuntu Plans Eye Candy for Desktop Computers and Beyond
What would it take to get the hundreds of millions of desktop computer users to switch from Windows to Linux? — Low cost and armies of devoted techies have not been enough. So the people behind Ubu...
Facebook's got Google running scared
Why Google is spooked by Facebook and would dearly love to squash it, says Fortune's Josh Quittner. — (Fortune Magazine) — Google is the elephant in nearly every corner of the Internet, from search ...
Apple says iPhone complies with eco standards
The iPhone meets the restrictions placed on hazardous substances, Apple said in the wake of a Greenpeace report published on Monday. — "Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS [...
Exciting Announcements at eMetrics Today
Today at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C. Brett Crosby announced several Google Analytics features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. Here's a rundown. — First, you'll be able to...
S60 Touch Interface Launched
Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia showed S60 running with a touch interface. The touch interface will support both finger and stylus input, has full multi lingual support, has support for ta...
The RIAA Attacks Usenet
In an ideal world, people would not talk about Usenet. In an ideal world there would be no such things as copyright infringement lawsuits. Sadly, we do not live in an ideal world. — Today we simpl...
Free For All in the New York Times' Op-Ed and Archives
Nearly a month after the New York Times shut down TimesSelect, the subscription-based service for premium content on NYTimes.com, traffic to areas of the site that were previously members-only is flow...
Verizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders
Firm's Letter to Lawmakers Details Government Requests — Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telepho...
Will Apple Open the iPhone?
An official software-development kit may finally be announced at January's Macworld. Why the wait? It may have something to do with Leopard — William Hurley loves his iPhone. But he'd love it eve...
Switchbike - I Want One
During Holland Innovation I ran into an incredible bike made by Ron de Jong: the Switchbike. The bicycle can be used in two different settings: 1) as a regular city bike, 2) as a recumbent bike. You...
Vimeo Offering HD Video Option
Vimeo, one of the classiest players in the online video world, is now offering High Definition transcoding for user uploaded video. At 4 times the industry standard bitrate, the new videos look reall...
Microsoft Out in the Open
This morning, we were excited to learn that two of Microsoft's Shared Source licenses have been approved by the OSI. It's been an interesting and educational couple of months since we submitted these...
Does Your Building Need A Social Network? Why Not.
New York-based LifeAt wants to create a social network around your residential building. Do you need one? Nope. But maybe you'll use it anyway. And perhaps you'll even get to know some of your nei...
50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want
Thomas Crampton interviews Ogilvy China's Kaiser Kuo on the current state of web development in China in the video above. It's interesting in its entirity as they discuss the growing wave of Web 2. d...
Porn typosquatter fined again by FTC
A so-called typosquatter who served pornographic advertisements on domains such as Bobthebiulder.com and teltubbies.com has been fined again by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. — John Zuccarini ha...
Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and the Techmeme Leaderboard
There's always a risk of self-fulfilling prophecies in social media. Sites or applications become popular, and then stay popular because they are popular. This may be a key to the unusually high con...
YuMe, Blinkx latest video ad companies to make splash
With all the video content online, the video advertising market is booming. Investors are still placing bets on new companies, and existing companies are getting more aggressive with ad techniques. ...
Four startups ready to change the face of email
In ten years, an internet eternity, web-based email has only made token improvements, moving from Hotmail to Gmail. Meanwhile, instant messaging and social networks have rapidly developed. — Four n...
Yahoo Heats Up in Search Ad Race As Google Levels Off
Yahoo found "a secure footing" for search ad impressions and media spend during the third quarter of this year, according to a study by SearchIgnite and RBC Capital Markets. The firms also indicated ...
Where does Yahoo! head next?
There's been much curiosity and speculation about what's been happening here at Yahoo! over the past few months. Roughly 100 days into our business review, I'm ready to start sharing some of the fram...
VIDEO-SHARING WEB SITE GOES HIGH-DEF
User-generated videos are going high-def. — Vimeo, a nascent video-sharing Web site owned by Barry Diller's IAC, is expected to announce this week that it will begin distributing videos with a resol...
Napster relaunches with Web-enabled platform
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc, the digital music service, said on Tuesday it plans to attract more customers by moving to a Web-based platform allowing users to play their music from any computer w...
Apple Chooses Orange as Exclusive Carrier for iPhone in France
Apple® and Orange today announced that Orange, the leading wireless carrier in France, will be the exclusive French carrier partner for the revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in France on T...
The Techmeme pile-on — good or bad?
good or bad? — Tim O'Reilly has a great post up on O'Reilly Radar, in which he talks about what might be called (although he doesn't use the term) the "stupidity of crowds." Using the meltdown in qu...
US Playstation 3 40GB Shows Up In Target Store Scan
Here's another source listing the upcoming stock of the US Playstation 3 40GB model, packed with Spider-Man. We're assuming it is Spider-Man 3, since it's showing an in-stock date of 10/28/07, very c...
On tap: Another Microsoft Communications launch
In San Francisco this morning, Microsoft is launching its latest foray into the market for "unified communications" — back-end server and desktop PC programs that let businesses combine phone, instant...
Google Tries to Fix Broken Links
Many people don't know the difference between Google's search box and the browser's address bar. This confusion is accentuated by the fact that the address bar is also a search box in some cases and ...
BBC signs deal with Wi-Fi operator The Cloud to extend public access to online content
The BBC has become the first UK broadcaster to have all of its online content made available free via Wi-Fi, it was announced today by BBC Director of Future Media & Technology Ashley Highfield.