iTunes Plus Now Offers Over Two Million Tracks at Just 99 Cents
DRM-Free Tracks with Higher Quality 256 kbps AAC Encoding — Apple® today announced that it has expanded its iTunes® Plus offering to over two million tracks and lowered the price of all iTunes Plus ...
Apple: "we plan to have an iPhone SDK in developers' hands in February"
That's right folks. You read it correctly. Cats & dogs are living together, and in other news Steve Jobs has, via Apple's 'Hot News' page, announced that Apple will, FINALLY, support third-party dev...
Automattic Acquires Gravatar
The best ideas are often the simplest. (At least in hindsight.) The idea of globally-recognized avatar, or Gravatar, struck me from the first time I heard it. Of course I should be able to have my ...
AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST
In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. — My review resulted in the bro...
Google Docs Mobile Released
Google Docs Mobile went live now, after traces of it were spotted a month ago. It's a minimalist reformatting of the "Google Office suite" for cellphone display. What you will see is a search box as...
Next New Networks Ponies Up for its Crush on Obama Girl
Next New Networks has acquired BarelyPolitical.com for an undisclosed sum, adding the creator of viral video phenomenon Obama Girl to its growing array of niche channels. BarelyPolitical, founded in ...
Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again
Silicon Valley's math is getting fuzzy again. — Internet companies with funny names, little revenue and few customers are commanding high prices. And investors, having seemingly forgotten the pain ...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg opens the Web 2.0 conference in Q&A with John Batelle
John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly opened the Web 2.0 asking a question, "Is this a bubble?" Few folks raised their hands in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel. But this is the land of the faithful.
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO AND FACEBOOK ANNOUNCE NEW MODEL TO PROTECT CHILDREN ONLINE
Agreement Requires Prompt Response to Complaints and New Disclosure to Parents — Independent Examiner to Report on Compliance — New York, NY (Oct 16, 2007) - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo …
Nokia's N810 makes first appearance, drops jaws
We're still waiting for the press release, but that's Nokia N810 Internet Tablet in the fo' realz. Yeah, sexy is an understatement. We peeped this model in a spyshot back in July and appears to be t...
Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls
Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe announced some of their plans around the MySpace Platform (rumored since last week) this evening at the Web 2.0 conference during a Q&A with John Ba...
MySpace starts Skype call service
Social network website MySpace has joined forces with internet phone firm Skype to allow MySpace users to make calls to each other. — With the service, which starts from the end of November, the two...
Apple OS X Leopard: A beautiful upgrade
Finally, a PC Unix that everyone can love. OS X Leopard is a triumph of customer-focused engineering — Apple's announcement of the impending delivery of OS X Leopard (release 10.5 of Mac and Xserve...
Screenshots Out for Microsoft Office Live Workspace
Microsoft has been sharing with bloggers today some screenshots of the forthcoming Microsoft Office Live Workspace. The company made its most recent major announcement about the online collaboration ...
Sprint to introduce touch-screen phone
NEW YORK - It's official: touch screens are the big new thing in cell phones this holiday season. — Sprint Nextel Corp. announced Wednesday it is jumping on the bandwagon with the Touch by HTC. Lik...
Orange to sell unlocked iPhones in France
Well, well... looks like Apple has been backed into a corner by French law and will be releasing an unlocked iPhone in France after all. While no one will say precisely how much the unlocked iPhone w...
Google Maps Goes Social
Another piece from Google's social project has been released: Google Maps becomes social with the addition of user profiles. Until now, users could create personalized maps and write reviews for loca...
RIAA tries to pull plug on Usenet. Seriously.
The Recording Industry Association of America has found a new legal target for a copyright lawsuit: Usenet. — In a lawsuit filed on October 12, the RIAA says that Usenet newsgroups contain "millions...
Portable Media: Nokia N810 Internet Tablet Officially Announced
As we foreshadowed earlier, the Linux-based Nokia N810 internet tablet is now official. The little PC that's scarcely larger than the palm of your hand hooks up to the internet via Wi-Fi, and also ca...
Apple's U.S. Mac market share rises to 8.1 percent in Q3
Apple Inc.'s share of the U.S. personal computer market for the third calendar quarter of 2007 was 8.1 percent, up from 6.2 percent during the same period one year ago, according to preliminary result...
Google, Apple and the future of personal computing
I confess: My last post, about the Zonbu, was frivolous. The Zonbu will be lucky to be a footnote in the history of 21st century computing. Yes, it has the right model, more or less. What it doesn'...
Google Search Add-Ons
Google Subscribed Links, launched as part of Google Co-op, is a service that allows you to extend Google's search capabilities with data from specialized sites. A Google patent explains the idea behi...
CORRECTING and REPLACING eBay Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Eighteenth graph, third sentence should read: These amounts assume a Q4-07 US dollar to Euro exchange rate of $1.38, and actual rates through the first three quarters ...
Even Free Can't Compete With Music Piracy
There's been a lot of speculation over the future of the music industry and the conversation has begun to shift from "Can they sell DRMed music" to "Can they sell music at all". Last week Radiohead r...
Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers & Answer Sharing
Web users rely on community-contributed-content sites such as Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers. These sites enable you to communicate directly with an engaged audience. But contribute to the conversation...
US Congress: Bloggers Are Journalists Too
Ars Technica reported late last night that the Free Flow of Information Act, which would grant protection of sources and documents at a federal level to journalists, including professional bloggers, e...
Microsoft Partners with Atlassian & NewsGator - SharePoint Goes Web 2.0
Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. The partnerships link togther Microsoft's SharePoint product …
Cafe Latte attack steals data from Wi-Fi PCs
San Francisco (IDGNS) - If you use a secure wireless network, hackers may be able to steal data from your computer in the time it takes to have a cup of coffee. — At the Toorcon hacking conference i...
iPhone dev team releases free 1.1.1 unlock
The industrious rebels of the iPhone Dev Team have joined in the iPhone unlock chess match today, with the release of AnySim 1.1, a free unlocking app that enables iPhones with both firmware version 1...
'No Yelpers' Says One Local Cafe
I was taking a break from the screenwerk yesterday and having coffee with a friend in the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood of Oakland. We were at a place I've been to before called Café Rooz. — I notic...
Yahoo accused of misleading Congress about Chinese journalist
(CNN) — Yahoo misled Congress regarding information the Internet company gave to Chinese authorities about the journalist Shi Tao, Democratic Rep. Tom Lantos said Tuesday. — Lantos, a California rep...
Hassle-Free PC
Personal computers were supposed to make our lives easier. Instead, these beasts have turned us all into part-time IT administrators, our lives given over to downloading upgrades, installing patches ...
Small Steps at Yahoo Bear Fruit
Jerry Yang's plan for reviving the fortunes of Yahoo, the company he co-founded and now runs, does not involve the kind of shock therapy for which some investors had hoped. — Mr. Yang's measured str...
Google Search Add-Ons
Google Subscribed Links, launched as part of Google Co-op, is a service that allows you to extend Google's search capabilities with data from specialized sites. A Google patent explains the idea behi...
Apple chooses Orange as iPhone operator in France
BERLIN: Apple said Tuesday that it had signed France Télécom's wireless unit, Orange, to be the U.S. company's exclusive seller of the iPhone in France, agreeing for the first time to sell a version o...
How to get Mac OS X Leopard for as low as $40
Last night, I remembered something that you will no doubt thank me for later. When Mac OS X Tiger came out a few years ago, I was ready to buy it. I had my $130 in hand and was waiting in line. But...
Still not twittering
I'm still not using Twitter. While the concept has matured nicely, it's still not something I'm willing to invest time in for the following reasons. — 1. First, it's another queue to check. As it ...
Big SEO: Automate Or Die Trying
If you are one of the growing numbers of in-house SEOs working on larger web sites, things can get a bit "scratch-your-head, where-do-I-start" difficult. If you're managing tens of millions of pages,...