Google quarterly profit swells 46 percent
Web search leader Google reported on Thursday a 46 percent rise in profit that topped Wall Street expectations, fueled by accelerating market share gains and tighter cost controls. — Third-quarter n...
Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites
Further to our earlier story on visitors to Google Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major sear...
Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online
Switching gears, it will provide free views of the program in a bid to generate ad revenue. — NEW YORK — Media giant Viacom Inc. is suing YouTube Inc., but it's also taking lessons from the online v...
Group of Net, Media Companies To Announce Copyright Guidelines
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Internet, media and technology companies plans to announce today a set of guidelines they have agreed on aimed at protecting copyrights online, according to a person familia...
Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
We're not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pul...
Sony to sell new 40GB PlayStation 3 in U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote, NEWS , Research) will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival ga...
Many stages
A spokesman for the UK regulator Ofcom said there were still many stages to pass through before final approval was given to the roll out of the plans. — The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), in the UK...
Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App Builder Popfly
Microsoft just demoed on stage at the Web 2.0 conference a slick Silverlight application development service called Popfly, which just opened up in beta. Popfly lets anyone, even non-coders, create w...
New Smartphone, PDA Options From Verizon Wireless Make Staying Connected A Personal Choice
SCH-i760 from Samsung Offers Verizon Wireless Exclusivity on the Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless is heading into the holidays with a roster …
Microsoft's Ballmer: MSFT will acquire 20 companies a year
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer just said at the Web 2.0 conference here in San Francisco that the software giant will acquire 20 companies a year for the next five years, ranging from $50 mil...
Dell Hell: The end?
My column reporting on my visit to Dell headquarters and my interview with Michael Dell just went up on Business Week. It'll be in this week's issue. Hell, it's even the lead online. — After givin...
Interwoven To Acquire Website Optimization Pioneer Optimost
Combination of Interwoven's Content Management Solutions with Optimost's Multivariable Testing and Optimization Solution Helps Organizations Maximize Online Business Performance — Interwoven, Inc. (...
Universal, Warner, and EMI to sell music on flash drives
The major record labels' ongoing fixation with physical media continues on, as Universal, EMI, and Warner have each announced plans to sell music preloaded on flash drives. Universal says the move is...
Firefox 3 to go native in appearance
What do you get when you cross a Firefox with a chameleon? — An open-source Web browser whose user interface is adapted to the look of the operating system it's running on. One change planned for t...
Coalition to Counter Google on Video Copyright
Update: The group has put together a web site of 15 "User-Generated Content Principles" with the tagline "Encourage creativity. Respect intellectual property." There's an official announcement out, ...
Exclusive: Techbloggers Have Sold Their Souls
On WebProNews, Robert Scoble demonstrates why the leading techblogs are becoming less critical and more susceptible to hype — they're bargaining with PR flacks for exclusives: … One of the reasons mai...
Gates still has a long to-do list
SAN FRANCISCO—Bill Gates has some unfinished business. — For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, ...
Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin
If I told you there was a public presentation and arguably demonstration of Windows 7, you probably wouldn't believe me. Which is why I had to share this video with you. — Thanks to DigitalDud on C...
Google Says Its Health Platform Is Due In Early 2008
Google plans to bring its immense data storage and organization capacities to the field of medical care and patient records, Marissa Mayer, the company's head of search, said at the Web 2.0 Summit. —...
The Web is the Platform
The platform wars are over. Long live the Web. That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google's vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago. ...
Platial Acquires Frappr, Creates #1 Social Map Site
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Platial today announced the acquisition of Frappr, the popular social map destination and widget network. The merger makes Platial the leader in social mapping with more...
Windows Live Photo Gallery And Flickr
Kip noted yesterday about WLPG getting an update from Windows Update and included a Microsoft KB link, but what that link doesn't contain was what else might have come with that update. You might rem...
Skype Goes Mobile
Skype's new cell phone will deliver mobile access to its service. The beleaguered carrier hopes to jump-start revenues overseas — Bit by bit, big names in the computing world are barging into the c...
Web 2.0 Summit: Panel on Facebook as a Platform
Discussion is led by entrepreneur and start-up adviser Dave McClure, with Seth Goldstein (CEO, SocialMedia.com), Ali Partovi (CEO, iLike), Keith Rabois (VP, Slide) and Lance Tokuda (CEO, RockYou) as p...
It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives
The latest and greatest Ubuntu arrived on Oct. 18. — Ubuntu users rejoice. Ubuntu 7.10 is here. — Ubuntu, the remarkably popular desktop Linux distribution that tries to bring the latest and grea...
Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?
Email providers are trying to steal some of social networking's thunder as fast-growing services like Facebook Inc. begin to encroach on their turf. — The biggest Web email services — including Yaho...
@Web2.0: Steve Ballmer Wants To Buy Your Company
Alberto Escarlate, the CTO-turned-reporter, sends us these dispatches from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Web 2.0 Q&A session with John Battelle: — How are the Facebook negotiations coming along? — ...
Web 2.0: Cisco's Dan Scheinman Unveils EOS, Entertainment Operating System
Moving on, next at the Web 2.0 conference, Cisco's (CSCO) Dan Scheinman, to talk about the networking giant's strategy in social networking. (They have acquired Tribe and various other things.)