Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Quarterly Mac Sales Set New Record — Quarterly iPhone Sales Exceed One Million — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 fourth quarter ended September 29, 2007. The Company ...
The Vista wow becomes a whisper
I wasn't a big fan of the "Wow" campaign around Windows Vista. But its newest incarnation — "100 Reasons Why Everyone's So Speechless" — might be even worse. — The new site (which Microsoft officia...
Firestorm 2.0 - Using Social Media Services to Track The California Fires
Today my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by the fires in California. The pictures show a scene straight out of a war movie. I thought it would be interesting to look at how the popul...
NBC Confirms Pulling YouTube Content for Hulu
A representative from NBC Universal called us today and let us know that the network did indeed remove its channel from YouTube over the weekend in preparation for the launch of its own online video p...
Comcast: We're Delaying, Not Blocking, BitTorrent Traffic
Last week, the folks at cable giant Comcast asked for more time to give a nuanced response to a report that the company was blocking some peer-to-peer traffic on its network. The public relations sta...
Apple Now Worth more than IBM
After the good news today Apple's stock price is going up, up, up into the $186 range - putting its market cap($161 Billion) above IBM ($156.45 Billion) for the first time in history. — Not bad Appl...
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on th...
Bikinis And Bums On Cue
Here's a story line that M.C. Escher could appreciate: Four fresh-out-of-college girls share an apartment in Los Angeles and star in a reality show filmed by a guy who is their friend. Except—this is...
Is your date a player? Send a text and find out
You get asked out at a party, but you can't help but wonder if the guy is actually the stable, reliable charmer he appears to be. A new SMS and Web-based service called PlayerBlock lets you sneak off...
Verizon Hints At FiOS Announcement Tomorrow - 'Groundbreaking' service to be unveiled...
Free My Phone
Suppose you own a Dell computer, and you decide to replace it with a Sony. You don't have to get the permission of your Internet service provider to do so, or even tell the provider about it. You ca...
Bridgestone shows off ultrathin, full-color e-paper
Just last year Bridgestone was feelin' pretty good about itself for unveiling the "world's thinnest" sheet of two-color e-paper. These days, the outfit is busy showing off a new version that measures...
China accused of rerouting search traffic to Baidu
Reports have surfaced that China is redirecting traffic from foreign search engines operated by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to homegrown Baidu.com. — According to various reports online, some online...
Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable
In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to indulge his obsession with young technology compa...
Does new iPhone ad pass the sniff test?
Life is good at Apple these days. Around 1.39 million iPhones sold. Soaring earnings. A new OS on the way. The Mac is gaining ground on the rest of the PC industry. The company can do no wrong. ...
Facebook: Who needs Google? Facebook's stealth ad system
Facebook, in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation over its future, has just dramatically upped the ante. How? The social network is quietly starting to promote its long-rumored ad-targeting system...
Microsoft Bows to EU Regulators On 2004 Antitrust Measures
Software Giant Won't Appeal EU Court Ruling — BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. threw in the towel on its nine-year antitrust fight with European Union regulators, saying it won't appeal a court judgment h...
As Apple Gains PC Market Share, Jobs Talks of a Decade of Upgrades
It may have dropped the word "computer" from its name, but Apple is certainly selling plenty of Macs. — Driven in part by what analysts call a halo effect from the iPod and the iPhone, the market sh...
Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA
Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker. — In an exclusive inte...
SanDisk Introduces the New Sansa® TakeTV™ Video Player
A Smart, Simple & Seamless Way to Easily Take Videos from a PC to Nearly Any TV — MILPITAS, Calif., October 22, 2007- Finally, there's an exceptionally easy way to move video from your PC to your TV...
Home-made helicopters hit northern Nigeria
KANO (AFP) - Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from t...
Canadian Public Domain Told To Cease and Desist
The International Music Score Library Project was a quiet Canadian success story. Using wiki technologies, it emerged over the past two years as a leading source of public domain music scores, hostin...
Core of "Windows 7" taking shape: meet the "MinWin" kernel
Eric Traut, one of Microsoft's chief operating system design engineers, gave a fascinating demo (WMV) recently at the University of Illinois, where he talked about where the Windows core is going and ...
Cops pull plugs on TV-links, claim 'facilitation of infringement'
Copyright or copy-ridiculous? — Last week's arrest of a 26-year-old Cheltenham man, and the related closure of the TV-links website, has prompted a flurry of speculation that the very foundations of...
When work becomes a game
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Video games are big business and soon they could be big in business too. — A whole generation is growing up for whom video games are a key part of how ...
Fostering ties for venture capitalists
People who sign in to the newest social network won't be looking for dates or posting a list of their favorite movies. They will be searching for companies to invest in and listing their interests in...
Comcast is also Jamming Gnutella (and Lotus Notes?)
Yesterday, we posted about some experiments showing that Comcast is forging packets in order to interfere with its customers' use of BitTorrent. There have been reports of strange things happening wi...