Microsoft Reports 27% Revenue Growth; Fastest First Quarter Since 1999
Broad-based strength drives operating income and EPS growth each in excess of 25% — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quart...
Memo to Mark: BoomTown Is Baaaack and We're Still Dubious!
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Well, we're glad it's done, our conflict of interest shoved aside by the hey-big-spenders at Microsoft and we can again resume our incredulous ...
Copy Video From Your PC, and Then Watch It on Your TV
SanDisk's Sansa TakeTV is aimed at people who want to take digital video from their computers and watch it on their TVs, without getting too high-tech about it. — The heart of TakeTV is a U.S.B. fla...
Facebook's Stock Options
Cash is good, and Facebook, following its $240 million investment from Microsoft, now has plenty of it. It might have much much more if reports prove true that other investors have, or will soon, joi...
The science of blog reading
The problem of detecting contaminants in a public water system is analogous to the problem of figuring out what's going on in the blogosphere, write a team of Carnegie-Mellon researchers in an award-w...
In Depth: Apple's Leopard leaps to new heights
A refined look, revamped apps and new options build on an already solid OS foundation — It's been two years, five months and 26 days since Apple Inc. last released a new operating system — the longe...
Prism
Personal computing is currently in a state of transition. While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications. But the latter...
Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions
Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy "1-Click Podcast Subscription" process for podcast listeners or viewers. This 1-Click process wi...
Synchronize Your Browsing Habits with Opera Link
Scandinavian web browser provider Opera will be announcing today a new feature that allows users to access their bookmarks and favorite websites list (called "speed dial") wherever they go. — Out of...
More gnashing of teeth after Microsoft update brings PCs to a standstill
Resource-hogging search app sprung on reluctant admins — Something seems to have gone horribly wrong in an untold number of IT departments on Wednesday after Microsoft installed a resource-hogging s...
Forget Silicon Valley for a Startup, Try NYC Instead
Last week Paul Graham said Silicon Valley was the only place worth being, if you want to have the best chance for success in launching your own Internet startup. This week Charlie O'Donnell has broke...
Leopard backpedals again: No more iPhone note syncing
Looks like Apple now believes that it has said a little too much with the new Leopard feature pages. Yesterday it backpedaled on letting us use an AirPort Disk with Time Machine, and now it appears a...
Scammers get jail time for Microsoft software scheme
Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally reselling it at a profit. — Mirza Ali, 60, and Samee...
An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos: Please Stop Pissing Off People Over Amazon Prime
from the pretty-pretty-pretty-please dept — Back in May, we tried to alert you to a serious customer service problem that your company is facing concerning the way you are marketing Amazon Prime.
YAHOO OPENING UP HOME PAGE TO OUTSIDE SOURCES
Yahoo is changing its home page to add links to outside sites for the first time as part of its move toward more openness and focus on being the front door to the Internet for most people. — The com...
Live Search Almost Certainly Coming To Facebook
During this afternoon's Microsoft-Facebook conference call the question was asked whether the new deal would include paid search. Microsoft's Kevin Johnson and Facebook's Owen Van Natta declined to d...
Jackpot: Mark Zuckerberg, the $5 billion man
One thing has been overlooked in today's Facebook valuation announcement — how much the major players can now claim to be worth. A source tells us that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg owns about 30 ...
Opera Link: your stuff everywhere
Opera connects mobile and desktop worlds — Oslo, Norway and Mountain View, CA - October 25, 2007 — Opera, the only company that puts the Web on any device, today released Opera Link. Wherever you...
Virtual worlds threaten 'values'
The growing number of toy-themed virtual worlds aimed at young people risks undermining the basic human values we wish to instill in children. — So said industry veteran Lord Puttnam opening a Londo...
Friendster Announces Developer Platform; Can You Say "Commodity"?
Good thing we launched the CrunchBase widget, because you may need it to refresh your memory about a certain social networking company called Friendster that's announcing its own developer platform to...
Lord Of The Rings Online: MMORPG Meets Web 2.0
Can web 2.0 principles revive the old school, hack-and-slash MMO? That's the question that occurred to me when Henrik Bennetsen of the Stanford Humanities Lab showed me some YouTube machinima uploade...