Gmail 2.0 Screenshots
Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that's supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite. Also, the n...
Zucker says Apple deal rotten
NBC U says iTunes revenues meager — NBC U topper Jeff Zucker warned that new digital business models were turning media revenues "from dollars into pennies" and revealed NBC U booked just $15 millio...
Hulu Launches Private Beta, Makes Very Good First Impressions
Last March NBC Universal and News Corporation announced a joint venture that we initially thought would result in a direct competitor to YouTube. As details emerged, it became clear that the two medi...
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
Introduction — At the end of my Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger review, I wrote this. … That was exactly two and a half years ago, to the day. It seems that I've gotten my wish and then some. Mac OS X 10.5 Le...
The Colbert Nation Quickly Colonizes Facebook
Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy may be phony, but his supporters are very real. — Late on Oct. 16, immediately after the comedian declared his intentions on his satirical news show "The Col...
Leopard will open the Mac OS X floodgates (and embarrass Microsoft)
As many of you are aware, I think Windows Vista is a blunder. And with its annoying UAC system and horrifically slow operation, it won't take long before the majority of home users agree with me.
Revival hopes for 3 hinge on Skype, the phone of tomorrow
THE mobile-phone group 3 will tomorrow unveil its long-awaited Skype phone, the first to bring free international calls over the internet to consumers on the go. — It is the latest in a series of mo...
Leopard drivers hint at upcoming MacBooks
Apple may have tipped its hand and revealed a near-term update to its 13-inch MacBooks and potentially its Mac minis, based on files discovered inside Mac OS X Leopard's system folders. The company h...
Is Age Just a Number?
Whether you're a MySpace addict or a Luddite who logged on once to see what all the fuss was about, you've likely met Tom. As the public face of MySpace, cofounder Tom Anderson has become a celebrity...
Can a Google Phone Connect With Carriers?
Google Inc. is close to unveiling its long-planned strategy to shake up the wireless market, people familiar with the matter say. The Web giant's ambitious goal: to make applications and services as ...
T-Mobile HTC Shadow Finally Emerges Looking Damn Good (Gallery) [Hands On]
The long-rumored T-Mobile Shadow (aka Juno) officially launches now. It hits stores Wednesday for $200 with voice-plan or $150 with $20-per-month unlimited data plan. (Both require two year contract...
Google's Response to Facebook: "Maka-Maka"
Google may have lost the bidding war to invest in Facebook, but it is preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene. It goes by the codename "Maka-Maka" inside the Googleplex (or, pe...
Instant Jailbreak for iPhone and iPod touch
A crew of hackers (including hdm/metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas) have introduced a one-touch instant jailbreak for both iPhone and iPod touch. The jail...
Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president
If elected president, Barack Obama plans to prioritize, well, barring broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast from prioritizing Internet content. — Affixing his signature to federal Net neutrality...
Apple not just refusing cash, also refusing Apple Gift Cards for iPhones
You can chalk this one up to our bad in assuming best intentions, but when Apple said no cash for iPhones, they damn well meant it — enough to extend the policy out to no cash for anything that could ...
Travel Sales Still Growing, but Numbers of Customers Are Declining
THE online travel category is still rolling along, but there may be trouble ahead. — Like other e-commerce markets, travel is expected to produce double-digit sales growth this year in the United St...
Meebo Platform Launches With Big San Francisco Party
Sequoia backed Meebo launches Meebo Platform this evening, allowing third party developers to create applications for the Meebo web chat service. They're celebrating the launch with a big party in Sa...
MTV NETWORKS LAUNCHES ONLINE LYRICS INITIATIVE
On Monday, MTV Networks is set to unveil an initiative to connect its television, online, and mobile presences by helping music fans answer that crucial question—"Who the (expletive) sings that song?"...
Reimagining the Automobile Industry by Selling the Electricity
Shai Agassi, a Silicon Valley technologist who was in competition to become chief executive of SAP, one of the world's largest software companies, has re-emerged with a grand plan to reinvent the worl...
Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy
While the news that Microsoft is developing a version of Windows for the so-called "$100 laptop" has caused some consternation, One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte has said the project c...
Verizon Reports Continued Success in 3Q 2007
Results Reflect Another Quarter of Strong Wireless and FiOS Customer Growth — 3Q 2007 HIGHLIGHTS — Consolidated Results — 44 cents in EPS and 63 cents in adjusted EPS (non-GAAP), compared with E...
Hulu Hands-On Review in One Word: Brilliant
This morning, between fielding phone calls, answering emails and writing blog posts, I have been watching TV, a lot of TV...on Hulu, the new online video portal backed by NBC (GE), News Corp. (NWS) an...
Facebook's New Hiring Hurdle?
Microsoft Deal May Boost — Options Prices, Hurting — Ability to Lure Top Talent — There is a little-noticed downside to Microsoft Corp.'s investment in Facebook Inc.: The deal will likely raise ...
Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer
Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, has rejected a $200 million acquisition offer, says multiple sources. Half...
Skype and 3 launch mobile phone
eBay division Skype and mobile phone group 3 have launched a mobile handset that allows Skype users to make free Internet calls to each other while on the move. — The companies said on Monday the ne...
AMD confirms 19 November RV670 launch - analyst
AMD will indeed release its 'RV670' graphics chip on 19 November - as predicted - an analyst has claimed the company told him recently. — As yet, however, RV670's go-to-market branding remains unkno...
How Gmail Blocks Spam
While Gmail doesn't filters all the spam messages that could reach your inbox, it certainly does a better job than other webmail apps like Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. Gmail's filters are constantly improv...
3D WorldViewer Everyscape Launches
Everyscape is a new service that takes 2D photos and 3D-fies them to create an immersive street-side experience (Radar post). Today they are launching their service with four cities (Boston, New York...
Nintendo grows further from fun and games, closer to the practical and utilitarian
Nintendo's as cagey as tech companies come, but the WSJ is reporting on a recent and unusual high level, high impact strategy presentation where in top 'Tendo execs revealed what's described as a chan...
Don't Open Bogus Email that Claims to Come From the FTC
Email That States It's From the FTC's "Fraud Department" Has Virus Attached — A bogus email is circulating that says it is from the Federal Trade Commission, referencing a "complaint" filed with the...
BEA's stance on Oracle deal pummeled
The reaction to BEA's rejection of a $17 a share takeover offer from Oracle is brutal. — Of course, billionaire Carl Icahn has issues. But analysts aren't too thrilled either. Either BEA knows som...
Aromatherapy in a pen
In another era, one would have drawn certain suspicion when taking a whiff from paraphernalia carried around in a purse or a pocket. But in 2007, illicit substances have been replaced by the endorphi...
Akamai's New HD Strategy: Show, Don't Tell
Better video quality sounds great and all, but it's not clear there's demand for high-definition content online yet. Akamai (AKAM), in an attempt to sign up customers for its new HD offering, is poun...
Matt Cutts Confirms Paid Links & Google PageRank Update
Matt Cutts emailed Search Engine Journal last night to let us know that in fact, the partial Google 'Toolbar' PageRank update which happened last week was a result of Google's campaign against paid li...
Want see who designed the XBOX?
I stopped byTeague, a Seattle based design firm, to discuss the latest in consumer electronics. What better people to chat with than the ones who brought you the first Xbox and Racing Wheel.
adCenter upgraded with new features
Over the weekend we upgraded adCenter to add new features to help you manage your campaigns more easily. We've broken up the new features into 3 categories: — 1) Editorial (which we're covering in-...
Veropedia and the Wikipedia mine
A year ago, I wondered "why no devious entrepreneurs have made a concerted effort to take Wikipedia's content, which is of course free to be reused in any way, and reformat and rebrand it as an attrac...
New Apple MacBook on Tuesday? GMA X3100?
According to sources, the wheels are in motion for Apple to deliver new MacBook updates as early as this Tuesday. While an exact date has been hard to determine, MacBook updates are expected within t...
CNN Goes Virtual
mike shields >> mshields@mediaweek.com — As news organizations slash budgets and scale back bureaus, CNN is expanding—except not in real life. — In the week of Nov. 5, the news giant is set to ope...
Whois May Be Scrapped to Break Deadlock
NEW YORK (AP) - Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks v...
I Eat My Words: Hulu Will Shake Up the Online Video Market
Okay, I will admit, I was busy sharpening up the knives at BoomTown HQ to prepare for the debut of Hulu this week. — Let's just say that I have been dubious that two lumbering media companies-in thi...
T-Mobile HTC Shadow Finally Emerges Looking Damn Good (Gallery) [Hands On]
The long-rumored T-Mobile Shadow (aka Juno) officially launches now. It hits stores Wednesday for $200 with voice-plan or $150 with $20-per-month unlimited data plan. (Both require two year contract...
Imeem Adds EMI To Its Stable
Ad-supported music just won another convert. Music-sharing social network imeem struck a deal with EMI Music so that starting today its members can legally stream songs from Radiohead, Coldplay, The ...
F.C.C. Set to End Sole Cable Deals for Apartments
The Federal Communications Commission, hoping to reduce the rising costs of cable television, is preparing to strike down thousands of contracts this week that gave individual cable companies exclusiv...