Where's my Gphone?
Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing — the Open Handset Alliance and Android — is more sig...
Google Unveils Cellphone Alliance
Google Inc. announced today an ambitious alliance with 33 handset makers, wireless carriers and other technology companies to create low-cost mobile phones based on "open" technology standards. — Th...
IAC Announces Plan to Spin Off HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval and LendingTree as Four Publicly Traded Companies
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IAC (Nasdaq: IACI - News) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to separate IAC into five publicly traded companies:
YAHOO KICKSTARTS A SOCIAL SERVICE AIMED AT COLLEGE GRADS
Yahoo is set to launch Kickstart on Monday, a social network aimed at college students, alumni, and recruiters. — Yahoo already is experimenting with a general-purpose social network, Mash. But whe...
Hollywood Writers Strike: A Chance For Millions Online To Bloom
Hollywood film and television writers go on strike today in a move that will slowly cripple the big media production machine. — The strike relates to demands by writers for higher residual payments ...
massive data loss bug in leopard
Update: The bug occurs regardless of the type of destination being moved to (whether it's local USB, local Firewire, SMB, etc.). Also, I have been informed that this bug goes back all the way to Pant...
Web 2.0 Is On The Ropes. . . Kleiner Perkins Has Halted Investments
Whenever I meet with VCs I've noticed that there is a growing distaste for Web 2.0 startups. The "Web 2.0" term, in connection with a startup, and as a collection of concepts, is very tired in this c...
Google enlists help for Google Phone
NEW YORK — Google (GOOG) today plans to announce the formation of an "open phone" coalition, with the goal of developing an operating system for the so-called Google Phone. — The new operating syste...
Google Phone: A Business-Tech Nightmare Waiting to Happen
Google hopes its new operating system will turn phones into mini computers that are just as useful as PCs. A lot has to go right for that to happen — phone carriers will need to open up their network...
Socialtext Reloaded
Enterprise 2.0 software maker Socialtext, with a new CEO and $9.5 million in funding, prepares for Google's entrance into the world of wikis. — After spending five years trying to become the eminent...
Socialtext gets new CEO and $9.5 million in funding
Socialtext co-founder Ross Mayfield has stepped down as CEO of the enterprise wiki company and is handing the reins to Eugene Lee, a well-seasoned tech executive who has spend time at Adobe, Cisco, Ba...
For Radiohead Fans, Does "Free" + "Download" = "Freeload"?
2 out of 5 Downloaders Willing to Pay an Average of $6 for "In Rainbows" Album — U.S. Downloaders Willing to Pay More than International Counterparts — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in m...
Yahoo Launches Kickstart, A New Social Network Around College Students And Alumni
Yahoo's advanced products group, led by Scott Gatz, is launching a new service this evening called Kickstart. — While immediate analogies will be drawn to Facebook, the service is actually much more...
Windows Users Getting Bitten by Macrovision Zero Day
Microsoft and Macrovision are working to neutralize a zero-day flaw that could cause a complete system takeover. — Microsoft is working with Macrovision to check out a flaw in a driver on Windows Se...
Microsoft Security Advisory (944653)
Vulnerability in Macrovision SECDRV.SYS Driver on Windows Could Allow Elevation of Privilege — Microsoft is working with Macrovision, investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the Macro...
IACI To Break Into 5 Companies (Thank Heavens)
The break-up can't come quickly enough for this hodge-podge, dead-in-the-water conglomerate. Release after jump. — IAC Announces Plan to Spin Off HSN, Ticketmaster, Interval and LendingTree as Four...
Microsoft Commits to November Release Date for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft expands interoperability options for partners, delivers new innovations with Microsoft Sync Framework and Popfly Explorer releases. — Today, during the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd ...
Mark Cuban, Facebook, and OpenSocial
Mark Cuban is, as usual, insightful when he describes the potential of Facebook profiles to be used as the basis for smarter social applications outside of Facebook. His call for a truly open Faceboo...
Yahoo FireEagle - A Platform Service For Geo Information
Yahoo isn't just announcing Kickstart this evening. Salim Ismail's Brickhouse is announcing a very useful new platform service tonight tentatively called FireEagle, which is currently in closed alpha...
Dell Buying EqualLogic for $1.4B
Dell looks to boost storage offerings and offer preinstalled virtualization. — In a move that will help it expand its storage and virtualization offerings, Dell announced Nov. 5 that it will acquire...
MySpace To Announce Self-Serve Hyper Targeted Advertising Network
MySpace will announce plans to introduce a new advertising platform, "SelfServe by MySpace," at Ad:Tech Monday. The service itself will launch to a limited set of advertisers in the next sixty days.
Asus spills AMD 7-series chipset beans
Asus has jumped the gun on AMD's 7-series chipset announcement by unveiling today a pair of motherboards based on two of the as-yet-unannounced product family. — This morning, Asus posted details of...
strike day
in related news the 2 billion franktv commercials will be changed from "hippos don't do impressions, franktv does" to "hippos don't do impressions, neither does franktv" — Ooooooh... That felt good....
Windows Home Server Available Now to Help Families Protect, Connect and Share Their Digital Experiences
The HP MediaSmart Server is now available for pre-order and will be shipped to customers this month; new hardware and software partners announce Windows Home Server products and solutions.
Publishers See a Way to Track Their Content Across the Net
Copyrighted work like a news article or a picture can hop between Web sites as easily as a cut-and-paste command. But more than ever, as that material finds new audiences, the original sources might ...
Technorati Drops Content Older Than 6 Months Old
When Technorati announced a new CEO at the beginning of October, many were hoping that the once great Technorati would focus on its core blog search product, a product that had been virtually ignored ...
Samsung samples SATA II 2.5in SSD
Samsung has begun sampling a 2.5in notebook-oriented 64GB solid-state drive the connects to a host computer using a 3Gb/s SATA interface, the electronics giant said today. — Comparing the product wi...
Writers Begin Strike as Talks Break Off
A strike by Hollywood writers began in New York just after midnight Monday, and negotiators for screenwriters and producers broke off talks, according to the Associated Press. — More than 12,000 scr...
Things Turn Ugly in the 'Hacks vs. Flacks' War
Journalists often call publicists "flacks" and publicists call journalists "hacks," though rarely in earshot of one another. But the gloves came off last week after Chris Anderson, the executive edit...
Samsung: Fighting Fake Chinese Phone Named Samsong
In cooperation with Beijing's Haidian and Fengtai Industry and Commerce Departments, South Korean mobile phone manufacture Samsung has identified 88 types of fake Samsung mobile phones in Beijing. — ...
Microsoft adds ESPN programing to Xbox
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has added college basketball and other ESPN programming to the growing lineup of video content available for download to its Xbox 360 video game console. — Microsoft and ES...
Newegg Accidentally Offers "Buy 1, Get 4 Free" ASUS Eee PC Promotion
The shipping box for the Eee was so small, some buyers received a five-pack instead of a single unit — The Asus Eee PC notebook has been popular in North America thus far, with many retailers having...
Visual Studio 2008 to RTM in November
A few months ago, Microsoft was hedging as to whether it would deliver the final "Orcas" Visual Studio 2008 code in 2007 or 2008. But as of November 5, it's official: VS 2008 is going to be released ...
Salesforce Lets Loose Digg-For-Ideas
Just when you thought Digg cloning was dead, Salesforce has thrown its hat into the ring. The company best known for their SaaS CRM is unleashing their Digg-for-ideas, "Salesforce Ideas", into the wi...
HiveLive Takes Web 2.0 Upscale
Social information sharing startup HiveLive launches their LiveConnect Community Platform today at the Defrag conference in Denver, but it's not HiveLive's first appearance on the web scene. In 2006,...