Massive Power Outage At Rackspace'S Dallas Data Center
Summary: The Rackspace data center in Dallas (DFW), where our servers are located, suffered a major power outage tonight lasting approximately two hours. A truck hit one of their transformers, causin...
Google's Android OS early look SDK now available
Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet. From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable o...
Windows 7 "top feature request list" leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about...
Google turns to X Factor's Fuller for push into TV
Internet giant Google is in secret talks with Simon Fuller, the British entrepreneur behind the Spice Girls, about a joint venture that could change the way TV is watched over the internet. — News o...
Intel's Fundamental Advance in Transistor Design Extends Moore's Law, Computing Performance
Sixteen Eco-Friendly, Faster and 'Cooler' Chips Incorporate 45nm Hafnium-Based High-k Metal Gate Transistors — Built using an entirely new transistor formula that alleviates the wasteful electricity...
Should Sprint Send Silicon Valley a Super Poke?
Sprint Nextel's (S) rough patch is turning into a highway from hell. The exit of CEO Gary Forsee, questions about its plans for a WiMAX network and its aborted partnership with Clearwire (CLWR) have ...
Microsoft Unveils Device Customization via New Zune Originals Store, New Zune Players Available Tomorrow
Microsoft partners with 18 renowned artists to fuse high style with portable entertainment. — Tomorrow, consumers ready for a richer, more connected and more personal entertainment experience …
Adobe Names Shantanu Narayen Chief Executive Officer
For immediate release — Company Expects Q4 Fiscal 2007 Revenue Near High End of Targeted Range; Targets 13 Percent Revenue Growth in Fiscal 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today an...
AOL Acquires Israeli Social Search Start-Up Yedda; Second Buy In A Week
AOL (NYSE: TWX) has acquired Israeli start-up Yedda, a social search questions-and-answers service launched in 2006 with proprietary semantic matching technology. No financial terms disclosed.
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES IN Q3 '07 SURPASS $5.2 BILLION, SETTING NEW HIGH
Industry Maintains Record-breaking Trend; 2007 Q3 Revenues Up Over 25% from 2006 Q3 — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet adve...
Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo
Exclusive — Unlike last year, the annual Macworld Expo and Conference that rolls around in January will actually serve as a launch pad for some new Macs, including a chic and ultra-compact notebook de...
Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks?
Employees generally don't leave hot startups. They lose some or all of their stock options, and they also lose the resume value of being associated with a startup brand. And that's doubly true for e...
Cellphone Straitjacket Is Inspiring a Rebellion
First come the grumblings, then the torches and pitchforks. — Consumers have never been happy about their cellphone carriers and the services they provide — or refuse to provide. But they also have...
The Web in Google's Mobile Browser
Android's SDK offers an emulator that, among other things, lets you use the browser. Google used WebKit, an application framework that also powers Safari and Nokia's S60 browser. — Android's browse...
Game News in a Duel of Print and Online
Noel Goodman subscribes to three video game magazines, but he wants information faster than the magazines can reach his mailbox. — "I can find out on the Internet information that won't be in magazi...
Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!
When Facebook announced the Fan pages, there were a number of mixed reviews. Some where hailing it and its integration to the new advertising platform and some hated it - claiming it was turning Face...
Face Off: Facial Recognition Search Engines
Mondays on AltSearchEngines we examine a particular Vertical, and this week the hottest Vertical category is Image Search, and especially the sub-category of facial recognition search engines. — Tod...
Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?
Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could — an open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world without the benefit of a giant company like Microso...
HP's Mark Hurd: Thoughts on consolidation
During his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, HP CEO Mark Hurd gave his views on market consolidation. It's an appropriate setting given Oracle has made 41 acquisitions in 45 months totalling. HP is no sl...
Web 2.0 T-Shirt Tells Us All Whether You Facebook Your Life Away [Apparel]
The latest addition to the chic geek's wardrobe has got to be this web 2.0 T-shirt. The classy bit of kit contains a list of 79 social networking sites, all followed by tick boxes. Tick the ones you...
CyberHomes Emerges From Beta, With Claims of Better Real-Estate Data
Even as the housing market goes south, real-estate Websites continue to soldier on. On Tuesday, after a year in beta, CyberHomes will launch officially and join a crowded field that includes Zillow, ...
Zune Originals: Interview with Chris Stephenson
Zune's next move takes their support of emerging artists and literally puts it on their sleeve. Zune Originals is a collection of 27 original works by 18 international artists designed to be engraved...
New bill would punish colleges, students who don't become copyright cops
A massive education bill (747-page PDF) introduced into Congress contains a provision that would force colleges and universities to offer "technology-based deterrents" to file-sharing under the pain o...
What next?
In case you haven't noticed, Waxy.org went into cryogenic sleep shortly after we were acquired as all my energy went into building and growing Upcoming. I've missed writing and coding here badly, so ...
A Cookbook of One's Own From the Internet
As a founder of the online photography service Ofoto, Kamran Mohsenin took note of the pleasure and pride his customers derived from making personalized calendars and books. "The perceived value and ...
memory usage in firefox and gecko
For a long time there have been a lot of complaints about the memory usage in Firefox and anything else that used the Gecko engine. And looking at the numbers for what Firefox would use for memory, t...
Startup Weekend's Most Recent Startup: Skribit
Andrew Hyde's Startup Weekend, born out of the TechStarts event this last summer, has been busy. The company goes from city to city, organizes developers to spend a long weekend deciding on a new bus...
1.1.2 Jailbreak Software Released
Conceited Software/TouchFree has just released its GUI jailbreak. This is the "final bit" that performs the jailbreak after you run OktoPrep in 1.1.1 and then upgrade to 1.1.2. The Software runs und...
Related Queries in Google Image Search
Googlified spotted a new feature in Google's image search engine that suggests refinements for your query. In the screenshot below, a search for [army] returned Google's suggestion to "also try: [us ...
Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire
Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-...
Microsoft Intends to Acquire Musiwave
Acquisition of Musiwave would build on Microsoft's commitment to deliver Connected Entertainment vision to consumers. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has entered into an exclusivity agreement a...
Glam: The success of the network
I have been arguing for as long as anyone would listen that the future of media is less about products and more about networks. It's so nice to be proven right. — Recently, Samir Arora, CEO of Glam...
DoubleClick Serves Up Vast Malware Blitz
Updated: The third-party ad network says it now has monitoring capabilities in place to catch the problem malware. — Rogue anti-spyware software that pushes fraudulent PC scans has found its way ont...
SocialAds Implications: Facebook will Acquire iLike and Flixster
I've been pondering the implications of Facebook's SocialAds announcement and it has created some interesting lines of thought. The moment the pin dropped was when Dave Winer linked to one of his old...
IBM to Acquire Cognos to Accelerate Information on Demand Business Initiative
ARMONK, N.Y. & OTTAWA, Ontario—(BUSINESS WIRE)—IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) and Cognos® (NASDAQ: COGN - News) (TSX: CSN - News) today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreemen...
Microsoft to ship Windows Server 2008, over time, in eight flavors
Microsoft is readying eight SKUs of Windows Server 2008, only some of which will include Hyper-V (the new name for Microsoft's hypervisor that was code-named "Viridian"). — According to ActiveWin.co...
Vodafone improvises response in battle with Iphone
Ferrety fanboy confesses — WE ARE GETTING reports that Vodafone's customer service line for those wanting to leave the network is down. — The reason? Well an automatic message kind enough to spea...
Barry Diller to Time Warner: Name Your Price for AOL
Q&A With IAC Chief in Wake of Spinoffs of Ticketmaster, HSN — Barry Diller is staking his future on the fast-growing, ever-changing online-advertising space. — His company, IAC, is spinning off fo...
Hulu checks out WBTV library
"Friends" could soon be buddying up to Hulu. — Warner Bros. Television is in active negotiations with the News Corp.-NBC joint venture to make a slew of WBTV content available on Hulu, executives s...
Rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley's image
Last week I posted a rather pointed polemic titled "Suicide by strike" in which I argued that the big entertainment companies were acting suicidally in picking a fight with the writers at precisely th...