RackSpace Outage Hits Home
A truck driver drove into a power transformer in San Antonio, Texas, causing it to explode. That explosion caused major power disruption and took down RackSpace, our hosting company. This is second ...
View Wall Street Journal Online articles from Digg
The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you'll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg. The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ....
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail...
Dell's next-gen 30-incher sports Displayport and HDMI
More connectors than on world-class plasma or LCD TV — WHILE DELL'S ORIGINAL thiry-inch 3007 had some limitations in terms of limited resolutions and features, Dell is making sure that its next-gen ...
Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area
Similar to what Google has been doing with ads in search results, they also now restricted the clickable area in AdSense (the kind of Google ads webmasters can include on their pages). Instead of all...
ACCESS Garnet for maemo - First Look
The ACCESS Garnet VM is the familiar interface for Palm devices, so there are already stacks of applications available for them. When I put up my last post moments ago, I didn't realize the downloads...
IBM, Cognos, and the End of Best-of-Breed
The software giant's $5 billion acquisition of Cognos shows how difficult it is becoming for midsize software companies to survive on their own — One of the hottest segments of the tech industry, bu...
E*Trade's Meltdown
The stock price gets slashed in half after the online brokerage says it can't predict new credit losses and an analyst mentions the possibility of bankruptcy — It went from bad to worse for E*Trade ...
Mobile phone company O2 sells 'tens of thousands' of iPhones over weekend
Mobile phone company O2 claims to have sold "tens of thousands" of iPhones over the weekend after its launch in Britain. — Its chief executive, Peter Erskine, predicted that the UK pre-pay mobile ph...
Zune 2.0 update is ready for your first generation Zune
Are you one of the many who snagged an el cheapo, first generation Zune 30GB off of Woot or a big box fire sale? Or — gasp — paid full price? Good, the moment you've been waiting for has arrived.
Yahoo! Extends Global Mobile Leadership Through Nine New Partnerships With Mobile Operators in Asia Pacific
Yahoo! Expands Reach with Sixteen Total oneSearch Operator Partnerships across Asia Pacific Region; Offers Localized Content for a Personalized Mobile Internet Experience
Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform
Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products and innovative applications for mobile devices, today announced that it designed and engineered a new set of system User Interface …
Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table
It didn't make a lot of sense when we heard that Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million...
Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800 [Hack Attack]
If the high price tag for Apple hardware has kept you from buying a Mac but you're willing to roll up your sleeves and get adventurous, you can build your own "Hackintosh"—a PC that runs a patched ver...
Samsung Rolls Out Next-Gen WiMax Toys While We Wait and Wait [See The WiMax Future]
So is Korea actually a country from the future, or what? We're asking because Samsung is now rolling out its second generation of phones, mobile devices and USB modems that support WiMax.
Buying the XO laptop: The shipping may sting
For folks used to getting free shipping the XO Laptop from the One Laptop Per Child program will deliver a bit of a surprise. — I purchased two laptops from the OLPC program for $399 and got hit wit...
LIFETIME NETWORKS PARTNERS WITH GLAM MEDIA TO DEVELOP NEW VERTICAL MEDIA NETWORK
to find and create new audiences to connect to their advertisers," — said Samir Arora, chairman and CEO, Glam Media. "The network model,
SIX APART IS FIXING FORUMS
Six Apart, which makes the Movable Type blogging platform and hosts the consumer blog sites Vox, TypePad, and LiveJournal, is releasing a new and very interesting update to its pro-level Movable Type ...
Box.net Releases OpenBox Platform for Integration of Web Applications
Online storage provider Box.net is announcing today the launch of OpenBox, a platform for developers to integrate their web applications into Box.net. — The platform, once rolled out in full by Dece...
Martha Stewart Launches Ad Network
Launching your own ad network is the rage right now. I read that this year is the year for launching your own social network and next year is the year for launching your own ad network. I overheard ...
VMware Updates Its Free Offering
The new beta of VMware's Server 2 will include expanded support for operating systems, including Microsoft Vista. — VMware wants users to try its virtualization software on the house. — On Nov. 13...
China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone
China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said on Tuesday. But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the ...
Optimise your mobile content for free
Volantis, a specialist in making the same content work on every mobile phone, is open sourcing its server, allowing anyone to download and run their content-optimising system for free. — The Mobilit...
A First Look at the Google Phone
O.K. There is no Google Phone. As we wrote a while back, Google is not building a phone. Instead, the company has teamed up with others in the wireless industry to create an open-source operating sy...
China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone
China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said on Tuesday. But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the ...
Samsung Rolls Out Next-Gen WiMax Toys While We Wait and Wait [See The WiMax Future]
So is Korea actually a country from the future, or what? We're asking because Samsung is now rolling out its second generation of phones, mobile devices and USB modems that support WiMax.
Sidekick Slides losing power, respect when they slide
We're no QA experts here, but if your product is called the "Slide," isn't the slide mechanism the one thing you'd test the dickens out of? Alas, folks are discovering that Motorola's Sidekick Slide ...
Ooyala soft launches Backlot, a video analytics and management tool
Ooyala, (good Fortune post for more info) a San Francisco startup formed by a couple of ex-Google employees just soft launched their video management system, Backlot. Ooyala is a video platform that ...