The Luddite dream of Jeff Bezos
Writes Jeff Bezos today, on the Amazon.com home page: … It's this decidedly old-fashioned experience - this pre-Web experience - that Bezos says he sought to replicate with Kindle, Amazon's pricey new...
Introducing Amazon Kindle
Revolutionary Portable Reader Lets Customers Wirelessly Download Books in Less Than a Minute and Automatically Receive Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs — No PC Required, No Hunting for Wi-Fi Hot Spot...
Amazon Kindle To Debut On Monday - Ugly But Impressive
The speculation over Amazon's new ebook gadget, called the Kindle, ends on Monday afternoon during a special Amazon press conference in New York. Newsweek's Steven Levy claims to have had the device ...
Is Apple collecting your iPhone usage data?
It looks like Apple is tracking iPhone users data i ncluding IMEI number, IP address and stock quote preferences (amongst other things) through a hidden string in the Weather.app and Stocks.app iPhon...
Microsoft struggling to convince about Vista
Another survey highlights business concern about migration — The majority of IT professionals worry that migrating to Windows Vista will make their networks less stable and more complex, according t...
Vodafone Gets Restraining Order On T-Mobile's iPhone Sales
DUESSELDORF -(Dow Jones)- The German unit of Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) has obtained a restraining order against Deutsche Telekom AG's (DT) T-Mobile unit prohibiting the German telecommunications giant ...
AMD Spider Platform Is Gaming Supercomputer or So They Say [Spiderpig]
AMD has just announced their Spider platform, which they claim is the best PC gaming platform out there. Spider combines AMD Phenom quad-core processors, up to four ATI Radeon HD 3800 cards and the A...
The Internet Ends in 2010 - Unless you give AT&T what they want
More warnings of a looming bandwidth apocalypse, this time from USAToday, who insists that the Internet "will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services o...
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Secretly Tracking iPhone IMEI and Usage (with proof)
As I sit here applying a new layer of Reynolds tin foil to my international hat of conspiracy, its been proven that Apple tracks iPhone usage and tracks IEMI numbers of all their iPhones worldwide.
Pioneer-backed online TV service launches test
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new online television service aims to offer what U.S. cable TV companies have resisted for decades — pay for only what you want. — SyncTV, a spin-off from Pioneer Electronics,...
Techmeme: A Cautionary Tale
I've been thinking about writing this post for the past several weeks as I watched this blog drop from high 40s on the techmeme leaderboard to the 50s, to the 60s, to the 70s, and now as of this weeke...
What Steve Said: "HD" vs. "High Quality"
At NewTeeVee Live last week, Om and I asked YouTube co-founder and CTO Steve Chen whether or not YouTube had plans to improve its video quality. There's been some confusion and finger-pointing over C...
PayPal offers secure way to shop non-PayPal sites
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the payments service arm of online auction leader eBay Inc, is set to release on Tuesday a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites that don't a...
Google Magazine?
An interesting patent was granted to Google on November 8, titled "Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications." — A number of blogs picked it up and speculated that Google may soon ...
Report: Chinese conduct "aggressive and large-scale" espionage against US
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released a report to the United States Congress late last week accusing China of waging an "aggressive and large-scale industrial espionage ...
Early Pulse Results: "Open" is Good for Business
When we launched the beta of Pulse in August, we made a strategic bet — that the market was ripe for an "open social network" (rather than yet another "walled garden"). — The idea was that we could ...
Think globally, mark locally
The last time I threw a party, I used the My Maps feature of Google Maps to tell my friends exactly how to find my house. But if they'd just searched Maps on their own for my address and had gone to ...
Like having 2 graphics cards? How about 4? And why not add 4 CPU cores too...
Silicon Valley Skills Crisis: Poland Emerging As A Top Source of Engineers
Silicon Valley's booming business cycle has driven up competition for engineers. Last week, Ann Winblad, of the Hummer Winblad venture capital firm complained about VMware trying to hire all the engi...
Rumoursville: Google sniffing round Skype
It's been a while since the last juicy web business rumour, so this will do nicely. — Currently in favour around London's webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy ...
Privacy, please
Some campaigners worry about using social sites such as Facebook — Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders if it is time to create web services that can be trusted. — Like most journalists I know ...
Four controllers, $170, and a dream: a review of Rock Band
I don't want to be a guitar hero, I want to be in a band — Rock Band — Publisher: MTV Games — Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 — There is something almost brave about the decis...
AOL Rolls Out Video Ticker Ads
AOL's advertising division, Platform-A, developed the video ticker ads as an alternative to conventional pre-roll spots for online video. — Advertisers and networks want to balance the placement of ...
GPhone Pics! Open-Source 'Bug' Can Run Android
Bug Labs founder Peter Semmelhack just gave us a peek at his company's prototype "open-source" mobile gadget, which should go on sale next month. The "Bug" is essentially a Lego kit for geeks: A base...
Google "Wikifies" Maps To Improve Local Data
Registered Google users are now permitted to adjust address and location information for businesses on Google Maps (move the place marker), and soon will have the ability to more broadly edit local bu...
Survey: Google search share climbs even higher
Google's stock price wasn't the only thing climbing last month. The search giant's share of the U.S. Internet search market grew to more than 64 percent in October, from 61 percent a year earlier, ac...
MySpace to Move Into Ad-Supported Music
NEW YORK MySpace is joining the search for a new business model for the music industry by enlisting the help of advertising. — Next March, fans of punk band Pennywise can go to stores to buy the gro...
AT&T Acquires Ingenio And Their Pay-Per-Call Network
We haven't heard much from Silicon Valley based Ingenio lately. In 2006 the company launched Ether, a service that allows people to charge people for calls. Since then, nada. — But today AT&T is a...
A Mobile VoIP Forecast & What's Up With Jajah, Raketu & mig33
Mobile VoIP is going to become a major force over the next five years, rapidly outpacing voice over Wi-Fi, according to a recently released report by research firm Disruptive Analysis. The report pre...
Software-licensing costs predicted to fall
Software-licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade, as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. — Research firm Gartner predicts that vendors will find themselves...
Notebooks and servers continue to lift HP earnings
Emerging nations are buying notebooks by the bundle, and HP is reaping the benefits. — HP reported its fourth quarter earnings Monday, and revenues were up across its business units, but the PC busi...
Viddler's New Tag-Based Advertising System
This past Thursday, Viddler launched an advertising system that lets companies and individuals overlay advertisements at variously tagged points within the videos it hosts. The system is very similar...
Creating a maintainable and thriving web
I knew the day would come when users would wake up and realize that centralizing stuff is not good for the Internet. Today two signs that things are sorting themselves out. — 1. Steve Rubel writes ...
Flickr Releases New Geographical Features
Yahoo's popular photo-sharing site Flickr will release on Monday the two new geography-related features we reported on a month ago: Flickr Places and a new world map. — While we have not yet had the...
Search Engine Retrevo's Relaunch Blasts Off!
Today, Retrevo launches a new matchmaking service between consumers and electronics. It uses artificial intelligence to enhance the search for the perfect product match. — The Retrevo homepage has ...
"Gamer's Wishes Come True: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU Comes to Notebooks"
World's Fastest Notebook GPU Brings DirectX 10 HD Gaming to Mobile Gamers — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: — This holiday season a new era of PC games, featuring advanced new graphics effects, will immers...
123-Reg takes weekend off
Pipex's hosting service 123-Reg suffered a weekend of downtime thanks to broken hardware. — The Reg received emails from many of those hit. One said: "Nameservers have been down for 48+ hours this ...
Xbox Live hopes to press more players into service
Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off Xbox Live, its online game service, in 2002 with ambitions of one day seeing millions of players compete online. — Today, more than 8 million people — about 1 in 5...
The Laptop Club
When I saw Amy Tiemann's blog post on CNET two months ago about a children's "laptop club," I asked her to send me some samples. Many permission slips later, a package arrived in the mail bursting wi...
Will e-books ever be a best-seller?
news analysis The average commuter seems to be doing OK reading an old-fashioned newspaper on the way to work. — Why, then, do Amazon.com and Sony think they need to replace traditional books with e...
Retailers Explore New Ways of Being Paid
A DECADE ago, PayPal was best known as the payment method of choice for Beanie Babies purchases on eBay. This holiday season, it could pay for a diamond ring on the online jeweler Blue Nile. — Blue...
AMD Spider Platform Is Gaming Supercomputer or So They Say [Spiderpig]
AMD has just announced their Spider platform, which they claim is the best PC gaming platform out there. Spider combines AMD Phenom quad-core processors, up to four ATI Radeon HD 3800 cards and the A...
Google Under Investigation For Tax Evasion In China
Google is being investigated for tax evasion by the Chinese Inland Revenue Department following a tip off from an "informant" alleging wrong doing. — According to local reports, the investigation in...