T-Mobile says to sell iPhone without contract
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile will allow customers in Germany to buy Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone without having to sign a T-Mobile contract after rival Vodafone (VOD.L) obta...
Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?
Political action and consumer advocacy organization MoveOn this week launched a public campaign against Facebook's new Project Beacon advertising system (our coverage). MoveOn characterizes the ad sy...
Close encounter with Facebook Beacon
I put a lot of trust in sites like Facebook to do the right thing when it comes to privacy. After all, the only stuff that gets out into the public is the stuff that I actually put in. — Until now....
Newspaper Ads Tank Again, Industry Shrinking Fast
Newspaper ads got crushed again in Q3: Down 7.4% year over year. Online revenue is growing, but isn't offsetting the declines in print revenue. Alan Mutter, the dean of newspaper analysis, says the ...
Latest target of MoveOn: Facebook
The advocacy group says the site's ad system violates users' privacy. — SAN FRANCISCO — Liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org launched a campaign Tuesday on Facebook against Facebook, raising privacy co...
Kindle sells out in 5.5 hours
Amazon isn't disclosing how many Kindles it actually had ready to go, but apparently the idea of a tiny e-book reader with free EV-DO and the visual flair of an Apple IIc hit home for quite a few peop...
Facebook's "Beacon" Infuriate Users, MoveOn
Facebook's "social ads" so far appear to be a flop. Not only was the "once in a hundred years" announcement largely a yawn, the complaints of Facebook users and MoveOn about the primal annoying-ness ...
Rock the Halo theme free for Guitar Hero III tomorrow
Like the Pilgrims and Native Americans breaking bread together, Microsoft and Activision are giving Xbox 360 owners something to truly be thankful for tomorrow: the Halo theme (MJOLNIR Mix edition, fe...
ONLINE NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING GROWTH CONTINUES — JUMPS 21 PERCENT IN THIRD QUARTER
JUMPS 21 PERCENT IN THIRD QUARTER — Increased spending on newspaper Web sites boosts online share to more than seven percent of all newspaper ad dollars — Arlington, Va. - Advertising expenditures ...
Fantasy Of The Day: The Kindle Will Save Papers
Did you know that in addition to its odd pay-per-blog scheme, Amazon's Kindle also offers readers a chance to pay to read online newspapers? We haven't spent time talking about it, because it's so cl...
Songs included in Guitar Hero 3 see a dramatic leap in digital sales
Playing music on plastic guitars is big business. Guitar Hero 3 has become quite the runaway hit at retail, and with Rock Band now released, we have two big-name rhythm games on the market.
Google Maps Should Push The Wikipedia Analogy Further
Google comes out with a seemingly unending stream of little enhancements to its stable of excellent online properties. One of the more exciting additions to come along in a while is the fact that use...
'Don't Give Up on Vista' Web Ad
Several readers have noted a new web-only advertisement from Apple that has appeared on a number of sites, including News.com, Engadget.com, and PCMag.com. — The Apple advertisement features "Mac" a...
Google serves up surprise password cracking function
A Cambridge University researcher successfully used Google to unearth a password used by an attacker to compromise its security blog. — The attacker created an account in Wordpress when he attacked ...
MacBook, MacBook Pro owners suffer keyboard freezing with Leopard
Some users of Apple's Intel-based portables are reporting that their keyboards are periodically seizing up during use, especially after upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard. — Numerous posts in Apple's sup...
Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate
Facebook and Google have been competing with each over more than just social networking. Facebook is growing from 300ish employees today to 700 next year. And the best place to get good engineers an...
IPhone Must Be Offered Without Contract Restrictions, German Court Rules
Last month, French law forced Apple to promise that consumers could buy a version of its iPhone in this country without having to be locked into a long-term contract with Orange, the only mobile phone...
Feedster Quietly Dies... So Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use?
Blog search engine Feedster has had the following notice on its frontpage for at least a few weeks now: — There is no sign of life on the site and the Feedster blog has already been killed off (the ...
Where in the world is Ray Ozzie?
Ray Ozzie is Microsoft's chief software architect-that's Bill Gates' old job. He is charged with building a bidirectional bridge between Microsoft's lucrative rich-client past and its cloud-computing...
One year later: Did Vista's focus on security pay off?
Consumers don't seem to care so much — Microsoft's emphasis on improvements to security features in Windows Vista may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and enterprise cus...
Nokia Sports Tracker Beta - New Online Service
Wow - I am very, very impressed! I have just taken Nokia Sports Tracker Beta for a quick spin and this new service, functionality and strategic direction has left me speechless. — Let's start with ...
Join the Firefox 2.0.0.10 Testday - Friday, 23. November !
November, 2007! — We will test the upcoming Firefox 2.0.0.10 with Release Candidate Builds on this test day. You find the RC1 Builds for download here ! — The event will run Friday, November 23, ...
Another Look at VC-Backed Busts
Lots of talk today about VC-backed busts, after InsideCRM published its list of the 20 Worst Venture Capital Investments of All Time. I tried getting comment from some actual VCs who backed companies...
Guitar Hero is playing our song
One of the most popular video games this year is Guitar Hero, in which players flail away, Van-Halen-style, at a guitar-shaped controller and try to replicate the moves of the guitarist playing a popu...
Wii grasses up cheating wife
US soldier discovers incriminating 'Mii' — A US soldier discovered his missus had been playing away at home after spotting a suspicious "Mii" on his Nintendo Wii, the Evening Standard reports. — T...
Verizon's new Samsung FlipShot
Heads up everyone, Samsung has announced another new cell phone. I know that a shocker, it's not as if the company has announced any other new models in this short holiday week, but try to contain yo...
PickyPirate: Metacritic Meets BitTorrent
This is exactly the gap PickyPirate is trying to fill. PickyPirate fetches the most popular movies, games and music albums from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, two well known review aggregators, and ...
RIM's Touching New BlackBerry Plans
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM - message board; Toronto: RIM) is said to be preparing a whole new "9000-series" operating system and device platform to take on Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL - ...
Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies
FOR decades, Nabisco has sold cookies called Social Tea and crackers called Sociables. Now a competitor, Pepperidge Farm, is going all social, too, by entering the increasingly popular field known as...
How to Integrate PPC and Display Advertising
Large brands can benefit from adjusting their online advertising spending on a cyclical basis between display advertising — designed to build impressions and awareness — and PPC (define) campaigns tha...
Sony Ericsson 'invents' drag-and-drop for handhelds
Sony Ericsson has applied for a patent that, if granted, would give it ownership of a data-transfer method for portable devices which allows users to send files from one device to another with the fli...
Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests. … OK, with that out of the way, on wi...
Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 percent
Google enjoyed one of its biggest monthly gains in U.S. Web search market share in October, building on consistent gains over the past two years, according to industry data out on Wednesday. — Marke...
Wii Light Sword brings out the Skywalker in you
We knew it was just a matter of time before something like this happened, particularly with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed headed to the Wii next Spring, but it's good to see a lightsaber attachment c...
Top Blogs Team Up for Open Web Awards: Sponsorships Open!
I am very pleased to announce that our humble Mashable Awards has grown thanks to a great response to our partnerships offer. The renamed Open Web Awards is an upcoming online contest for social webs...
Why the Sidekick Slide is dying
I've had one issue with my Slide shutting down and now we know what the problem is with the random power cycling. I'm glad Motorola has found the problem and is working to resolve it, but I think my ...
Lets chat about P2P some more
One thing continues to be a certainty in the technology world, NEVER challenge a sacred cow. If you do, the punches start flying. Of course the punches have to fly because the there isn't a real res...
AT&T's Black Friday plans revealed
We just got the scoop on basically AT&T's biggest sale of the year, and we have to say, it's not too shabby! How does, I don't know, 50% off phones sound? It's not every phone, just select phones, a...
A new bulk upload dashboard
Be it products, housing, jobs or vehicles, we want to make it easy for you to upload and manage your content in Base. A number of useful features are underway, starting with today's release of a new ...
What Facebook Learned from Search
Imagine if Picasso painted a search engine results page from Google. It would probably wind up looking like Facebook, which continually draws inspiration from search engines as it rolls out its servi...
All Eyes on Jajah: The Hype, The Facts and What your Business can Learn from It All
You can't turn around in a room of important press releases without bumping into Jajah. The not-quite-three-year-old company made headlines last month with its innovative addition of Jajah web button...