Intuit to Acquire Homestead Technologies
Expanding Small Business Offerings to Include Web Site Creation and E-commerce Solutions — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) today announced it has signed a definitive ...
MoveOn to Facebook: We caught you red-handed
Is there more to the controversy surrounding Facebook's "Beacon" ads? MoveOn.org thinks so. — Last week, a feud began to brew between leftist activist group MoveOn.org and social-networking site Fa...
News Corp builds online ad network
NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Internet division plans to launch an online network to sell advertising across Rupert Murdoch's sprawling empire and even to other m...
Apple stores having 'gravitational pull' on mall shoppers - report
Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray spent six hours this past weekend monitoring traffic at mall-based Apple retail stores and found that the shops exerted a gravitational pull on shoppers who ...
YouTube Has Innovative Overlay Ads from Adobe....and Beet.TV is in the Plan
YouTube, which recently introduced overlay advertising on the video clips of a limited number of select content publishers, including Ford Models and Beet.TV, is part of the big Adobe ad campaign medi...
Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia
Microsoft is discussing plans to build a data center in Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia. The facility will be able to hold 10,000 servers, according to Birger Steen, the head of Microso...
Digg Blocked For "Bandwidth Theft"
It's hard to find anybody to agree with the logic, and certainly the only people that appear to be writing about it have done so to heap ridicule and scorn, but (apparently) the same person to bring u...
Review: Sony's flash-based notebook — a road warrior's dream
a road warrior's dream — What's notable about this almost-weightless workhorse is that there's no traditional platter-spinning 2.5-in. hard drive — Sony Electronics Inc.'s Vaio TZ191N notebook prov...
Xbox 360 Fall Update includes social networking features
The Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update will be upon us on December 4, and Microsoft has started releasing details about what we can expect from the patch. Since Xbox Live has always been about the social...
Molson pulls plug on Facebook photo contest
In response to growing criticism from universities, Molson has pulled a controversial photo contest on Facebook, underlining the challenges that companies face in trying to pitch their products on new...
The Economic Idiocy of Blocking Social Media Traffic
This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. — By now most of you have probably seen the site 'Why Digg is Bloc...
Dabble to Sell Video Viewership Data to Publishers
Dabble has built a video search platform around the preferences of viewers. Founder and CEO Mary Hodder calls it "people powered search." — The company will soon provide metadata about search to pu...
The next step in Digg clones
On Saturday I wrote a post asking for private email from people who are working on Digg clones. I got about a dozen responses, they all look good. I think any of them could work for the project I ha...
Black Friday Sees $531 Million in Online Retail Spending, Up 22 Percent versus Last Year
Cyber Monday Expected to Surpass $700 Million in Online Spending, Making it Heaviest Online Spending Day on Record — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Gartner: x86 servers gain as Unix shipments fall
San Francisco - As adoption of x86 servers increased globally, Unix-based server shipments witnessed a slowdown during the third quarter, a Gartner survey released on Monday said. — Unit shipments o...
Give one, get one — right in the ass
right in the ass — So I was talking to Paul Otellini last night and he's absolutely furious about the Journal story on the OLPC train wreck which ran in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday. Gist of ...
Amazon wants you to schedule regular purchases of household items
There are some things that you buy once every few years like a computer. (Yeah, we know, if you're reading Download Squad odds are you've already purchased 3 computers this year, but work with us, OK...
Facebook: Opening the Doors Wider
The mega-popular social-networking site is opening up to allow anyone in certain geographic areas to sign up. Will this expand or dilute its appeal? — If Mark Zuckerberg had stayed in school, he'd ...
An Important Lesson About Grassroots Media
I learned — the hard way — some truths about grassroots content and online community. This is my attempt at preventing you from going through similar business heartache. — This month I'm going to t...
German iPhones Unlocked by iTunes
MacNotes.de (German) provides early notes and experiences from customers who have bought unlocked iPhones in Germany. — The first SIM-unlocked iPhones went on sale in Germany on November 21st with a...
Zoho Writer now lets you edit documents offline
Zoho, the online office software company, has just released the next iteration on its online word processor, Zoho Writer. Now, multiple users can go offline, work on a document, then go back online a...
ABC News Joins Forces With Facebook
New Facebook Application Includes 2008 Presidential Campaign Reporting, Forums — With just under a year until the 2008 presidential election, ABC News and Facebook have partnered to launch an online...
What's Going on at Skype?
What in the world is really going on at Skype? Have they just decided that they have too many toes, and are trying to shoot them off one at a time? The list of gaffes and blunders is impressive: — ...
The R4 chip is only small - but it looks like a giant pirate to Nintendo
The R4 looks like a simple piece of plastic. It is just a couple of centimetres square, a few millimetres thick and unbelievably easy to use. For Nintendo it is the Christmas stocking filler from he...
Tech design with thought
newsmaker If anyone knows a thing or two about designing for human-computer interaction, it's Don Norman, professor at Northwestern University, author of The Design of Future Things, and co-founder of...
TiVo comes to Canada, but lacks HD
Canuck TV lovers have something to look forward to this holiday season, as TiVo is officially launching in Canada with the 80-hour Series2 DVR. HDTV watchers will continue to wait patiently, though, ...
F.C.C. Chief Seeks Votes to Tighten Cable Rules
The head of the Federal Communications Commission is struggling to find enough support from a majority of the agency's commissioners to regulate cable television companies more tightly. — The five-m...
Torvalds On Where Linux Is Headed In 2008
The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of i...
Fuzzy picture for Apple TV
This has been quite a year for Apple, but Steve Jobs' magic wand doesn't always work. — In March, Apple unveiled Apple TV, the company's attempt at tackling a question that has eluded the PC industr...
A Gimmick Becomes a Real Trend
TWO years ago, Cyber Monday was a marketing gimmick in search of shoppers. This year, it seems to be a genuine trend that retailers have embraced. — In a survey of roughly 120 members of Shop.org, ...