Thoughts on Beacon
About a month ago, we released a new feature called Beacon to try to help people share information with their friends about things they do on the web. We've made a lot of mistakes building this featu...
AN OPEN LETTER TO SAM SETHI
Please Note: This is an open letter to Sam Sethi, Founder and CEO of Blognation. I have elected to write this letter after having been one of the principal Blognation authors since August of this yea...
Google Announces launch of iPhone Application
Today, Google announced the release of a new iPhone application that integrates its multiple services into a single interface, making it easy for iPhone users to find, use and switch between Google se...
Cellphone could be boarding pass, too
Continental Airlines passengers in Houston will be able to board flights using just a cellphone or personal-digital assistant instead of a regular boarding pass in a three-month test program launched ...
Announcing Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC)
Today we're making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to TechNet and MDSN will have access to those RC bits too. In addition, th...
Apple Donates 100 iPod nanos to Victims of CA Wildfires [Charity]
So there you are, a kid who just lost his entire house in the recent Southern California wildfires. What would be at the top of your wishlist? A new house? Returning to a sense of normalcy? All yo...
House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons...
Nielsen to Be Video Cop
For years, media and technology companies have been ensnarled in a battle over the rights to video posted online. Now ratings giant Nielsen wants to be the policeman. — Nielsen is rolling out a new...
Classically designed and fully featured Nokia 6263 now available at T-Mobile USA
New fold-style phone includes 1.3 megapixel camera, e-mail capability and a music player — WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Designed for customers who want to have the latest features like e-mail capability wit...
Postal Rate Change to Wallop Netflix, Help BBI? (NFLX)
Another reason for Netflix (NFLX) to hurry up and transition to a purely digital model: A potential postal rate change could cut the company's operating income per subscriber by two-thirds, say Citi a...
Sprint XOHM Will Soft Launch "In A Few Days"
Sprint Nextel will soft launch its XOHM WiMax network in the next few days according to Bin Shen, VP of Product Management and Partnership Development. Chicago, Washington DC and Baltimore will all g...
HD Video-on-Demand Now Playing on Verizon FiOS TV 1,000 HD VOD Titles Expected by the End of 2008
NEW YORK - Just in time for the holiday season, Verizon is unwrapping high-definition video-on-demand in many of its FiOS TV markets. — HD VOD is now available over the FiOS TV systems …
Why Apple can't do to video what it did to music
perspective From Hollywood to New York City, media executives have spent the last two years fretting that Steve Jobs could wreak havoc on the video distribution business the same way he upended the mu...
Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface
We heard a rumor that Google was going to launch a new interface for users accessing the site via an iPhone in the next few days. But an anonymous tip let us know it actually launched without any war...
Marc Orchant Updates and Information
This page is dedicated to providing information and updates concerning the status of my good friend and colleague, Marc Orchant. — As you know, Marc suffered a massive cardiac infarction on Sunday m...
Nokia's unlimited "Comes With Music" plan misses the boat due to DRM
Universal announced a promising new business model last month that will allow device manufacturers to offer an all-you-can-eat music subscription service with devices. Called Total Music by Universal...
Internet Explorer 8
Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix 'n Mash event here on campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next an...
World Turns Attention to iPhone, Boobs and Videos, Forgets Osama (Verdict: Life as Usual) [Yearmodo]
The final Google trends for 2007 were officially announced yesterday, with the iPhone and the late plastic buxom wonderkid Anna Nicole Smith bracketing the Top 10 fastest-rising search terms.
ISO Ballot for PDF 1.7 Passed!
Adobe has received word that the Ballot for approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of 13:: 1. — Countries voting positive with no comments: Australia, Bulg...
Will the Holy Grail of marketing revive Dell?
If Dell wants to regain its former glory, it will have to do a better job selling laptops like its XPS m1330; and that means new marketing methods. Image: Dell — Two years from now, we'll be hailin...
Salesforce.com rolls out customer data sharing; eyes 1 million subscribers
Salesforce.com on Wednesday will roll out business networking tools so customers can securely share information such as sales leads, product information and other communications. — Think Facebook an...
Live Documents Screenshots - The Replica of Microsoft Office 2007
Here are the first screenshots of Live Documents, a Microsoft Office like productivity suite that seeks to challenge Google Docs and Zoho Office. — As you may have noticed, the individual programs o...
Comcast (CMCSA): Economy Declining Since Q3
Joining this call live with Michael Angelakis - Executive Vice President & Co-CFO, who's in the process of delivering lots of bad news. — Last night Comcast revised expectations downward; recently y...
The Platform Paradigm
Post by Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer — It is an exciting time to join Cisco. — Cisco is the company whose leadership legacy defines "The Network" in many ways. Today, it is a compa...
Hulu Adds HD
Online video distribution startup Hulu has added high-definition content, one of the first tests of the new Adobe Flash Player that was released today, which supports streaming HD. Hulu's HD content ...
Grisoft Gobbles Exploit Prevention Labs
Grisoft hopes its buyout of Exploit Prevention Labs will allow it to take on the security market's Big Three. — Grisoft has acquired Exploit Prevention Labs in a bid to extend its protection against...
Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions
Last week, we solicited your questions for Internet security guru Bruce Shneier. He responded in force, taking on nearly every question, and his answers are extraordinarily interesting, providing man...
How to Score a Wii This Christmas
With less than three weeks until Christmas, how will you get a Wii under the tree? — Nintendo says it's going to fall short of the white-hot demand for its $250 gaming console. But conservative est...