In Memoriam: Marc Orchant
I received the news around 3PM today that my closest friend, business associate, co-conspirator, sometime mentor, sometime — protege and full time confidante had passed away a week after suffering a...
Announcing LinkedIn News, Redesigned Homepage & more
The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your...
LinkedIn launches platform, redesign — a better business social network
a better business social network — LinkedIn has just launched its own developer platform and a new design that promises to make it more useful to its millions of business users. — Earlier this year...
YouTube Partner Program Opens to All; Chocolate Rain Guy Gets Ad Deal
Tay Zonday, the young man behind the Chocolate Rain song and megameme, is among 100 YouTube power users selected to be added to the YouTube Partners program - the site's ad revenue sharing plan for hi...
Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum Completes Release of 1.0 Specifications
Targets interoperability & marketability of Linux-based mobile phones through shared open standards and implementations — The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum today announced completion of the LiP...
Epcot's Spaceship Earth reopens, Steve Jobs pics
Epcot's Spaceship Earth ride has begun its soft opening phase and cast members are now allowing some guests onto the ride. It appears guests are being allowed behind the barriers in small, carefully ...
'Cloudbook' UMPC to Run Googleish Linux
Everex has confirmed plans to ship a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) with a 7-inch screen, similar to competitor Asus' EEE PC. — Everex has confirmed plans to ship a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) with a 7-inch scre...
Imeem Pens a Deal with Universal Music. Now Has All the Majors.
Ad-supported music streaming is now officially legit. Music social network imeem has inked a deal with the fourth and final major label, Universal Music Group, to make its entire digital catalog avai...
Nokia Pushes to Regain U.S. Sales in Spite of Apple and Google
ESPOO, Finland — When Google announced plans in October to revolutionize the software of cellular phones, few were more eager to hear the details than the industry veterans at Nokia. They still are.
The Second Coming
Michael Dell is back in charge of the troubled computer company he founded 23 years ago. He's already shaken things up. But can he bring back the magic? — His first official day back as chief exec...
NYTimes Surges, Cnet Slumps
Ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall (aka Times Select) in mid-September, its traffic has been going through the roof. According to comScore,...
Apple Ultra-Portable MacBook Rumor Roundup
As rumors start to build for Macworld San Francisco 2008, the most consistent rumor appears to be one of an ultra-portable Apple notebook computer. — These rumors started back in March 2006 by MacSc...
Subdomains and subdirectories
Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear. — Historicall...
Dude, My Bad: Buyers Forgive Facebook
Perhaps they are caught up in the holiday spirit, or maybe everybody loves a good mea culpa, but most digital media buyers are in a forgiving mood when it comes to Facebook's recent string of Beacon b...
After Talks Fail, Writers' Strike Could Drag On
The collapse of talks between striking screenwriters and the nation's film and television producers sets the stage for a long, cold winter in Hollywood that could effectively shut down much of the ent...
CDNs Are Big Business, EdgeCast Get $6 Million
When we watch movies or play music online, there's a flurry of unseen activity making sure that data arrives when and where it's supposed to be. This is the job of the high speed fiber and computer s...
Nobel Laureate Says The Internet Makes Us Dumb, We Say: Meh
Newly awarded Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her acceptance speech to tell the world that the internet makes us dumb. — According to Lessing, who was too old and ill to make the speech he...
Yahoo to Start Internet Program for Technology Investors
Yahoo, which already owns one of the most successful financial sites on the Web, is putting the final touches on a new online program for technology investors that is scheduled to begin next month.
Reuters In Unusual Deal With IHT; Co-Branded Business Section and Rev Share on Ads; NYT Possible?
Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) has done an unusual deal with International Herald Tribune (owned by the New York Times), under which the two would launch a co-branded daily online and print business report for...
PayCycle launches same-day payment system for new enrollees for payroll software
These guys are the market leader in payroll software for small businesses. Now they're going to launch same-day payment for enrollees who sign up for the payroll system on the same day.
MSN Mobile Launches Advertising and Premium Content
Microsoft extends mobile display leadership with premier advertisers Paramount Pictures and Jaguar. — Mobile display advertising is now available on MSN Mobile for the first time, Microsoft Corp. an...
The Engadget Interview: Peter Chou, CEO of HTC
If you were to make a shortlist of Engadget's most sought after executives, Peter Chou, CEO of the most advanced cellphone manufacturer in the world, HTC, would be right near the top. We finally got ...
Pay what you want (and screw the music business)
Interesting piece on Radiohead by Jon Pareles in today's New York Times about the death of the music industry. So, as everybody knows, Radiohead decided to let the fans choose how much to pay for the...
'Digital locks' future questioned
One of the world's largest hard disk manufacturers has blocked its customers from sharing their media files online that are stored on networked drives. — Western Digital says the decision to block s...
Coming Soon To NewTeeVee: 'Scoop' About Tiny Startups?
YouAre.tv is a tiny video site — 56,000 pageviews last month — trying to sell itself on eBay: starting bid $25,000. The company plans to talk itself up at tonight's NY Video 2.0 meetup at the Rooseve...
Toshiba enters solid-state with 128GB drive
Toshiba started its week with the introduction of its first solid-state disks in its 1.8-inch HDD range. Designed to replace conventional rotating storage, the drives are said to offer the storage of...
Microsoft Office Live Workspaces misses the mark
San Francisco - After an excruciatingly drawn-out development process, Microsoft???s Office Live Workspaces — the company???s attempt to marry Microsoft Office to the emerging Web services ???cloud???...
T-Mo launches Samsung Katalyst with HotSpot @Home
Seriously. Do anyone's friends actually look like this? — What does $79.99 and a two-year contract get you these days? The Samsung Katalyst (SGH-t739), a slim slider from T-Mobile that supports My...
NTT DoCoMo to Launch Child-Friendly F801i Handset
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that the FOMA™ F801i, a new child-friendly 3G mobile phone loaded with special features for the safety and convenience of children,...
Microsoft launches mobile advertising on MSN Mobile
Microsoft is today announcing the launch of mobile advertising on its range of MSN Mobile services in US, with mobile advertising already existing on MSN sites for users in Japan and some European cou...