Second-gen iPhone in final phase; Apple TV update planned - report
After meeting with key component suppliers and manufacturers in Asia, researchers for investment bank Goldman Sachs said this week they believe Apple will introduce two revisions to the iPhone in 2008...
Microsoft swoop hands Multimap founder $25m
The deal, understood to be worth about $50 million, expands Microsoft's fast-growing footprint in web and mobile advertising — Microsoft has agreed to buy Multimap, the privately-owned British compa...
Bebo Embraces Facebook Apps With Its "Open Applications Platform"
When Google developed OpenSocial, it was intended to obviate the need for developers to reprogram the same social networking applications for separate platforms. Several social networks without their...
Yahoo (YHOO) + CNBC Distribution Deal: Cable Screwed?
Yahoo and CNBC have signed a distribution deal in which Yahoo Finance will distribute a handful of CNBC clips each day. This is a smart step for both parties, but it's also only a tiny fraction of wh...
50 Top 10 Lists of 2007
Top 10 Gadgets — #1. Apple iPhone — The iPhone changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform. The design is exceptional inside and out: It's got a slick gl...
Microsoft Acquires One of Europe's Top Online Map Services
Acquisition of Multimap will help Microsoft deliver new, expanded services on the Web. — Microsoft Corp. has acquired Multimap, one of the United Kingdom's top 100 technology companies and one of th...
Picasa Redefined for your iPhone
I was sitting in the pub recently (I'm a Brit, it's what I do), and I wanted to show my friend a photo of the sunset I saw on my honeymoon. I pulled out my phone and started typing in the URL for Pic...
Quote of the Day
"After debating this for the past few weeks, I've decided to make my entire flickr stream private. — My images are being stolen and used in ways that I am not comfortable with on an almost weekly ba...
Scoble To Leave PodTech, Heading For Fast Company
Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he says. He will likely be joining Fast Company to start Fast Company TV. — Scoble was with PodTech for just ...
Meet Veronica, Sexy Skype Spammer
Maybe this is commonplace for others, but I've just got my first sex-chat-spam on Skype. It's from someone called Veronica Sexy, whose profile indicates that it's unlikely to be someone I've met and ...
Scott Karp: Talking to You People is a Massive Waste of Time
I was one of Scott Karp's friends on Twitter and I admit, I enjoyed our interactions there. Now I learn that to Scott, the conversations there were a massive waste of time. — He qualifies it, leavi...
The Next Social Network: WordPress
Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He's started a project called DiSo, for distribute...
Mahalo Adds The Social Graph To Search
Everyone's been talking about how the social graph is the next evolution of search. Search 4.0. The next step forward after Search 3.0's blended and personalized search. Today, Mahalo is taking tha...
House Republican targets Google on privacy grounds
A top Republican in the House of Representatives is demanding that Google answer a barrage of questions about privacy, some of which are related to the company's proposed purchase of the DoubleClick a...
Bebo to announce developer platform
SAN FRANCISCO—Right now I'm in a theater at San Francisco's Metreon complex, awaiting the official launch of social-networking site Bebo's "Open Application Platform." The announcement has not yet be...
A new face in HTPCs
When we first opened the PDF containing the concept images of Omaura's concept TT chassis, we thought for a second it was a large, TV-stand-ready all-in-one PC whose display had a seriously distorted ...
Helio's Ocean granted hot new native YouTube app; Downloads and Uploads now both totally mobile
I love YouTube. I mean I love it. I like unhinged videos of Mexican UFOs, crazy Japanese gameshows, and Lohan falling down. It's unlimited entertainment, because there are more hours …
Zoho Show 2.0, Cleaner Look, New Features
Over the past two years Zoho has launched 12 applications along with 4 utilities, nearly all with APIs. The team has shown a strong commitment to steadily improving their products, making them a comp...
Cisco's Social Networking Strategy Comes Into Focus
Last February Cisco, the venerable provider of Internet backbone hardware, got its hands wet in the social networking scene by acquiring Five Across, a provider of enterprise social networking softwar...
Cheatsheet: Online Ad Spending to Slow
If you have been following this space, here is a conclusion that's not going to surprise you: Online advertising will grow, but it will do so more slowly over the next few years. — That's the headli...
Windows 7 to get more touchy-feely
For those wondering when touch features such as those found on the Surface PC or iPhone would make it into mainstream PCs, the answer appears to be "whenever Microsoft gets around to releasing Windows...
Mahalo takes a step forward with human-powered search engine
Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, believes that humans can outwit the machines. This is not a replay of Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" movies. Rather, Mahalo is a search engine that is po...
Movable Type.org
Community Blog — Movable Type Open Source — As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source. This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you...
Orb opens up iPhone
Exclusive Orb is expected to announce that it's supporting Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch in the next few days. Orb provides access to your playlists and songs on your home PC (as well as photos, vide...
Europe can 'lead web technology'
Europe remains a vibrant centre for web technology development, a conference in Paris is hearing. — More than 2,000 web developers have gathered for the LeWeb conference, organised by blogger and bu...
Music Blog Community MOG.com Links With Rhapsody, Integrates RNWK Service
Music blog community MOG.com is integrating with Rhapsody from RealNetworks, (NSDQ: RNWK) adding the equivalent of another dimension by allowing bloggers and users to listen to, search for and share m...
Rogers website messages irk Google
Critics say corporate notices violate `Net neutrality' — Search engine giant Google Inc. says it's "concerned" about efforts by Rogers Communications Inc. to insert branded corporate messages into t...
Scrollable Google AdSense
Keith Chan found what looks like it might be an experimental form of Google AdSense. As the screenshot by Keith shows, there are two blue arrow icons at the bottom left of the text ad unit. Clicking...
Hakia raising $5M for semantic search
Semantic search outfit Hakia is on its way to launching in 2008, with a new $5 million round from an undisclosed investor. — The New York-based company opened for beta testing earlier this year, and...
Apple takes baby steps with Canadian iTunes Store TV shows
Just like the Infinite Loop crystal ball predicted earlier this week, Apple today announced that TV shows are now available at the Canadian iTunes Store. While this inaugural offering isn't exactly a...
10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2008
Machines are getting smaller, handier—and much, much smarter. Think we forgot something? Go geeky in the comments section below! Want to test our prediction powers? Check out last year's list! — ...
Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to Certified For Windows Vista, confuses world
Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM just took another step closer to the grave with the help of some rebranding. Those of you with players from SanDisk, Nokia, and Creative among others, looking for compati...
Sam Sethi Shuts Down Blognation
Sam Sethi has thrown in the towel. There's no place to take Blognation given the reality of zero funding and mounting debt. No bills were paid and the train wreck has run over Sethi. He announced t...
SWsoft renames itself Parallels
SWsoft, a start-up selling the Virtuozzo server virtualization software, has renamed itself Parallels after a product line better known among consumers that lets Windows run on Intel-based Macs. — "...
Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer Released
A new version of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer was recently launched. Some of the new features include: — Google Gadgets support - "With support for live feeds and custom site search, Goo...
Google Subscribed Links Integrated Into Universal Search
Ben Allen found that Google now integrates Subscribed Links results in-between other organic search results, as part of the "universal search" initiative; this may be new, though it's hard to tell for...
United Online Announces Decision to Withdraw IPO of Classmates Media Corporation
United Online, Inc. (NasdaqGS:UNTD - News), a leading provider of consumer Internet and media services, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Classmates Media Corporation, intends to withd...
Apple Announces Hit Television Programming Now Available on the iTunes Store in Canada
Programs from Canada's Top Networks, US Favorites & NHL Now Available on iTunes — Apple® today announced that hit television programming from Canada's top networks, US broadcasters and the National ...
Why do Apple customers care so much?
The question inevitably comes up when I meet people and they learn I write about Apple for a living: "So, what's that like?" — I usually answer, "It's crazy." There perhaps has never been a more in...
Quote of the Day
"After debating this for the past few weeks, I've decided to make my entire flickr stream private. — My images are being stolen and used in ways that I am not comfortable with on an almost weekly ba...
An update that improves the performance, responsiveness, and reliability of Windows Vista is available
View products that this article applies to. … INTRODUCTION — This article contains an update that resolves issues that may affect some Windows Vista-based computers.