Apple Meets with DoCoMo, Softbank On Launching iPhone in Japan
After signing deals with U.S. and European operators to sell its iPhone earlier this year, Apple Inc. now is making plans to enter Japan, one of the biggest and most sophisticated mobile-phone markets...
Majority Of Americans On Google Docs: "What You Talkin Bout Willis?"
A new survey by NPD has found that the 73% of Americans have never heard of Google Docs and other online office applications, but perhaps worst still only 0.5% of respondents have abandoned desktop of...
Yes, There Can Be Life After Word
AS the clerk at Circuit City rang up my purchase of a new notebook computer last month, she started her up-selling. — Padded bag? No. Security lock? No. Windows Office? — For someone who process...
Nanosolar Ships First Panels
After five years of product development - including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool dev...
Q&A: Peter Norvig
The evolution of Web search. — As director of research at Google, Peter Norvig is intimately involved in the attempt to manage the world's information. He's a good match for the job, having spent m...
Sprint Nextel Names Wireless Veteran Dan Hesse as President and CEO
The Sprint Nextel Board of Directors has named wireless industry veteran Daniel R. Hesse, 54, as president and chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately. He previously was chairma...
Tweeterboard: Who Does That Person on Twitter Think They Are?
Like it or not, there's a whole lot of conversation going on via microblogging service Twitter these days and it cannot be ignored. — Let's say you've subscribed to a search feed for your company's ...
Amazon partners with fans' online record label
Sellaband, which lets fans invest in bands whose music they like, will now sell its albums on Amazon for £8.99 each — Sellaband, the fledgling music site which allows users to become 'investors' in ...
Introducing Video Sitemaps
In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your ...
Pumping DC power to the data center
Thomas Edison had it right, say the founders of start-up Validus DC Systems. Direct current is the way. — Validus on Tuesday announced that it has raised $10 million from Oak Hill Venture Partners ...
The Web Celeb 25
Things change fast on the internet —and fame is no exception. Nearly half of the online celebrities identified in the inaugural edition of the Forbes.com Web Celeb 25 failed to place on the list in t...
New Advanced News search
Want to find articles from a specific news source? You may not know of some tricks to make Google News do the work for you. — Try using our site operator along with a keyword, like this: [site:iht....
Levinsohn, Miller Linking With SV VC ComVentures
Former Fox Interactive head Ross Levinsohn and former AOL CEO Jon Miller, who spent the fall trying to launch a digital media rollup with the backing of private equity group General Atlantic, have mov...
Ticketmaster, NFL Ink Ticket Resale Deal
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ticketmaster plans to launch a Web site next year where people can resell tickets to pro football games, the latest push by the event ticketing company into the lucrative secondary ...
Better flight stats results
The holiday season is upon us, and we know that many amongst you are traveling to be with family and friends. To make sure you spend more time celebrating and less time waiting at the airport, we're ...
The Depth of EBay's Problems 2: Angry Sellers
Here's another angle on what's wrong at eBay: Sellers increasingly find eBay too expensive and are becoming successful finding buyers on Amazon.com or on their own sites. I wrote Friday about why Ama...
Next Generation Knowledge Sharing & Learning Online Conference Event - In Spring 2008?
While I am just about to finish editing the audio recording (And fine tune the slide deck that will go with it) from my pitch on Social Computing @ IBM at the recent IBM iForum event in Zürich …
Apple finally fixes some MacBook keyboard issues
We're sure Apple had a fix in the works long before we got around to posting a poll about it, but if the response to Saturday's informal questionnaire was any indication, this update is long overdue. ...
Why Nobody Likes a Smart Machine
At a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, Donald Norman was previewing a scene about to be re-enacted in living rooms around the world. — He was playing with one of this year's hot Christmas gifts, ...
Mac versus Windows vulnerability stats for 2007
The year 2007 has been an interesting year that brought us improved security with Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). But to get some perspective of how many publicly known holes found in thes...
Digg Selling for $300 Million?
Rumors have surfaced again that Digg is looking to find a buyer. This time credibility to the reports is added in the form of news that Digg has retained the services of a private investment bank. —...
Tech giants form tiny chip group
Seven of the world's leading chip makers are collaborating on chips which contain transistors with features just 32 billionths of a metre wide. — IBM, Toshiba, AMD, Samsung, Chartered, Infineon and ...
Google Toolbar Dialog Spoofing Vulnerability
Summary — Google Toolbar allows spoofing the information presented in the dialog which is being displayed when adding a new Google Toolbar button. This can allow an attacker to convince the users t...
Why Don't DVR Owners Skip Commercials?
Yet another study argues that most DVR owners watch most of their TV live, and don't skip commercials. Interpublic's Magna Global says that just 13.8% of all viewing in DVR homes is time-shifted, Med...
NFL, Ticketmaster Launching Stubhub Football Rival
The NFL and IAC-owned Ticketmaster are launching an online aftermarket site for football tickets next year. The deal is one of Ticketmaster's many attempts to try to catch up to other "ticket exchang...
Bloglines Gets A Triple Dose Of New Features
Bloglines has added three new features to its RSS reading service. — First up is the ability to save posts including text and graphics from within Bloglines to a "Saved" folder. This allows users t...
TorrentSpy loses Calif. copyright lawsuit
In a potentially severe blow to fans of peer-to-peer networks, a federal judge has ruled against the BitTorrent indexing service TorrentSpy.com on grounds that its operators engaged in “willful” delet...
Google's Checkout perks paying off
By Yi-Wyn Yen — Since Google launched its Checkout online payment service 18 months ago, industry insiders have wondered if its aggressive marketing promotions were worth the money. — The company,...
Ebay's rising star plots revamp of ‘flea market’
Tinkering with the core mechanisms of the world's busiest e-commerce site is not something to be undertaken lightly. Yet John Donahoe, head of Ebay's marketplace division, is preparing an overhaul fo...
Ex-Jane Editor Lands at Yahoo
Brandon Holley, late of Jane magazine, has become the latest example of an editor who's made the leap from print magazines to the digital space. Holley has been quietly working at Yahoo as executive ...
McClatchy's Fall From Grace
Holy smokes—what happened to McClatchy? — Just a few years ago, industry observers hailed the newspaper company and its boyishly charismatic chairman and chief executive, Gary Pruitt, for growing ea...
Local Papers' Web Scramble
With Web companies now beginning to dominate the market for local ads online, newspaper publishers are scrambling to change the way they sell ads, hiring sales teams that specialize in the digital mar...
Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...
and to your profits. — Unlike some older technologies (notably …
Introducing Video Sitemaps
In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your ...
New Advanced News search
Want to find articles from a specific news source? You may not know of some tricks to make Google News do the work for you. — Try using our site operator along with a keyword, like this: [site:iht....