Christmas eve: Apple MacBook is Amazon's No. 1 top-selling computer
Despite fierce competition from machines with more than twice the memory and price points hundreds of dollars lower, Apple's (AAPL) white 120 GB MacBook has captured the top spot on Amazon's (AMZN) li...
Christmas Present For Apple Bulls: Mac Cleared for Takeoff
As hard as it is to believe, many Apple (AAPL) bulls are still missing the best part of the company's growth story: The improving opportunity for Apple's computer business. Unlike the last go-round, ...
Paris Is No Silicon Valley — Yet
Yet — The missing piece is finally falling into place: the development of a startup “working class” of smart techies and ambitious entrepreneurs — My trip to Paris last week did not go smoothly. F...
When non-technologists write about technology
They're so CUTE! — The Economist puts random words in random order: … First, 1994 is calling and wants its metaphors back. — Second, got any data to support that? … OK, that's simply not true.
2008 Web Predictions
What Web applications and trends will make it big in 2008? In this post the RWW authors ruminate on the current trends in Web technology and look forward to what 2008 might bring us. Topics include ...
Toshiba and Sharp to join forces on LCD panels
Toshiba and Sharp were recently pressed their magic rings together proclaiming, “Wonder Twin powers, activate! Form of...a strategic LCD alliance wherein Toshiba buys LCD panels from Sharp and Sharp ...
Airborne Internet might bring turbulence
NEW YORK - Seat 17D is yapping endlessly on an Internet phone call. Seat 16F is flaming Seat 16D with expletive-laden chats. Seat 16E is too busy surfing porn sites to care. Seat 17C just wants to ...
Can NBC Do for ‘Quarterlife’ What YouTube Could Not?
Scripts by Marshall Herskovitz, the Emmy award-winning writer and producer, have drawn millions of viewers to movie theaters and television sets over the past two decades. — But on the Internet, whe...
Asustek Eee PC shipments beat expectations
In less than one quarter, accumulated worldwide shipments of Asustek Computer's Eee PC have reached nearly 350,000 units, exceeding the estimated 300,000 units made by industry watchers, according to ...
Best Buy Still Using Secret In-Store Website With Higher Pricing
Even after being slapped in the face with a suit by a Connecticut attorney general, Best Buy is still having an internal bestbuy.com website that offers higher prices than the actual bestbuy.com.
When to Buy a Camera, MP3 Player, or Cell Phone
If it's Presidents Day, it must be time to get serious about buying a new digital camera. For this and other advice about buying mobile electronic devices, read on. — Recommend this story? — Came...
E-Greetings Gain Ground at Businesses This Season
Have you sent out your holiday cards this year? What about your e-cards? — If your second answer was yes, you are in good company. Once seen as the tacky, last-minute substitute for pen and paper,...
New rules for age-restricted internet and mobile content
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has determined new rules that for the first time implement a uniform approach for restricting access to MA15+ and R18+ content accessed through the in...
2007: The Year in RSS
This past year was a big one for RSS. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, was the backbone of all early developments in the new era of the internet. It made blogs readable, podcasts subscribable, wik...
Samsung's F490 / P720 handsets get outed
Although we came across Samsung's SGH-F490 during a recent FCC scavenger hunt, it, along with the previously announced P720 were recently spotted at an event in Ukraine. Unfortunately, most is lost i...
SO WHAT'S ALL THIS NEW MARKETING STUFF, ANYWAY?
Some people call it “The New Marketing". Some people call it “Marketing 2.0". Whatever name you care to give it, I get asked about it a lot. Here are some random thoughts, in no particular order. ...
ASUS rolls out U2 luxury ultraportable
Preempting the large volume of computers expected next month, ASUS has provided an early look at its U2 subnotebook. The 11-inch ultraportable is built for the same audience as the Sony VAIO TZ and u...
Apple to launch iPod with automatic volume control that can protect your hearing
Listening to music non-stop has never been easier since the iPod came along. — But future versions of Apple's MP3 player are to be adapted to prevent users from playing tracks at full blast through ...
Newsflash: Tech Executives Are Not Hurting For Cash
Tis the season to embrace your financial ruin. — It's no revelation that many of our country's top tech executives take home more money on an annual (daily?) basis than most of us will ever see in o...
Europe's startup culture gets the Business Week treatment
Business Week's Sarah Lacy pens an interesting piece on Europe's startup climate following her visit to Le Web 3 in Paris a couple of weeks ago. Although relatively fair-minded, it has the faint whif...
Macs are even more expensive than I thought
When I got back from Europe my black MacBook wouldn't boot, it just sat there with a disk icon and a flashing question mark. So I made an appointment at the Apple store in Emeryville to have it looke...
ComScore: Last Week Saw Strong Online Shopping
E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week's brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore. — Procrastinators and deal-seekers...
2007 In Numbers: The Ask Mouse Squeaked A Little Louder This Year
IAC got serious about its Ask property this year, investing $100 million in the United States alone on a bizarre “Ask the Algorithm” campaign that even sunk to the depths of using the Unabomber as a m...
Toshiba and Sharp Form LCD Pact
Toshiba and Sharp agree to buy LCD TV related components from each other — With the LCD flat panel HDTV market currently booming, competition is fierce between rival manufacturers and the need to dr...
The year in technology
The iPhone was great, except for its restrictions. And guess who's dialing up a better mobile Web now? — You'll balk if I label 2007 “The Year of the iPhone." True, news of Apple's new device hit ...
Q&A: Craig Newmark, of ‘Craigslist’ fame, looks back — and ahead
and ahead — Computerworld) Twelve years ago, Craigslist.org founder Craig Newmark was still a software programmer at Charles Schwab & Co. But that changed after he began sending out self-composed e-m...
SAP Global Report: Dell's Lionel Menchaca
The story of Dell and the blogosphere almost follows the classic Hollywood formula: Sin, Suffer, Repent & Flourish. Dell's sin was to win a hardware price war it scrimped more than it should have on ...