Amazon.com Wraps Up Its 13th Holiday With Best Season Ever
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2007 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 10. On that day, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million i...
What Would Paul Allen Do With Spectrum? Who Knows!
Among the applicants to bid in next month's FCC wireless spectrum auction: Vulcan Spectrum LLC, a firm controlled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen already owns some 700 megahertz spectrum — ...
Google ruining Christmas? Get a grip
Since I'm full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I've been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on — but wiping out on...
IFPI wants ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, filter P2P traffic
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) wants European ISPs to build the copyright equivalent to the Chinese firewall, and its counting on the help of European lawmakers to ac...
Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the w...
New wooden earphones from JVC
Rate this News: — Looking for a fancy yet very high quality earphone? Take a look at this wooden version from JVC dubbed the HP-FX500. — JVC says that the use of wood offers enhanced audio qualit...
Details of Apple's Mysterious New Portable Device
I have been working on gathering more information about a new Apple (AAPL) portable device from several different sources during the past 6 months. I have pieced together the puzzle which portrays a ...
Russia launches final satellites for its own GPS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully launched a rocket on Tuesday carrying the last three satellites to complete a navigation system to rival America's GPS. — The military-run GLONASS mapping syst...
Radiohead: Free New Year's Web Concert, Amazon Beats iTunes To ‘In Rainbows’
Alterna-rockers Radiohead will stream a free, hour-long concert of their latest album, In Rainbows, on Monday, New Year's Eve, via their Web site, Current TV, and Current.com. “This is a wee celebrat...
Like Gaboogie, Foonz Losing Its Voice Too
Earlier this year we wrote about Gaboogie, a web-based conference call service started by Erik Lagerway. The service didn't quite work out, and the company reconfigured its business focus to offering...
IceRocket Relaunch?
I'm sure I'm very late in noticing this, but just after I saw Technorati's relaunch as a memetracker, I noticed that IceRocket is starting to look different, with a new (to me) looking front page, ran...
Broadband Mechanics announcement(s)
I hate doing press releases - they seem so old school Web 1.0-ish. Scheduling appointments to go kiss Om Mailk's or Arrington's ring just seems so arcane to me, but it's clearly what has to be done t...
Apple Shares Cross $200; Let The Rumors Fly
As Apple (AAPL) shares crossed the $200 mark today for the first time ever, the rumor mill is cranking out plenty of grist for CEO Steve Jobs's keynote at the Macworld convention in San Francisco, whi...
Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami's Condo Market
Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk cut a swath through Silicon Valley in the 1990s with companies like Silicon Graphics, Netscape and WebMD. But they are finding that it is a lot harder to maneuver through t...
First look: Qt 4.4.0 with Phonon and WebKit
Trolltech has released the Qt 4.4.0 technical preview, a pre-release that allows software developers to begin experimenting with the new features that the company has implemented for the next version....
Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV
Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both adve...
CTO Session: Nortel's Roese Speaks Out
Chief technology officers must both imagine the future—then make it happen. This is the first in a series of Q&As about the future of industry with pivotal chief technology officers. — John J. Roes...
Apple Stock Toys With $200 Per Share Mark
Banner year helps propel Apple's stock, which briefly stock traded north of $200 on Wednesday. — Recommend this story? — Apple's stock traded north of US$200 briefly on Wednesday, although it sett...
Everex gPC gets reviewed, thrashed
Just because something sells out, that doesn't mean that it's up to snuff. Substantiating said claim is the Everex gPC, which recently did an outstanding job of frustrating and disappointing reviewer...
A focused family business
Picture this: an online photo-sharing site with a loyal customer base and no corporate ties run by a close-knit clan out of Silicon Valley. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Ever the proud father, Chris Mac...
Nokia says door open for cooperation with Apple on web portal Ovi - Vanjoki
Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) doors are open for Apple Inc to sell its music via the company's planned Ovi web portal, management board member Anssi Vanjoki told Berline...
Cool Stuff: Batcave Home Theater
Last month we featured a custom home theater designed to model the Enterprise NCC-1701D from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We return in December to show you the home theater set-up of a retired nat...
GigaOM Interview: Dr. Mendel Roseblum, Chief Scientist, VMWare
Right before the Christmas holidays I got a chance to catch up with Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, VMWare's chief scientist and one of the company's five co-founders. Rosenblum is also an associate professor ...
Internet Marketing Best Blog Posts of 2007
Last year, I ended 2006 with a great (and still pertinent) list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing. This year, I present you ...
Hacks and smack-talking make hi-def format war even uglier
The format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD continues, but now the participants are really getting feisty. Both camps have been particularly aggressive this holiday season, offering a variety of discou...
Survey: More online ads, free content
By Yi-Wyn Yen — A new study reveals that the majority of consumers would rather be bombarded with online ads than pay for content on the Web. Deloitte's annual media consumption report also indicat...
EU: Microsoft's Last Stand Against Google's Acquisition of DoubleClick
As we reported December 20, the last hurdle to Google's acquisition of Doubleclick now rests with the European Union after obtaining approval for the merger in the United States. — One company petit...
Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the w...
Details of Apple's Mysterious New Portable Device
I have been working on gathering more information about a new Apple (AAPL) portable device from several different sources during the past 6 months. I have pieced together the puzzle which portrays a ...
Apple's Record Breaking Year
Year in review: Apple started 2007 with a name change, and proceeded to firmly establish itself as a consumer electronics company. — Karen Haslam, Macworld UK — Recommend this story? — In Januar...
HTC denies that operations in 1Q08 will be affected by Qualcomm chipset shortages
High Tech Computer (HTC) on December 24 rebuked a media report stating that company revenues for the first quarter of 2008 would be affected by shortages in the supply of chipsets from Qualcomm.