This Video Makes Bill Gates Look Cooler Than Steve Jobs
OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future. And I know its scripted, edited and contrived, but I'm s...
Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo's future: Life!
Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang made his inaugural CES appearance, outlining how he plans to evolve his company ahead of the curve and to become an indispensable starting point for consumers' Web ...
Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown.
Many of us have waited a year as the Jimmy Wales hype machine promised a human powered search engine that could take on Google. Tonight that search engine launched at alpha.search.wikia.com, and it m...
Sony BMG trades cards for downloaded tunes
NEW YORK — Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Jan. 15 becomes the last major record company to sell downloads without copy restrictions — but only to buyers who first visit a retail store. — The No. 2 ...
my new job at mozilla
Sometimes in life, you find an opportunity to make a difference in something you care about, and it feels like, even though you didn't know it at the time, that the last few years have really just bee...
Pandora forced to pull the final plug on UK service
Attention UK Pandora users: as of January 15, 2008, Pandora will stop streaming its Internet radio content. This comes more than six months after Pandora was forced to shut-down service to most non-U...
Intel Unveils First Penryn Mobile Processors
LAS VEGAS— Intel unveiled today the first Penryn laptop processors, a follow-up to the Penryn desktop processors that began to appear late last year. They mark a refresh to the fourth-generation (San...
MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters
Full text — Source — Communications of the ACM — Authors — Google, Mountain View, CA Google, Mountain View, CA — Publisher — Additional Information: — abstract references index terms...
Q&A: Author Nicholas Carr on the Terrifying Future of Computing
Nicholas Carr is high tech's Captain Buzzkill — the go-to guy for bad news. A former executive editor of Harvard Business Review, he tossed a grenade under big-budget corporate computing with his 200...
Some Brand-Name Bloggers Say Stress of Posting Is a Hazard to Their Health
Om Malik's blog, GigaOm, regularly breaks news about the technology industry. Last week, the journalist turned blogger broke a big story about himself. Mr. Malik, 41, blogged that he had suffered a ...
Napster moves to MP3-only music download format
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Napster Inc, one of the largest digital music retailers, said on Monday it would start selling downloads in the MP3 format from the second quarter of this year in the latest blow ...
Google's Lunchtime Betting Game
IT probably doesn't come as a huge surprise to learn that while employees in many companies sit in the cafeteria gossiping about work, or the boss, or the competition, at Google they are doing somethi...
Live from Intel's CES press event
Well here we are folks, back for more at Intel's sprawling CES press event. The room is teeming with people right now, and the mood is thick with Penryns and MIDs. We'll see if it all works out like...
Investors Said to Seek a Takeover of CNet
CNet Networks, one of the original online media companies, would typically write about all the gossip and speculation at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas. Now, however, the compan...
Yahoo Makes a New Play for Ads on Mobile Phones
SAN FRANCISCO — There may not be a Yahoo phone in the works, but the struggling Internet company is betting that a new mobile-phone strategy will help it better compete with the likes of Google, Micro...
MWSF 2008 keynote bingo
Ah, winter in San Francisco: the time of year when a young man's fancy lightly turns to keynote bingo. What's that, you ask? You haven't played? Oh, but you must. Peruse last year's edition to lea...
Clarkson stung after bank prank
TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column. — The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 2...
Ogilvy to Layoff Between 50 and 100 Staffers
New York Office Feels Pinch as Clients Shift Spending — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide is readying a layoff of between 50 and 100 staffers in New York this week, accord...
Alienware curved display rocks Crysis at 2880 x 900
Don't get all frothed up quite yet because it's still only a prototype, but this sweet doublewide curved DLP display with OLED illumination from Alienware will reportedly be available in the second ha...
Ex-Harvard President Meets a Former Student, and Intellectual Sparks Fly
In June 2006, Peter Hopkins, a civic-minded and idealistic 2004 Harvard graduate, trekked up to his alma mater from New York for a meeting with Lawrence H. Summers, the economist and former Treasury s...
Liberty to Bulk Up Internet Portfolio
Liberty Media Corp., in the latest move to beef up its portfolio of Internet businesses, is expected to announce today that it has bought a controlling stake in sports-nutrition retailer and fitness W...
Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond
Steve Outing wrote a very good article at Editor and Publisher on Friday about the need for cultural change inside the newpapers around the US (found via the wonderful CyberJournalist.net).
Motorola to Enhance Music Delivery Capabilities in Asia Through Acquisition of Soundbuzz
PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Soundbuzz Pte. Ltd., a privately held, leading pan-Asian music provi...
Xerox Hopes Its New Logo Doesn't Say ‘Copier’
Still think copier when you hear the name Xerox? — The company knows that you do. And it is sick of it. Good grief, Xerox doesn't even make stand-alone copiers any more. — These days, Xerox gets...
Technophobe teachers wasting millions
State schools spent £1 billion on cutting-edge information technology last year but 80 per cent of them are failing to make full use of it, according to experts. — Pupils now handle equipment worth ...
Obama Effect: ABC News Claims 1M Downloads Of Facebook App
ABC rang in huge Nielsen numbers for its ABC News/Facebook debates Saturday night. But we're more interested in the fact that ABC is claiming that more than a million Facebook users have downloaded A...
Breaking the Social Contract: My Data is not Your Data
This is likely my last post in Robert Scoble vs. Facebook saga but I think there are some subtle points being lost because of the typical blog feeding frenzy where people either choose to flame Facebo...
MindTouch Powers-Up DekiWiki with Dapper
Open source wiki vendor MindTouch is releasing a series of major new features Monday and some of them are quite interesting. People used to talk about MindTouch for its outlandish stunts - like worki...
Apple Closes In on Hollywood
Steve Jobs is negotiating with the big studios to offer more movies for sale and rental on iTunes, but both sides will have to give a little — It has been Hollywood's worst-kept secret: Steve Jobs i...
As Electronics Show Grows, Some Scale Back
LAS VEGAS — People attending the Consumer Electronics Show, starting here on Monday, will encounter a crowded and noisy stage where technology companies from around the world unveil their latest wares...
CES: Panasonic's Toshihiro Sakamoto Unveils 150-Inch Plasma Display; Unveils Deal For YouTube Content On TVs
Monday morning's keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas comes from Toshihiro Sakamoto, President of Panasonic AVC Networks. — Here are some bullet points from his keynote:
Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music
There have been rumors that Yahoo Music is preparing to launch a big new product sometime soon. And when I read this overview of a presentation given by Yahoo Music's VP of Product Development Ian Ro...
Nokia N95 blushes a bright red for us
It's not quite as technologically interesting as the N95 8GB for North America, but bright, pretty colors can certainly sell as many phones as a good chunk of internal ROM can. We spotted an in-your-...
McDonald's Takes On A Weakened Starbucks
Food Giant to Install Specialty Coffee Bars, — OLATHE, Kan. — This fall, a McDonald's here added a position to its crew: barista. — McDonald's is setting out to poach Starbucks customers with the ...
PredictAd: Monetize Your Search Suggestion
PredictAd is a web site plugin that ads search box auto completion to your site, and then monetizes it with contextual text ads. The core service is a plug-n-play embeddable script that adds predicti...