Interview: Sony's Thoughts On the MacBook Air
During the Keynote, Jobs compared the Macbook Air to Sony's TZ ultraportable, implying it had a small keyboard and screen, was too thick, and was not that good. Here's what Sony thinks of the Apple M...
A decentralized Twitter?
Andrew Baron is a smart guy, and he's not a techy, so when he explains technical issues he does it in a way non-technical people can understand. — Dembot: “If you hosted your own Twitter, just like ...
Robert Scoble to Launch Online Video Network At Fast Company
Robert Scoble, who pioneered tech videoblogging at Microsoft with Channel 9 and produced hundreds of segments during his tenure at PodTech, is launching a new business television network for Fast Comp...
Will Apple TV Take 2 Take Online Movie Rentals Mainstream?
An extraordinary thing happened today (well at least given who it was), Steve Jobs admitted that Apple had screwed up with its Apple TV product. Never one to take the rap alone he threw in Microsoft ...
Time Warner Cable Eyeing Overage Charges? - Memo says trial will determine national deployment...
Storm Worm: the Valentine's gift that keeps on giving
The team behind the Storm Worm certainly doesn't miss any excuse to shovel their malware into the tubes. Both Christmas and New Year's saw the appearance of new appropriately themed Storm variants, a...
Facebook bullies writers, not its engineers, to keep data private
My boss, Nick Denton, may be banned from Facebook, for posting photos of Emily Brill, daughter of entrepreneur Steve Brill. Insiders at the social network tell me that they have considered similar sa...
WAYN said to be close to sale. The price? $200m. The buyer? AOL
Social travel site WAYN is allegedly in talks with AOL over a possible $200m sale to the consumer portal giant. A spokesperson for the UK startup denied that any sale talks are taking place.
My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven
If you're reading this, then chances are you already know about Web 2.0. Even if you don't know the term itself, you're one of millions worldwide who are actively creating, sharing or benefiting from...
Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook's Ass in Traffic
While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today indicating that things are not as they m...
Freebase's $42M! Can the top-down semantic web scale?
I just read this: — MetaWeb, the folks who power Freebase, a semantic database, got another $42 million in funding. — This shows a very serious investment in the semantic web... but instead of a d...
Helping Dolphins Fly
We announced big news today - our preliminary results for our fiscal second quarter, and as importantly, that we're acquiring MySQL AB. — If you're interested in the financial details for the quarte...
Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous
Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble. — The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up mo...
Why we're going to FastCompany.tv
Ahh, Andy Plesser broke my career news again (he was the guy who broke my news about leaving Microsoft too). Louis Gray got the story first, though, I think, although I told dozens of people at the B...
Microsoft Security Advisory (947563)
Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office ...
Surprise! Oracle buys BEA Systems
The clumsy courtship between Oracle and BEA Systems is over. Oracle said Wednesday that it will acquire BEA for $19.375 a share in cash. — The offer puts the value of BEA at roughly $8.5 billion. ...
Macworld: the thinnest notebook computer and Blu-ray
Blu-ray just trounced the HD DVD competition in the next-generation DVD war. But the thinnest notebook computer in the world could spell trouble for the whole idea of storing anything on a disk. — ...
iGoogle Themes Directory Launched
In October last year, I asked whether we should expect to see an iGoogle Themes Directory Coming Soon. Today, Peter Dawson noticed that the Themes Directory is now live! — Not only does the directo...
Stevenote In 60 Seconds
Too lazy to watch the entire Stevenote video stream on CrunchGear, or read Duncan's real time notes from the event? No worries. Mahalo's Veronica Belmont distills all the important stuff down into j...
PayPal Moves Into Facebook But The App Is Broken
Update: A CN reader notified me offline that this might be bogus - please proceed at own risk. — PayPal has announced its entry into Facebook - though I can't tell if it's only UK residents can use ...