Slide: The $500 Million Widget
After cashing in big with PayPal, Max Levchin could be at it again with his social network tool. The latest funding values Slide at a half-billion — When Max Levchin started Slide, the popular tool...
Eee PC with 9-inch touchscreen in the works?
Details of future generation Eee PCs from ASUS have been trickling out even before the first generation shipped. Now that sewing circle of Taiwanese component makers have whispered a few secrets in t...
The Big Picture
Up or down? That's what this week's Macworld show came down to for most news organizations. Would the new Apple products make the company's shares go up or down? They went down. Macworld was a bus...
Sources: MacBook Air battery replacements take only minutes
Due to its ultra-thin profile, Apple's new MacBook Air was designed with an integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery that is not user-replaceable. Though this has caused some initial concern a...
China Close To Becoming World's Largest Internet Market By Users
New statistics released by the Chinese Government show that China is due to surpass the United States as the nation with the most internet users in the coming months. — The state-owned China Interne...
Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad Leaked
It appears that Lenovo have themselves a new ultralight X300 series Thinkpad—and outside of the price and release date, we have all of the specs that you need to know. At a glance, some of the major ...
Online Ads Hit $50 Billion By 2011; Local Reaches $9 Billion By 2012; Pre-Roll, Embeds Gain In '08
With all the doom and gloom hovering over the economy right now, analyst reports heralding brighter days for the future of internet ad spend continue to be released.
Web Ad Buyer: Online Less Robust Than You Think, CPMs Headed Down
Most prognosticators predict another booming year for online advertising, but Carl Fremont isn't so sure. Fremont, the global media director for digital ad giant Digitas, says the weakening economy w...
Here Comes Trouble: An Antidote to Software Patents
The $250 million Vonage burned through as a result of the patent lawsuit brought by Verizon et al provides yet another example of why patents for business processes implemented on computers (a.k.a. so...
The “Google generation” not so hot at Googling, after all
A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be. For instance, are teens better with ...
Orange Chief: French IPhone Selling
France's Orange Says IPhone Sales Better Than Expected — PARIS (AP) — Sales in France of the much-hyped Apple Inc. iPhone after the holiday season are going better than mobile carrier Orange expecte...
A Night Out: Google Opens a DC Office
Photos by Liz Gorman — Capitol Hill staffers, lobbyists, techies, and media folks braved the weather Thursday night to celebrate Google's official arrival in Washington, a moment marked by the prese...
Bug Labs going live on Monday
Here are the first shots of the BUGBase Hiro P model that goes on sale this Monday when the store opens up. This is the final production model, but is, sadly, sans Wi-Fi. Yeah, seems that open sourc...
Fujitsu's LifeBook P1620 is lighter than (MacBook) Air
Fujitsu's P1620 was just announced with a Stateside price starting at $1,599. This quicker update to the highly praised P1610 boasts a new ULV 1.2GHz U7600 Core 2 Duo processor with up to 2GB of memo...
Skype cross-zone scripting vulnerability
Skype uses Internet Explorer web control within the application to render internal and external HTML pages. Examples for this pages are the “Send money via PayPal” dialog, or “Add video to chat” dial...
US video game sales soar to record 17.9 billion dollars
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - US video game industry sales rocketed to a record high 17.9 billion dollars in 2007, with Nintendo reigning as champion of the console battle with Microsoft and Sony, according t...
Nasa investigates virtual space
The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. — The virtual world would be aimed at students and would “simulate real Nasa engineering and...
Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers
Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities.
Google Sites Closer to Launch?
Since October 2006 when Google announced they had acquired Jotspot - the wiki hosting service which allows you to create “rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries” by usin...
Deal Of the Day: CNN Pays $750,000 For Web Address
CNN just made self-styled “Domain King” Rick Schwartz a happy man. The network paid $750,000 to acquire urls ireport.com and i-report.com from Schwartz, who told SAI he paid “$70 or $100” to registe...
Ultralight Lenovo X300 Series Thinkpad Leaked
It appears that Lenovo have themselves a new ultralight X300 series Thinkpad—and outside of the price and release date, we have all of the specs that you need to know. At a glance, some of the major ...
Jobs: Blu-ray wins HD format war then loses to downloads
Blu-ray Disc beat HD DVD, but who cares? Downloads, not physical media, are the future of HD content consumption. So said Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week, a comment that's a distant echo of allegatio...
Google No Longer Displays Stop Words Warning
In the past, a search on google stop words in search would return a warning that read, ""in" is a very common word and was not included in your search." But if you do that search today, no such messa...
Nokia N95 8GB, the first DLNA certified mobile
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that the Nokia N95 8GB had the distinction of being the first ever mobile phone to receive Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certification. The DLNA is a b...
Seesmic killed the YouTube star?
It's not often you are presented with a vision of the future of online video in a pub in London. — But that's exactly what I was shown last night by celebrated French blogger, well-connected entrepr...