WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and creator of open-source blogging system WordPress, stopped by my apartment earlier this week. Matt, who is one of my closest friends, brought his Texan sense ...
Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Best Quarterly Revenue & Earnings in Apple History — Mac, iPod & iPhone Sales Break Previous Records — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 first quarter ended December 29,...
Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight
Yahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years. The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion, generating no real momentum. — Yaho...
EBay Chief Whitman Plans to Retire
EBay Inc. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is preparing to retire. — In the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more ...
Windows 7 details emerge - look Software + Services
Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners. One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and wh...
The Digg Story Doesn't Sell Anymore
Muhammad Saleem posted an article on Techcrunch.com that goes over 9 different reasons on why the Digg story sells. Muhammad makes a series of points that I agree helped to propel Digg.com to success...
Vista virtualization move opens real doors
Microsoft's decision to allow Home versions of Vista to run inside virtual machines may have far-reaching benefits in the coming years. — The initial market for such virtual Vista machines is likely...
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. — In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America cla...
Reding distances herself from Sarkozy proposal to tax the Net
MUNICH: The European Union telecommunications commissioner, Viviane Reding, distanced herself Monday from a proposal by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to impose a tax on Internet and mobile phone...
Boston gets Comcast's TiVo-powered DVR
NEW YORK — TiVo aims to make life easy for its digital video recorder customers. But its journey to this potentially pivotal week was extraordinarily difficult. — After three years of painstaking w...
GOOGLE DROPS MORE THAN 160 POINTS
That's not something we're used to hearing, but since its peak back in the Fall at nearly 750, Google has dropped to 584 currently, a 166 point drop (it's dropped more in after hours, all the way down...
Nokia unveils two handsets that offer a range of useful features and colours aimed at consumers in emerging markets
Nokia Sharing Survey reveals mobile phone sharing on the rise — Espoo, Finland - Today, Nokia unveiled the Nokia 2600 classic and the Nokia 1209, two mobile handsets …
Apple store down: pink iPod nano and Canadian iPhone rumors swirl
Yup, it's down again... on a Tuesday... just hours before they announce their quarterly financials. We've been hearing about new pink iPod nanos all morning which have apparently been shipped to big ...
Airwaves, Web Power at Auction
WASHINGTON — The auction for rights to a highly valuable swath of the nation's airwaves will begin Thursday and is expected to include multibillion-dollar bids from the nation's two biggest wireless p...
The $20 iPod touch upgrade: really for legal reasons or no?
So the rising discontent with Apple's new habit of selective feature enabling got us thinking — while we're not experts on the subject, the generally accepted reasoning for the $20 iPod touch upgrade ...
Latest iPhone firmware unlocked
More jailbreaks than a spaghetti western — The latest version of the firmware for Apple's iPhone has fallen to hackers less than a week after its release....
Shooting yourself in the foot: Time Warner's usage caps
Last week, we learned from a leaked memo that Time Warner Cable is preparing to roll out usage-based broadband service tiers to new customers in Beaumont, TX. The company has since confirmed its plan...
Burst Online Insights
Current Research You Can Use Consumers Shout “I Want My Online Video" — Video content — once reserved to restricted distribution and corporate scheduling — is now readily available on demand at your...
Life after Google, with millions
What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams? — That's the multimillion-doll...
MacBook Air Unboxed, Compared to Sony VAIO
Here you have the first MacBook Air unboxing: iPhone-styled tiny packaging, minimalist and all in smooth black. Not only that, but they were allowed to compare it to another thin laptop, a Sony VAIO ...
RIM Showcases BlackBerry Platform Enhancements at Lotusphere 2008
Orlando, FL, Lotusphere 2008, Booth 516 - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced a series of updates for its market-leading BlackBerry® platform that include enhanced messag...
Piper Jaffray lowers iPod estimates ahead of earnings call
Being a stock analyst is apparently a bit like being a weather forecaster, since no one really cares if you're a bit off. Such is the case with Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who has released a number...
Laid-Back Layoffs at Yahoo?
There have been a plethora of reports over the last week about what is happening at Yahoo with relation to layoffs. — As regular readers of BoomTown know, cutting staff is one thing we have suggeste...
Netvibes gets unnecessary social features
My favorite start page, Netvibes, is getting an interesting upgrade. The new “Ginger” version gets social features for sharing your start-page widgets and layouts, as well as a status feed reminiscen...