Scoble Sells Out
Robert Scoble, who has long been proud of the fact that his popular blog remains free of advertisements or sponsorships, will soon put ads on his site, he told me yesterday. — The change comes as pa...
An Open Letter to the Twitter Guys
To: Evan Williams & Biz Stone — I am a huge fan. You are two good guys. Twitter is the most addictive thing I've experienced since I quit smoking in 1987, and it's so much better for my health. I...
The case of the 1.4 million missing iPhones
The talk among Apple (AAPL) watchers today is Toni Sacconaghi's dogged pursuit of the 4 million iPhones Steve Jobs claimed to have sold as of Jan. 15, the date of his Macworld keynote speech. — AT&T...
MacBook Air review
It fits in a manila folder, you can slide it under a door, and if you threw it hard enough you could probably chop someone in half with the thing. It's the thinnest, and if we may say so, the sexiest...
Adding insult to injury: USB 3G modems won't fit in the MacBook Air
Ouch, we just tested and confirmed that one of the smallest (and thus likeliest to fit) USB EV-DO modems around, the Sprint / Novatel U727, won't even come close to fitting in the cramped, foldaway US...
Would You Pay $1 For A Feed?
Before you read this article, I'd ask that you ignore how things are today, I want you to free your mind of the current model so you can fully absorb what I am going to suggest. With that said, here ...
Scrabulous and the New Social Operating System: How Facebook Gave Birth to an Industry
Most industries do not begin on a single day, but it's easy to see Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's presentation on May 24, 2007, as the starting gun in an entrepreneurial race that some have dubbed “th...
Google Reader Shows the Published Date
Besides a new favicon and a confirmation dialog displayed when you mark all the posts as read, Google Reader now shows the published date of a post in a tooltip. Next to the snippet, Google Reader di...
OLPC angering donors: “Give 1 Get 1... some day... probably”
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative launched the Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) program in November, which allowed individuals in North America to obtain an OLPC XO laptop by making a donation of $399.
Smartphones Patented... Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute After Patent Issued
This past Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent on “a mobile entertainment and communication device." Reading the patent, you realize it describes the quite common smartphone.
Toshiba Sez NPD Blu-ray Victory Numbers May Be Fluke
After an NPD report showed Blu-ray had 93% of the market for that week, the Blu-ray coalition had good cause to do (or keep doing) the victory dance. But Toshiba's teary-eyed rebuttal makes sense, so...
Are domain names recession-proof?
By Paul Sloan — Global markets are in a state of panic. Credit markets are all but closed. And recession fears are everywhere. But at the conference I attended in Hollywood this week, called Doma...
DIGITAL DREAMERS
EISNER AND COOK LOOKING TO MAKE MAGIC — Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner is helping propel the book-publishing industry into the digital age. — In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Eisner's Inter...
Spectrum auction starts, draws over $2.7 billion in first-day bids
Auction 73, the long-awaited 700MHz spectrum sell-off, got underway yesterday as the Federal Communications Commission conducted two rounds of bidding by the 214 qualified bidders. Action was brisk, ...
Oops, sorry - 14,000 e-mail accounts get deleted
Looks like Charter, a national cable and high-speed internet provider, decided to include more than just inactive accounts in its routine email account deletion. Although arguably not as bad as over-...
Making changes
At Google, we're encouraged to move to different groups and learn new skills. I recently transitioned to the Maps team — specifically, to the group that empowers local experts like you to improve you...
The lucky 200
Behind a tightly guarded barbed-wire fence, Google's new $600-million data-center complex in Lenoir, North Carolina, is rapidly taking shape, reports the Charlotte Observer: … The company, stung by cr...
Wireless Auction Opens with $2.4 Billion in Top Bids
p strong With companies like AT T Verizon and Google in the mix the five separate blocks of spectrum are expected to eventually garner 1 billion. strong p ... Software Development at Shopping.com! F...