Thank you Yossi Vardi
Yossi Vardi has made my time here in Davos simply incredible. I am in deeply in his debt for what he's personally done for me. The Shabbat dinner he took me to last night was simply incredible. I f...
Facebook Extends Platform to the Web
I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites. Rather than buildi...
The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now h...
Federal Court Doesn't Quite Recognize Copyright in C&D Letter
Techdirt has a post on a rather triumphal press release put out by a law firm claiming that “[t]he US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand let...
Deutsche Telekom hits the 70,000 iPhone mark in just eleven weeks
It's been eleven weeks since the iPhone invaded Germany, and in that time Deutsche Telekom has sold 70,000 units. That comes out to almost 40 an hour, if they were selling 24/7, which, given German e...
Deutsche Telekom says has sold 70,000 iPhones
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - German telecoms operator Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Saturday it had signed up 70,000 iPhone customers in the 11 weeks since November 9, ...
Freed From the Page, but a Book Nonetheless
PRINTED books provide pleasures no device created by an electrical engineer can match. The sweet smell of a brand-new book. The tactile pleasures of turning a page. The reassuring sight on one's bo...
Are we in a recession?
It's interesting to hear different people's opinions at the World Economic Forum about what the economy is going to do this year. Most people here believe we're in the midst of a recession, which tec...
Warning: Current iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak may prevent official third party apps
You might want to think twice about applying the current iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak “soft-update” (Mac or Windows) that was released (but not solely developed) by “Nate True." We've received word that th...
WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites
A new YCombinator startup called WebMynd launched today. It's a Firefox add-on that records every website you visit and saves a virtual copy on your hard drive. — The service doesn't save just an i...
The Midas List — deconstructed
deconstructed — Each year, Forbes publishes the list of top 100 investors, called the Midas List (see our coverage, and full list). — It is closely watched by venture capitalists eager to see where...
How Last.fm Will Create “Communities Around Content”
Earlier this week we reported that leading online music service Last.fm, owned by CBS, had gotten major labels on board for its new streaming music services. Users will be able to stream full-length ...
Media: Still grasping for a clue
We can all debate the wisdom of the Wall Street Journal maintaining a pay wall (or at least part of one — see my recent post), and even the wisdom of newspapers and media sites having registration wal...
Belt-Tightening, but No Collapse, Is Forecast in Technology Spending
In the consumer economy, the Main Street shopper leads the way. In the corporate economy, big technology buyers like Monte Ford will determine the arc of business spending in the coming months.
Another Brilliant Facebook Move (Really): Opening to Web
Facebook appears to have taken another small but important step toward becoming the operating system for any application or service that wants to tap into the social graph. Specifically, according to...
Security issue in Mac Office 2008 Installer
You may have seen recent reports on the web of a security issue in the installer for Mac Office 2008. The issue is that our installer is incorrectly granting ownership of the files to a particular lo...
Anonymous Hackers Shoot For Scientologists, Hit Dutch School Kids
Dutch schoolchildren may be the first collateral damage of an online war being waged against the Church of Scientology by a motley crew of internet troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous.
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
Intelligence Agencies to Track Intrusions — President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community's role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising num...
Palm to shutter branded retail outlets in cost-cutting move
Palm Inc. will close all but one of its retail stores over the next five weeks, in keeping with its effort to cut costs and focus on its next-generation smartphone platform, according to the company.
Palm punts unlocked Treo 500 smartphone
Palm Europe has released the unlocked version of its compact Treo 500v handset, previously only available on the Vodafone network. — The Treo 500 - available now for £269 - runs Windows Mobile 6 Sta...