VMware Reports Fourth-Quarter and Fiscal Year 2007 Results
Virtualization Leader Grew Fourth Quarter Revenues 80% to $412 Million; Increased 2007 Revenues to $1.33 Billion — PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW - News)...
How Kevin Martin Got Over A Million People To Look At A Woman's Naked Buttocks
from the indecent? dept — Since taking over the FCC, Kevin Martin has supposedly been against regulations — except in two areas: the cable industry and “indecency." He's been a strong proponent of...
11 Power Tips for Gmail
Wow, I can't believe how many people commented on my late-Friday night post about desired features for Gmail. If you want to suggest something for Gmail, that thread is the better place to do it. Bu...
Nokia's Trolltech Grab Hurts Rivals
The software acquisition bolsters Nokia's perch in the mobile device arena, could further dismantle Motorola, and puts pressure on Google — At first glance, Nokia's (NOK) Jan. 28 purchase of a small...
Morning Coffee: why do we assume we only get one homepage?
Why do we assume we only get one homepage? For those willing to explore the potential of their browser, we'd like to show you a little out-of-the-box thinking in the form of Morning Coffee. — Thoug...
U2 manager urges ISPs to help fight web piracy
The music industry should shift the focus of its battle with internet piracy towards the technological industries which have “built multibillion dollar industries on the back of our content without pa...
SproutBuilder: You've Got to See This Drag and Drop Widget Maker
SproutBuilder is going to explode the world of widgets on the web. This is far and away my favorite product I've seen at DEMO, not just this year but ever in the three years I've attended.
O2 improves package for iPhone users
Mobile network O2 has overhauled the cost of using Apple's iPhone handset just two months after it went on sale in the UK. — The mobile network today announced that iPhone owners who are currently p...
Windows 7 = Vista Release 2
All the kerfuffle over Windows 7 - leaked memos, shaky handheld video clips of leaked builds, equally shaky tentative release schedules - is amusing. I don't have any inside information to offer, onl...
Google's Newspaper Ads: Big Hopes For Small Barcodes (GOOG)
Google's efforts to get into the newspaper ad business have yet to yield much. One tool it hopes will eventually change that: Small, square barcodes, like the one at the right, at the bottom of print...
HTC share of Windows Mobile smartphone segment declining
High Tech Computer (HTC) has lost the title as the global top ranking vendor of Windows Mobile-based smartphones (excluding touch-screen models), with its share of the segment falling to below 30% cur...
Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat?
Last week we reported on rumors that Rapidshare had, or was about to be, shut down, rumors that now look likely to resurface. The company, one of the world's largest ‘one-click’ file hosting services...
After labels, Qtrax must satisfy Prince, Van Morrison
Should troubled file-sharing site Qtrax, eventually strike licensing deals with the major music companies, it still may face a significant hurdle. — Web Sheriff, a company representing music acts su...
The True Cost of SMS Messages
I just found out that AT&T (A-fee&fee?) is raising their text message pricing. When I first signed up for AT&T 6 or so years ago it cost 10 cents to send an SMS message, and it was free to receive th...
Apple Prohibits iTunes Movie Rentals on Fifth-Generation and Older iPods
Apple's downloadable videos have played on iPods since the company debuted iTunes movie sales in 2006. But iTunes' new movie rentals won't work on iPods released before September 2007.
Motorola may exit its handset business: analyst
LONDON (MarketWatch) — There is a possibility that Motorola, Inc. (MOT:, , ) may exit the handset business and concentrate on becoming an enterprise and government company, Richard Windsor, an analyst...
And you thought Google Street View was creepy before
In this video, Google Street View gets even more invasive. Call it improving geolocated search. Boo!
Copyright law should distinguish between commercial and cultural uses
In theory, there's just one set of copyright rules and they apply to everyone, from Sony Pictures to your neighbour's eight-year-old who wants to photocopy his Spider-Man comics and sell them to the o...
How many users does Digg have?
According to my calculations: around 2.7m registered users. — I obtained this number by finding random Digg users and extracting their user id. The user id is in a hidden HTML form input field on e...
Apple Readies MacBook Air Add-Ons
Apple is taking orders for an optical drive and an Ethernet adapter that plug into the MacBook Air's USB port. — Recommend this story? — With the ultra-thin MacBook Air reaching stores soon, Apple...