Spectrum Auction: C Block Hits Reserve Price
A bid of $4.7 billion this morning for the most valuable group of wireless licenses in the Federal Communications Commission auction for 700Mhz spectrum pushed the price over the minimum price the gov...
Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2007 Results
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. — “We're very pleased with our perfo...
Google: Social Networking Inventory Not Monetizing As Well As Expected; Trouble At MySpace?
Speaking on the company's post-earnings conference call, Google (GOOG) CFO George Reyes said the company has found that “social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected,” …
Taking Twitter Seriously
Twitter can be easily dismissed as IM-Lite or a tool for people with short attention spans but, interestingly enough, it is also starting to gain traction as a serious communications tool for people t...
Twitter and Joyent: Update
By David Young 31 January 08 — Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday's posts here and here regarding the two companies wo...
Chatty Zuckerberg Tells All About Facebook Finances
Want to know about how privately held Facebook is doing from a financial point of view? — Well, just ask Mark Zuckerberg! — This afternoon, at an all-hands meeting held in a Palo Alto, Ca. theater...
Amazon.com to Acquire Audible.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBL). — Audible.com is the leading online provider of premium digital spoken word au...
Another Day, Another Twitter Outage
Just after the guys at Twitter posted a glowing review of their host on the Twitter blog, the Republican Debate took its toll on everybody's favorite [waste of time ]communication tool and took it off...
Twitter Down For the Debates; Twitter Forces My Hand
In what is becoming an altogether too common occurance lately, Twitter is down, this time due to the Republican Primary debate on this evening. Twitter has been going down more and more frequently in...
Faulty cable blacks out internet for millions
Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections. — The outage, which is being blamed o...
Motorola to Explore Structural and Strategic Realignment of its Businesses to Enhance Shareholder Value
Company will evaluate alternatives to accelerate the ability of its Mobile Device Business to recapture growth and profitability in an expanding global market
Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million.
Maven Networks For $150 Million. — We've gotten word that Yahoo will make an acquisition announcement of a video startup today or tomorrow. At first we thought the target might be Metacafe, which wa...
Motorola Mulls Sale or Spinoff
Motorola Inc., facing pressure from activist shareholder Carl Icahn, said it may spin off or sell its flagship handset division. — The decision is a stunning setback for an American technology icon ...
Google's Marissa Mayer: Social search is the future
At an event in August, Marissa Mayer, Google's leading VP in search, said social search hasn't shown much promise, but if it does, Google would be in a good position to incorporate it. I wrote about ...
Gartner: Apple To Double U.S., Europe PC Share By 2011
Apple (AAPL) will double its share of the U.S. and Western European PC market share by 2011, the research firm Gartner said today. “Apple's gains in computer market share reflect as much on the failu...
The Pirate Bay: Is it illegal to point?
In one of the least-surprising legal moves in recent memory, Swedish authorities have laid charges against The Pirate Bay, one of the largest trackers of BitTorrent downloads in the world (it recently...
PC makers to adopt chips used in MacBook Air
Processors specially developed by Intel for Apple's new MacBook Air laptop will soon be used by other PC vendors in systems, possibly creating competition for what Apple calls the world's lightest and...
‘Facebook fatigue’ kicks in as people tire of social networks
Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad. — Whisper it, but numbers from web analytics outfit comScore have confirmed what the cha...
Good news for TiVo: court upholds patent claims against Echostar
The TiVo vs. EchoStar case got another little push towards finally ending today, as the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that EchoStar had indeed infringed part of TiVo's “time warp” pat...
Rating Burner Debuts With RSS Feed Ranking, Growth Stats
There's precious little that bloggers like to do more than measure their own statistics, and gauge how they're doing, relative to the rest of the blogging community. And there's similarly precious li...
Pirate Bay Admins Charged with Assisting Copyright Infringement
“The operation of The Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues. In that way it commercially exploits copyright-protected work and performances,” said prosecutor Hakan Roswall in a statemen...
Google, Facebook Battle For Computer Science Grads. Salaries Soar.
Google and Facebook are fighting hard to hire this years crop of computer science graduates, we've heard, and ground zero is Stanford. Most of the class of 2008 already have job offers even though gr...
Google gets its way with new wireless network
Somewhere in the Googleplex, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are celebrating right about now. — That's because the Internet search giant Thursday scored its first big win in the mobile busi...
Cell phone directory rings alarm bells
An online directory that claims to provide 90 million mobile telephone numbers is raising concerns among cell phone users and privacy advocates about unwanted callers who rack up the minutes on their ...
Sigma announces DP1 to be available spring 2008
Pre-PMA 2008: Sigma has announced the imminent availability of the greatly anticipated DP1 digital camera. The DP1 has a sensor around the size of those found in most DLSRs - although it is greatly d...
Microsoft Smells Blood in Yahoo Water (MSFT/YHOO)
If Yahoo won't sell out to you, then just hire their people—or so Microsoft seems to be thinking. Below, a note received by a promising job candidate: — Hi [Talented Yahoo Employee], — I am a mem...
Tipped over: social influence “tipping point” theory debunked
Clive Thompson has been getting some well-deserved attention for his recent Fast Company piece, in which Columbia University sociologist Duncan Watts explodes the hierarchical theory of social influen...
Auction 73 Update: A Crucial Day for Google
It's crunch time in the government's auction of wireless airwaves, and what goes down Jan. 31 could make-or-break chances for the creation of a new nationwide mobile-phone network in the U.S. — The ...
MediaTek disappoints with fourth quarter results
MediaTek Inc (Ápµo¬ì), the nation's top handset chip designer, said yesterday its fourth quarter net income dropped 46.7 percent quarter-on-quarter to NT$6.31 billion. The figure was down by 5.6 perc...
Amazon.com buys Audible; March into digital content distribution continues
Amazon.com's march into digital distribution of content continues-this time with plans to acquire Audible for $300 million. — In a statement on Thursday, Amazon said it will acquire Audible …
Pirate Bay hit with legal action
Four men who run one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in Sweden. — The Pirate Bay's servers do not store copyrighted mater...
How resilient are the Internet pipes?
The majority of Internet and international telephone traffic travels goes under the sea. When two submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were cut (most likely by ship anchors) on Wednesday, Intern...
Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service
Today, Web-based IM and chat room provider Meebo is releasing full-fledged APIs for its Meebo Rooms that will allow Websites to embed chat functionality in an automated fashion. Currently, Meebo Room...
In memory of chicagocrime.org
It's with mixed feelings that I announce the end of one of my projects, chicagocrime.org. This site has been serving Chicago residents since May 2005. I hope you'll indulge me in a brief retrospecti...
The internet rewards the lazy and punishes the intrepid
As GPS transceivers become common accessories in cars, the benefits have been manifold. Millions of us have been relieved of the nuisance of getting lost or, even worse, the shame of having to ask a ...
Cell phone directory rings alarm bells
An online directory that claims to provide 90 million mobile telephone numbers is raising concerns among cell phone users and privacy advocates about unwanted callers who rack up the minutes on their ...
MacBook Air's custom-built CPU going PC?
That special Intel processor found in the MacBook Air could be getting a lot less special. PC Advisor, citing “a source familiar with Intel's plans,” claims that a pair of PC makers will use the MBA ...
Even SSL Gmail can get sidejacked
When Robert Graham demonstrated how Web 2.0 wasn't safe at last year's Blackhat, it was thought that at least the SSL mode (HTTPS) of Google Gmail would be spared from sidejacking. That presumption n...