Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod touch Models
Apple® today added new models of the iPhone™ and iPod® touch which have double the memory, doubling the amount of music, photos and videos that customers can carry with them wherever they go. The rev...
Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization?
On the UK's Guardian newspaper site today, writer Jemina Kiss suggested that Web 3.0 will be about recommendation. “If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction, web 3.0 must be about recommendation...
Music industry sues Baidu
Three multinational record companies have filed copyright infringement claims in a Beijing court against China's most popular internet search engine, Baidu.com Inc. — Universal Music Ltd, Warner Mus...
Opera unleashes innovative technology in latest mobile Web browser — Opera Mobile 9.5
Opera Mobile 9.5 — Faster speed, new interface and Opera Widgets bring users closer to a full desktop experience — Exclusive preview at Mobile World Congress 2008 (February 11-14, Barcelona)
Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger: a contrarian view
This post is not about the potential Microsoft/Yahoo merger. — Instead, let's just assume for the moment that Microsoft succeeds in its bid for Yahoo. — What would a Microsoft/Yahoo merger mean fo...
Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D’
A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create a new programming language, code-named “D,” which will be at the heart of the Microsoft's push toward more intuitive software modeling.
Yahoo may align with Google against Microsoft's takeover proposal
On Friday, we reported that Microsoft was attempting to acquire Yahoo, offering the company $44.6 billion for the takeover. Google isn't taking the new threat lightly, so Google's CEO Eric Schmidt ca...
Parsing the federal budget: The tech highlights
President Bush unveiled his $3.1 trillion-yes trillion-fiscal 2009 budget and there are a lot of technology highlights to go around. — Whether this budget ever gets approved anywhere near its curren...
My online life: no hobbies, no opinions, no friends, no fun
I knew my online life had to change when my boss decided that he would join Facebook. As the resident young person in an office of thirty and forty-somethings I was tasked with setting up his online ...
MySpace Developer Platform Goes Live (Sorta)
MySpace is holding an event in San Francisco tomorrow with 250 application developers to ceremonially launch its application platform...for developers only, that is. — Over the next month, developer...
Flickr's Version Of A Mass Protest
Some users aren't happy at the prospect of a Microsoft takeover of Flickr's parent company, Yahoo. To protest, they do what Flickr users do - upload images. — In this case, the images are all anti-...
Did Google get hosed on its MySpace search deal?
Fox Interactive gets 27 percent of its revenue from an ad deal between Google and MySpace forged in August 2006. Meanwhile, Google executives complain about how hard it is to monetize social networki...
MS intros 6000/7000 wireless laser mice...
MIT, TI Debut Energy-Efficient Microchip
Researchers say proof-of-concept chip is 10 times more efficient than chips in current cell phones. — Recommend this story? — Cell phones running low on battery power could be a thing of the past ...
Recording Industry steps up campaign against internet piracy in China
New legal proceedings brought against Baidu — Copyright infringement actions against Sohu and its associate company Sogou — Yahoo China in breach of copyright violation judgment
Pirating the 2008 Oscars (Now with 6 Years of Data)
Every year, the Academy tries to stop Oscar films from leaking online. And every year, they leak all the same. I've been tracking Oscar piracy since 2004, but I've decided to up the ante, releasing ...
Driver problems still haunting Vista
When Steve Sinchak's new Intel network card became “really slow” after upgrading his Windows Vista PC with a pre-release version of Service Pack 1, he tried uninstalling its software driver and replac...
Ruptures call safety of Internet cables into question
NEW DELHI: Four undersea communication cables have been cut in the past week, raising questions about the safety of the oceanic network that handles the bulk of the world's Internet and telephone traf...
Ad Revenue From Social Sites Disappoints
Social networking and video-sharing sites are yielding ad revenue slower than some Internet companies hoped.
Google, Yahoo Going After Outlook
Google and Yahoo are rolling out Web software on steroids to compete with Outlook, another clue why Microsoft is shelling out $45 billion and going into debt for Yahoo. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - ...