Users' love affair with iPhone stumps Mobile World panel
BARCELONA, Spain — A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best recent advance in the mobile telecommunications us...
Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum
Two little words — “social networking” — have become a giant buzzphrase over the past couple of years, what with the worldwide march of Facebook and headline-ready stories about Web-assisted suicides....
Crash: Amazon's S3 utility goes down
There are reports that Amazon's Simple Storage Service - called S3 - suffered a “massive” outage this morning, beginning at about 7:30 am eastern time. At 9:03, an Amazon official posted a note in th...
Lawsuit claims Google stole idea for Sky layer in Earth
A former Google contractor is suing the company for allegedly stealing from him the idea for the Sky layer in Google Earth. — The lawsuit filed this week in federal district court in Atlanta seeks p...
Building the Perfect Laptop
The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops — “Phyllis! Get me one of those interoffice mail envelopes!” — It was just after lunchtime on Jan. 1...
4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet
Four large newspaper companies are joining forces to sell advertisements on the Internet, hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money. — Eac...
Welcome to the All-New Yahoo! Video
Hey Yahoo! Video viewers and creators (and those that do both), — Notice anything different about Yahoo! Video? As you can tell we've really changed things around here. And it's much more than a f...
BOARD BUCKS YANG
YAHOO! DEAL CONCERN — While Yahoo! chief Jerry Yang desperately seeks an alternative to Microsoft's $44.6 billion hostile takeover, an independent group of Yahoo!'s board members are taking the lead...
What's Microsoft Offering Open Source On February 27?
First Scoble writes about something so amazing from Microsoft it makes him cry and will be world changing. Then Long Zheng spots the above page via an email pitch linking to opensourcehero that redir...
Best Buy runs dry of 15-inch MacBook Pro
Retailer Best Buy is no longer stocking any 15-inch MacBook Pro online, according to reader reports. The mid-range 2.4GHz model is listed as “sold out” and therefore unavailable; the base 2.2GHz vers...
GeForce 8 To Get Software PhysX Engine
NVIDIA's purchase of AGEIA leads to a PhysX-on-CUDA port — With the announcement earlier this month of NVIDIA's acquisition of AGEIA, rumours began to fly immediately surrounding the future of dedic...
On Leaving Yahoo...
Yes, it's true. I've left Yahoo. — It was somewhat overwhelming sifting through the barrage of reactions over the last 48 hours: “Thanks for all you've done”, “How could you?!”, “Congrats!”, etc. ...