What made me cry: Microsoft's World Wide Telescope
Lots of people are asking me questions about what made me cry at Microsoft a few weeks ago. — If I told you “a telescope” you'd make fun of me, right? Tell me I'm lame and that I don't deserve to b...
Apple exec: iPhone “not married” to single-carrier model
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Investment Symposium, Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook stated that the iPhone isn't beholden to the one-carrier strategy used so far, even if it makes the most sens...
Jotspot Returns As Google Sites: Wiki-Style Collaboration
Ever since Google bought the wiki-based online application startup Jotspot in late 2006, people have been wondering if it had disappeared forever inside the bowels of the search giant. Tonight, Googl...
Picnik offers premium image editing features for free
Online image editor Picnik has always offered two tiers of service. Free users could access most of the popular image editing tools, while paid subscribers got a few extra bells and whistles and acce...
Apple planning iPhone SDK event March 6
Apple distributed invitations Wednesday morning for “an iPhone software road map” event next week, which means we're finally going to hear details on the plans for an iPhone software development kit. ...
Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs
The Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read, cutting off access to just about any independent site with the word “blog” in its web address. It's the latest move in a l...
Google Docs Redesign
Parts of Google Docs (Google's office suite including web-based text editor, spreadsheets and presentations) just received a slight interface revamp. As I'm seeing this on two different computers wit...
Yahoo! Loses Mobile Giant Opera to Google; Did Google Just Buy a Mobile Browser?
Starting on the first of next month, the widely popular mobile browser Opera will switch from offering Yahoo! to using Google as its default search engine. While Yahoo! has its own relatively sophist...
Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now
In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured...
Wikileaks gets legal help after domain name deletion
Wikileaks.org, a Web site that specializes in posting leaked documents often provided by whistleblowers, had its domain name yanked by a federal judge in California earlier this month. — Now Wikilea...
Kijiji Talks Smack About Craigslist: “We Will Be No. 1 In the U.S.”
Why can't brothers and sisters just get along? As I noted earlier this month, eBay's free classifieds site Kijiji is coming on strong since its launch in the U.S. last summer. Of course, eBay owns 2...
Time Capsule to ship; new wireless bill; MacBook Pro benchmarks
Apple appears poised to make good on a promise to ship it's new Time Capsule backup appliance by month's end. Meanwhile, a new draft wireless bill threatens to disrupt the bond between Apple and its ...
We're Sorting Through Some Crazy Google/Yahoo Rumors
Google is continuing to try to disrupt Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, and, we've heard, may even be considering a bid to acquire a significant chunk of Yahoo's stock (keep reading though, we're calling th...
Update: EU fines Microsoft another $1.3 billion for antitrust abuse
The European Commission fined Microsoft a massive €899 million ($1.3 billion) for continued failure to honor the 2004 antitrust ruling against it, Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes said Wednes...
Speed Up Windows Vista
The flash and polish of Windows Vista seduced you, but so far the glamorous interface is just sucking the life out of your PC. Fear not, this guide has everything you need to turn Vista into the beau...
Thinking About GOOG This Morning
On Monday, I bought some more GOOG (and some more AAPL). I explained my rationale for both trades in this twitter post. I went into even more detail on the Google purchase in this covestor post. — ...
AOL CEO Randy Falco: Microsoft-Yahoo a Mistake
Happy to Let Them Fight Google on Search and Leave Display Ads to Him — PHOENIX (AdAge.com) — AOL CEO Randy Falco thinks a potential merger between Microsoft and Yahoo to compete with Google is all ...
Opera brings Google search to your pocket
Google is now the default search option in Opera's industry-leading mobile browsers — Opera today made Google™ the default search engine in Opera's mobile Web browsers. Now anyone using Opera Mobil...
Distributed Mass Customization: Is Etsy the Next eBay?
A lot of people scratched their heads when Etsy raised $27 million. What on earth? Handmade goods, that's about as low tech as you can get! — Then Umair Haque, a well respected blogger and strateg...
Apple Says MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Life Has Improved Slightly
UPDATE: We've been trying to understand the new Apple Macbook Pro battery life ratings compared to the old models. It's been hard to quantify generational differences because Apple is now testing usi...
Esther Dyson on The Coming Ad Revolution
Reston: Esther is going to invest in Dopplr, because sociality changes the way that advertising works: … I wrote years ago that in the future, all e-commerce would be socialized. Lools like we are ab...
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Report: Hackers swipe FTP server credentials using SaaS
Finjan said it has uncovered a database with more than 8,700 FTP account credentials-user name, password and server address-that allow hackers to compromise security and deliver malware as a service.
iPhone Haptic Keyboard Prototype debuts
For quite some time, people have been asking for a haptic keyboard on the iPhone — a way to produce tactile feedback when a user taps or hovers over a key. If you've used the Wii, you'll know exactly...
Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million
Yelp, the popular local review site, will soon announce a new $15 million dollar round of financing led by DAG Ventures. The valuation is rumored to be in the $200 million range. Yelp says that they...
Facebook's new face: What does it need to accomplish?
Facebook has previewed a new profile page that cleans up a good amount of clutter on the page by creating tabs for users to put their wall items, personal information and photos. — These improvement...