Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy
Put your ears to the ground, my friends, for the Beast of Redmond may be stirring. I've heard that Microsoft has begun briefing its large enterprise clients on an expansive and detailed strategy for ...
Google CEO Schmidt practices the art of stonewalling
It's been a busy week in the tech world, but the newsroom highlight of the week had more to do with what was not said. Our own Elinor Mills was dispatched on short notice from San Francisco to Orland...
Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words
NEW DELHI — The latest bane of office productivity is Scrabulous, a virtual knockoff of the Scrabble board game, with over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users. — Fans of ...
newsfire... the news starts here!
Today's a big day for NewsFire. After much internal debate, I've made the decision that as of today, NewsFire is totally free. No feature restrictions, no ads, no cut-down ‘lite’ version... this is ...
So How is Wordpress Going to Make Money, Matt?
It's difficult not to like Wordpress (especially if you're a blogger!) but after its parent, Automattic, raised $29.5-million earlier this year, there was a fair bit of head-scratching out why it need...
More Americans turning to Web for news
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey. — While ...
Innovation comes cheap, says Google engineer Kevin Marks
MIAMI—When the Future of Web Apps conference wound down Friday night, a few things were clear, not the least of which is the fact that open standards are a big deal. — Google engineer Kevin Marks ga...
Why I'm Fed Up with TED
Maybe it's sour grapes because I wasn't invited, but I'm irked by the conference's smugness and the nearly unqualified show of support from Silicon Valley — Last December I had the privilege of atte...
Twitter Details SXSW Traffic Preparation Measures
We've written about Twitter and their server/capacity issues since day 1. This week we saw downtime which could be related to heavy usage at the future of web apps conference. Next week is Twitter's...
The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing
India is riding high on outsourcing. — Information technology and IT-enabled services will employ 4 million people in 2008 and account for 7% of gross domestic product and 33% of India's foreign-exc...
Totspot - It's A Social Network For Babies
Ok, it's a bit ridiculous that social networks for every conceivable market demographic exist. But I'm guessing, based on the success of Maya's Mom (acquired in August 2007 by BabyCenter) and other s...
Judge Reverses His Order Disabling Web Site
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday withdrew his earlier order disabling a Web site that allows the anonymous posting of documents to discourage unethical behavior in governments and corporation...
Google to ComScore: You owe us $15-billion
Earlier this week, comScore released a report looking at Google's click-through rates for January, which showed a precipitous decline — and that in turn caused a similar precipitous decline in the com...
First Look: New Dungeons & Dragons Stats Leak to Web
The Dungeons & Dragons Experience is going strong out in Arlington, Virginia, and delicious material is being leaked onto the web at a steady pace. — Wizards of the Coast, the current custodians of ...
iPhone jailbreak tools updated to open firmware 1.1.4
The latest version of iPhone activation, jailbreaking and unlocking tool, ZiPhone, has been released. The tool promises full access to Apple's handset in under five minutes. — The update, which tak...
2008, the Year the Mobile Market Gets Touch-y
Of all the technology subsectors out there right now, the one with the most promise is the mobile platform. This is true for many reasons, notably that: — Your mobile phone is always on your person,...
Microsoft's Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails
Bill Gates seemed to draw on personal experience a few years ago when he pointed out one of the biggest risks of modern communications. — “Today, if you e-mail things around, it's very typical for t...
Media's Rising Digital Acuity Puts Agencies at Risk
The following is also my column in next week's issue of Advertising Age... It wasn't the most talked about session at the IAB Annual Meeting this week in Phoenix, but it should have been. — In a se...