AT&T's 700 MHz Strategy: LTE
The open access restrictions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission on portions of the recently auctioned 700 MHz spectrum were among the main reasons AT&T chose not to bid for that spectru...
Microsoft, Yahoo Hold Meetings
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. senior executives met this week to discuss Microsoft's proposal to acquire the Internet company but failed to resolve any of their differences, according to people famil...
“Free” is Killing Us—Blame The VCs
Blame The VCs — I believe it should be possible to start a small business and to have a small number of profitable customers, and to earn a living. From there, it should be possible to work hard, an...
21st (and Real) Reason Why Seesmic Bought Twhirl
Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur outlines 20 reasons why his company bought Twhirl, an Adobe AIR-based Twitter client that is preferred by the self-obsessed net-set (including yours truly). Some see it a...
Apple iPhone Users Do All but Talk
SAN FRANCISCO - Users of Apple's iPhone are using the device to do everything but talk on the phone, according to a new study, transforming the product into a mobile entertainment platform rather than...
Gates: Windows 7 may come ‘in the next year’
MIAMI—Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated b...
Why e-book readers don't stand a chance
Although some people see a reason to buy a device just to read a book, I don't. Some have said that Amazon's Kindle is the savior of the e-book market. I don't believe it. Others say that e-book re...
Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business
Having ceded the file based music opportunity (mp3s and drm'd file formats) to Apple, the recorded labels are now getting hip to the much bigger opportunity, streaming music. — Yes, it's true that l...
Silverlight Roadmap questions
Silverlight is about 7 month old kid but it is already making such a big buzz. One of my colleague Rahul did excellent job in terms of putting up a FAQ regarding the roadmap — 1. When exactly...
Craigslist to fan blog: Give us your domain, now
You don't mess with Craigslist, apparently. — A fan-run blog called Craigslist Blog has been served a takedown notice from the massive classifieds site, according to a post from blogger Tim White on...
Microsoft Unveils Web Series Slate
Microsoft unveiled an ambitious slate of original programming created for its multiple Web platforms, including the MSN portal, MSNBC.com and Xbox Live — Microsoft sent a direct message to the ad bu...
Web analytics company Coremetrics raises $60M
Coremetrics, one of many analytics companies trying to help website owners understand and market to their visitors, has raised $60 million in a fifth round of financing. — Back in 2006, we said ther...
Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service
Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press ...
20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl
As TechCrunch just announced, Seesmic just acquired Twhirl. And here are 20 ways it will benefit the Seesmic community —Staying in touch with your friends using microblogging is much easier using a ...
Microsoft evaluating Yahoo offer: source
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is evaluating its offer for Yahoo Inc in light of worsening market conditions, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. — Microsoft has been repeate...
Huge Microsoft patent loss is a partial win
A federal jury in San Diego this afternoon awarded $367.4 million to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute with Microsoft. It ranks among the biggest patent verdicts in U.S. history, but it could have b...
Blogonomics: Valleywag Pay Slashed
Jordan Golson can't be happy: Nick Denton has cut the amount of money he gets per thousand pageviews to $6.50 from $9.75. That's a 33% pay cut, on a per-pageview basis. What about on an absolute bas...
Google Talk, Labs Edition
There's a new flavor of Google Talk: the Labs edition, a desktop client that looks very similar to the Google Talk gadget and has most of its features. The application doesn't support voice chat or f...
A SaaSy SAP vs. Salesforce debate: Is Benioff overestimating his platform?
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner dueled at the Churchill Club in a debate about the future of software and the generation gap couldn't be larger. — Benioff brought the...
Breaking the Techmeme Habit
Techmeme is a great place to stay up-to-date with the current tech news in the blogosphere, showing the most popular and current news items of the day. The site also offers a Leaderboard section whic...
Mobile Phone Industry Takes Aim at the iPhone
LAS VEGAS — Last year, the wireless industry obsessed over the iPhone. This year, the industry is buzzing about how to beat it. — Touch screens, the mobile Internet and devices packed with multimed...
The Vista license “loophole” that isn't
Software licensing is often hard to understand. But that's no excuse for so-called Windows experts to deliberately publish sensational stories that turn the facts upside-down. — I'm talking about t...
GTA IV edited for Australia
Rockstar has produced an edited version of Grand Theft Auto IV for Australia in order to obtain an MA15+ rating. — The Office of Film and Literature Classification awarded the game an MA15+ rating o...
Microsoft and Yahoo meet again, then walk away
Yahoo and Microsoft executives have reached an impasse. Executives from both sides met this week near Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., but failed to reach an agreement, according to a Wall ...
U.S. reveals plans to hit back at cyberthreats
The U.S. Air Force Cyber Command is developing capabilities to inflict denial of service, confidential data loss, data manipulation, and system integrity loss on its adversaries, and to combine these ...
Insecure Content Ownership
Taking ownership of someone else's content is always a tricky deal. Nate McFeters and I spoke about some of the issues related to taking “ownership” of someone else's content last year at Defcon, but...