YouTube videos in Google Maps
I'm excited to report the Google Maps team launched a new feature that showcases embedded YouTube videos in Maps. Geotagged YouTube videos have been available in Google Earth since last year, and we ...
AOL Buys Sphere's Blog Content Engine
Tomorrow AOL will announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based Sphere, a blog content engine that launched in 2006. The price is not being disclosed, but sources are suggesting it's in the $25 mil...
Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws
Psystar, a Miami-based OEM which is now offering OS X on generic PC hardware, claims that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violates U.S. monopoly laws. Whoa, bold claim there. Better have some de...
Rocker Peter Gabriel offers Filter to cut through online clutter
Internet users are awash in information every time they search for new music videos or books online, says rocker Peter Gabriel. — One of the founders of the rock group Genesis and the creator of the...
Tap into experiences with the Nokia 6212 classic
NFC-enabled handset offers new and easy ways to access and share content — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today introduced the Nokia 6212 classic featuring integrated Near Field Communication (NFC). The 3G...
Tesla Motors Files Suit Against Competitor Over Design Ideas
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley maker of electric sports cars, filed suit in San Mateo County Court on Monday against a competing company and two of its employees, saying they stole s...
Twitter Testing Advertising In Twitter Streams
Twitter was down tonight, nothing really unusual for the San Francisco based startup (to be fair though downtime has improved since they dumped Joyent), but what was different is some reports of users...
Infosys revenues to reach $5 billion this year
Infosys Technologies said Tuesday that it expected its revenue to grow by 19 to 21 percent to $5 billion in its current fiscal year, ending March 31, 2008. — Despite concerns about a slowdown in the...
Google's Don't Be Evil Not “Ordained Motto” Says Marissa Mayer
Google's “Don't Be Evil” motto, first uttered by Googler Paul Buchheit (now founder of FriendFeed) in 2001, has long been the pillar of their self-imposed code of conduct. It was amended somewhat in ...
Farecast sold in $75 million deal
Farecast has been sold in a deal that values the online travel search startup at more than $75 million, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. — The buyer was not known, and Farecast...
YouTube videos in Google Maps
I'm excited to report the Google Maps team launched a new feature that showcases embedded YouTube videos in Maps. Geotagged YouTube videos have been available in Google Earth since last year, and we ...
Patent holders take 4G pledge of allegiance
Defeat 99.7% of all Spam! — The owners of the patents underpinning LTE, the fourth generation mobile technology, have agreed to only charge each other “reasonable” licence fees. — The companies in...
Facebook News Feed Reports on You Behind Your Back
The Facebook News Feed is a strange beast. Upon its release, it was met with an extremely negative reception as members protested their new ‘auto-stalker’, but it has slowly gained acceptance as user...
Who's Louis Gray?
At a time when blogging is evolving and the high-tech landscape is being dominated by blog publishers such as TechCrunch, GigaOm and Mashable as well as blogs operated by mainstream media, it is good ...
Amazon's MP3s not affecting iTunes, NPD says
Amazon.com's MP3 service is growing but not at the expense of Apple's iTunes, according to a report issued Tuesday by market researcher NPD Group. — About 10 percent of the people who shopped at Ama...
fring for your iPhone - it's a fringing world first!
OK. So if you're one of the first lucky *#@$%&s to get your hands on an iPhone, you just got even luckier. We've just made a special pre-release R&D version of fring for your iPhone - a mobile VoIP ...
Your Analytics Data Is Very Wrong
I've written about this in the past so I expect this is nothing new for you, my dear reader. The title summarizes everything I am going to say. — My buddy Fred Wilson had a comScore chart about Del...
IndexTools (Yahoo!) Web Analytics goes FREE!
Hi there, a bit of news for you who follow the Yahoo! IndexTools integration steps. But first, THANK YOU very much for all the positive feedback I received in blog comments, separate blog posts, emai...
Look Ma, I'm on CIA.gov
In an age where JavaScript is so ubiquitous that some websites won't even load if you don't enable in your browser, cross-site scripting hacks are everywhere - letting malicious or merely mischievous ...