New in Google Docs: Insert Videos, Edit CSS
There are so many updates at Google Docs, that you'll need many hours to explore them and start to use them. — You can now access your browser's contextual menu by pressing Shift while right-clickin...
Department of Homeland Security website hacked!
The sophisticated mass infection that's injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and has even infiltrated the website of the Department of Homeland Security. ...
Microsoft's Vista Problem
Microsoft keeps insisting that Windows Vista is a winner, but the questions keep mounting — and Thursday's quarterly report only added to the doubts. — Revenue from the company's so-called client di...
The second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker
So we've got it on authority that the second-gen iPhone is already well into testing, and numerous units are floating around in super secret pockets. A trusted source got a chance to check one out, h...
A Hostile Bid Could Be Over Fast
Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell promised Thursday that the software giant will provide an update on its bid for struggling portal Yahoo! next week. — Translation: Microsoft (nasdaq: ...
Twitter Raising Money: How Much Is It Worth?
Twitter isn't just dealing with its well-documented tech problems (both with the service and its personnel). It's raising a Series C round. So what's the valuation? — Last summer, Twitter raised a...
Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler
I want you to stop what you are doing right now and go try Presdo. It is a deceptively simple online scheduling assistant that is a prime example of what a modern Web app should be. It only shows yo...
Hardy Heron Makes Linux Worth Another Look
If you've flirted with the idea of switching your desktop operating system to Linux but never took the leap, the time is now. This week's release of Hardy Heron, an Ubuntu release that will be suppor...
Fake Steve Jobs lights up Web 2.0 Expo
SAN FRANCISCO—If there's one person in the world of Web 2.0 technology—or tech in general—who hasn't yet been skewered by the infamous blogger Fake Steve Jobs, get ready: He's coming for you. — In a...
AOL Sites Break Traffic Records in March
Programming Channel Redesign and New Launches Produce Six Consecutive Months of Growth; Platform-A Ranked No. 1 Ad Network — New York, NY (April 25, 2008) - AOL's programming sites hit an all-time h...
Nvidia declares the CPU dead
Gutterwatch Fare thee well, Intella, for we did love thee — A MISSIVE from a guy called Roy Taylor dropped into our paws, and we were intrigued by its contents. — Nvidian boy Roy basically declare...
How We Use Twitter for Journalism
How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pi...
Apple to the Core
Apple this week bought a fabless chip company called PA Semiconductor and pundits far and wide are trying to explain the deal with broadly varying ideas, some of which are close but none seem to reall...
Jonathan Schwartz: A top blogger sees end to blogging
SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz rightly gets credit for pioneering the corporate blog as a tool to reach customers, employees, and others. But pretty soon the novelty of his metho...
WordPress founder talks traffic, new features to Web 2.0 crowd
You have to hand it to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg. At his talk at today's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he managed to be the first conference speaker to put up a picture of a LOLcat while actu...
Microsoft Shows Gains, but Also Weaknesses
Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo may have run into some bumps, but its big software business is humming along smoothly. — The company reported quarterly earnings Thursday that slightly surpassed Wall St...
The New Yahoo: Sticky, Viral, And Most Of All, Friendly
Yahoo's CTO Ari Balogh and Chief Architect (Platforms) Neal Sample filled in a few more details today around their new Yahoo Open Strategy (called YOS internally). — Background — Yahoo wants to tu...
Hundreds of Thousands of Microsoft Web Servers Hacked
Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government — have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microso...
New in Google Docs: Insert Videos, Edit CSS
There are so many updates at Google Docs, that you'll need many hours to explore them and start to use them. — You can now access your browser's contextual menu by pressing Shift while right-clickin...
Mexican Embassy: Official Fired After Getting Caught With White House BlackBerries
Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker, a Mexican press attaché was caught on camera pocketing several White House BlackBerries during a recent meeting in New Orleans …
Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables
Over the past six months or so, Asus, Everex, and HP have managed to bring low-cost ultraportable notebooks to market. But dozens of other computer makers have promised to bring out their own mini-no...
Skype Tests Software for Mass-Market Mobile Phones
LUXEMBOURG, April 24, 2008 - Following recent moves to extend Skype™ conversations to a wide variety of new mobile and wireless devices, Skype is taking another major step as it continues to merge its...
Google's ‘Blogger’ under attack by streamlined Anti-CAPTCHA operations for spam
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker™ technology has discovered that spammers, in their recent tactics, have targeted Google's well-known blog publishing system “Blogger” aka “Blogspot” …
Lenovo To Make Windows XP Available Until 2009
Hewlett-Packard will also provide Windows XP to business customers that want to downgrade from Windows Vista after June 30. — In the latest sign that computer makers are bucking Microsoft's decision...
Faster - Why Constant Stress is Part of Our Future
A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a weekend piece entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, which focused on the stressful nature of blogging. Using our friend Marc Orc...
The Open Source Model Is About Organization, Not Who Signs Your Paycheck
Nick Carr points out a report from the Linux Foundation that finds that most contributions to the Linux kernel come from people who work at companies. Nick Carr says this is a sign of a “shift from t...
iPhone Video Recorder version 1.1.6 - Full feature Update
Don't ask what I am doing up so late, but as usual I decided to check my Installer on my iPhone for any late night App updates, I know they usually come late at night. I guess the devs are up late to...
AOL Buys Fantasy Football Site Fleaflicker
AOL has acquired Fantasy Football site Fleaflicker for an undisclosed amount, Mediapost reported. The site will be added to AOL Sports, whose existing fantasy football offerings were described as “mo...
Report: AT&T Mobility to sell $100 femtocells
Carrier inked contract with femto vendor ip.access — According to a report from research and banking firm ThinkPanmure, AT&T Mobility plans to sell up to 7 million femtocells from ip.access Ltd., a ...
XP SP3 performance gains - Nothing to write home about
Those who believed that Windows XP Service Pack 3 would provide the aging OS with a performance boost may well be disappointed. My benchmark tests show that the application of XP SP3 makes negligible...
News Search - now with RSS
You wanted it, and now you have it. We've incorporated RSS feeds into the browse and search results experience. Subscribe and stay up to date with stories from all categories or for specific searche...
Carphone Warehouse says iPhone “out of stock”
Asks publishers to stop promoting offer — It seems that the £100 promo off the Apple iPhone announced earlier in the month from Carphone Warehouse has worked, amd worked a little too well. — Web p...
MyBlogLog hCard & vCard: More Microformats, More Portable Data
Those of you that follow MyBlogLog on Twitter got an early preview of a new feature the MyBlogLog team rolled out today. (To badly paraphrase Ferris Bueller, “If you aren't on Twitter, I highly recom...