Microsoft, Yahoo Try to Make Nice
Latest Attempt At Friendly Deal Aims at Price Divide — Talks between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. intensified Friday as the two sides explored the possibility of a last-ditch friendly deal with a ...
The problem with Facebook
This chart says it all. A new study discovers that the vast majority of Facebook apps are an utter waste of time. But oh yeah — Facebook is worth $9 billion, or $15 billion. And Slide is worth half...
Thursday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST)
It's happened to me a few times; I stay up late working on a great post and finish at 1am EST. In a rush of excitement I decide to submit it to reddit or del.icio.us and goto bed fully expecting to s...
Iron Man
There was a game we used to play in the office, years ago, casting a movie of our own lives. What well-known actor or actress would play you? Who would play your friends? The game eventually faded,...
New York's “Amazon Tax” called “unconstitutional” by retailer
Amazon is fighting back against a newly-enacted New York state law that requires the online retailer to collect sales tax for the state of New York even though it has no physical presence there.
Microsoft's PopFly makes it easy to create your own arcade games
Microsoft is announcing today that it has created a easy-to-use Popfly Game Creator, a software tool that makes it easy for anyone to create their own arcade-like video games. — The tool is based on...
Feeling Oppressed at eBay
Vote, sell or sue. — These are the limited options available to shareholders in a publicly traded company when they are unhappy or otherwise in conflict with corporate management or other shareholde...
BlackBerry KickStart: T-Mobile launch and a whole bunch of specs!
You didn't think we'd actually leave you hangin', did you? To follow up on on yesterday's post of the BlackBerry KickStart photos, we've got here a couple more images of the phone with T-Mobile brand...
Larry Highest Paid CEO? Damn Right.
It's not everyday you find yourself defending a guy that everyone else hates. Oh wait. Actually, I tend to do that a lot. I even found myself doing that last night! But most of them, I defend beca...
Larry Page on how to change the world
Breakthrough ideas are around the corner, says the Google co-founder. But most of us are failing to take a chance on them. — (Fortune Magazine) — As president of Google, Larry Page has pushed his p...
Old media needs to wake up, or die
Traditional media companies that refuse to invest in the Internet and withdraw into old business models are destined to fade away, opening the door for entrepreneurs to take advantage of the lack of i...
Google News now available on your iPhone and iPod Touch
As we sat in our offices in Trondheim staring off at the fjord — we're Norwegians, that's what we do — a thought occurred to us: wouldn't it be nice to make Google News accessible to readers on their ...
Confirmed: Facebook Apps Are Useless
Everyone knows that most Facebook apps are time-wasters, at best. But here's statistical proof: A breakdown of the service's 23,160 applications, via Facebook's self-selected categories. — We keep ...
The Mac in the Gray Flannel Suit
More office workers infatuated with iPods and iPhones are demanding Macs. Is business ready? Is Apple? — Istvan Banyai — Soon after Michele Goins became chief information officer at Juniper Netw...
Tech's Top-Paid CEOs
Jerry Yang should take note: The best-paid chief executives among technology companies last year was not Google's Eric Schmidt. — Oracle's (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) Larry Ellison tops our rank...
Participate. Participate. Participate. Repeat.
Some of the most confused buzzwords in Web 2.0 are those of aggregation and lifestreaming. — As evidenced by the many different sites that have debuted offering a single location for differing onlin...
Cheng leaves FT.com for Google job
Ien Cheng, the most senior digital executive at the Financial Times, is leaving the company to take up an “unmissable” role at Google, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal. — Cheng, who has worked for the...
Amazon Sues Over State Law on Collection of Sales Tax
Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York State's new law forcing online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to state residents. — On Friday, Amazon filed a complaint in State Supr...
Xbox 360 Blu-ray console shipping by September?
For all of Microsoft's denial, the Xbox 360 Blu-ray console rumors just will not die. In fact, they are getting more and more specific. The Chinese language Economic Daily News is reporting that Peg...
Adobe opens up Flash on mobiles
Adobe has announced a plan to try to get its Flash player installed on more mobile devices and set-top boxes. — Dubbed Open Screen the initiative lifts restrictions on how its multimedia handling so...
4G Backhaul: A Problem for All?
We already know that the challenge of providing back-end capacity for faster base-stations helped delay the launch of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S - message board)'s Xohm WiMax, so could 4G backhaul b...
The ‘Hard Disk Crusher’ doesn't mess around
Oliver North found out the hard way that erasing e-mail doesn't mean it's gone forever. And in more than two decades since, countless others have shown that they still hadn't learned that lesson. — ...
Coming to America: Getting visas to do business in Silicon Valley
One of the parlor tricks I like to perform when starting off any Silicon Valley talk or presentation is to ask the audience to raise their hand if they currently live in the area. Most people raise t...
An Ode to RSS, On RSS Awareness Day
There's just a few hours left in what should be an international holiday - RSS Awareness Day. Thought up by the good folks at DailyBlogTips.com and unknown until this morning to even RSS forefather D...
Leaked Photos of Motorola ZN5 Suggest Kodak Camera Partnership
More photos have emerged of Motorola's upcoming ZN5, and apparently suggest that the 5-megapixel camera is in fact a Kodak-built unit. The photos look pretty genuine, and certainly tally with the ima...
Will open source save Sun?
Sun Microsystems' most recent quarter took a hit from a slumping U.S. economy, according to Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Revenue from Sun's server computers and storage products fell 2.8 percent. The ...