Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch
For years Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices. The advent of the original Windows graphical user inter...
Windows chief talks ‘7’
REDMOND, Wash.—Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to fall almost completely off the public radar. — It's not that he hasn't been busy gettin...
Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform
Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The immediate effect will be to allow any social networ...
Kleiner's Pick for the Killer iPhone App
The location-based software from Pelago will allow smartphone users to find friends' picks for local restaurants, shops, and activities — Apple won't crank up the hype machine about all the new thin...
Borders returns to Web retailing after 7 years
DETROIT - Borders Group is jumping back into online retailing with a Web site designed to evoke the feeling of browsing at a neighborhood bookstore, down to the popular shelves of staff picks that are...
It's Time To Rethink Copyright Law
There was more posturing today in the big YouTube-Viacom copyright showdown that began around the time that Google acquired YouTube and started talking to big copyright holders about paying them to ge...
Yahoo Files Lawsuit to Protect Us
Yahoo has announced that they have filed a lawsuit against spammers and scammers who send out lottery scams using the name “Yahoo” in them. I am sure you've seen these - at least for me, most of them...
Web 2.0 fails to produce cash
Many members of the Web 2.0 generation of internet companies have so far produced little in the way of revenue, despite bringing about some significant changes in online behaviour, according to some o...
UPDATED: iPhone for Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - Also Holland
Apple has finally secured a distribution deal for iPhone in the Nordic nation states, with Sweden's largest mobile firm, TeliaSonera AB, moving to ship the device in seven countries there, starting “l...
VIA Unveils VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Reference Design
VIA offers case design and unique 3G and WiMAX wireless customization as well as new ultra mobile processor platform to bring new looks, global connectivity and better performance to the mini-note mar...
RIAA Drops Allofmp3 Lawsuit; Pretends Mp3Sparks Doesn't Exist
from the maybe-if-we-ignore-our-problems... dept — It's been quite some time since we heard about Allofmp3, the Russian online music download store that offered extremely low prices on DRM-free down...
When User-Generated Content Goes Bad
Viral marketing, user-generated content, online buzz: over the past few years, these terms have been representative of a new way of marketing to consumers that takes advantage of the current popularit...
Vodafone chief steps down
Vodafone (VOD) is getting a new leader. The U.K.-based wireless telco said CEO Arun Sarin will step down after the company's annual meeting at the end of July. He'll be replaced by deputy chief Vitt...
Google to preach Web 2.0 gospel to developers
Just because Google so obviously loves the idea of cloud computing, don't think the company doesn't care about what happens at the other end of the network connection, too. — As former President Bil...