Sources: Apple planning biggest back-to-school promo yet
Apple as early as Monday is expected to announce its 2008 back-to-school promotion, which will encourage students to purchase a new Mac through some of the biggest incentives in the company's history,...
Glam offers new video ad network, gets acquisition offer for $1.3B
Glam, the fast-growing online advertiser and publisher for women, is announcing a new video offering that may make it easier to monetize videos on the Web. — Beginning tomorrow, Glam is letting its ...
Microsoft's grand plan to eliminate phone numbers
I've been puzzling over transcripts of a couple of recent speeches by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates where he discussed his vision for the end of phone numbers. But it wasn't until today, when I learn...
Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google
Barack Obama's campaign spent at least $3.47 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April. The biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential hopeful's online ad dollar...
Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report
Akamai is out today with their first “State of the Internet” report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access...
Mark Zuckerberg: “A technology company is a company that creates technology”
CARLSBAD, CA — Mark Zuckerberg has learned nothing. Taking the stage at D6, he uttered nothing but bromides and nonsequiturs. Examples: “Facebook is a technology company ... a technology company is ...
Mozilla “Download Day” - Are you in or out?
Mozilla are organizing a “Download Day” to promote Firefox 3.0 and set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Are you in or out? — Maybe it's me and I'm feeling a lit...
The Fork in the Road for Social Media
Social networking is at a major fork in the road. Down one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down t...
Apple to make major studios' films available for download
Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet service at prices on a par with DVDs. — The company in...
Hutchison Telecom to offer Apple's iPhone in Hong Kong, Macau
HONG KONG (AP) - Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. said Thursday it signed an agreement with Apple Inc. to offer the popular iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau later this year. — Terms of t...
D: News Corp.'s Murdoch “Mystified” By YHOO's Failure To Do MSFT Deal; Sees Recession; Will He Vote For Obama?
For the final session at D: All Things Digital today, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher are interviewing News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch, who of course owns the Wall Street Journal …
JAJAH: Change is in the wind
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to give a talk at the University of Toronto as part of their MET Executive Development Program. The room was stuffed full of telecom execs on a two day program run...
MSI Wind: Hands-on, with exclusive photos
We've just had an exclusive hands-on with the MSI Wind, which we liked the look of in March, and by golly it's good. So good, in fact, that it could take the throne from the Asus Eee PC as the best m...
Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Payback?
When you're as large as Comcast, you can't please all of the people, all of the time. Although it has done so in other ways too, Comcast managed to annoy a large portion of its customer base with its...