Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use
Time Warner Cable starts customer trial with metered Internet access in Texas — NEW YORK (AP) — You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extr...
Adobe Launches Online Office Suite and New Flash-Enabled Acrobat 9
Back in March, we said Adobe was slowly building an online empire. Today, that news turns out to be true. Adobe is has just launched their version of an online office suite available at Acrobat.com,...
Intel to re-enter mobile market
By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New,York — Intel is poised to re-enter the mobile phone market as operators earn a greater portion of their revenues from data and internet acces...
Microsoft Live Search Toolbar to be Shipped with 2009 HP PC's
Microsoft has announced a partnership with HP where the Live Search toolbar will be distributed on 2009 PCs. The toolbar will appear on consumer PCs shipped to customers in the U.S. and Canada.
Today's Hot Meme Comes To Us From Plurk
Plurk is a newish microblogging service that is spreading like wildfire through the first adopter community today. — According to Plurk, the service is “a really snazzy site that allows you to showc...
Microsoft's Robbie Bach ‘thought about killing’ Surface
Microsoft's Surface computing is the kind of Buck Rogers' technology that can dazzle consumers and boost a company's “cool” factor. But in an interview last week, Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president o...
Is the Main Character Missing? Maybe Not.
When Dan Walsh, a 33-year-old technology manager in Dublin, started posting doctored versions of the comic strip “Garfield” on his blog in February, he thought he might amuse a few friends. — Instea...
Turner Forms Ad Net: Links Sales for Web Holdings
The cable-centric company said it plans to begin packaging both display and video ad inventory for advertisers from 19 different Web sites. — Turner is pasting together its vast collection of Web pr...
Trion Preps First Server-Based Game, Inks SciFi Channel Deal
Underway at Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion: Its first game, a fantasy-based online RPG, and a development deal with the SciFi Channel. — What's Trion? Think of it as the gaming equivalent of Goog...
IAB Report: Europe Up 4 Billion Euros in 2007; Closing In On U.S.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is out today with a new report they created with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) regarding online advertising spen for 2007 in Europe. The full report is availab...
The Humans Behind the Google Money Machine
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If Google were the United States government, the data that streams onto Nicholas Fox's laptop every day would be classified as top secret. — Mr. Fox is among a small group of...
NetSuite acquires OpenAir
NetSuite said Monday that it has acquired OpenAir, which provides on-demand professional services automation software, for $26 million in cash. — The tuck-in acquisition(statement)-all 56 OpenAir em...
The Future of Mobile Social Networking
IPhone users will soon be able to enjoy Whrrl, software that combines activity recommendations with real-time location data. — When Steve Jobs strides onstage at Apple's annual developers conference...
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced that The NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ(r)) …
Are Blog Comments Really Conversations, or Are They Just Replies?
The issue of comment fragmentation has been rearing up every other week or so since the initial discussion flared up in early April, but of late, I've been thinking about the purpose of comments in th...