Gates-Ballmer Clash Shaped Microsoft's Coming Handover
One of the most successful business partnerships in history was coming unraveled. It was early 2000, and Bill Gates had relinquished the chief executive's job at Microsoft Corp. to Steve Ballmer — fo...
Verizon Wireless To Acquire Alltel; Will Expand Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network
Investor Relations +44 (0) 1635 664 447 — BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Verizon Wireless has entered into an agreement with Alltel Corporation and Atlantis Holdings LLC …
Disney World in 3D in Google Earth
Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog has news that Disney World of Orlando, Florida, is now available in 3D in Google Earth. To view this, enter disney world in the Google Earth search box - you mig...
Up close with Dell's Eee PC killer
We took the opportunity to very briefly get hands …
U2 manager slams Internet providers
McGuinness likens ISPs to ‘shoplifters’ — U2 manager Paul McGuinness launched a blistering attack on the world's Internet providers Wednesday, accusing them of strangling the music industry. — Spe...
Google Drops Ability To Watch Video Directly In Search Results
Ionut posted something I have noticed for the past few weeks, Google has removed the ability to watch videos directly in the search results. — In the past, a search for starwars kid, as one example,...
What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About The Web
Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I'm going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it's my local paper and this is a local example. — There were ...
Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS
BURLINGAME, CALIF - — There's only one company on earth that has come back from behind to wrest a multibillion-dollar market away from Sony, beat back a grasping Microsoft and delight tens of millio...
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A number of people whose opinions I greatly respect have turned me on to Yelp over the last six months or so. Yelp is a community review site, and a great way to discover cool new places in whatever ...
The Flip v. My Cheap Canon Camera: Flip Loses Across The Board
The Flip Mino, the third version of the popular Flip video camera, launched today to a torrent of well orchestrated press coverage. — We've been a little harsh on the Flip in the past, so I was plea...
Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update to address Adobe CS3 file corruption
As expected, Apple on Wednesday evening delivered to its developer community the first pre-release copies of its upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update, which repairs a critical flaw in saving files from Ado...
iPhone 2.0 firmware details and information on second generation iPhone
We've all heard the rumors that the iPhone 2.0 firmware would be out at WWDC 08, but we have received some information that begs to differ. According to the information that we have, it will be relea...