Introducing Gmail Labs
We have a lot of ideas for Gmail — many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people here at Google. But there's only so much we can do at any one time. — People often ask how we dec...
Internet Week New York: Men in expensive suits and women in, um, very little
NEW YORK—Thus far, my experience with the Internet Week New York party scene has one of dichotomies. On Wednesday I went from a lively dance floor to a room full of awkward male Kevin Rose groupies.
What's in the Box? The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under
What's in the Box? — The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under? — Late yesterday afternoon MacTalk received the above photo from a very reliable source who can not be named for obvious reasons (fear of assas...
T-Mobile sues Starbucks over AT&T Internet deal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA is suing Starbucks, saying the coffee shop chain secretly colluded with AT&T to offer free WiFi Internet access in its cafes despite an exclusive agreement with T-Mob...
Carl Icahn lays out 5-point game plan for Yahoo
After a one-day lull in the Yahoo-Icahn war of words, billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Friday listed his five-step game plan for the company, should his dissident slate of directors succeed in unsea...
Bits, Bands and Books
Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything. — Then th...
Damnit...FriendFeed Gets Even More Useful With An Interestingness Filter
I still haven't decided if FriendFeed, which aggregates activities from other websites like YouTube, Twitter, your blog, Flickr, etc., is the ultimate walled garden of our personal data or possibly th...
TV, Meet the Web. Google Analytics Starts Measuring TV Ads
Google's experiment with selling and measuring TV ads on the Dish satellite network just got a lot more interesting. A month ago, Google incorporated the ability to buy TV ads into AdWords. Now, it ...
Microsoft's Ballmer on Yahoo and the Future
In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters yesterday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views of upcoming changes in technology and the media. ...
Cell Trade Group Says FCC Plan Doomed to Fail
In a scathing filing with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, an association representing mobile operators criticized the agency's plan to auction spectrum that would require the w...
The growing importance of Design
It's happening slowly, but surely. Design is becoming news. — Take the example of Facebook's recently redesigned Profile pages. Huge news both for the users of the site as well as the developers F...
Microsoft: The iPhone envy is starting to show (already)
Microsoft said it will sell nearly 20 million Windows Mobile licenses in a letter designed to rally its smartphone partners. It's no coincidence that the pep talk comes just a few days before these t...
Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor
According to several sources close to the hard drive industry, Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor hard drive to combat the increasing pressure from SSD manufacturers. — We have spoken...
Leaked Report: ISP Secretly Added Spy Code To Web Sessions, Crashing Browsers
An internal British Telecom report on a secret trial of an ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology found that the system crashed some unsuspecting users' browsers, and a small percentage …
Intel Said to Face Antitrust Investigation
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of Intel, the world's largest maker of computer microprocessors, for anticompetitive conduct, government officials...
Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine!
So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favo...
Opera and Haute Secure partner to protect consumers from next-generation Web-based threats
Opera improves its industry-leading Fraud Protection with advanced malware prevention technology from Haute Secure — Opera Software today announced a new partnership with Haute Secure, the leader in...