Coming Tuesday, June 17th: Firefox 3
Whenever we're asked “when is Firefox going to be released” we endeavor to answer to the best of our abilities, but the truth of the matter is that we'll only ever ship “when it's ready”. We have a l...
Yahoo Says an Icahn Win Triggers Plan
Yahoo Inc. asserted that a severance plan that investor Carl Icahn has called excessively expensive would be triggered if the activist investor is successful in his bid to take control of the company'...
Yahoo Exec Spec Swirling Again; Weiner Returning From Paternity Leave But Will He Stay?
It's Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) version of the plagues??? Carl Icahn, shareholder lawsuits, another round of speculation about top-level execs and a report that a major internal announcement is on tap Wedn...
At Glassdoor, Find Out How Much People Really Make At Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, And Everywhere Else.
The idea behind Glassdoor is simple: You tell me your salary, and I'll tell you mine. The stealth startup, which raised $3 million from Benchmark Capital last March, just went live.
Real racing in the virtual world
Sat on the start grid, foot poised over the accelerator, you wait for the row of red lights to extinguish. — Alongside you are top names like Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen. The ca...
Google Co-Founder Books a Space Flight
Space tourists are getting their own ride. Space Adventures, a Virginia company that arranges passage for wealthy explorers to ride on Russian Soyuz rockets to the International Space Station, plans ...
Learning 2.0: The Threat (and promise) of Social Interaction
The mere threat of social interaction changes our behavior...if you know your work is going to be put on public display, you'll be much more motivated to make it good. — There is a moment in every b...
Metallica to bloggers: don't review our music
Given all that Metallica has done, said, and been through in the last 20 years, what could they still do that would lead bloggers to ask, “What the hell is wrong with Metallica?” In this case, the an...
Google: Making Nick Carr Stupid, But It's Made This Guy Smarter
I will admit, I was entirely biased upon reading this story from Nick Carr, who has a knack for writing pieces that get a lot of attention by baiting his hook with contrarian link chum. Heck, he's re...
And, The Really Big Thing About The New iPhone Is...
Now that the dust over the iPhone 3G launch has settled, it seems that people have divided into two camps; one is welcoming the new features, claiming that the perfect phone just got more perfect …
More on Whither Weiner
Yesterday, writing about executive stress at Yahoo, BoomTown posted about the swirling speculation around the fate of Jeff Weiner, the Network division EVP, who many at Yahoo (YHOO) think will soon be...
Microsoft testing prototype of Facebook-like social network
At the request of its SharePoint and Office product development teams, Microsoft 's Office Labs operation has created and is testing a prototype of an internal social network that can provide employee...
The truth about last year's Xbox 360 recall
ANAHEIM, Calif. — When Microsoft Corp. announced a mammoth global recall of its Xbox 360 a year ago, the software giant never disclosed the exact source of the game console's heat problem that led to ...
Apple Introduces iPhone 3G Videoconferencing Kit, ZOMG!
Those of you complaining about the lack of front camera and videoconferencing in the new iPhone, stop saying words. This July 11 you will be able to buy the Apple Videoconferencing Kit for iPhone 3G ...
CDs Have Another Thing To Fear: Vinyl?
There has been no doubt that CD sales have been declining due to the growth of digital music. Well, CDs are now being flanked by an old format: vinyl. Although vinyl LPs have always enjoyed a niche ...
Flagship programmer claims staff are leaving “in droves”
Guy Somberg, an audio and gameplay programmer at Flagship Studios, has said that staff are leaving the Hellgate: London developer “in droves”. — He says that poor sales of the EA published game, and...
iPhone as platform = cha-ching
My friend and fellow mesh 2008 organizer Mark Evans has a post about the iPhone and how it is just one part of a “razor and blades” market model — i.e., the carriers subsidize the phone as a lure, in ...
Record producer says CD quality isn't good enough
Producer T Bone Burnett talked passionately about sound quality, or lack thereof on a radio program, Soundcheck, from WNYC on Monday. Burnett produced Robert Plant and Allison Krauss' awesome Raising...
Red Hat shoots down brace of patent disputes
Red Hat Inc today settled two patent lawsuits that the Linux software firm had been contesting. — It said that patent claims by Firestar Software Inc, filed in 2006, and DataTern Inc, filed earlier ...
Apple's App Store could emerge as $1.2B business by 2009
Investment bank Piper Jaffray is urging investors who typically focus only on Apple's hardware announcements to also pay attention to the company's iPhone software strategy, particularly its upcoming ...
What's Next For Bebo's Founders: Back To Birthday Alarm
I had a chance to speak with Bebo co-founder Michael Birch last weekend at the Founders Brunch event at Loic Le Meur's house in San Francisco. — It was the first chance I've had to congratulate him ...