Microsoft's Not Bluffing
Look, it might be the biggest poker bluff in history and analysts are once again chattering that Yahoo's ad outsourcing deal with Google might force Microsoft back to make another offer for the Intern...
Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector
Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt—Senior Policy Director for Google—announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming cons...
AT&T: no iPhone 3G tethering for you!
With the iPhone 3G's significantly faster data transfer rates and ability to perform voice and data functions simultaneously, potential buyers have become intoxicated with the idea of tethering the de...
Oh Jerry, It's No Longer Your Baby
Congratulations — you pulled it off. You got Microsoft to walk away from your beloved Yahoo for good. The final word went out on Thursday. There isn't going to be any megamerger. No smaller deal t...
AT&T Mulls Surcharge for High DSL Use
AAPL (The Telecom Connection PICK) CMCSA NFLX T TWC — AT&T T is considering a surcharge for customers who go above the normal amount of downloaded data on the Internet. — AT&T spokesman Michael Co...
Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space
The post below is written by Robert Scoble, a top blogger and the founder FastCompanyTV. — Robert has been one of the earliest adopters of cell phone video, which offers the ability to stream live t...
TweakTown's VIDEO unboxing of ASUS Eee PC 1000H!
TWEAKTOWN EXCLUSIVE We got word that the ASUS Eee PC 1000 and 1000H was to begin selling on Wednesday this week in Taiwan and we instantly set about trying to buy one. — The new 10-inch Intel Atom p...
Support Grows for Universal Power Adapter
A technology that could help the environment by eliminating the need to ship a power adapter with every electronics device got a vote of confidence Friday from consumer electronics maker Westinghouse ...
Interview with Microsoft's Robbie Bach, part 2, on Xbox 360
The biggest business in Robbie Bach's Entertainment & Devices Group at Microsoft is the Xbox 360 video game business. After many years of losses, the game business is poised to turn a profit, as is t...
AOL Turns the iPhone into an Expensive Radio
Here's one way I listened to the radio in grade school: I wound a coil of wire and connected it to a small crystal, a little yellow earphone and a few other parts nailed to a board. This crystal radi...
Microsoft release Origami Experience 2
Microsoft has released the Origami Experience 2.0. In case you missed out on the first version of the Origami Experience, it's basically a suite of software designed to make it easier to navigate on ...
New Fuel Cell System ‘Generates Electricity with Only Water, Air’
Kouji Kariatsumari, Nikkei Electronics — Genepax Co Ltd explained the technologies used in its new fuel cell system “Water Energy System (WES),” which uses water as a fuel and does not emit CO2.
In the E-Mail Relay, Not Every Handoff Is Smooth
FOR centuries, letter writers have wondered whether their missives safely reach the hands of their intended recipients. “I know not whether this will ever come to your hands or miscarry,” opened a ty...
Our Home Town
About noon Friday here in California, I happened to click on a Summize tab substituting for Twitter's Track functionality and monitoring the use of my Twitter screen name. Someone named Scrabo had tw...
Why Arrington is Wrong about Yahoo!-Google Deal
I was inspired by Fred Wilson's excellent piece on the subject to add my own two cents to Mike Arrington's rant about how Yahoo!'s deal with Google is bad for the industry. I wrote the following in A...