Firefox 3's First 24 Hours
It's been a very busy 24 hours for Mozilla folks around the world — as our 24 hour initial period draws to a close, I wanted to put a few things into perspective. This is the first post of what will ...
Jay Adelson Diggs the A.P.
In the ruckus about the Associated Press's campaign to prevent blogs and other Internet sites from using what it considers too much of its material, one of the biggest sites that could be affected is ...
YouTube Shifts Strategy, Tries Long-Form Video
YouTube (GOOG), known for short clips of dogs on skateboards, cats on treadmills, is trying something new: Showing video that is much longer than its previous 10-minute limit. It's something of a tes...
Survey: 91% of Japanese Will Not Buy ‘iPhone’
According to a survey by iSHARE, 91.0% of Japanese mobile phone users are not planning to purchase Apple Inc's “iPhone” mobile phone. — This research was conducted in the wake of the announcement by...
reddit goes open source
Today we're excited to announce that we're open sourcing reddit. We've always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step. When we say ‘open-s...
Why GTA IV Was the Beginning of the End
I think it's safe to say that the era of next-gen gaming as a driving force is over. Why? As of the week ending June 7th (the most recent tally available), just over 9 million copies of the highly t...
T2W —> Trojan to Worm
> Trojan to Worm — We have detected an application whose main function is to turn an executable file into a worm, giving it the capacity to spread itself. Even though it's aim is to give a Trojan th...
Ask.com caves to Google's privacy pressures
Ever the publicity hound nipping at Google's heels, Ask.com has issued an open letter to the public about adding a privacy policy link to its home page. — The letter highlights the fact that, weeks ...
Teens use technology to party in strangers' pools
Tech savvy teens are using Google Earth's splendidly clear aerial shots of the UK to launch a summertime craze - pool crashing. — Teens begin by surfing Google Earth's satellite images to find house...
Will GPS Make Us Dumb?
Experts Say Direction-Giving Phones Could Make Us Lose Our Way — For most people — the cab driver, the tourist, the business traveler — the ubiquitous GPS has become a lifeline, giving directions to...
Xohm WiMAX to go live in September, says Sprint CTO
Now we know. After weeks of speculation as to when Xohm, the WiMAX business unit of Sprint Nextel, would launch commercial services, Barry West, Sprint Nextel CTO and president of Xohm, finally named...
Samsung Announces Mass Production of the World's Highest Capacity Hard Drive for Mainstream Laptops
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, announced today the mass production of the world's highest capacity hard drive for laptops...
Learning from Flickr's Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo
In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn't been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn't change nearly as much as everyone expected it to.
iPhone and App Store Attracting Developers
MercuryNews reports on how the iPhone and upcoming App Store are attracting many developers to Apple's mobile platform. Loopt's cofounder, Sam Altman, describes how he's seen an excitement amongst mo...
IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3
4699 people have read this post. — Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after ...
Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Navic Networks
Navic enables Microsoft to work with industry partners to optimize the delivery and placement of television advertising. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a leadin...
Firefox Reaches Its Goal Despite Site Problems
When the final version of Firefox 3 became available yesterday, it seemed they were going to have a hard time reaching their goal of five million downloads - an arbitrary number, since the record for ...
Verizon Extends Groundbreaking 50/20 Mbps FiOS Internet Service to Entire FiOS Footprint
Verizon President and COO Denny Strigl Announces Groundbreaking 50/20 and 20/20 Mbps FiOS Internet Services Will Be Available to More Than 10 Million Homes and Small Businesses
New York Times goes social with TimesPeople
CNET News.com's Caroline McCarthy, interviews two NYTimes.com software engineers for a Beet.tv video. — (Credit: Beet.tv) — The New York Times has added a new feature to its Web site that takes a ...
Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion?
LinkedIn Worth $1 billion? — I think so — It is seriously overvalued — I don't care either way. — The big news tonight is business social network LinkedIn raised $53 million in Series D funding a...
Hands-free laws a boon for Bluetooth
A flurry of new state laws making it illegal for people to drive while holding a cell phone is expected to be a bonanza for Bluetooth, a wireless technology that lets devices communicate with each oth...
The Coming World of Mobile Sensors
At Supernova 2008 this week we got a glimpse of what's next for mobile; and it has little to do with hardware like the iPhone, software like Google's open-source operating system Android, mobile platf...
Irony: If Google Can't Reach Your Robots.txt File, It Might Not List Your Site
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that Google said if your robots.txt is unreachable, your site might not make it into the Google index. By unreachable, Google means that if you...