Dear Yahoo, I Quit! Signed, [Your Name Here]
You know you wish you could quit Yahoo. — It's a drag now that the Microsoft balloon has burst. Like that was gonna make working here anything like the good old days when you could buy a Maserati o...
NebuAd hires like spyware, acts like spyware
At least five high-ranking employees at NebuAd, a Silicon Valley start-up that snoops on Web surfers on behalf of their Internet service providers, are veterans of one of the more notorious spyware co...
Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API
As the days grow longer and summer takes full stage, many of us are flocking to patios and parks to engage in the time-honored tradition of grilling food. When it comes to cooking outdoors, the type ...
Facebook Blows Past MySpace In Global Visitors For May
In April, Facebook caught up to MySpace in worldwide unique visitors (actually nudging past it with 116.4 million unique visitors versus 115.7 million for MySpace). Now the worldwide comScore numbers...
Microsoft without Gates
The challenge isn't replacing Bill. That's already happened. Ballmer's big issues now: growth, Google, and those pesky Apple ads. — (Fortune Magazine) — Steve Ballmer was sobbing. He repeatedly t...
Microsoft rules out post-Yahoo buying spree
Microsoft will not try to make up for its failed move on Yahoo with a spate of other internet acquisitions, according to the top executives behind its online strategy. — Speculation about Microsoft'...
The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn
Apple may be golden because of the iPhone, but the soon-to-be updated device is also increasingly the source of forbidden fruit. Steve Jobs' company is keeping a civil, if embarrassed, silence about ...
AP Says Drudge Retort Excerpt ‘Matter’ Closed; No Official Policy Announced
Hard to believe that all of the discourse (public and private) on how the AP handled the way its material was being used by the Drudge Retort boils down to this for now—a non-response response followi...
Selling big business on the iPhone
Apple is taking a new corporate-friendly tact with the iPhone as it tries to convince companies that it means business about meeting their needs. — (Fortune) — Steve Jobs has won over legions of new...
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB Preview - G92b at 55nm
YANL — I started a term when the 9800 GTX was first released known as YANL: Yet Another NVIDIA Launch. Basically it's a derogatory term poking fun at a company that produces a LOT of different bran...
Seesmic Hijacks Comments With Threaded Replies
If content was king in old media, conversation is king on the Web. That is why everybody wants to control the conversation. Video commenting startup Seesmic is no exception. People can post short v...
Network Solutions Encourages ICANN to Adopt Transaction Fee to End Domain Tasting and Front Running
Network Solutions has long called for a fee-based solution to eliminate the related abuses of domain name “tasting” and “front running.” — On June 26, 2008, the Internet Corporation …
Making Microsoft
From schoolboy to software titan, Bill Gates on how it all started — As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsof...
New eBay strategy angers small sellers
For years, eBay Inc. espoused an egalitarian view that all of its sellers should be treated equally. — But these days, the online marketplace is increasingly taking an opposite tack by offering disc...
Testing... testing... is this on?
Over the course of the next few weeks, you may notice a few changes to Google News... or maybe not. You see, we'll be running some experiments on the look and feel of our site, based on an accumulati...
Security vendors report ‘critical’ Trojan exploit for Mac
SecureMac and Intego are separately reporting the existence of a new security threat for Mac, claiming the existence of multiple variants of a new Trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X 10.4 a...
Closure of Chinese Online-Video Site Sparks Concern
A leading Chinese online-video site backed by several high-profile foreign investors has been quietly shuttered, raising questions about the future of the once-promising industry in the world's most p...
Study: Social networks may subvert ‘digital divide’
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as time-sucking procrastination tools, but a new study from the University of Minnesota says au contraire. — Social networks build benefici...
Facebook faux pas: The geek's guide to netiquette
Social networking is a minefield for manners - should you poke your boss? Can you have too many friends? Rhodri Marsden shares his golden rules — A recent survey revealed that almost two thirds of...