Twitter Conversations Come To A Screaming Halt; Users Simply Move To Friendfeed
A key feature of Twitter has been down most of this week: Replies. The core Twitter service itself is alive, but the team took the Reply feature down on Tuesday when the service started to slow.
Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control App for iPhone and iPod Touch
Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application:
Bill Gates: top ten greatest hits (and misses) - the Microsoft years
Damn, Bill, you have come a LONG way. Look at you there back in '82, you handsome devil. As part of our tribute, let's take a quick look back at the top ten greatest (and not so great) products crea...
Google enters the PC to TV arena
Google today made its own contribution to solving the PC to TV problem with the release of Google Media Server. The Windows-only software works in conjunction with Google's desktop search application...
Announcing LiveDiscKit
Way back in January, we showed off LiveDisc for Macworld San Francisco. We got a number of requests from other developers looking to use it themselves. At the time we just said “maybe”, and then eve...
Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th
Today's Blogger release is a big one for Blogger in Draft. Let's lead off with the quick stuff: — Google Gadget integration continues to improve, with better editing of gadget preferences. — The ne...
EMI Music Sues Hi5, VideoEgg and Ten Defendants To Be Named Later
EMI, which is looking less like a music label and more like a lawsuit label, is at it again. This afternoon they filed a lawsuit alleging “massive and blatant” copyright infringement by Hi5, VideoEgg...
Ten Reasons Why Vista Isn't That Bad
Of all the ware Microsoft churns out from its sweatshop of “lightning bolt, lightning bolt” nerds, Windows is the one most inexorably tied to the public image of the company. As Bill Gates leaves the...
Meet Tech Teentrepreneur Daniel Brusilovsky
Dropping out of college to launch your own company? Yawn. The real startup action is in the halls of your local high school. Case in point: Daniel Brusilovsky, the 15-year-old founder and CEO (yes,...
He/She/They: Grammar and Facebook.
As Facebook grows in other languages, we are learning a lot about what the “Facebook Experience” is like for people around the world. One of the first challenges was getting words that are really lon...
Chad Hurley: How We Did It
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley, not known for being especially candid (especially now that he's under the lock and key of Google PR!) gave an unusual address last night at a startup dinner in Palo Alto where...
Microsoft fires shot across VMware bow with Hyper-V release
Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform today moved out of beta. The RTM version is now available for download, and will be released to Windows Update on July 8. Hyper-V, previously codenamed “W...
Princeton University to publish Kindle textbooks
Another prestigious school is embracing Amazon's Kindle e-reader. — Princeton University has announced that it will start printing Kindle-edition textbooks this fall, according to a story in The Chr...
Verizon's fiber guru talks strategy
There's no question that Verizon Communications hit a home run with its aggressive fiber strategy. — The fiber-to-the-home network called Fios has enabled Verizon to supercharge broadband speeds and...
Looking back and looking ahead: Bill Gates leaves Microsoft
Although describing things as the “end of an era” is something of a cliché, Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft today surely deserves the label. Gates announced two years ago that he would be reduci...
New king of the US wireless jungle says he is hunter, not prey
Ivan Seidenberg is getting irritated. The combative chairman and chief executive of Verizon Communications bridles at suggestions that the seemingly inexorable consolidation of the telecoms industry ...
Why Compulsory Licenses Are Bad: A Look At The Sausage Making Process
When discussing things like patents and copyright, oftentimes someone suggests that “compulsory licensing” is a solution that solves all the problems. I tend to have serious problems with compulsory ...
New Google search results pages for BlackBerry users
Two weeks ago we updated our mobile homepage in the US so that it would load more quickly. Today, we're releasing in the US a number of improvements to our mobile search results pages for BlackBerry ...
Most Powerful Visualization System Ever Is Faster than 600 Consoles
What you see here is not a simple array of LCD displays. This is NASA's hyperwall-2, the world's highest resolution visualization system. At 23 by 10 feet wide, hyperwall-2 uses 128 screens driven b...
More Phone Trouble: Sony Ericsson Issues Q2 Warning
Trouble in the mobile phone business continue to mount. — Following up on disappointing results this week from both Research In Motion (RIMM) and Palm (PALM), Sony Ericsson (SNE, ERIC) this morning ...