About the Mac OS X 10.5.4 update
The Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.3 Leopard. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and secur...
Open an account and your first album is on us
Shopping for music online just got easier. The new Rhapsody MP3 Store lets you listen to entire songs before you buy them*, provides recommendations, and delivers high-quality MP3s that can be played...
How Twitter Could Be Worth A Billion In A Year
Twitter's not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year? — Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, user base and user...
Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori
June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It's also a good day (...
Yahoo Board and Investors Burn, While Everyone Else Fiddles
Could Ross Levinsohn and Jon Miller reinvent Yahoo (YHOO)? What about OpenTable's Jeff Jordan? Or various and sundry Google (GOOG) or Microsoft (MSFT) execs? — It could happen. — That specific s...
Tech Giants Join Together To Head Off Patent Suits
Several tech-industry heavyweights are banding together to defend themselves against patent-infringement lawsuits. Their plan: to buy up key intellectual property before it falls into the hands of pa...
Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook's Board Of Directors
Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape, Opsware and Ning and the former CTO of AOL, is adding a new notch in his belt: he has joined the board of directors of Facebook, two sources close to the company ...
‘Unprecedented Pent-Up Demand’ For Apple iPhone 3G, RBC Says
More good news for Apple (AAPL) ahead of the 3G iPhone launch, scheduled for next Friday, July 11. Consumers have “unprecedented” demand for Apple's phone, according to new data from RBC's Technology...
Asustek to launch new Eee PCs with bigger keyboards
Asustek Computer is planning to launch new Eee PC models, the 904 and 905, which have an 8.9-inch panel but use a similar chassis and keyboard as the company's 10.2-inch models, according to sources a...
No, Mr Kelly, I'm afraid the internet is not as clever as a single (human) brain
Kevin Kelly, one of the people behind Wired magazine, has come up with a stonking idea to follow up from Chris Anderson's (to be honest rather wonky) suggestion that “science is dead because search en...
Back to Microsoft
Last week I left Google to go back to Microsoft, where I started this Monday (and so not surprisingly, I was too busy to blog about it). — I think I am the first person in the Seattle/Kirkland area ...
Smartphone battle royale: The land grab is good for buyers
Research in Motion misses its first quarter earnings target and cuts its outlook slightly. Palm has a hit with the Centro, but continues to disappoint. And Sony Ericsson sees a rough second quarter ...
AOL's Platform A: We'll pay Bebo, Facebook developers top pennies
AOL's Platform A said Monday that it will offer Bebo and Facebook application developers “a guaranteed CPM” for U.S. traffic and says the ad rate is one of the highest in the industry. — However, th...
OpenTable seats 3M diners a month, releases mobile version
OpenTable, the San Francisco company that lets you make online reservations at any of 8,500 restaurants, said it it is seating three million diners a month, which means it's making some serious cash —...