First hints of Microsoft's “fight back” ads appear
I just noticed this teaser on Microsoft's home page: — If this is going to be the overall message of Microsoft's much-vaunted new $300 million ad campaign, it might be money well spent. According t...
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”
Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from multiple sources inside and outside of Google. The two companies have reportedly sig...
Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap
Amid all the chatter about Apple's fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins. The big takeaway for technology buyers: Tho...
GigaOM Acquires jkOnTheRun
In the life of every company, there comes a time when it is faced with the choice of how to extend its reach: Either build a new product or service, or acquire the one that's already established itsel...
The Death of Google's Patents
By John F. Duffy* [PDF Version (42 KB)] — The Patent and Trademark Office has now made clear that its newly developed position on patentable subject matter will invalidate many and perhaps most soft...
Talk of Chief's Health Weighs on Apple's Share Price
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Rumors of Steven P. Jobs's ill health have been greatly exaggerated. — That is what Mr. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, has been telling a number of his associates, even as concer...
TiVo and Amazon Team Up
SAN FRANCISCO — TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that introduced millions to the joy of skipping television commercials, is trying to crack a decades-old media dream. It wants to turn the television ...
Sony Pushes Out Three New Walkmen Phones, the W302, W902 and W595
It's the third birthday of Sony Ericsson's Walkman phone label, and to celebrate it's launching three new music-based cellphones. The W302 and W902 (left, center in the image) are both candybar cells...
Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you
Oh, what a hoot. I've been taking a break from blogging just to relax and invest my time in other places. Like FriendFeed. Or downloading iPhone apps. — Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about Tec...
Sandisk: Windows Vista not optimized for solid state drives
SanDisk said Monday that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year. — Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk d...
Google Maps Walking Directions Now Live
Earlier this month, I reported that Google Maps was testing walking directions on a small subset of users. This morning, I noticed that Google Maps now is offering walking directions for all Google M...
You're a blog
Gapingvoid tweeted this earlier this morning. — Coming from Hugh, that's saying something. Even if he has “retired” to Alpine. — So I went and took a look at the story: The Techcrunch Web Tablet ...
Cellphone market poised for shakeup as spectrum auction ends
The government is $4.2 billion richer with the conclusion of the cellphone spectrum auction on Monday, while customers stand to win as five new companies are now well positioned to launch services ove...
BSkyB, Universal Form JV To Launch Subscription Music Service
Pretty soon, everybody will be offering a subscription music service. Latest is UK satcaster and ISP BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), 39 percent owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). it's secured Universal's Total Music...
New York Times, LinkedIn Enter Content Partnership
In a brilliant move that's sure to make both newspapers and social networks around the web jealous, the New York Times and LinkedIn, the leading US social network for professionals, are announcing a c...
Propeller 2.0 Launches: Ditching The Vote Count, Adding A Mascot
Propeller, AOL's Digg-like news site, launches version 2.0 later this morning. The site sports a new design and logo and now has a mascot - described as “part professor, part citizen journalist” (see...
Virtual Earth Imagery Release - July 2008
14.3 TB of new imagery for Microsoft Virtual Earth. Save money on gas....use Live Search Maps powered by Virtual Earth. — Ortho — United States (UltraCam, Microsoft Proprietary) — Elizabeth, NJ ...
Apple extends MobileMe trial following UK billing glitch
So far, Apple's rollout of the new MobileMe hasn't been going particularly smoothly. As a result of outages, slow “push” functionality, and lots of glitches, Apple gave everyone an extra month of Mob...
A New Beginning
November 2008 will mark the 12th anniversary of e-gold's debut as an alternative global payment system enabling Users - individuals or businesses - to receive payment in gold at extremely low cost and...