Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine
Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn't disclose the size of t...
Video: Microsoft's Sphere display in action
In the video above, Hrvoje Benko of Microsoft Research demonstrates Sphere. Here's an advance look at the story I wrote for Tuesday's newspaper. — tb — Flat-panel displays might be all the rage, bu...
Jobs entrusts a NYT columnist with the truth about his health, even before he tells Apple shareholders
An Apple (AAPL) spokeswoman lied recently when she said Steve Jobs' haggard look lately was due to a “common bug,” a remarkable piece in the New York Times this weekend strongly suggests.
Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1?!
An alternative search engine launched last night. It's called Cuil and, if you're a reader of tech blogs and/or the New York Times, you've no doubt been hammered with the news all day. We checked Cu...
‘CAPITAL’ UNREST CASTS GLOOM OVER YAHOO!
Yahoo! may have made peace with activist investor Carl Icahn, but its second-largest shareholder is still furious with Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang and is considering withholding votes for ...
Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It?
If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happ...
Verizon FiOS TV Delivers 100 High-Definition Channels to New Yorkers - on the Network Built for HD
FiOS TV in New York Metro Area Now Offers More HD Channels Than Time Warner or CablevisionNew Sports and Multicultural Programming in Standard Definition Also Joins FiOS TV Lineup
Facebook Hires Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer As Director Of Engineering
Mike Schroepfer, the extremely well regarded VP Engineering at Mozilla, is now Facebook's Director of Engineering. — He'll be heading up Facebook Platform and the main product front end, he said by ...
Verizon: Apple's iPhone 3G Isn't Hurting Us
Apple's (AAPL) new, cheaper iPhone 3G flown off the shelves in the two weeks it's been on sale — AT&T, Apple's exclusive carrier partner, says it's selling them almost twice as fast as it sold first-g...
$80 Billion? Online Display Market Is Being Overhyped
For All the New Media Spin, It's Just an ‘Old’ Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The exuberance isn't so rational this time, either. — It's déjà vu all over again as the web giants scurry to build ma...
Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity
The US Patent and Trademark Office is a convenient whipping boy for problems with the patent system. The USPTO famously approved the junk patents at the heart of the legal battle between Research in ...
SimpleTech's (Re)Drive: Green external hard drive redefined
I've recently seen quite a few devices with an environmentally conscientious design. These devices generally consume less power and are made of recycled, non-toxic materials. Today, though, I got in...
Samsung's Q1 Ultra Now Available with HSDPA and Vista Business
The Q1U-CMXP and Q1UP-V Extends the Company's High-Performance Family of Ultra Mobile Personal Computers — IRVINE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electro...
Live from Virgin Galactic: We visit the White Knight 2
I've just touched down in the Mojave and we're all awaiting the unveiling of the White Knight 2. Buzz Aldrin is on hand as well as Sir Richard Branson's parents. The White Knight 2 is the world's la...