Microsoft sees end of Windows era
Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. — Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older...
Sanjay Jha Named Co-Chief Executive Officer of Motorola and Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Devices Business
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced its Board of Directors has named Dr. Sanjay Jha as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Motorola and Chief Executive Officer …
iPhone nano: A rumor before its time
Is Steve Jobs preparing to launch a smaller, cheaper version of the iPhone in time for Christmas? — That's the rumor — based on a brief item in London's Daily Mail — that had Apple watchers buzzing ...
Cablevision's Remote DVR Service Gets Appeals Court Victory; Implications ‘Seismic’: Analyst
Cable operator Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) has won a court victory in its bid to offer a hosted DVR-type service. Last year, a district judge ruled in favor of plaintiff Cartoon Network …
How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World
A major shift in the way companies obtain software and computing capacity is under way as more companies tap into Web-based applications — At first, just a handful of employees at Sanmina-SCI (SANM)...
New LiMo Cellphones Protect and Surf
The LiMo Foundation, a consortium of wireless-related companies seeking to create an open operating system for cellphones and other wireless devices, has introduced seven new handsets based upon the L...
Time Warner Is Ready To Deal AOL Components
Time Warner Inc. has completed the internal work necessary to separate its AOL unit's dial-up-access business from its advertising and content business, the company is expected to announce Wednesday. ...
Foxconn Building 800,000 iPhones A Week
Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics giant that produces the iPhone 3G for Apple, has ramped up production to 800,000 units per week, says a source close to Apple with direct knowledge of the numbers. ...
Google Translation Center, a New Human Translations Service in the Making
How I lost $20,000,000+ in 18 months!
If I had to come up with a single reason I started this blog it was to share my own ‘startup’ experiences; the most cathartic of which was a post I wrote in 2005 titled “LayerOne: My Biggest Failure!”...
Lenovo Enters the Mini-Notebook Market with the IdeaPad S10
Rumors of Lenovo entering the mini-notebook space end here and now. Lenovo officially announced this morning its IdeaPad S10 - a 10-inch mini-notebook running the 1.6GHz Intel Atom chipset. Do we ha...
Google's Blogger brands users as spammers
Google-owned Blogger has apologised for wrongly locking user accounts for being suspected spammers. — The mistake, caused by a bug in data processing code, was uncovered on Friday and by Saturday th...
Why Microsoft Will Try Again for Yahoo in 2009
Insider Eric Jackson believes that it's only the second inning in the revival of Yahoo. He expects Microsoft to return with yet another merger proposition for Yahoo next year because Microsoft still ...
Feedburner hack: how to get 2500 subscribers overnight (video)
Established blogs like ReadWriteWeb and Techcrunch proudly show a Feedburner chicklet that displays the sites popularity. But beware - since people are more likely to subscribe to a site with a bigge...
Social.FM, Formerly Mercora, Shuts Down
Mercora, an early entrant into the social music and music search space that recently rebranded itself as Social.FM, has shut down and suspended operations. After being tipped off by a source, I tried...