Steve Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple's standards”
In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple's standards.” The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges ...
When Google Owns You
Nick Saber isn't happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn't get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn't get into anything that Google made ...
Delta to Become Only Major U.S. Airline to Offer Broadband Wi-Fi Access on Entire Domestic Mainline Fleet
Aircell's Gogo inflight Internet service to be available in first and economy classes on more than 330 Delta aircraft in 2009, the most expansive inflight broadband offering of any U.S. air carrier
The First $1000 iPhone Application
iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: — 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone's ...
DoubleClick Serves Into Silverlight to Power Video Advertising for NBC Universal Digital Media
DoubleClick In-Stream powers video advertising in Flash, RealMedia, Windows Media and now Silverlight 2 players — Today, DoubleClick, a premier provider of digital marketing technology and services ...
Comcast Buys DailyCandy For $125 Million*
As previously reported, Comcast (CMCSA) was indeed interested in buying DailyCandy. But they ended up paying much more than the $75 million we head about earlier this month — the cable company is pay...
Friendster Lives: New Cash, New Boss and a New Strategy?
Don't count Friendster out yet. — The pioneering social network, surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in most of the world, is still going strong in Asia, and now it plans to build on its success there...
Hi-tech criminals target Twitter
Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding fertile ground on social networks. — A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted...
Rocketboom Inks Seven-Figure Distribution Deal With Sony
Rocketboom, the daily video blog, is turning over its distribution and ad sales to Sony Pictures Television in return for a seven-figure guarantee plus a share of revenues. Rocketboom will be distrib...
AT&T joins the cloud computing game
AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting. — The telecom giant described Synaptic as a “next-generation utility computing service w...
Marriage Proposal in Street View!
Google decided to take some new Street View images at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. This time they must have let the employees know, as there are many Googlers lining the street. They...
iPhone security and battery life are crap
Analysts have decreed that the new iPhone's lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use. — The conclusions come in a nine-page research note fro...
Microsoft launching two security initiatives at Black Hat conference
[D.T. note: I'll be leaving today for the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas. Be sure to check for a variety of security stories during the week.] — Microsoft is launching two initiative...
Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To “Inspire And Engage” Community
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. — Adaptive Path, a product development and consulting service in San Francisco, is releasing a new web interface concept called Aurora this evening.
A Ruling May Pave the Way for Broader Use of DVR
RECORDING TV shows — and skipping the commercials that come with them — may become more pervasive in the wake of a new court ruling that blesses a new networked form of digital video recorder. — The...
Micron Introduces Next-Generation RealSSD™ Solid State Drives For Enterprise Server And Notebook Applications
Micron Technology, Inc., today introduced its next-generation RealSSD solid state drives (SSDs) for enterprise computing and notebook applications.
The Yahoo Shareholder Vote: Like Florida, Except More Confusing!
All Yahoo needs now is for former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris to show up and start recounting votes. — It could happen, given all the crazy characters who have been drawn to the much...
Designers on quest to build $12 computer
Derek Lomas, Jesse Austin-Breneman and other designers want to create a computer that Third World residents can buy for less than you probably spend on lunch. — “We see this as a model that could in...
Google Sued For Patent Infringement For Keeping Track Of How Many Ads People Click On
It still seems rather amusing (if not twisted) that some patent system supporters are trying to convince the world Google would be harmed by an absence of software patents.
How Image-to-Text Could Be Used in Google Street View
Google Street View's photo data could be used for more than just plain showing it to users. Internally, Google could do some image analysis - like OCR, optical character recognition, to convert text ...