Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September
iPhone owners suddenly locked out of their third-party apps by a crash bug on startup will have a solution next month, Apple chief Steve Jobs has revealed. — An AppleInsider reader has received one ...
A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake?
Four years ago, Verizon Communications embarked on an ambitious and expensive plan to run fiber optic cables, which can deliver ultra-fast Internet service and dozens of high-definition video channels...
Palm Quietly Unveils the Treo Pro Smartphone
Early this morning, Palm released two official press photos of the Treo Pro along with a short video of the handset in action. The company didn't reveal a whole lot of information other than the foll...
Google's Satisfaction Soars Propelling E-Business to an All-Time High in Latest American Customer Satisfaction Index
Yahoo! and MSN fall farther behind, says report from ACSI partner ForeSee Results — Customer satisfaction with e-business websites reaches a new high …
Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges
My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+. That was 1982. I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Int...
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YouTube co-founder looks for his next success
St. Paul Central grad Jawed Karim talks about launching start-ups, being an entrepreneur and Silicon Valley. — Many university students spend summer break painting houses, backpacking through Europe...
New SSL policy in Firefox hurting tens of thousands of sites
With Firefox 3, Mozilla has changed the way Firefox handles SSL certificates. This change could scare away visitors from tens of thousands of websites that have expired or self-signed SSL certificate...
Lotame Grabs $13 Million in Funding for New Advertising Idea
Online advertising is the key to the future for companies that want to be successful, but a small firm called Lotame has just raised $13 million in Series B funding to take aim at advertisers and prov...
Dell Inspiron 910 customers can choose between XP and Ubuntu
Interesting to see that Dell's answer to the ASUS Eee PC will ship with a choice of either Windows XP or Ubuntu 8.04. — The Dell Inspiron 910 sounds like an interesting machine, and I have to admit ...
See it. Love it. Buzz it.
In February, we introduced Yahoo! Buzz as a new way for you to discover, vote for, and share the content and stories that matter most to you. You also got a say in what stories might be read by milli...
Can We Please Define Cloud Computing?
Recently, I've been seeing a lot of articles pop up on my feeds and in my reading lists talking about the evils of cloud computing and several damnations of the term as being strictly something from t...
NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source
NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public. Instead of relying on popularity as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows...
Our Newest Report: Online Advertising VC and M&A Deals In The Last Year
Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we've pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208.
Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses
NPD Group on Tuesday announced its second quarter handset sales tally and 28 million units were shipped to consumers, down 13 percent from a year ago. — According to NPD, second quarter handset reve...
Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal energy technology
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) could supply thousands of times US energy needs — Mountain View, California (August 19, 2008) - In the continuing effort to develop electricity from renewable energ...