Is Skype Killing Itself?
Over the past few months we've seen a rash of complaints from bloggers and users about Skype. — Now I see they've decided to retire SkypeCasts (hat tip to Stuart Henshall). — I'm not sure why they...
Microsoft to Acquire Greenfield Online Including
Microsoft Corp today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenfield Online Inc, owner of Ciao GmbH, one of Europe's leading price comparison …
Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of “data processing” while earning ...
Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan
According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop teth...
8+ Hour iPhone Sync Timelapse Video (AKA Be Thankful For Your “Short” Two Hour Sync)
When I complained on Twitter about a 2 hour iPhone sync, Giz reader Brandon Lusk told me I was lucky. He had a much longer sync, sometimes over 6 hours. I called bulls**t.
Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis?
Judy Estrin, who has built several Silicon Valley companies and was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, says Silicon Valley is in trouble. In a new book, “Closing the Innovation Gap,” whic...
VPILF.com is already live
The Internet can agree on this much: John McCain's new running mate, former Miss Alaska runner-up Sarah Palin, sure is purty, as documented on freshly launched website VPILF.com. If you don't get wha...
Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I
Since we started the first Android Developer Challenge late last year, we all have been eager to see who the winners of $275,000 and $100,000 would be. All 50 applications that emerged from Round 1 o...
Psystar: Apple Illegally ‘Destroys’ Competition, Bricks Mac Clones
The upstart Mac cloner claims in an antitrust suit that Steve Jobs and company employ a mix of hype, dubious licensing schemes and technology to dominate the Mac computing environment. — In a move t...
Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming.
Comcast's decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it. Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era. As the Olympi...
The death of the album
Good thoughts from Mashable's Steven Hodson, who describes the decline of album tracks as the industry has moved from vinyl to tape and then to CD. What used to be one or two not-so great tracks has ...
BlackBerry Bold set to be released on AT&T on October 2nd?
Consider this a pretty solid bit of info, though it has not been double or triple confirmed like we normally like to do, and well, we saw what happened with Rogers. We've heard from pretty high up so...
Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. — That consi...
Google A Go For Search Ad Deal With Yahoo
Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Bloomberg Google will move forward with its search advertising deal with Yahoo. The deal was inked in June as a way to derail Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo. Microso...
No cookie for Qualcomm as injunction breached
Broadcom broadside bags more San Diego dosh — Download free whitepaper - Gartner Paper: US Data Centers - The Calm Before the Storm Gartner Report: How IT Management Can “Green” the Data Center - Fr...
Google's weird process for approving open-source licenses
CNET's Stephen Shankland has already picked up on Google's decision to allow two popular open-source licenses back onto its Google Code open-source repository. Up until now, the Mozilla Public Licens...
Millions of young Chinese addicted to ‘unhealthy’ Internet games: report
BEIJING (AFP) - Around four million Chinese youngsters are addicted to the Internet, mainly attracted by “unhealthy” online games, state media reported Friday, citing a top legislator.
With ‘followers,’ Blogger gets—surprise!—more social
surprise!—more social — With blog platforms Movable Type and WordPress adding social-networking features to their software, it was only a matter of time before Google's Blogger did the same. A post ...
Napster: 'We're Open To A Sale'; Vote NO On The Ice Cream Franchisee
Troubled online music retailer Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has hired UBS (again) to explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale. The news was made in a letter to shareholders, urging them not ...