Joost To Kill Desktop Client
Exclusive: In what is likely to be a major shift in the company's strategy, peer-to-peer startup Joost is going to stop making its desktop client. The decision to suspend the client is likely to be a...
Microsoft Kicks off new Windows Campaign with Star Power
“This is the Conquistador,” explains Jerry Seinfeld, showing a befuddled Bill Gates a brown loafer. “They run very tight.” — After seeing the new ad from Microsoft, which debuted today, some may wo...
The rumours on Monty resigning
We have a rumour of MySQL co-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius resigning, as posted by Valleywag and expanded by Sheeri Kritzer Cabral. — Usually, I wouldn't comment on rumours. But as I've been ask...
Analyst braces clients for “underwhelming” Apple event
American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu put out a call to clients on Friday, saying they should be prepared for a slight letdown at Apple's event next Tuesday unless chief executive Steve Jobs pu...
Are Demo and TechCrunch50 fragmenting their audiences?
If you're a fan of high-tech product announcements, next week could well be heaven for you.
Full PRADA II specifications!
We just got a heads up from one of our trusty sources, and they've come through with full PRADA II specs for us! In case you don't remember, the new PRADA II handset will feature a slide-out QWERTY k...
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt. — Zuckerberg, a doe-eyed 24-year-old C.E.O., founded Facebook in his dorm room at Har...
Twitter added nofollow to “www.” links in their Bio field
Yesterday John Battelle emailed me to ask about Rae's post. This will be a little inside baseball to some people who don't live and breathe search and Twitter, but I figured I'd take what I emailed t...
First look: Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 officially released
Mozilla has officially announced the availability of the second Firefox 3.1 alpha. This release includes support for the highly-anticipated HTML 5 “video” element and a handful of other features that...
Best Buy iPhone 3G: Buy BS Accessory Package, Geek Squad Will Do What Apple Store Does for Free
The iPhone 3G is making its Best Buy debut this Sunday, and a copy of the ad you'll see in your local paper confirms that even though Best Buy has the distinction of being the iPhone's …
Xbox 360 defects: an inside history of Microsoft's video game console woes
When his fourth Xbox 360 video game console died in April, Chris Szarek wasn't surprised. — The Chicopee, Mass. gamer was accustomed to the hardware failures that became known throughout the Interne...
Researchers Build Malicious Facebook Application
A team of researchers have built a malicious Facebook program an experiment to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications. — The experiment shows the ease with which attacker...
Old Thinking Permeates Major Journalism School
“Nowadays it's essential for journalists to blog,” says Professor Mary Quigley to a class of 16 NYU journalism students. The class is titled “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers),” and it's one of ...
10 Computers & 10 Users
From time to time, people ask the home server team how and why we made certain decisions for the initial release of WIndows Home Server. Currently, you can define 10 user accounts in the Windows Home...
Valleywag mangles Marc Andreessen, and we think he likes it
PALO ALTO — Thursday night in a Crowne Plaza hotel, with an Elks Club banquet roaring next door, Netscape cofounder, Ning king, and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen sat down with Portfolio writer...
iPod Touch and iPhone Slow Synching Problem Fixed
Since upgrading to the iPod 2.0 firmware and beginning to install Apps from the App Store synching on my iPod Touch has gotten slower and slower. The performance was so bad I was setting off a sync a...
How Search Will Revolutionize Social Networking
Social networking is on fire. eMarketer predicts that in the US the category will reach 44.3% of Internet users by year's end. According to Google Insights, related searches are up 3,000% over the la...
First impressions of the Nokia N96, plus photo samples
Guest contributor Nick Anstee signed up to be one of the first to get a Nokia N96, as part of a limited ‘wildlife’ run. Read on for his first impressions of the N96, after a couple of days of intensi...
Microsoft to copy Apple Genius strategy
Microsoft on Friday said that its $300 million marketing campaign will now involve in-store representatives to promote the brand, the company's general manager of corporate communications, Tom Pilla, ...
Dell Plans to Sell Factories In Effort to Cut Costs
Dell Inc. is trying to sell its computer factories around the world, a move to sharply overhaul a production model that was long a hallmark of the PC giant's strategy but is no longer competitive. — ...
Google At Age 10
Google applied for incorporation as a business 10 years ago Thursday, according to a timeline supplied by the company. The application was accepted on Sept. 7, which is Sunday. — In that decade, th...
MySQL founder quits Sun
“Just heard that Monty gave his resignation to Sun today,” a tipster we trust writes about Michael Widenius, the Finnish-born main author of open-source database software MySQL. Sun Microsystems had ...
What Netscape's Founder Thinks About the New Google Browser
Marc Andreessen, whose first startup, Netscape Communications, introduced the consumer web to millions thanks to its Netscape browser, seems to be suitably impressed by Google's recently released Chro...
Michael Moore plans Net-only film premiere
Filmmaker Michael Moore plans to premiere his latest documentary exclusively on the Internet for free, forgoing the traditional theatrical release. — Slacker Uprising , which documents Moore's 62-ci...
Chrome Not Ready For Enterprise
We've covered the launch of Google's new browser Chrome extensively this week. But as we near the end of the week, one of the questions yet to be answered is how Chrome will fare in the enterprise. ...
A user guide to following DemoFall and TechCrunch50
On Monday, September 8, two major product launch shows kick off: DemoFall in San Diego, and TechCrunch50 in San Francisco. There will be more than 100 products officially announced at these conferenc...
The key to making money: Charge for your product
I loved this presentation by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37Signals. His topic? How to make money as an online software company. — His verdict? Charge for your product, but be careful whom you cha...