That Was Fun, But Now Ebay's Selling Off StumbleUpon
In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, they're trying to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sa...
Comcast loses P2P religion, goes agnostic on throttling
Comcast has finally provided the FCC with details of its new congestion management system, and there's a lot to like. Deep packet inspection it out. P2P protocol targeting is out. Management system...
Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jabber
Jabber's Presence and Messaging Software to Enhance Cisco's Collaboration Portfolio — Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc., a provider of presence and messaging so...
Apple Announces Ultracompact USB Adapter Exchange Program
Apple® today announced that under certain conditions the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter's metal prongs can break off and remain in a power outlet, creating the risk of electric shock.
ULTRA HOT: Two New Nokia Eseries Phones In The Works - Nokia E72 and E75 Leaked!!!!!
+ ULTRA HOT: Two New Nokia Eseries Phones In The Works! — Nokia E72 and E75 Leaked!!!!! — Two New Nokia QWERTY Phones In The Works! — Leaking confidential information is the growing problem.
gPhone Spotted in the Wild!
Yesterday, I teased some photos of the gPhone spotted out in the wild, and today I deliver. The official release date of the Android-powered T-Mobile Dream is the 23 of this month (a day quickly appr...
Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme
Just three months ago, we announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter. Today we'd like to announce the next generation of our Jav...
Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics
Songs that refer to products and brands have been with us for years, from Simon and Garfunkel singing “Mama don't take my Kodachrome away” to Janis Joplin's plea for a new car in “Mercedes Benz” and b...
A Better Way To Collaborate: OpenACircle
OpenACircle is a new collaboration tool for teams which includes innovative screen-sharing and video conferencing features for instant collaboration with co-workers. This makes OpenACircle somewhat u...
Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' Ads Created On Macs
After dumping its $10 million contract with Jerry Seinfeld after just three ads (only two of which even aired) Microsoft has created new ad copy where regular people and a few celebrities say, “I'm a ...
Google in one more language
As we've written before, one of our goals is to enable everyone using Google to find the information they want easily, no matter what language they speak. — It recently came to our attention that Go...
The looming crisis: Personal syndication overload
Today, for kicks, I tried to draw a map of all the places I write content, all the places it is displayed, and all the intermediate services that re-post my content in places other than where I origin...
Roundup: Brin's blog, O'Reilly gets serious, Joost's browser version goes live and more
Google's co-founder Sergey Brin starts his own blog — Dubbed “too”, Brin starts off by detailing his fears of getting Parkinson's disease since it runs in his family.
Forrester: mild tech slowdown ahead
Quickly: Forrester predicts a technology slowdown lasting three to four quarters, driven by an expected mild recession. — Forrester uses its extensive primary research with consumers, large companie...
BlackBerry OS 5.0: your first looky looky
Remember when we first mentioned OS 5.0 nearly one and a half years ago? Yes, it's been that long. Although that version matured into what we now know as OS 4.5, earlier this year, we broke the stor...
The future of mobile
The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the enviro...
Parallels 4 to tout OS X Server VM, dual-core, new interface
Competition between virtualization software developers is about to kick into overdrive thanks to the ongoing development Parallels Desktop 4, which people familiar with the update say will significant...
Report: Tenn. legislator confirms son is at center of Palin hack chatter
Blogs, message boards link college student to e-mail address reportedly used by hacker — Computerworld) A Tennessee state legislator has confirmed that his son, a 20-year-old student at the Universi...
Google Searches at 63% of the Search Market for August 2008
comScore has released their search market data for August 2008. Google saw 63% of the 11.7 billion core searches conducted in the U.S. during the late summer month. The number of core searches barel...
NBC's Web sites see surge in traffic
iTunes sells 1 mil since Sept. 9; news events draw visitors — The Peacock felt gale-force winds beneath its wings this week on the Internet. — A trio of unrelated events conspired to give NBC Univ...
LRRK2
For more than 20 years, my mother has worked with computers at NASA. So, when she developed a pain in her hands the diagnosis seemed easy — Repetitive Stress Injury. Except that it wasn't so easy. ...