Amazon S3 - Busier Than Ever
Amazon S3 usage has grown very nicely in the last quarter and now stands at 29 billion objects, up from 22 billion just a quarter ago. As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that's over 4 obje...
Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th!
The rumors were true folks. Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in Cupertino next Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM PST. It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops......
Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three Years
If you've had a nagging suspicion that Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't know how he'll turn Facebook into a business, wonder no more. You're right. Here he is talking to German newspaper Frankfurter A...
40 laid off at software company as execs arrested
SEATTLE (AP) — Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was u...
Inside Details of Sequoia Capital's Doomsday Meeting With its Companies
Last night I reported on a special meeting held by Sequoia Capital for its portfolio companies, warning them about the fiscal hurricane that was going to hit them, and how they'd better figure out way...
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2008
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: October 9, 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: October 14, 2008 — This is an advance notification of security bulletins that ...
Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps
With Google's stock down $100 in the past two weeks, the company all of a sudden isn't so shy about pulling every advertising lever it can reach. So far this week, we've seen new click-to-buy buttons...
Microsoft Aims for an Experience, Sony Just Wants a Home
Microsoft and Sony both talked up their consoles' proprietary virtual worlds at the Tokyo Game Show Wednesday. Sony said that its long-delayed Home will arrive before 2009, and Microsoft offered some...
The Sum of Your Facial Parts
IS the woman pictured on the right more attractive than the woman on the left? Do her wider-set eyes, the longer distance between her hairline and the bridge of the nose, and the rounder shape of her...
Meet Our Next Game
Bungie has several projects underway within the studio, one of which is a brand new campaign experience for Halo 3 that we teased two weeks ago. Now, at long last, we can lift the shroud of secrecy a...
Apple releases Security Update 2008-007 for Mac OS X
Apple on Thursday afternoon released its seventh distinct security fix of the year for Mac OS X to tackle a number flaws, including one introduced with its 10.5.5 update. — Available for both Mac OS...
MSI's new Wind U120 pixellized
Exclusive: In all its glory — We've managed to get our hands on some pictures of MSI's upcoming Wind U120 netbook, or as some like to call it, the Wind 2. Still featuring a 10-inch screen, the new ...
Yahoo Below $13
We got a tip yesterday that bludgeoned Carl Icahn was orchestrating a Yahoo palace coup. We haven't been able to confirm and assume it's hogwash, but at this point we imagine Jerry might even go will...
Digg's Kevin Rose: We've got to be more than a fanboy hub
LONDON—Digg founder Kevin Rose had a message for the audience at the Future of Web Apps conference on Thursday: It's time to grow up. — “We have to do better,” he said in his talk, called “The Futur...
Mobile Speed Trap App, Trapster, Now Available For iPhone
Trapster is a new mobile application that lets you see and share the location of speed traps right on your mobile phone or GPS device. Once installed, the app uses a combination of your device's inte...
Don't stop believing — Silicon Valley lip-synchs while market burns
Silicon Valley lip-synchs while market burns — Tech stocks are plunging and venture capitalists are telling their startups to hunker down for an extended downturn, but a group of Silicon Valley techi...
12-year-old finds iPhone flaw while texting girlfriend
A 12-year-old boy who uses his iPhone mostly for texting with his girlfriend has discovered what looks like a new vulnerability with the device. — The unnamed boy, son of blogger Karl Kraft, turns o...
Will Google's Android Be the Tipping Point for Smart Phones?
Table of Contents: — ABI Research analyst Kevin Burden says smart phones such as the T-Mobile G1 that are based on Google's Android operating system for mobile and wireless devices could push smart ...
AOL steers Journals bloggers to Google service
AOL has begun notifying bloggers who've used its Journals site that they should move their content to Google's Blogger or bid it adieu. — The company, which is winnowing down its properties to impro...
EXCLUSIVE: Apple to launch $800 laptop
Some Apple retailers in the United States have been given price lists for a new Apple laptop line, and there's a big surprise: an $800 laptop. The information comes from a source we would categorize ...
Losing faith in Yahoo (again)
An expected slowdown in online display advertising next year spells trouble for the struggling Internet company. — SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — No tech company that relies on web-based advertising is i...
“Behold” the Samsung T919
We first got wind of this phone back in mid-August and it certainly has a lot of expectation as the first ALL-touch screen phone for T-mobile. Dubbed the “Behold” we're still waiting on a detailed li...
Asustek planing touch panel Eee PCs
Asustek Computer is planning to launch touch panel Eee PCs in the first quarter of 2009, which the company expects will help drive sales further, according to Samson Hu, general manager of Eee PC busi...
IBM: Beats earnings target but...
First, the headlines. IBM (statement) said it would report earnings of $2.05 a share, a good 3 cents better than estimates.
Investor proposes Microsoft buy Yahoo for $22 per share
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A small Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) investor proposed a new deal on Thursday to sell the company to Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, S...
YouTube adds “Read Comment Aloud” feature from xkcd
A couple weeks ago, xkcd ran this funny comic: — Randall Monroe, the creator of xkcd, suggested that if YouTube commenters had to listen to their comments read back to them aloud, it might lead to b...
No surprise: Microsoft to fine-tune UAC in Windows 7
In the latest post on Microsoft's “Engineering Windows 7″ blog, Microsoft officials acknowledge what everyone's been assuming: Microsoft is going to fine-tune the User Account Control (UAC) feature wi...
Apple Launches iPhone Tech Talk World Tour
After dropping the NDA that served as an awkward communication barrier between iPhone developers, Apple has now launched a worldwide tour of presentations covering the iPhone application development t...