11 troubled Web companies: The next Kozmos?
“We are going to lose some good companies.” That's the warning cry from investors in tech these days. — Some we won't miss, of course: the lame, me-too, or single-featured “products” masquerading a...
The Sequoia “RIP: Good Times” presentation: Here it is
Silicon Valley has been trying to digest news of a secret meeting held by top venture firm Sequoia Capital earlier this week. At the meeting, leading Sequoia partners laid out bleak short and long-te...
Tough times. Tough decisions.
As you will no doubt know we are all operating in some very challenging and uncertain times right now. It's never easy to address topics like this but as a company we have felt the need to get Seesmi...
How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them!
The media world is changing and its jobs are changing too. The rise of the blogger is an often-told story, but are the lucky few bloggers who do it for a living well paid? We did a survey to find ou...
Team Cyprus Move To Undo “The Video”
A group of twenty or so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don't Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group were ...
Orange drops the Blackberry Bold due to quality issues
In an internal memo to employees, Orange announced that it has suspended the sale of Blackberry Bold handsets citing “software issues” as the reason for the suspension. The suspension is an interim m...
Memorandum Colors: X-Ray Glasses for Political Bias in Blogs
Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio and Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter have released a project called Memeorandum Colors. It's an easy-to-install Greasemonkey plug-in that shows the political bias o...
Walmart has a change of heart, decides to maintain DRM servers
Back by popular demand, it's the Walmart DRM servers! You heard right — just days after Wally World announced its plans to turn the screw on its digital rights management servers, we're now being sho...
Unboxing Pictures: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
Oh yeah! Its finally out in Sweden! Enjoy the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 unboxing pictures! — About Sony Ericsson Xperia — The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is an arc slider mobile phone delivering a pre...
Zoho Mail Gets Offline Support via Google Gears - Ahead of Gmail
Innovative Web Office startup Zoho has beaten Google to the punch again, announcing offline support for the newly public Zoho Mail tonight. Ironically Zoho is using Google Gears to enable offline fun...
Chip and pin scam ‘has netted millions from British shoppers’
A sophisticated “chip and pin” scam run by criminal gangs in China and Pakistan is netting millions of pounds from the bank accounts of British shoppers, America's top cyber security official has reve...
Social network provider Ning opens access to OpenSocial developers
Ning, a white-label social network provider, is integrating with the OpenSocial standard in order to give more third-party applications access to its users. MySpace, hi5, Bebo and Friendster and othe...
Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week
It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. — (Update: I originally said “Silverlight 2.0 in this post. But I've heard from a couple of Soft...
US aggregators stunned at Verizon's $0.03 MT transaction fees increase
The US text message market is in a bit of flux. — I've been getting phone calls and text messages from aggregators across the country who can't quite believe that, from 1st November 2008, Verizon wi...
Microsoft elaborates on Oslo
Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering codenames and citing the company's DSL (Doma...
Exclusive: HTC's First WiMax Device!
So early yesterday evening I got a rather cryptic contact submission here on nedge2k.com regarding a new WiMax enabled HTC device. Needless to say, this had me pretty excited. This morning, I got th...
US telco: ‘Public broadband is illegal’
Judge: ‘Pull the other one’ — Like dozens of other communities across America, the tiny town of Monticello, Minnesota wants to build a fiber-optic broadband network. In September of last year, its ...
How Safe Is That Web App? Researchers Want Online Privacy Policies Regulated
Admit it. You don't always read the EULAs when you install software on your computer. You just click “I Agree.” The same goes for the web. Most of us don't read the privacy policies that accompany...
Sun Microsystems: A Lesson in Failed Cosmetic Surgery
Sun Microsystems, one of the world's largest server and software makers, finds itself in an awkward position: It might soon have enough cash to buy all of its stock and go private. — Sun's shares dr...
Mahalo gets live news ticker
Friday at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is set to announce an interesting update to the curated Web directory. The front page will get a ticker, or in modern...
Bungie: Recon is our last Halo trilogy project
US-based developer Bungie has revealed to GamesIndustry.biz that the newly-announced Halo 3 Recon, set for release next Autumn as an extension to the super-selling Halo 3, will be the last project in ...
Turbo-charged wireless hacking threatens networks
Graphics cards encryption skulduggery — The latest graphics cards have been used to break Wi-Fi encryption far quicker than was previously possible. Some security consultants are already suggesting...