The Short List for U.S. Chief Technology Officer
Barack Obama has pledged to name a cabinet-level CTO to oversee a job-creating national broadband buildout if he's elected. Big names abound — Barack Obama says that the U.S. is not doing nearly en...
Veoh Lays Off 15—Not 40 Percent As Rumored; Russia Office Closed
Not 40 Percent As Rumored; Russia Office Closed — Online video site Veoh, backed by about $70 million in funding including from Michael Eisner, did about 15 layoffs from its St Petersburg, Russia off...
Scott Rafer: The Facebook Platform is Dead
When speaking at the Facebook developer conference today in Berlin, Scott Rafer declared that Facebook platform dead. He posted statistics including one that I posted that suggests Facebook widgets a...
Let's Be Serious: Online Display Ads Will Fall Sharply In 2009
For a year, we've listened to analysts passionately explain how online ad spending will power through any broader economic and advertising weakness. Eyeballs are moving online, this story went (goes)...
Researchers log keystrokes from afar with an antenna
Computer keystrokes can be snooped from afar by detecting the slight electromagnetic radiation emitted when a key is pressed, according to new research previewed on Monday. — Other security experts ...
Wikia lays off 30 percent of staff
Bid goodnight to Jimmy Wales's dream of cashing out on Wikipedia, the world's largest collection of infrequently asked questions. The vehicle for his scheme, a derivative for-profit startup called Wi...
Dell and N-Trig: I've Had It
In many ways, the Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC has become one of my favorite Tablet PCs. It is very thin, light, has ample room on the wrist pad for typing, has a scroll wheel, and is generally pleasan...
The cost of First Click Free
The web you see when you go through Google's search engine is no longer the web you see when you don't go through Google's search engine. — In a note on my previous post, The Centripetal Web, Seth F...
Ctrl-Alt-Del: Did Apple reboot an important product announcement?
Apple last week introduced a pair of very nice notebook computers that, not at all surprisingly, looked like riffs on the MacBook Air. The company in a separate announcement released 600 high-definit...
Judge Allows Kentucky To Seize Domain Names
Last month, we wrote about a judge allowing Kentucky's governor to seize 141 domain names that were somehow associated with gambling sites under a bizarre interpretation of Kentucky law. Pretty much ...
Harvard Prof: Google earns “$32-$50 million” annually from typosquatting websites
Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman estimates Google makes between $32 and $50 million in gross profit each year — potentially much more — from placing its AdSense text ads on so-cal...
Q4 earnings: A guide to Apple's guidance
Apple guides conservatively - which is to say it low-balls its earnings and revenue numbers for the coming quarter so that it can blow them out of the water three months later. It's a game the compan...
TV Networks Must Stop Blocking Election Videos on YouTube
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups called on four television networks today to stop stifling vibrant political debate on the Internet wi...
Please Fix The iPhone: A To-Do List For Steve Jobs
iPhone addicts love their iPhones, but nothing is perfect. Customer feedback for Apple just went public on Please Fix the iPhone. The site let's iPhone owners, or anyone else, list and vote on the f...
Bloglines Returns to Challenge Google Reader - Thank Goodness
Popular RSS reader Bloglines says it's solved the much publicized recent problems with feed updating that lead smaller services to pursue its users and Google Reader triumphalists to declare the RSS r...
Inside an affiliate spam program for pharmaceuticals
Bargaining with your health doesn't just mean you're heading for a shorter life expectancy, but also, increases the chances that you will either get scammed in the process, or have to pay more in the ...
Call it a ‘sub-subnotebook.’ New ‘PC’ is small as a cell phone!
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — IMOVIO launched today a smaller alternative to a subnotebook — much smaller. The new iKIT is about the size of a PDA from ten years ago, but has a QWERTY keyboard and connects...
AT&T Samsung Epix i907 unboxing
Well, this has been a long time comin', hasn't it? We just got our grubby mitts on that much-debated Samsung Epix i907 and boy... it's thick! Counting out the AT&T Tilt, this is probably the thickes...
Worlds First iPhone Hotel
Its in California and I do think that the title is well deserved. Its actual name is the Malibu Beach inn and it operates almost every little thing with Apples help. Its great if you have an iPhone ...
BlackBerry Storm hitting Best Buy November 16th?
To be fair, that's what looks to be the in-stock date, not the street date as we're told. We got our hands on a print out of a Best Buy product sheet which clearly shows the BlackBerry Storm's store ...
You Can See Them From Here
Now you can geo-target users at country, city or ZIP code level — Where are your people? And more importantly, are they finding you? Knowing your ads show up for the right people in the right plac...
New NVIDIA Motherboard GPUs Pack Big Punch In A Small Package
With 5x More Performance in One-half the Size, New GeForce 9-Series mGPUs Tap Parallel Processors for More Than Just Graphics — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — NVIDIA's engineering team was given a challe...
RIM Could Rot With the Economy
Research In Motion, maker of the indispensable BlackBerry devices, may see sales stall in this brave, new, sucky economy. — That's the conclusion of Tavis McCourt, an analyst with Morgan Keegan. He...
Circuit City may shut stores to avoid filing: report
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Struggling electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. is mulling a plan to shut at least 150 stores and cut thousands of jobs to lower costs to avoid filing for bankruptcy ...
Google CEO Backs Obama
Schmidt Expands Political Role by Hitting the Campaign Trail — Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Ob...
Apple Ads About Microsoft Ads About Apple Ads About Microsoft
Apple released a couple of new “Get a Mac” ads today, and while I wouldn't usually bother to mention that here, these ones are noteworthy: They make direct reference to Microsoft's current $300 millio...
Glam Media Finds Its Male Side, Launches Brash.com
After offering a hint about its plans last month, female-centric Glam Media has released Brash, its new male-focused lifestyle and entertainment online hub. Brash is being targeted to men 18-49 years...
CBS Tries to Make Online Viewing Social
Mel Brooks said the hardest thing to do was to make a person sitting alone in a room laugh out loud. Laughter is social, and that's important to consider as watching online video on your laptop or ha...
MSI to launch 3.5G Wind netbook next month
Micro-Star International (MSI) is planning to launch the Wind U120 with a built-in 3.5G module in November this year. The netbook will feature Intel's Atom N270 processor, 1GB memory, 120GB hard driv...
Intel shows off working Moorestown MID device
Intel on Monday showed off a prototype handheld based on Moorestown, its upcoming Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform designed to enable a new generation of ultra-thin, touchscreen devices with exte...
Two Ways Yahoo Can Blow The Mass Firings
Now that Yahoo employees have had the pleasure of reading about their impending fate for weeks, management will reportedly finally announce the mass firings this week. The exact number has yet to be ...
Microsoft gets patent for real-time f-bomb bleeping
Back in 2004 Microsoft applied for a patent for real-time censoring of audio streams, and now the USPTO has granted that patent. — As PC gamers have known for a long time, and Xbox gamers have known...
No surprise. Yahoo expected to announce layoffs
Word leaked out over the weekend that Yahoo is planning layoffs when it reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday afternoon. The exact number of jobs affected is unknown, thought sources told the San Jos...
Study Confirms Our New “Connectedness” Is A Mixed Blessing
To all those who feared that technology pulls people apart, a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project on the American family reveals the opposite is true: today's families are more co...
Run Mac OS X on a PC
We show you how — Special Report Want to run Mac OS X on a PC? Perhaps you don't want to pay the premium for Apple's hardware - or Apple doesn't make the kind of computer you need, such as a netboo...
Microsoft aims to get more touchy-feely
Bill Gates may not be hanging around Microsoft's research labs 24/7, but his vision for going beyond the mouse and keyboard seems to be doing pretty well without his day-to-day oversight. — At a use...
Text messaging: great method of communication for the deaf
Text messaging is something that just about everyone is doing these days. I have spoken with many friends who admit that texting has become their primary means of communicating with their kids when t...